Sentence examples for conventional retail from inspiring English sources

The bump in the middle, where market pricing works efficiently, is left to conventional retail channels.

Perhaps that alarmed the Co-op Group's new chief executive, Euan Sutherland, who comes from a conventional retail background.

After a little more than a year, though, Ando scaled back this initial vision, giving the kitchen a conventional retail façade so that patrons could also order takeout.

The company, a privately held Web and catalog merchant of international artwork and crafts, is also becoming a distributor to conventional retail stores.

Like other music companies, EMI, also based in London, has been seeking ways to make money from online music, as sales from conventional retail outlets fall.

It may make little sense for profit-minded companies in the conventional retail world to pursue such a strategy because there may not be enough socially conscious consumers in a geographic area.

Another huge project is the $4 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, and Frank Gehry will soon unveil his redesign of its first phase, so it will soon become clear whether Brooklyn will receive a dazzling 21st-century version of Rockefeller Center or a conventional retail-entertainment-sports complex inside a pretty architectural wrapper.

At Watters Creek, Trademark Property discovered that some of the reaction from its women's focus groups also challenged conventional retailing wisdom.

Since then he has torn a strip through the book publishing industry and through conventional retailing businesses that have struggled to keep up with his flexibility and taste for innovation.

Indeed, from late November through mid-December, a time when conventional retailing has been sluggish at best, e-commerce is flourishing, with spending ahead by 30percentt over the same period last year, according to a study by MasterCard Advisors.

"The internet will be a much more robust force in China because offline businesses are much less efficient," argues Duncan Clark of BDA, a telecoms consultancy in Beijing.Except in big cities near the coast, conventional retailing is fragmented and underdeveloped.