Its store operators put up only $5,000 and pay the parent company 15 percent of sales for various services.

If someone wanted to reach that manager, they would call the store operator, who would in turn project the sounds over the speaker system.

Gamblers received their winnings from the store operators.

At one point, he said, store operators invited him to become a store manager.

The establishment quickly became a leading homebuilder and general store operator, and grew with Argentina's booming economy of the time.

"We want to at least make the video store operators follow the same practice as the movie theaters: display the rating."

Holmes often said he owed his success as a store operator to his belief in selling only the best merchandise.

And on July 14, the two long-time retailing rivals announced their intention to join together to create the country's largest department store operator.

No callers are to wait more than two rings to talk to a store operator.

But investors must be careful because store operators face threats beyond low inflation.