In a fiercely competitive industry, executives privately gush about how they allow bookies to make more money with fewer employees and overheads (betting shops have shed one-tenth of their staff in the past two years).
Low-overhead Internet shopping offers privacy and a discreet way for landlubbers to ask dumb questions.
They are next to retailers like Argos and selling the same stuff, yet they have crippling overheads and charity shops don't.
Some settle into the bars, parking themselves before the televisions overhead, others browse the shops and food court like visitors to the state fairs checking out the deep-fried Oreos and the Dairy and Beef Barn without bothering to ride the roller coaster.
At night, the clothes that his father was working on hung from overhead racks in his shop, and they loomed large in the boy's imagination.
It also promotes show-rooming where users get the benefit of checking out a product in person, but then neglect the shops that pay overhead to offer that service.
At night, with no overhead street lights or illuminated shopping centers nearby, it is pitch dark, the deer staring blankly along its grassy fringes.
But he let his overhead expenses grow beyond the shop's ability to support them.; He returned to Milwaukee to set up a full-fledged mail-order business.
The Rolling Stones set up a pop up shop there and overhead are huge disks with photos of Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ron and the band's trademark red lips and tongue logo.
There are, of course, ideal shopping lists: laptops, overhead projectors, air conditioning.
It could seem as if a neutron bomb had exploded: the buildings stood; cars were parked along the roadside; there were newsstands and shops and planes flying overhead.
