1.   Many large retailers accept national or local bank credit cards in addition to offering their own plans.

2.   The site features several large retailers, including Gottschalks INC., a California based department store chain.

3.   American Greetings counters that when tooting its own horn, Hallmark fails to talk about large retailers like Target that still do not carry its cards.

4.   Analysts and investors, though, may have doubts about any large retailer that fails to have an e-commerce strategy, though.

5.   And Delray Beach-based Office Depot recently established a joint venture with a large Mexican retailer to open a chain of office supply stores in Mexico.

6.   And in a throwback to a more regulated era, large retailers must now get permission from local committees to open stores.

7.   Anderson, like other wholesalers, says he is being squeezed by the large retailers to offer more service and better prices.

8.   As it stands, large retailers are free to buy from or shun suppliers as they please.

9.   As with large retailers, it is possible for a small business to sink hundreds or thousands of dollars into a Web site and see little or no return.

10.   Automakers, large retailers and industrial companies have had banking or finance operations for years to help underwrite customer purchases, raise capital or support other credit functions.