Sentence examples for stores marked from inspiring English sources

Kingfisher said none of the stores marked for closure was unprofitable but it believed profits would improve at its remaining outlets if the chain were trimmed back.

That ambitious target was clearly a major culprit in Starbucks's misfortune: the company said this week that 70percentt of the stores marked for closing were opened after 2006.

Their ability to be rather than to act has often served as a counterpoint to the social awkwardness that Bennett has made his comic trademark, the inheritance of those emblematic childhood afternoons in teashops and department stores marked by the "dread of imminent exposure", the knowledge that he and his family didn't quite belong.

The latter album benefited from the fact that it was released the week of Record Store Day, an annual worldwide celebration of independently owned music stores marked by concerts, cookouts, parades and special releases like the Foo Fighters' vinyl-only covers album, Medium Rare.

Although Martinez loved reading, he faced many points in his life in which he couldn't afford books, even cheap ones at thrift stores marked $1 or $3 or $5. Looking back at his obstacles, Martinez wanted to create a way for kids to always be included in book fairs.

The new outlets will include 27 convenience stores, marking a big increase in the roll-out of its smaller store format, launched last year.

Other stores mark down only a few high-profile items — even selling them at a loss — in hopes that customers will also throw a few full-priced items in their carts.

A retail group controlled by Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican billionaire, said it was buying CompUSA, the American chain of personal computer stores, marking one of the biggest Mexican purchases of a prominent American business.

As might be expected, the shortage of masks, whose efficiency in screening out germs is questionable but which clearly provide a psychological relief to a nervous populace, has led to profiteering, with some stores marking up the cost of certain brands to five times their pre-epidemic price.

The document also details a meeting between Lamar and Jerry McDougal, Apple's vice president of retail, in 2006 where Lamar presented the company's first three headphones and proposed to sell Beats directly through Apple's retail stores, marking Beats' first meeting with Apple.

The HyperAdapt 1.0, which debut tomorrow at Nike's New York stores, mark a small step toward bringing the tech to a larger audience.