"giant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The shop owner had been planning to quit when a Wal-Mart opened nearby but, after hearing Mr. Stone, he sought and won a contract to service power equipment sold by the discount giant.
- First, discount giants like Wal-Mart have leapfrogged into a powerful position by becoming big sellers of groceries as well as garden hoses.
- Kmart, which used to be the discount giant, is now promising to spend $460 million in the next year to update its information systems, but it may already be perilously behind in the catch-up game.
- This two-pronged competition, the two discount giants and the warehouse club, have produced the major challenge to the other discounters.
- The conventional wisdom is that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the discount giant that has plodded its way into the region in recent years, has consumed its competitors' market share.
- "The opportunity just came along, and we seized it," said David J. Wine, whose company is developing mixed-income rental projects on two Manhattan properties that Costco, the discount retail giant, pulled out of.
- The Woolworth stores themselves have found it increasingly difficult to compete with the discount giants.
- The discount giant estimated that sales at stores open for at least a year rose 2.2 percent.
- The discount giant, which reported its smallest quarterly profit increase in four years, predicted that an aggressive marketing campaign would result in strong holiday sales, even as consumers are being saddled with big home heating bills.
- In 1999, discount giants including Wal-Mart Stores, based in Bentonville, Ark., successfully sued to block his order for deep discounts on commonly prescribed drugs.
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