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The U.K. bakery chain said the proposal to consolidate its in-house manufacturing activities was the result of a review aiming to ensure cost-efficient operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Kroger is playing hardball in its intensified pursuit of low prices, acting more like Walmart than a typical supermarket chain, Sarah Nassauer and Patrick Thomas report for The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The pair aim to develop a US supply chain for sodium ion batteries, in order to enable large-scale energy storage for electricity grids.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The company has assumed the role of a venture capitalist in the AI value chain, strategically investing in customers and business partners.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
She was spitting like a bobcat on a chain.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The family’s Canadian contingent oversees an empire that includes Loblaw, Canada’s largest food retailer and the operator of Shoppers Drug Mart, one of the country’s biggest pharmacy chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“It’s absolutely incredible what it can do to reduce the limitations and the roadblocks and the chokepoints in everything from manufacturing supply chains, etc.,” says Lacalle.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Ukraine's food minister, Taras Vysotskyi, has said the wave of attacks has "seriously disrupted, even rendered inoperative" the supply chains used by major retailers, which are based on centralised logistics platforms.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I remember weekends with friends as a teenager, spending whatever cash we had in the fashion chains and shoe shops.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Schools all over the country are working on their own chains to send here to help you get to six million!
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
"You were not chained to a door or something, right? You were not locked up in a basement. The chains were less obvious, but they were there."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
AI also has helped accelerate the microshift movement by taking over lower-level tasks that keep people chained to their desks during specific hours, such as sorting and responding to emails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Boxes are typically bolted into concrete or chained in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
In chaining many weaker chips together, it aims to mimic cutting-edge models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Adding eight gigawatts of new demand to a 2.4 gigawatt system is like chaining an M1 Abrams tank to a Toyota Camry and expecting the two vehicles to drive calmly down the highway together.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
You and your husband have gone from wanting to sell this house to actually chaining yourself to the house and the future occupants.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
More than 200 pro-Palestinian protesters blocked off traffic on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, with some people chaining themselves together across lanes and shutting down a vital Bay Area route during the busy morning commute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
I’m actually surprised Rufus is chaining his bike to a gate and following me into the hospital.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
