#chainstores

[elegantdefendorexpert]

Activist wants Dollar Tree to sell stuff for more than $1 — WHNT.com (CNN) — A dollar doesn’t buy as much as it did 30 years ago. That’s why one activist investor thinks it’s time for Dollar Tree to raise its prices.

[lovesouthwold]

This is what you get when you support #chainstores on your #HighStreet. #Lowhourly #wage #rates and pathetic hours. Who can realistically live on those low hours????? Think about that next time you buy a Costa or Starbucks. Cheap clothes made in China. #Plasticcrap instead of quality. hand made. Do you love your High Street? Use #independents or end up with a cardboard replication of every boarded up, betting shop, charity shop High Street. Or even worse just a void with the only option being online. #shopsmall #shoplocal #lovelittle #independent (at Prandium of Southwold) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9uuACjGBJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5hg69mg51qdm

[axelritt]

#Repost @gravediggerband with @get_repost ・・・ signing booklets for the #newbury #chainstores in the #usa . #gravedigger #gravediggerband #axelritt #ironfinger #the_real_ironfinger #thelivingdead #newalbum https://www.instagram.com/p/BmBKXPUHDTu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fs7llki260qh

[quintgallery]

From the Quint Archives: Installation views of Jean Lowe’s exhibition in 2005 at the gallery, GRAND TOUR. Lowe's exhibition included a salon style hanging of paintings depicting modern strip malls with their cookie-cutter architectural sensibility of parking lots and chain-stores against backgrounds of ancient and grand, 19th Century romantic landscapes. Also included in the installation was a sculpture of a life-size baby grand piano with it's lid open revealing ice cold beer and pop, further emphasizing the theme of cultural decay. Stay tuned for more information on her exhibition opening Saturday, July 28th! #QuintArchives #JeanLowe #SanDiegoArtist #GrandTour #stripmalls #chainstores #painting #sculpture #TBT (at Quint Gallery)

[petitpoisbyvivianag]

Great #trunkshow @petitpoisbyvivianag #newcollections at @Evelyn&Arthur boutique #chainstores #florida great story from generation #congratulations #VivianaGabeiras #bocaraton #palmbeach

[plereview]

The first Waterstones to be opened since 2008

On Saturday 19th April, Waterstones opened a new store in Ringwood, Hampshire, in a move that sees first new store opening since Alexander Mahmut bought the bookshop chain from the HMV Group in May 2011.

The Ringwood Waterstones also boasts a café at the front of the bookshop, Café W, and is in a 32,000sq ft let of the town’s Furlong Centre.

Sara Thompson, bookshop manager, stated:

“We’re thrilled to be opening a brand new bookshop in Ringwood. With its gorgeous new design, innovative features and delicious Café W, our bookshop will be a real pleasure to browse, to enjoy with the family and a great place to visit with friends and catch up over a coffee.”

“This is our first new shop in a totally new location since 2008, which is very exciting”, Head of buying at Waterstones, Kate Skipper, said, “It looks brilliant and has a coffee shop at the front of store, which is a new format for us.”

We at PLE Review see moves like this within the industry as positive; and with talks of a children’s reading/interactive play area also in circulation, we hope that this will be the start of a new generation of stores for Waterstones that will encourage adult and child alike to visit bookstores.

[ayn]