discount retailing

In 2004, Target finally divested their department store division to focus on discount retailing.

They have been very successful in the area of retailing or, more specifically, discount retailing.

He also jumped into discount retailing, starting Clover Stores in 1969.

It took an early lead in discount retailing after it opened the first Kmart stores in 1962.

The Ames-Zayre deal is the third in recent weeks in discount retailing.

It also owns three large Hypermart stores, which combine grocery and discount retailing.

The sudden interest in Manhattan real estate highlights a major shift under way in discount retailing, by far the largest segment of the industry.

Full-time in discount retailing means 28 to 30 hours a week, not the minimum of 35 to 40 hours that is still standard in manufacturing.

After serving in the Army from 1942 to 1946, he moved to Boston, where he began his career in discount retailing.

Because high-stakes real estate seemed far sexier and more lucrative than discount retailing, the company neglected retailing.

This decision launched a revolution in discount retailing fueled by the rapid increase in television advertising that raised demand for national brands.

Abrupt Changes at Zayre It was not until 1988 that Ames became a leading force in discount retailing.

Yet today, two of its stepchildren, the discount retailing giants Wal-Mart and Target, have pushed the company to the edge of a competitive cliff.

The group stepped into discount retailing as early as 1932 with the Prisunic chain and has several variety and specialized food and clothing chains.

Its expansion is focused not on adding more stores but on turning its regular stores into super centers, which combine supermarkets with discount retailing.

Daiei introduced the concept of discount retailing to Japan and was once the nation's largest retail chain, now supplanted by the Aeon Group.

While most real estate people are pleased by the growth of discount retailing on State Street, officials of the department stores remaining are understandably less than thrilled.

But by the 1970's, Mr. Walton had begun to give his employees unheard-of benefits in discount retailing: profit-sharing and a stock-ownership plan.

The company's research studies showed that Westchester was understored and ripe for development of discount retailing, Mr. Schoonover said.

Sol W. Cantor, an early proponent of discount retailing featuring warehouse-style stores, died Friday in Manhattan, his son, Robert, said.

The pull of discount retailing was so strong that several other chains besides Wal-Mart managed to increase sales despite consumers' unwillingness to shop immediately after the terrorist attacks.

Creditors agreed to delay demands for payment on $548 million in so-called "put" bonds due next year that Kmart, the embattled discount retailing chain, could not meet.

In recent years, publishers' identities have begun to blur as their once-rarified craft has been increasingly overshadowed by business developments - mergers, new technology and discount retailing.

The popularity of these stores began to wane after 1962, the year that Kmart, Target and Wal-Mart introduced discount retailing to the United States.

The strategy of providing small-town residents with big-city discount retailing is a strategy that Wal-Mart used to considerable advantage as it built an amazing record of growth.