Sentence examples for shrinking retail from inspiring English sources

With a shrinking retail market, it's a hard life making a living in rock'n'roll.

No-one knows how much weight to assign to each of the other explanations: rising physical CD piracy, shrinking retail space, competition from other media, and the quality of the music itself.

In a business that has come to seem increasingly hermetic, with fewer corporate entities dominating a shrinking retail landscape, it is sometimes hard to remember the crucial role played by serendipity.

THE Japanese economy is stagnant, the population is shrinking and retail sales have declined by around 1% annually for years.

At a time when most oil companies are shrinking their retail networks and operator-owned stations are barely surviving, Lukoil is expanding.

Without proper controls and safeguards this could shrink local retail centres.

However, we believe that large loss-making or low-return non-core and wholesale divisions and a shrinking higher-return retail business will lead to continued disappointment on returns at the group level.

"The world is shrinking in terms of retail sales, and we got caught in the shrinking," he said.

Continuing efforts to reduce costs by shrinking the organization's retail network and work force, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe released a list of the targeted offices, which are primarily in rural locations and produce little revenue.

Vince Cable, the party's Treasury spokesman and now business secretary in the new government, has talked of breaking up banks, shrinking them and separating retail- and investment-banking activities.

Extell and its partner, the hedge fund Angelo Gordon & Company, are shrinking the ground-level retail space on the Madison Avenue side to two floors from three to create higher ceilings in those spaces, and are adding two floors on the roof to create an almost 9,000-square-foot 9,000-square-foot 9,000-square-footlion.