Sentence examples for store industry from inspiring English sources

This publication reports on the naval store industry.

Other glimmers of improvement appeared across the department store industry.

In the US, the department store industry includes approximately 20 companies operating roughly 3,500 stores.

The midprice department store industry suffered across the board in September.

In 1990, Wal-Mart incorporated another ecosystem by acquiring McLane Company, the nation's largest distributor to the convenience store industry.

Employees receive salaries above the national average of workers in the grocery store industry, and the majority of employees receive a bonus each year.

The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection after being weakened by years of losses in the competitive food-store industry, said same-store sales in its second quarter and fiscal 2001 would rise 2percentto2.5percentcent.

Evans Systems Inc., a Texas convenience-store operator, agreed yesterday to buy I-Net Holdings for $142.5 million in stock as part of its plan to become a provider of Internet marketing services to the convenience-store industry.

When the Party Club of America, an association of independently owned stores, holds its annual Halloween and Party Expo in Houston next month, there will be happy hour at the Boo-hemian Lounge, but there will also be sessions on the helium shortage and the latest techniques for making air-filled balloons, which the party-store industry is already calling "the new helium".

Pathmark, which is based in Carteret, N.J., was weakened by years of losses in the competitive food-store industry and staggered under a big debt load after the 1987 leveraged buyout of the chain by a group led by Merrill Lynch & Company.

This was certainly an improvement on the fractured video-store industry of the past, populated by local owners with no pull with the big studios.