1.   In fact, it offers more experimental menu items and store formats than any of its competitors.

2.   By this time, the company was operating a mishmash of different store formats.

3.   Good Guys, meanwhile, is looking to snag market share with snazzy new store formats in Orange County and the San Francisco area.

4.   It also began implementing a new store format that emphasizes jewelry, housewares and furniture.

5.   Levitz has battled declining sales in recent years as a flood of new competitors courted consumers with store formats that resembled home interiors, rather than warehouses.

6.   Store formats are adapted somewhat to suit individual locations and zoning codes, said John Peterson, manager of flagship operations for the Buick Motor Division of General Motors.

7.   The company said it wants focus on a new, larger store format and invest in its Internet business.

8.   The holiday season was widely viewed as the last chance for the retailer to show that a new store format would work.

9.   The new store format features fewer toys but a better presentation, Nakasone said.