Chowist Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

    In 2000, US toy retailer Toys "R" Us entered into a 10-year agreement with Amazon, valued at $50 million per year plus a cut of sales, under which Toys "R" Us would be the exclusive supplier of toys and baby products on the service, and the chain's website would redirect to Amazon's Toys & Games category. In 2004, Toys "R" Us sued Amazon ...

  3. Rayon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

    Rayon, also called viscose [1] and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, [2] is a semi-synthetic fiber, [3] made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. [4] It has the same molecular structure as cellulose. Many types and grades of viscose fibers and films exist.

  4. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest

    The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

  5. Amazon River - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River

    The Amazon River has an average discharge of about 215,000–230,000 m 3 /s (7,600,000–8,100,000 cu ft/s)—approximately 6,591–7,570 km 3 (1,581–1,816 cu mi) per year, greater than the next seven largest independent rivers combined. Two of the top ten rivers by discharge are tributaries of the Amazon river.

  6. Gift card - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_card

    Gift card. A gift card, also known as a gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK, [1] is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses. Gift cards are also given out by employers or ...

  7. CVS Pharmacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVS_Pharmacy

    CVS Health (1996–present) Website. cvs .com. Footnotes / references. [ 5] CVS Pharmacy, Inc. is an American retail corporation. A subsidiary of CVS Health, it is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. [ 6] Originally named the Consumer Value Stores, it was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1963. [ 7]

  8. Subsidy Scorecards: University of Nevada-Las Vegas

    projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/...

    SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.

  9. Retail apocalypse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse

    Research published by global retail analyst IHL Group in 2019 suggests that the so-called retail apocalypse narrative was an exaggeration, with "more chains that are expanding their number of stores than closing stores.” [7] That year, retailers in the United States announced 9,302 store closings, a 59% jump from 2018, and the highest number ...