The word 'mart' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a market or shopping center, especially one that specializes in a particular type of goods or products. It can also be used as a suffix to indicate a specific type of store, such as a 'discount mart' or a 'department mart'. Example: "I went to the local mart to buy some fresh produce for dinner."
(Admittedly they may have padded it out a bit how else to explain the presence of "robber", "oui" or "k mart" in a list that otherwise places rather more emphasis on sexual adventurism?)Last week, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority's (PTA) memo and accompanying list of the words sent to mobile-phone service providers were leaked on the internet.
Elsewhere were Family Dollar, Dollar Mart, Dollar Tree and Dollar Zone stores.On a whim, I stopped into a Dollar General to inspect the mundane wonders of free trade.
Plastic tat to Western eyes may be luxuries to the offspring of slum-dwellers.The Dragon Mart is evidence of the symbiotic relationship between state and entrepreneurial capitalism.
And he now faces defeat in this summer's election.Mr Dzurinda's mentor, Mart Laar, who was prime minister of Estonia in 1992-94, belitves is is futile to worry about re-election.
This third wave is the online "megastore", a single site that sells a mall's worth of products but with the best specialised retailers' efficiency, discounts and streamlined buying.Wal-Mart on the WebWith its formula, NetMarket hopes to do to cyberspace what WalMart did to the small-town high street.
Problems have included price controls, which prevent below-cost selling, rigid labour laws and tough zoning regulations, which make it extremely difficult to build big stores.Wal-Mart also faced well-established rivals in Germany, like Metro, and hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, already comfortable with razor-thin profit margins.
In retail banking, they haven't capitalized on the benefits of size (like lower borrowing costs) to cut prices for their customers, the way big retailers like Wal-Mart do.
Struggling to pay the rent and keep the family adequately fed, she took the only job she could find: a part-time position at Wal-Mart that paid less than half her former salary.
What has put Wal-Mart ahead of Sears in retailing, Dell in front of Hewlett-Packard in the personal-computer business and Zara ahead of Marks & Spencer in fashion?
According to HOLT Value Associates, a consultancy, Target has improved its "cashflow return on investment" (a measure of returns that strips out depreciation) more than any other American retailer since 1995.But in terms of overall returns, as well as sheer size, Target still lags Wal-Mart, retailing's gold standard.
Driving east in Iowa, I passed through towns in which Wal-Mart was the only major retailer for miles.I arrived at a campaign stop for Barack Obama in Newton, a sleepy old industrial town.
