The
store also sells medicines and plans to hold health-related events in partnership with a pharmacy and the medical corporation.
Conversely, sales of hot dispensed beverages increased 2.5 percent in average sales per single
store, trailing 4.7 percent for the total industry.
11 S1 Electronics and appliance
stores 28,050 28,656
To learn what retailers are doing well and not so well here, we visited the laundry and cleaning supplies sections of three dollar
stores in the Chicagoland area: a Family Dollar
store in Gurnee, Ill., operated by Matthews, N.C.-based Family Dollar
Stores Inc.; a Dollar General location in Mundelein, Ill., operated by Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based Dollar General Corp.; and a Dollar Tree
store in Vernon Hills, Ill., operated by Chesapeake, Va.-based Dollar Tree Inc.
From downtown Milwaukee to a New Orleans neighborhood struggling to recover from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina and various locales in between, 11 grocery
stores that set the standard for overall excellence are showcased on the following pages of Progressive Grocer's second annual
Store Design Contest.
Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan and their partner
stores held special ceremonies in which the 22 lakh rupees collected for flood relief were presented by cheques to the respective trusts involved.
This is Century 21 Department
Stores's second retail location in New Jersey and the fifth in the metropolitan New York area for the retailer, a discounter of quality designer clothing and accessories whose
stores have an upscale, department
store ambiance.
* The RE
Store: Labor-$3,620; Disposal-$75 and Total Service-$4,470
It provides entry-level jobs that unskilled workers badly want--there are often 5 to 10 applicants for each position at a new
store.