Dubbed the compact disc or CD, the format was initially designed to store digitized sound and proved to be a success in the music industry.

The vaults under the Wertheim department store proved to be the perfect location for a club, and Tresor quickly became the place to be in Berlin.

The store proved useful to those working on the National Road and made McQuilkinsville an important town in the area.

He built a tavern there in 1846, which proved to be a popular area attraction, and a general store in 1850.

An ABC board was formed and a liquor store was constructed, which proved to be a wise investment, enabling the town to pay off debt incurred for water and sewer lines as well as fund the building of Town Hall in 1967 and the Jamestown Park and Golf Course in 1974.

A plan to build a Tesco Extra store on the Cloffocks proved controversial with much opposition from local people ; a planning application was placed in 2006 by Tesco, after it acquired the Cloffocks site for £ 18 million ; Tesco had been competing with Asda to acquire the site since 2003.

At some malls, like Fashion Show Mall, the dual-store system proved to be unsuccessful, so Macy's closed one of the stores and converted the other back to a general Macy's store.

In spite of the limited selection and minimal service, the first No Frills store proved a success and within months the company converted two more Loblaws locations to the new deep discount format.

While retail formats were not easily transferable, the company ’ s ‘ control label ’ products proved successful from one store format and part of the country to another.

The model proved successful and the chain set about expanding its store portfolio.

This business venture proved unsuccessful, and Ghirardelli opened a new store, named " Ghirardely & Girard ", on the corner of Washington and Kearny Streets in San Francisco.

It was the first 24-hour Kmart store and proved very popular with locals, frustrated with the limited shopping hours on offer at the time.

" Nonetheless, neither the band nor the album proved to be a big commercial success in the US: major chain store Wal-Mart refused to stock it, claiming on its website that it contained " a snarling, swaggering attack on conservatism " in the form of the song " Tits on the Radio ".

This move proved ill-conceived, with such questionable ventures as the purchase and operation of several storied but troubled American department store chains as B. Altman & Co., Bonwit Teller, Sakowitz and Parisian stores, to be utilized as anchors for a number of large, but poorly located shopping malls in the United States.

The result of the project, which used both real-time and store and forward techniques, was a major scientific breakthrough which proved that active communications satellites could provide a means of transmitting messages from one point to any other on Earth.

This proved too costly to produce and too unwieldy for store shelves and was replaced by more conventional packaging such as the " grey box " format.

As a retail site, the Philadelphia flagship store has proved quite profitable for later tenants Lord & Taylor and now Macy's.

The store proved to be a success, and Ortega began opening more Zara stores throughout Spain.

This store was converted to a computer products-only concept, called FNAC Micro, which proved more successful.

The Waukee store proved to be the most successful of the three, so Lamberti decided to purchase and open more stores, concentrating on towns of less than 5, 000 population ( a variation on the tactic used in the early success of Wal-Mart ).

) In a few episodes it was also said that Drucker operated a bank ; this proved to be merely a cash box kept under a counter in his store.

The branches proved to have been a wise step: the flagship store posted only a few years of actual profitability, all of them during the 1940s.

This proved short-lived and it will close again in 2011 to make way for a new retail store Urban Outfitters, which will be opening onto Grainger Street.

" The store proved successful and operated for three years after which it was closed so that Warren could pursue establishing colonies based on mutualism.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

* Infocom had a successful marketing approach that kept all their games in store inventories for years.

Her father owned a hat store, made successful investments in the oil industry, and became affluent enough to give Margaretha a lavish early childhood that included exclusive schools until the age of 13.

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ( A & P ) was another successful early grocery store chain in Canada and the United States, and became common in North American cities in the 1920s.

Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from being a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain, with the first Games Workshop store opening in Hammersmith in 1977.

Hendricks ' father became a moderately wealthy farmer, and operated a successful general store, and became involved in politics.

Although Quimbo Appo is claimed to have arrived in the area during the 1840s, the first Chinese person credited as having permanently immigrated to Chinatown was Ah Ken, a Cantonese businessman, who eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row.

Kingsbury at one point was a successful economic town, today the town is small and quiet consisting of a post office, a liquor store, a small furniture store, an Elevator, and Dillards Whole Sale Carpet.

Reuben Reid became a successful farmer, operated a store and a public inn maintained in a private home and served the county as a constable and justice of the peace.

In July 2009, a successful business owner was killed inside his liquor store by armed robbers.

He became a successful businessman later owning a hotel, a furniture store and a bank.

( His paternal grandfather owned a successful San Francisco department store that was destroyed in the quake ; the store was heavily insured, but the insurance company went bankrupt in the aftermath of the earthquake.

The expansion of the memory space caused an issue for any programs that used the high byte of an address to store data, a programming trick that was successful with those processors that only have a 24-bit address bus ( 68000 and 68010 ).

The fourth brother, Peter E, was running a successful general store at Goshen which was expanded in 1860 to include a wagon distribution outlet.

Though it initially appeared to be successful, the store soon failed.

Using the same sign from the Utica store, Frank opened his first successful " Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store " on July 18, 1879, in Lancaster.

Second successful " Woolworth Bros " store, Scranton, PA. Later bought by brother Charles " Sum ", becoming the first " C. S. Woolworth " store, and eventually merged into the F. W. Woolworth Company.

This label became one of the most popular and successful " dime store " labels of the 1920s, and survived beyond the end of the US Pathé label-discontinued in 1930-right up to 1938.

On June 21, 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first successful five cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after a failed attempt with a store he opened on February 22, 1879, in Utica, NY.

Wasik avoided such problems during the first successful flash mob, which occurred on June 3, 2003, at Macy's department store, by sending participants to preliminary staging areas — in four Manhattan bars — where they received further instructions about the ultimate event and location just before the event began.