For local brands, that can mean landing a tiny space in a big terminal and attracting lots of customers.
Weather plays a critical role, since the peaches, tomatoes and truckloads of corn sold here generally are not refrigerated in advance, as are many of the products sold at the big terminal markets around the country, in Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles and at the Hunts Point Market in the Bronx.
Airline mergers, too, have created the need for bigger terminals.
Nobody would ever call J.F.K. a sleepy airport, but it runs fewer flights than either La Guardia or Newark, despite having four spacious runways, bigger terminals and acres of open ground space.
And while T5 had been 20 years in the making, the bigger Terminal 3 at Shenzen took only five.
Furthermore, the overall discrepancy in colony development (more and bigger terminal branches) may be interpreted as a response to the water drag forces acting upon the colony, yet colonies in shallow areas are exposed to higher water flow and vice versa.
But this also gives you an idea as to how long your bus stays in a terminal, especially when your bus is queued up with other buses of the same route in a bigger terminal and going the same direction.
Docking stations were deliberately placed away from big railway terminals.
Firms had been drifting north from downtown for much of the past century, largely because of midtown's big rail terminals, Grand Central and Pennsylvania Station.
Big POS terminals are the boss; tablets aren't quite ready yet.
