It was built as a company store for the local mining community.

"Could I buy a pair at the company store, do you know?"

This would include a school and a company store where workers were forced to buy their supplies.

We could purchase cigarettes at half price in the company store.

Soon a company store, boarding house, and other buildings went up, each with its own water system.

A company store, movie theater, and boarding house was also built for the town, but they are now long gone.

The headquarters building itself contained a company store and museum.

But even the food in "company" stores has been inconsistent.

Their food and supplies came from the company store, at steep prices.

Company Store where they can also look at their photos that were taken during the ride but cannot be purchased.

But other companies say that because of the restrictions in child labor laws, they will not hire youths under 18 for company-owned stores.

He was instrumental in the company's recent move to refranchise 41 company-owned stores.

In 1987, nine of the ten remaining company-owned stores were sold to Hardee's.

Early in the decade, Tops began to build more company-owned stores.

He also remodeled 300 of the 800 company-owned stores and promises to get to the rest within a year.

The company is involved in retailing through company-owned stores and franchise operations.

Average net sales at company-owned stores rose 5.6 percent to $189,000, from $179,000, it said.

A hundred tapes and more than 800 workbooks were sent out to cover the 300-plus employees in company-owned stores.

By the beginning of 1997, fewer than 850 company-owned stores remained.

There are 680 company-owned stores in the chain, which had been doing all of its advertising in-house.