Sentences with phrase «absorbed cost price»

Over the last five years, as Coles challenged suppliers and cut or absorbed cost price rises, the retailer has recorded annual food and liquor deflation of 1.5 per cent and claims to have saved the average family more than $ 600 a year off their grocery shop.

Not exact matches

This is far from clear: a proper carbon pricing policy would favour firms that are profitable enough to absorb the cost of GHG emissions, and penalise those who can only survive if emissions are not priced.

Nothing against distributors, it's just nice to be able to set our own prices, to not absorb the cost of a middle - man, not have to raise our prices to support that... because when you do, the consumer ends up paying that cost.

For one thing, increases in commodity prices take time to trickle down to the consumer, and hikes depend largely on the willingness of retailers to absorb added costs.

Accurately price the perks and set a funding goal to cover all the costs and absorb unforeseen ones.

While some vendors just absorbed the higher costs, others hiked their PC prices, leading to lower overall demand.

Previously, if the price of the metals used in making crowns rose, he absorbed the extra cost.

In a case like ours, where the parent company absorbs all production and development costs, it doesn't make sense not to factor those costs into the price of goods sold abroad.»

It would force up European exchange rates, imposing an economic cost that European industry would have to absorb as the dollar price its exports were forced up to uncompetitive levels, through no fault of Europe's own domestic policies.

Paul Bulcke, the chief executive officer of Vevey, Switzerland - based Nestle, the world's largest food company, said May 19 that food - price increases should be gradual and that companies would try to absorb commodity expenses by reducing costs in other areas.

«A reduction in gas prices and grocery deflation will help customers stretch their budgets, but they're still trying to absorb a 2 % payroll tax cut, uncertainty over Washington, and a lack of clarity around personal health care costs that are all headwinds,» Mr. Simon said.

However, if domestic demand pressures ease appreciably, it is possible that increases in upstream costs will to some extent be absorbed into profit margins rather than flowing into consumer prices.

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had last month denied reports of a directive to state oil firms to absorb at least Re 1 a litre of hike by not raising prices in line with cost.

A spokesman from Coles said the supermarket absorbed the cost of low - price milk by reducing its own profits and it compensated dairy processing companies who bought the milk from farmers.

He has been stepping up pressure on suppliers to reduce wholesale prices or to absorb rising input costs so the retailer can pass savings to consumers by «permanently» reducing shelf prices.

«The complexities arising for both suppliers and business customers may be more than suggested in the announcement, and additional energy costs to businesses will either have to be absorbed or, more likely, passed on through higher prices.»

He predicted that others may be forced to raise prices or cut positions to absorb the higher labor costs.

If it is replaced by other farmers boosting their yields more than they otherwise would, spurred by higher prices, you may get a benefit because higher yields absorb more carbon (but it comes at some greenhouse gas costs from fertilizer use and the like).

While some oral GSH is not absorbed particularly well, the price difference between better absorbing GSH supplements is generally more than offset by their higher cost.

The 2017 Cadillac CT6 Platinum has a base list price of $ 84,790, and it remains to be seen whether the ’18 model's price goes up to absorb the Super Cruise cost.

If you (again) assume that editing, layout, and other fixed costs of production are absorbed during a first printing, it's a slam dunk — with 20 % of the retail price going to authors, 10,000 now equates to only 12,500 in digital form3.

The cost of the book is absorbed into the price of the course.

It's most likely that Apple can afford to absorb the costs of producing and selling the iPad because of the tenacious ecosystem backing it, and also because it has such tight oversight over every aspect of the company to control price.

At the same time, this also effectively put all secondary competitors which make and distribute e-reader devices for the North American and European markets out of business or in an immediately precarious position, who presumably do not have the ability to absorb such huge price cuts due to differences in volume manufacturing costs.

When you print more books these set - up costs start to be absorbed into the book printing pricing.

Once these set - up costs become absorbed into the price per book, you are only paying for the machine time, labor, and material cost that are needed to print a book.

Even if Amazon absorbs the costs, is this not exploitation of a monopoly by bundling at a price point only Amazon can achieve, thus a barrier to competitive entry?

An isolated oil price shock or two can be readily absorbed by other segments of the economy, but the type of steep, sustained rise in oil prices that we've seen in recent years becomes a cost factor that has to be passed on.

If you don't have insurance, the costs are absorbed by the hospital (i.e. passed on to other patients in the form of higher prices to offset this expense).

When it comes time to sell your property you may be able to roll the improvements into the purchase price, which will help your tax cost basis, and allow you to double dip by getting those improvement costs absorbed in the purchase price by new buyers who will want the upgrades.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

The fact is that the cost of the Carbon Price for most businesses that it was simply absorbed and no increase to product prices appeared.

The poor, who are most unable to absorb the added costs, will feel acutely the effects of increased electricity prices.

However, this uplift will be eroded by pipeline costs and diluent expenses to around $ 5.5 / barrel, leaving only a few dollars margin to absorb any other factors, including production cost increases, carbon offset costs, and any future price discounts.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning a plant when it wears out, and of insuring reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is simply not economical.

Service Providers may absorb costs for which they should rightfully be compensated if the costs can only be recovered by making a claim under the outsourcing agreement's dispute resolution procedures: the damage to the outsourcing relationship is too high a price to pay.

«For many, these changes are hitting hard, and the businesses may not be able to raise prices or otherwise absorb the dramatic increase in labour costs.

The online retailer could absorb the costs of offering goods for lower prices without significantly hurting the consumer whereas third - party sellers will need to increase their prices in order to make a profit.

The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program helps participating safety - net centers to obtain prescription drugs at reduced rates from pharmaceutical manufacturers, in turn enabling these sites to more readily absorb the cost of providing contraceptives at little or no cost to their clients.

If inventory conditions can improve enough to cool the swift price growth in several markets, most prospective buyers should be able to absorb the higher borrowing costs.»

«The main storyline in the early months of 2017 will be if supply can meaningfully increase to keep price growth at a moderate enough level for households to absorb higher borrowing costs.