Companies often identified their IT strategies in these terms, stating they were "best-of-breed shop" or "wall-to-wall SAP".
In Tokyo, a walk through the department stores and Pritzker Prize-winner-designed boutiques in the Ginza and Omote-Sando districts is enough to make one wonder, "What Japanese recession?" Look closer, however, and you'll discover another breed of shop where consumers, from Japan and increasingly from overseas, hunt for everyday treasures.
Do not breed a pet shop animal or any animal unless you know the genetic history.
A NEW breed of social shopping start-ups -- basically online curators of fancy things to buy from all corners of the Web -- has been popping up with head-spinning frequency.
A Holonic Manufacturing System HMSS) represents a new breed of intelligent shop-floor management technology for the production of artifacts that satisfy unique customer requirements.
Finnish startup Fruugo is currently readying the launch of a 'new breed' of social shopping service in Europe, so we'll be curious to see if it will be able to compete with GoAdv.
Peter Bailey, in his study "White Collars, Gray Lives" (1999), traces the beginnings of literary interest in the lower-middle classes to the "disquieting irruption of a new breed of petty bourgeois shop and office workers" that faced Victorian writers in the last quarter of the 19th century.
And this time, he said, it's for real: Birdel's, the neighborhood staple that is among the last in a dying breed of New York City vinyl shops, and where a young Notorious B.I.G., the famed Brooklyn rapper, honed his chops listening to James Brown and Temptations records, will close on Friday, Mr. Long said.
Communities of like-minded pepperheads gather not just at events but also at the new breed of hot sauce tasting shops, from Heat Hot Sauce Shop in Berkeley to Heatonist in Williamsburg, where dozens of new sauces can be tried every week in just a few minutes.
The neighborhood that first enacted a ban on chains, in 2004, Hayes Valley, has become so upscale that its own supervisor, London Breed, says she doesn't shop there.
Kathellan Home Farm Kelty, Fife KY4 0871 226 2218 2218 kathellan.co.uk Set on a beautiful 25-acre site right by the M90 in Fife, Kathellan's shop sells rare-breed meat from its own farm, local fruit and veg, bread made on site and fine foods from all over Europe.
