In 2008, a Colorado-based owner of 25 McDonald's franchise stores settled an EEOC lawsuit for $505,000.
After a panic at the turn of the millennium about the impact on their industry of online shopping, bricks-and-mortar stores settled into making only modest alterations to their business model or, ostrich-like, trying to ignore it.
Others will prepare frozen pastries from suppliers using the same oven models that are to be used in stores, settling on the temperature and moisture levels that are needed to make them best.
AFTER a couple of years and more than a few very nice dinners with nothing but hot tea to drink, I finally worked out this B.Y.O.B. thing: Phone my chum Nick at the wine store, settle on a red and a white and then pick them up on the way to the restaurant.
Sportsman's Warehouse eventually grew to 57 stores — Knoll still knows the numbers — but it overextended, and the owner had to sell some stores to settle a debt, and eventually close others.
The American Stores Company, California's largest supermarket chain, said it had agreed to sell most of its Alpha Beta stores to settle a state lawsuit challenging its $2.5 billion takeover of Lucky Stores on antitrust grounds.
Wal-Mart Stores has settled 63 wage and class-action lawsuits, and just in time for Christmas.
Five days later, the infantry battalions that were destined for the front line sent forward their specialists from the Lewis gun teams, and the grenade officer, the machine gun officer, the four company commanders, and some of the signallers to take over the trench stores and settle into the trench routine before the battalions moved in.
Your stomach will probably be rolling like you're on the high seas throughout the day, but eating foods that replenish your vitamin stores and settle your stomach will do you nothing but good.
And evidence of barley straw at the site helps confirm that the buildings were, indeed, used to store grain.To settle down in one place requires a reliable food supply, so the discovery of granaries is no surprise.
