A street hawker from Kisa village operating at TM mall, Ms Motlatsi Keabile is hopeful that the opening of the
chain store in Tsabong would have economic trickle down for her business.
While this is the seventh consecutive year with a net increase in national
chain stores in the five boroughs, this year's rate of growth was lower than all previous years except 2013--when the number of
chain stores rose by 0.5 percent.
"Shoppers tend to have far fewer conversations in
chain stores as there's less of a community feel about them," he said.
Most towns and cities have a selection of the big
chain stores making one seem very much like another.
He claimed
chain stores 'proliferate like weeds', adding: 'Unless we can figure out how to weed some of the identikit,
chain store shopfronts from our High Streets, we'll all end up living in clone towns.'
NASA scientists, engineers and
chain store managers met with students of Brandon Middle School in Mississippi to confer about a solution to an important community issue-runaway shopping carts!
Industry analysts suggest that motor vehicle sales were running close to August levels, and
chain store sales were only modestly lower.
where P and A represent market-basket price and percentage of availability (i.e., A = number of surveyed market-basket items available in the store divided by the total number of surveyed market-basket items), respectively, and vector X includes Chain (1 if
chain store, 0 otherwise), Poor (1 if located in poor neighborhood, 0 otherwise), and percentage of
chain stores in the neighborhood.
But when that same dollar is spent at a national
chain store, 80 cents of it leaves town immediately-to pay executive salaries, distant manufacturers and importers, and truckers."
Interest peaked during the 1995 Christmas season, when
chain store reports showing weak sales fueled growing concern about the consumer sector.