Carson smirks that all the chain stores (Winn Dixies, Checkers, Hooters) have been replaced by other chain stores, a revolving door of ubiquitous facades.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's Rami Levi Chain Stores (RMLI.
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Amazon certainly has helped weaken some of these chain stores.
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"The chain stores smell like rancid Halloween candy," he says.
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I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of chain stores.
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According to a report by the Center for an Urban Future, New York City went from having a total of 8,136 chain stores to a total of 7,1833 chain stores over the past year.
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We don't want to become a Main Street with chain stores.
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According to the Center for an Urban Future&aposs 2019 State of the Chains report, the city went from having a total of 753,136 chain stores to a total of 7,832 chain stores over the past year.
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Crosstown 86th Street is a commercial thoroughfare with chain stores and banks.
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Large chain stores like these have been tested by the buying surge.
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New York City had a record drop in chain stores in 2019
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Sub shops and food marts struggle, and chain stores mostly stay away.
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How would you try to compete with large chain stores and online retailers?
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From Birmingham to Dublin, virtually the same chain stores can be found everywhere.
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Large chain stores, like Walmart and Target, will survive the additional regulatory burden.
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Peace brought multinationals and chain stores, and the town centers grew deathly quiet.
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People don't move much faster when you're inside the many chain stores, either.
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National manufacturers, through chain stores, delivered goods that were cheaper than ever before.
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They stole cash from ice cream trucks and ice cream from chain stores.
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Analysts say traditional chain stores are losing to off-price retailers and online shopping.
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In fact, you won't find many chain stores; islanders have successfully fought them off.
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Unlike most malls you'll visit today, this newly re-designed space has no chain stores.
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So feel free to defend a city filled entirely with chain stores and brown drizzle.
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Shopping malls and chain stores account for only about one-tenth of total retail sales.
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All the thefts took place in chain stores like Duane Reade, CVS and Rite Aid.
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They are followed by chain stores like Famous Footwear, Rack Room Shoes and Shoe Carnival.
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In his SVP role, he led initiatives involving merchandising, supply chain, stores and guest experience.
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"We are in the middle of the mafia and the chain stores," Mr. Castiblanco said.
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Locally-owned, non-chain stores edged department stores out of the number three spot this year.
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The borough's center includes just a smattering of local businesses, none of which are chain stores.
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Residents have clamored to local Costco, Publix, and other chain stores to stock up on supplies.
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Chain stores like Crazy Eddie were now free to underprice competitors and ooze across the land.
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The area has a large quantity of second homes and a notable dearth of chain stores.
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Strong Retail Brand: CP ALL operates 7-Eleven stores, a leading international brand of convenience chain stores.
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"Chain stores took over the distribution channels and suddenly the prices for small groceries skyrocketed," Nese says.
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The color is also associated with other DIY chain stores globally, such as UK company B&Q.
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The firm estimated last year that as many as 12,000 major chain stores could close in 2020.
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"We need to target the big chain stores and get them to carry copper bullets," Shimp said.
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Chain stores may change economics, but they need not change the essential form of these walkable places.
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The fun wore off when NYC was colonized by the same chain stores that once seemed exotic.
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We don't have a lot of big chain stores either, so it's just easier to order online.
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Then I head to my favorite European chain stores to browse and see what the trends here are.
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Canadians have different fast-food franchises, different chain stores, different potato chip flavors (ketchup; poutine; Montreal smoked meat).
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There are several active boarding and training stables, but no supermarkets, bars, theaters, chain stores or strip malls.
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It's coming a shopping mecca that's home to chain stores including H&M, Zara, Mango, Forever21, and J. Crew.
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But high streets in towns and cities, malls and larger strip malls, where chain stores proliferate, are under pressure.
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Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said growth was boosted by business from bigger customers such as small chain stores.
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With that in mind, here's FREE's shout out to all the big chain stores staying closed on Thanksgiving: Bravo!
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A custom, removable charger gives this case a legup from the knockoff leather cases you see at chain stores.
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This creeping bouge-ification that left the city a sea of chain stores and Starbucks did not happen overnight.
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It is a mile and a half above Ventura Boulevard, which is lined with chain stores and other businesses.
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As a result, chain stores could no longer demand a lower price from manufacturers, despite buying in higher volumes.
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These are brick-and-mortar operations supervised by pharmacists and include chain stores but not hospital or online pharmacies.
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Toys R Us is the primary seller, with nearly half of the all imported drones landing in its chain stores.
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But while labor unions and mom-and-pop retail stores opposed Sunday openings, big chain stores and customers seemed amenable.
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Westfield's downtown includes national department and chain stores, as well as local mom-and-pop shops and highly rated restaurants.
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La Paz maintains the atmosphere of a traditional Mexican city, with few international chain stores and restaurants along the bay.
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China's bakery market is on the rise, fuelling more openings of chain stores such as Paris Baguette and Bread Talk.
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Hudson's historic Main Street leads into First & Main, an upscale shopping center featuring a mix of local and chain stores.
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Yes, there are some chain stores here, but the locally owned boutiques, selling handmade wares from Maine, are the standouts.
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One big reason for poor sales at Macy's and other chain stores was the warm November and December weather, he said.
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Chain stores have suffered from reduced demand for small discretionary purchases and as shoppers spend more at online merchants like Amazon.
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Also reflecting the change should be the earnings of Macy's, Nordstrom, Kohl's and other chain stores reporting in the week ahead.
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On benches between the chain stores in the pedestrian precinct, old folk throw the crusts of their sandwiches to the pigeons.
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Rather than acting as innovators in democratic laboratories, such groups look more like chain stores choosing locations for a new franchise.
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Not a glittering row of chain stores, but an untrendy plot with a farmer's market selling apples, pig trotters and pans.
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Even today, we cling to our independent drugstores as to a life-raft in a grim alien sea of chain stores.
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While he made a success of the chain stores (they were later sold to a private investor), Mr. Kline was restless.
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The landscape changed as soon as the sprawl of big box chain stores and Bismarck highways disappeared in the rearview mirror.
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Cobble Hill has been hit hard, in recent years, by an influx of chain stores and the people who chase them.
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According to the report, 224 is also the first year in which all five boroughs saw a drop in chain stores.
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It's a sprawling maze of air-conditioned sleeping tents, shower tents and a food truck surrounded by big box chain stores.
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They want the chain stores and they want the Edison bulb shops and they want the hallways full of packages from Amazon.
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It's hard to picture the street as Strindberg experienced it, however, as it's now packed with international chain stores and multistory gallerias.
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All the things that make Texas Texas — the state's flag, shape, food, books, music, politics and even chain stores — burnish the brand.
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Those sit-ins aimed at national chain stores that operated outside the South, just as the Greensboro sit-ins purposefully did later.
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"It can be made to be anything," said the village's mayor, Peter Swiderski, noting the absence of chain stores and conspicuous landmarks.
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Full of chain stores, the neighborhood has always seemed like more of a place for running errands than spending a Saturday night.
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It is possible to find fairy gardening supplies in chain stores, but that negates the very ethos for artists like Lori Tanner.
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But with chain stores as scarce in the area as Citi Bikes, Sunset Park generally still seems out of step with trendier precincts.
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Hudson's Bay Company, the owner of department chain stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, said today it was acquiring Gilt Groupe for $5003 million.
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Despite the widespread perception that millennials are allergic to cars, gardens and chain stores, they are actually less urban than the previous generation.
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And since they've managed to survive the spread of big chain stores, like Whole Foods and Duane Reade, there must be something special.
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Broadway was still a grand old boulevard, not yet overwhelmed by the anonymous glass fronts of high-rises and chain stores farther south.
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DellaVigna and Gentzkow suggest it may have more to do with managers at chain stores being reluctant to adjust prices for their location.
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For comparison, closures of major chain stores last peaked in 2017 as nearly 9,000 stores went dark, according to estimates from Cushman & Wakefield.
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He said he stopped attending classes, got kicked out of school, and lost his jobs, eventually resorting to stealing from large chain stores.
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The company's payment technology has been used by convention centers, theme parks, chain stores, and arenas and stadiums since its launch in 2011.
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The 212 Chain stores have come and gone, but Three Lives & Company remains, and it is still the archetype of a neighborhood hangout.
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Wal-Mart and Home Depot, two of the better performers in retail, both report earnings, as do a number of smaller chain stores.
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" Chain stores, he warned parents, closed the "door of opportunity" for their children, who might otherwise grow up to become "prosperous business leaders.
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With the proliferation of chain stores and higher operating costs in the city, what is the challenge of restaurants opening in the future?
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Lincoln Road's time as an offbeat shopping burg is long gone, now submerged in a sea of chain stores and tourist-trap restaurants.
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One study released in 2016 involved the testing of hundreds of receipts nationwide and found toxic chemicals in receipts of many large chain stores.
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Retail in the 1.3-billion strong nation is dominated by small shops and sellers, with only 10 percent of sales going to chain stores.
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Many mom-and-pop shops closed when the subway stations opened in 2017, leaving in their wake more chain stores and luxury high-rises.
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For one, real estate is among the most expensive in the country, and San Francisco in particular has strict laws around opening chain stores.
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To avoid getting a blanket ban from big chain stores in the US, concerned execs issued a replacement cover featuring a bunch of animals.
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Banks, chain stores, social media and other business are the largest sources of digital data, with many times the volume of government sources' data.
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And then there's everything in between, largely of spick-and-span versions of chain stores available at dozens of other places in the city.
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Investigators say Mr. Abedi brought hardware items he had bought from two chain stores, B&Q and Screwfix, to the apartment over the weekend.
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Starbucks, Subway, and the other chain stores were closed, so the few early risers grabbed their coffee at the only store open: Jax Donut House.
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A £65 million ($79 million) scheme with development giant Grainger plc would see 196 apartments and several chain stores take the place of the market.
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Of these, 210% are small businesses with fewer than 25 employees, NRA says, a figure that includes franchised chain stores, which are usually independently owned.
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Past the city limits and into Nassau County it is now the suburbs, with neat, single-family houses and large chain stores and strip malls.
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Others might find the arrival of chain stores disconcerting, but Mount Vernon residents took it as a sign that retailers thought the neighborhood had potential.
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During the early 20th century, Levinson explained, there was a major campaign against chain stores—considered monopolists—that were putting smaller retailers out of business.
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Of course, not every comic book store participates – there will surely be a few outliers – and you are wise to count out the large chain stores.
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According to experts, there are some concrete reasons why Target — and, to a lesser degree, other major chain stores — drive us to whip out our wallets.
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In recent years, letter and number balloons have become widely available in a whole host of chain stores, with most Walmarts even stocking a full alphabet.
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The usually well-paying, stable jobs lost when family-owned shops close will not be replaced if chain stores with fast-changing work forces come in.
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Mr. Moss has called for curbs on tax breaks for chain stores, laws ensuring reasonable rent increases and fines on landlords who leave their storefronts empty.
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At their peak in 1993, there were 7,600 one-hour labs in the US, and another 14,700 so-called mini-labs inside chain stores like Kmart.
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It belongs to a crass genre that includes Betty Boop remembering 93/11 and America's chain stores and restaurants sharing flag-drenched iconography on the day.
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Target said it saw broad-based sales improvement in the second quarter, raising hopes that a range of other chain stores are also experiencing a rebound.
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Over the years, the proliferation of chain stores in Paris (and easy access to French luxury brands at home) has made finding unique pieces a challenge.
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A bill intending to help rural communities, furthermore, might forbid the large chain stores to underprice their goods in order to destroy locally owned small stores.
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Chain stores like Walmart and Target are likely choices for people whose brick-and-mortar options require driving miles away from home to get their necessities.
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These laws allowed Main Street shops to somewhat compete with chain stores, and kept prices (and profits) higher than a truly free market would have allowed.
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Bigger, traditional chain stores have been hit hardest by the retail apocalypse, with once-successful stores like Sears, Toys R Us, and Barney's filing for bankruptcy.
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Because its manufacturing process is so labor intensive, Plexi-Craft does not compete with chain stores that sell mass-produced furniture when it comes to pricing.
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While there are no chain stores like McDonald's or Subway in the old city, the streets are still dominated by markets selling cheap trinkets and T-shirts.
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She purchased all the ethnic materials that she wears in her photographs at chain stores in a mall in Omaha, where she was living at the time.
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That crisis, he says, includes expensive health care, bad transportation options, job opportunities wrecked by chain stores, a struggling agriculture economy and, of course, the opioid epidemic.
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A lot has changed about the book world since You've Got Mail was released; these days, even the giant chain stores struggle against the likes of Amazon.
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Those who used to notice it, however, were drawn to its architecture, which was a charming oddity on a strip jammed with clothing retailers and chain stores.
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TechCrunch notes Amazon's big play comes after major grocery delivery expansion announcements from Walmart and Target, the two big chain stores large enough to directly challenge Amazon's empire.
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For example, San Francisco recently passed an antibiotics reporting ordinance that requires large chain stores to file annual paperwork with the city for each of their meat suppliers.
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In their place have come suburban-mall chain stores, along with businesses that cater to passing moments of fun, the sort of thing that people on vacation enjoy.
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A citywide ban on chain stores, enacted in 2007, has helped locally run businesses, like the used bookstore Bart's Books and the European-style deli Marché Gourmet, succeed.
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But unlike Survivor, many people are responding to the global coronavirus outbreak by hoarding toilet paper and Purell, and fighting in chain stores for the last face mask.
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About 125 miles southeast of Johannesburg, in the province of Free State, Vrede is a small farming town with discount chain stores, two supermarkets and a gas station.
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In those years the mall was derided as an alienating place filled with soulless chain stores, but it was possible to get something of a cultural education there.
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During the scheme, the Brooklyn pharmacy for three years became the leading purchaser of oxycodone tablets in its zip code, which included two national chain stores, the indictment said.
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Beyond that, they worry that Harvard Square is losing its identity and its distinctive architecture to national chain stores and banks — all part of a relentless crush toward homogenization.
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Most of these involve small-scale production and a wide range of goods sold in U.S. chain stores such as Wal-Mart, including clothing, pet food and lighting fixtures.
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Pump's also got some added kickers in his contract -- like a cut of his merchandise sold in chain stores -- so his huge fan base makes his wallet even fatter.
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Cavanagh was also a logical fit to provide bulk supplies to religious goods chain stores that popped up to service Protestant and Catholic communities, like CM Almy or LifeWay.
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But Zoë Beck, co-founder of a group called Publishers Against the Right, worries that market-oriented chain stores have weakened bookstores' role as a place of political debate.
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Walmart announced Wednesday it is joining other chain stores in halting the sale of the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac amid concerns it contains a cancer-causing chemical.
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Apple's biggest competitor here, Samsung, recently launched its tap-to-pay service in Singapore, although Samsung Pay is just limited to a handful of chain stores and mostly public transportation.
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"The allegations relate to the visibility of lower prices next to the product, followed by the charging of a higher price at the counter in chain stores Biedronka," UOKiK said.
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That includes allowing for multiple branches/chain stores within the system, a request particularly needed by clothing stores and other high street retailers that have high levels of employee churn.
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But physical conservation is not enough to maintain old-fashioned enterprises struggling to remain in business, and many of Lucca's streets are now lined with modern shops and chain stores.
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This post originally appeared on VICE Canada The Royal Canadian Legion sits on a main drag in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia dotted with chain stores and gas stations.
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Blokker in May said it would sell Intertoys, as well as other chain stores such as Asian goods importer Xenos and furniture outlet Leen Bakker, as it tries to stem losses.
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What is it about the going back and forth from shitty chain stores that in some ways feels so much more natural to me than just sitting and watching the sky?
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It's dispiriting in a way to see old-fashioned chain stores feel as if they must contort themselves to stay vital in what is becoming an ever more polarized retail culture.
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The pair have spent the holiday in New York before but never before in Times Square, a year-round tourist draw, filled with chain stores, family restaurants and flashy advertising displays.
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Almost all the speedways my father worked have vanished, too, those snug worlds of whining racecars now displaced by interchangeable chain stores, housing developments or, in one case, a cookie factory.
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And as unlikely as it is for a 37-year-old property filled with chain stores to be at the forefront of anything, Aventura may have stumbled on a winning formula.
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New York might look to San Francisco, which has experimented with rules requiring chain stores to apply for permission to lease retail spaces in districts that want to advantage homegrown businesses.
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May's employment report could be just as weak if not weaker than April's, due to an expected slowdown in hiring at big chain stores and the temporary impact of the Verizon strike.
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According to the company, its customers buy two and a half to four times as much as in-store customers—and not just in the fancy (or not-so-fancy) chain stores.
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But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.
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Such a store wouldn't present a welcoming, contemporary atmosphere and couldn't meet the needs and expectations of today's consumers, nor could it compete with surrounding larger chain stores or the online market.
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"The chain stores had better prices; and so even as people wanted to preserve mom and pop, it was going to cost them a lot of money out of pocket," Levinson said.
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A lot of casual users, for example, nowadays treat Twitter as the first port of call for customer support issues, pinging plaintive missives in the direction of big chain stores and service suppliers.
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Yet the place is almost provincially British, from the plug sockets and peep-peep of the traffic lights to the ubiquitous union flags, pubs with names like "The Horseshoe" and British chain stores.
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It's a bit like a landlord requiring a business to sign a 25-year lease, which is obviously risky and expensive for mom-and-pop shops, but standard for chain stores and restaurants.
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Not only did comps help punk rock infiltrate the malls and chain stores of America, it carved out a self-contained industry for bands whose songs wouldn't have otherwise landed on Billboard charts.
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In the US, too, it's increasingly clear that the elderly are feeling left out of society and are forced to seek out social spaces of their own by setting up camp chain stores.
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So much of the Rome Williams knew and loved — the swinging, free-spirited Rome of the 212s and 218s — is long gone, paved over by anesthetized chain stores, tourist traps and bank branches.
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Forget kitschy souvenirs and chain stores; this welcoming neighborhood caters to residents, with shops focused on what's local, from bookshelves and bathing suits to take-away beers worth a stroll across the river.
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Along its Prius-choked roads, it looks like Anywhere, U.S.A.: single-family-home suburbs south of San Francisco, bordered by chain stores, auto dealerships and corporate parks — lots of beige, boxy corporate parks.
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In a December 2017 report, the Center for an Urban Future counted 7,317 chain stores across the five boroughs — a 35 percent increase from 2008, when the research group published its first comprehensive statistics.
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He says that with the introduction of these chain stores dedicated to craft, it is now easier to have similar successes as with the "tied house" while operating within the letter of the law.
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Hudson Yards has stirred up New Yorkers' latent resentment of chain stores from beyond the Hudson, and what does Mr. Keller offer them but a clone of his restaurant in Florida, the Surf Club?
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Shares of WH Smith, was founded in 1792 and is one of the oldest chain stores in the world, were up 5.2 percent at 1824 pence in early trading on the London Stock Exchange.
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The vendors, varying from small hole-in-the-wall eateries to employees from large chain stores like Uniqlo, express their reactions that are telling of their preconceived notions, or lack thereof, of bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
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Twenty-three per cent of the Enquirer's sales come from Walmart, and the next biggest outlet is the Kroger supermarket chain, at ten per cent; chain stores account for roughly three-quarters of total sales.
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What replaced the old hangouts were chain stores, fast-food restaurants, fancy cafes and shopping malls, all of which are now feeling the effects of a declining economy brought on by a fall in tourism.
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Large chain stores — Walmart, Target, Kmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, Costco and Ace Hardware, as well as Amazon — should exert their public service commitment by not buying or stocking less energy-efficient incandescent light bulbs.
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A report last week by the Center for an Urban Future found that the number of national retail chain stores in the city shrank 4 percent this year, the biggest drop since at least 2008.
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Surrounded by postwar office buildings and anonymous streets packed with chain stores, the area, at the end of a fading commercial boulevard, tends to be frequented by German tourists and local shoppers with their families.
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But the picture had a flaw: It included the toilet — an image, he said, that would have limited sales of the album, "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears," in family-oriented chain stores.
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The first of the new grocery chain stores is said to be opening in Los Angeles, with Amazon also reportedly in talks to expand to D.C., San Francisco; Chicago, Philadelphia, and its home city of Seattle.
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The Robinson-Patman Act protected local retailers from the onslaught of chain stores such as A&P, the Walmart of its time, while the Glass-Steagall Act prevented Wall Street from gambling with other people's money.
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Consumers were starting to have more options, as chain stores arose to offer more variety and lower prices than the small-town general store, which in many places had a monopoly on all manner of goods.
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And while cold towers and cavernous chain stores numb other parts of the city, Turtle Bay continues to have a strong character, thanks to an active neighborhood association and its most prominent landmark, the United Nations.
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As a result, many neighborhood stores, in business at the same locations for decades, are gone forever, replaced by a revolving cast of chain stores that do not sink deep roots into the neighborhoods they serve.
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The days of Forever 21, with its strong brick-and-mortar presence, have been numbered thanks to the "retail apocalypse," a threatening term used to describe how the internet changed consumers' shopping habits, particularly affecting chain stores.
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It is four miles east of the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, a 235-acre resort that is a centerpiece of this city of 8183,2818, which is known for its outstanding beauty and prohibition of chain stores.
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Owners like Cadillac Fairview (CF), a unit of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, have concluded that the traditional mall, anchored by department stores with chain stores and fast-food restaurants in between, may no longer be as profitable.
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Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo said on Sunday that millers, stockfeed manufacturers, chain stores and grain traders agreed in a meeting with the government to peg the price of maize at a maximum of 13,600 kwacha ($198.93) per tonne.
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"I doubt I'll look anywhere else for jeans as long as Amazon keeps expanding their options," said the 35-year-old private tutor, based in Oak Harbor, Washington who also shops at chain stores Macy's Inc and Maurices.
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It's almost Thanksgiving, which means it's almost Black Friday, which means it's almost time for us to gawk at footage of people fighting over sale items inside enormous chain stores, or, worse, to experience it in the flesh.
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The atmosphere and architecture shifted quickly, high-rise bustle giving way to a tropical suburbia of chain stores and subdivisions, and then to long stretches of low, snarled jungle interspersed with ranch-style houses and quiet strip malls.
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Once a cosmopolitan place of old cinemas, bookshops, outdoor cafes and dive bars, it had evolved under the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into a tacky urban space dominated by chain stores and faux-Ottoman shopping malls.
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Still, while the Bahnhofsviertel, which means "train station quarter," has been rapidly gentrifying in the last few years with uber-cool restaurants, clubs and luxury apartments, its streets remain mostly lined with cheap chain stores, bordellos and sex shops.
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Customers are swarming big chain stores as a way to avoid boredom or to buy entirely non-essential items, further exposing themselves and others to the coronavirus, employees at Lowe's, Office Depot, Sherwin-Williams, and Best Buy tell Motherboard.
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At 2121:2532 on the morning of the Dickinson dig, I met up with the paleontologists in the parking lot of the Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck, off a highway dotted with large chain stores and hotels.
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For the mother of three, this is not a rare occurrence, as the singer has been spotted multiple times over the years in mega-chain stores, once buying $50 gift cards for people at a Tewksbury, MA Wal-Mart in 2013.
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But this is the same mayor, who during five years of presiding over the city, has been wholly unable to stop the onslaught of chain stores in New York, wholly unable to preserve the fortunes of a longstanding local merchant class.
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"The beauty of Mexico Beach is that it was this throwback to the old Florida of the 1960s and 70s — they didn't allow chain restaurants or chain stores there; everything in Mexico Beach was mom-and-pop," Mr. Allen said.
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Winners of these competitions often move on to influential positions as buyers, importers, and company curators, operating as gatekeepers and decision-makers for the coffee products that reach consumers in supermarkets and chain stores, but few women ever make it.
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Mr. Emrani himself owned six dollar stores on Long Island in 13, but closed all but one of them after Dollar Tree chain stores opened nearby and not only poached some of his workers but also took away his customers.
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At the same time, workers, empowered by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, organized the A. & P. and other chain stores, as well as these buttressed Main Street manufacturers, so that they also got a share of the profits.
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Retail sales, which capture consumer spending on a wide variety of purchases like cars, furniture, meals, clothing, health care products and electronics, surged in November, and the Johnson Redbook index of retail sales at department and chain stores has remained strong.
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Walmart black Friday begins at six pm at its stores, but you can get fueled up starting at four o'clock with free coffee and cookies It takes a lot to prepare the supply chain stores and website to handle the black Friday surge.
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When Kari Warberg Block, founder of all-natural pest-repellent firm EarthKind, talks about preparing for negotiations with big chain stores, it comes across a little like Moneyball for small-business owners who want to punch above their weight with retail giants.
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While Chicago's got all the obvious spots to help you stock up for your next haul video (think Michigan Avenue, Watertower Place, and State Street in the loop), designer chain stores only scratch the surface of the city's (often bizarre) shopping scene.
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Once renowned for its fish market and colorful waterfront characters straight out of a Joseph Mitchell short story, the 400-year-old historic port had become a tourist-only zone filled with I ♥ NY T-shirt stalls and suburban chain stores.
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Second, S. 2777 makes minor updates to the existing law by formalizing a process for all retailers—from larger chain stores to online—and prescribers like us, to communicate about the accuracy and validity of patients' prescriptions and to address any issues.
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In June, a community board that oversees the East Village area in Manhattan, which is home to New York University, passed a resolution limiting the size of retail stores in the area and restricting new chain stores to East 25th Street and East Houston Street.
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Because outside of her little trailer, the absence of friends and neighbors and community is stark, clear from the lack of cars on the road when you drive through town and from the sparse services that have reopened — doctor's offices, chain stores, a few shops.
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Let me hasten to add that the ice cream I'm talking about isn't the kind that comes in frost-rimed cartons in chain stores, but the hand-cranked, homemade variety that at its best is a transcendent marriage of human labor and carefully mixed ingredients.
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At a recent gathering in Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood front and center, ready to take questions on the most local of issues: a wayward affordable housing application, an area development where chain stores were moving in, a proliferation of tire repair shops.
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Can Tho has the feel of a minor boomtown: scooters still outnumber motorcycles which still outnumber cars; there is plenty of commerce but few chain stores; tourists remain rare enough that a wedding party will invite a passing foreigner to eat, drink and toast with them.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Blokker Holding BV, the operator of several Dutch chain stores, said on Tuesday it plans to close around 2003 stores, sell its toy and specialty chains, and cut just under 9 percent of its workforce to focus on its flagship Blokker household goods stores.
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Kleban owns several major retail/office plazas in Fairfield's downtown, including the Fairfield Center building, which houses a Fairfield University bookstore, as well as a Starbucks, a Victoria's Secret and other national chain stores, and at least 2000 shopping centers along the Black Rock Turnpike commercial corridor.
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Ms. Arcade, who created the show with her longtime collaborator, Steve Zehentner, is hardly the first to note that many of the gritty streets of the city have become sleek alleyways lined by expensive boutiques, chain stores and more Citibank branches than an entire continent should need.
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The A&P supermarket chain, the first company with a billion dollars in revenue and the Amazon of its day, fought the Robinson-Patman Act, a law passed in 22020 to stop the corporation and other chain stores from engaging in predatory practices against its rivals.
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"The shoe repair, the little stores that give you your day-to-day necessities, are all going away in favor of chain stores and flagship stores, but yet people still need to buy groceries," said Terri Cude, the chairwoman of Community Board 2, which represents the area.
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Greer meanders from heart-heavy images like a couple stranded beside a burning car or a sinkhole in the middle of a block of chain stores, to quieter moments like a man charging up his Tesla in a parking lot—all with the highway hanging in the background, stitching it together.
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Most US cities and towns built in the latter half of the 20th century — especially the midsize and smaller ones, on the periphery or between the better-known big cities — feature highways, strip malls, and chain stores surrounded by single-family homes on winding, curved streets ending in culs de sac.
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While some residents of the neighborhood, which is also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, say they welcome change, others worry it could threaten what they like about their neighborhood — that it's quiet, lightly populated and mostly lacking chain stores — and make the place more like other parts of Manhattan.
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MikeQ is weaving down Central Avenue in a pale gold SUV, trying to catch rare Pokemon on Pokemon Go. As we drive into East Orange, New Jersey—cruising past chain stores and a park that's deserted despite the mid-July heat—he aims his phone at a brick building on our right.
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You could feel their relief when they stepped out of the crowd in the high street of any provincial English town, spoiled by its Poundworlds and its McDonald's and identikit shabby chain stores, and into the embracing quiet of some Tudor or Georgian house, open to the public, where a ticket seller dozed behind a few faded postcards.
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His upbringing, which included three years of schooling in Dresden, left him with a distrust of high finance (bankers playing with "other people's money", he scowled), a fondness for small business and a horror of chain stores that was at once rather Germanic and powerfully influenced by Thomas Jefferson's vision of America as a country of self-governing yeoman farmers.
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Here, in the wooded, castle-studded region where the Brothers Grimm gathered their fairy tales, the decline in readership seen in recent years across Germany as digital media competes with books for people's time and attention is compounded by a number of typically rural problems: an aging population, weak local economy, deteriorating infrastructure and the rise of big-box shopping centers and chain stores.
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Anyway.) For the broke, disinterested, bored by everything in chain stores, people with more time and/or creativity than money, people who want to give everybody presents but hate the fuckin' system, people who want to display more meaning than money can buy, who want to try something new this year, who'd like to make it through the holidays without mountains of debt (time or money), whatever your reason may be—maybe try some of the below.
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