Thrifty housewives used everyday fabrics like wool or cotton and little or no embellishment to create more serviceable quilts than the original fancy crazy quilts with the added benefit of using up small or odd-shaped scraps left over from making clothing for the family or other household sewing projects.

Thrifty, Inc. attempted to submit a service mark application which described aspects of their business ( uniforms, buildings, certain vehicles ) as " being blue "; the application was rejected for not being specific enough, and the rejection was upheld on appeal.

Thrifty Foods is the largest private employer on Vancouver Island.

By the late 1950s, Rexall's business model of unitary franchised stores, with each store owned independently by the local pharmacist, was already coming under attack by the discount chains, such as Thrifty Drug and Eckerd.

HBC also has other HBC Rewards corporate partners such as: Imperial Oil / Esso, M & M Meat Shops, Chapters / Indigo Books, Kelsey's / Montana's Restaurants, Thrifty Car Rental, Cineplex Entertainment Theatres, etc.

In 1962, Meijer opened its first hypermarket in Grand Rapids, Michigan, entitled " Thrifty Acres ", and calling the format a " Supercenter ", and in Europe by Carrefour, which opened its first such store in 1963 at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France.

In recent years, Aeroplan has evolved into a loyalty marketing program with retail partners such as: Esso, Home Hardware, Sobeys, Thrifty Foods, Nestle Canada and others.

In 2007, Sobeys announced a $ 260 million takeover offer for the Thrifty Foods chain in British Columbia.

Thrifty cooks have been finding creative ways for using up stale bread since bread was invented.

In 2003 the company cut the number down to a three-tier system of brands: the " Prestige " brand for upscale private label products, " Winn-Dixie " for its mainstream items, and " Thrifty Maid " for its value items.

In January 1999 Trammell Crow Co. bought the Thrifty Payless Inc. headquarters for $ 25. 5 million and then broke the compound into sections, selling pieces of it for a total of $ 22 million ; Trammell Crow retained control of the $ 8 million, headquarters building.

Shelby repeated this trick in 1988 with the creation of the CSX-T for the Thrifty rental company.

The Thrifty Food Plan serves as the nutritional basis for determination of Food Stamp Program benefits.

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Weeklies in the city include the Midlands Business Journal ( weekly business publication ), American Classifieds ( Formerly Thrifty Nickel ), a weekly classified newspaper, The Reader ( newspaper ), and Omaha Magazine, as well as The Omaha Star.

Later that year, 30 Thrifty and Rx Plus drugstores in Arizona and Nevada were acquired.

Joe's, a sporting goods and automotive parts retailer was based in Wilsonville until bankruptcy in 2009, as was drugstore chain Thrifty PayLess until it was bought by Rite Aid in 1996, and video rental retailer Movie Gallery and its subsidiary Hollywood Video were as well until bankruptcy in 2010.

* In his 2004 album, The Nifty Mervous Thrifty, Muck Sticky made a cover of this song.

At his funeral, one grandson recalled that his grandfather " jogged in actual business suits that had been reluctantly retired " and " drove a Chrysler LeBaron convertible, which was outfitted with tattered red upholstery, a roof held together with duct tape ... when it finally fell apart, he replaced it with a Dodge Spirit, which he had purchased used from Thrifty Rental Cars.

Sobeys also operates Thrifty Foods, a chain of 26 grocery stores based in Victoria, British Columbia.

In 2009, the program was expanded into the Thrifty Foods chain as " Club Thrifty Foods ", with cards that can be used interchangeably between Sobeys and Thrifty Foods stores.

Previous sponsors have included SeaWorld, Thrifty Car Rental, Plymouth, and Culligan.

A version without the intercooler, rated at, was sold to Thrifty as the CSX-T.

Thrifty is an adjective describing someone who spends carefully and saves money.

Its origins are complex and may date to the Crusades, later being influenced by French gamblers.

Reinforcement schedules may also make gamblers persist in gambling even after repeated losses.

The term may derive from the use of finger and hand bones from the dead in mojo bags, or from ingredients such as the lucky hand root ( favored by gamblers ).

This may derive from gamblers ' superstitions about money, or it could just be a sensible precaution against theft.

There may be financial gain through agreements with gamblers.

Each of these organizations was, and may still be influenced by fears that their games could come under the influence of gamblers in the absence of these tough measures.

Skycity casinos often depend to a large degree on several hundred high stakes gamblers, often from East Asia, who may gamble hundreds of thousands of dollars in one visit to a casino.

Illegal gamblers will at times pay sports players to lose so that they may profit from the otherwise unexpected loss.

After spending much time in Las Vegas during the 1940s, Kerkorian quit gambling and in 1947 paid $ 60, 000 for Trans International Airlines, which was a small air-charter service which flew gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

After the war it became popular in the Old West among lawmen, outlaws and gamblers as its small size allowed it to be concealed in a waistcoat pocket.

So he took a short trip to Las Vegas, and found what he thought was a plain city, with small hotel chains and not enough casinos for gamblers to play in.

A UK government-funded review of previous research noted a small scale patient survey leading to press reports claiming that 75 % of people who gamble online are " problem " or " pathological " gamblers, compared to just 20 % of people who visit legitimate land-based casinos.

It seems the only people using the machines were a small number of prostitutes and gamblers who didn't want to deal with tellers face to face, Simjian wrote.

This can be shown as follows: Consider the probability of player 1 experiencing gamblers ruin having started with amount of money,.

All the racers are persuaded to give the money to charity, Nick forcing Sinclair and his fellow gamblers to pay double the amount raised ( which is shown increasing at an alarming rate on the display board ).

The amount of money the gamblers put up was estimated to be between $ 50, 000 to $ 200, 000, most of it from the St. Louis / East St. Louis area.

In Norway, a December 2007 study showed the amount of present problem gamblers was 0. 7 percent.

According to Josh Axelrad in his 2010 book, Repeat until Rich, he and other professional gamblers, primarily card counters, took advantage of the Aladdin's inexperienced staff its opening weekend and fleeced the casino for an undetermined but large amount of money.