Sentence examples for store sector from inspiring English sources

The deal is the latest transaction in the luxury department store sector.

Philips suggested Morrisons was struggling because it entered the fast-growing online grocery market and convenience store sector later than its rivals.

"In the discount department store sector, for example, Wal-Mart and Target Stores had double-digit increases, but Kmart was flat".

Mr Potts said Morrisons would not rule out a move into the convenience store sector in the future, but added: "Convenience is a large and growing channel in UK food retailing.

Within the department store sector, for example, some stores recorded a stellar month -- notably Neiman Marcus, the luxury goods seller, whose sales for the month jumped 19percentt over last September, and Kohl's, whose sales increased 9.8percentt above the previous year.

It has been criticised for being slow in moving into the convenience store sector and setting up an online operation.

But Morrisons fell 7.2p to 295.3p after a number of analysts turned negative following Thursday's news of a 10% drop in first half profits as the supermarket suffered the consequences of its tardy entry into the fast growing online and convenience store sectors.

"Lacklustre upon lacklustre" is how a Piper Jaffray analyst describes the department-store sector.

O'Brien thinks the concept could work on a national scale if easyGroup developed a chain in the convenience-store sector, which is "not an oversaturated market in terms of the discounters".

"Overall spending on apparel is not growing," said Helena Song, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's Corp. "Nordstrom is a leader in the department-store sector, but it's not immune to these headwinds".

The Indian government is wrestling with the issue of allowing foreign direct investment in the country's big store retailing sector.