Sentences with phrase «as normal consumer»

Even student credit cards offer valuable rewards, though the rewards are not as good as normal consumer cards.

I am semi-interested solely because I am into tech, but honestly, as a normal consumer anything besides the iPad is junk at this point due to lack of QUALITY developer support because let's face it Android is not for * normal * people just like Linux isn't ideal for the average consumer.

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At the same time, they must carefully monitor consumers» perceptions of «normal» price levels: Excessive promotions lead consumers to revise their expectations about prices downward and can threaten profitability in the recovery period because people will resist the steep increases as prices return to «normal.»

As I wrote back in August, recent studies conducted by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Information Technology and Information Foundation (ITIF) have demonstrated convincingly that blocking offshore pirate websites works in terms of changing consumer behaviour (i.e. directing consumers away from infringing content to sources of legitimate content) while at the same time not interfering with normal internet operations.

MH: The problem of inadequate consumer demand to fuel an economic recovery does not lie with the cost of labor so much as with the fact that it is now normal for families to pay a quarter or even a third of their income for debt service.

The savings created by the Liberal plan would allow the Balancing Pool to pay off the PPA liability as part of its normal operations, without incurring added expense to consumers through interest payments.

Indeed, the only certainty that appears to be emerging is that significant change is unlikely to materialise in 2011 and as the search for value continues, consumers are embracing the «new normal».

In 2017, it'll become more normal to see blemished fruits and vegetables on the shelves of your local stores as consumers become aware of the pervasiveness of food waste.

In the present day society where consumer goods, information, places, people and even dreams are regarded / promoted as merely a key, a computer screen, a shop window away, the slum youth, who are criminalized and excluded from the imagination of normal Turkey and have even been constructed as the other of this imagination; for whom the distance between themselves and their desires and dreams remain nearly impossible to travel, want to urgently attain these dreams nonetheless.

Normal and Sport modes are somewhat better, but there are still moments where it feels like this powertrain hasn't been completely vetted, as if the consumer is an unwitting beta tester.

Cisco will compete with enterprise tablet makers such as Hewlett - Packard and BlackBerry PlayBook (which is as much targeted to the normal consumer as to the enterprise, but lacks a native email client).

Ken Whitehurst, executive director of the Consumers Council of Canada, says it's normal for banks — and other businesses — to raise fees they charge consumers even as they operate at Consumers Council of Canada, says it's normal for banks — and other businesses — to raise fees they charge consumers even as they operate at consumers even as they operate at a profit.

As a result, lending institutions have access to cheap intra-bank loans and are able to pass the savings to consumers or to take higher than normal underwriting risks, thus being able to approve unsecured loans for poor credit grades.

Normal consumer credit, such as revolving charge accounts or credit cards, will be much more difficult to secure, as they are determined by the credit standards of the individual lenders.

When I originally applied for these cards, I picked the consumer Premier Rewards Gold Card and the business Platinum Card because both were offering targeted bonuses roughly twice as large as normal.

«The wounds from the recession remain fresh and competition for new cardholders is much more moderate and selective — the «new normal» is shaping up to be an environment with more - disciplined issuers as well as consumers,» says John Grund, co-manager of the card issuing practive area of First Annapolis Consulting.

The consumer expectations test defines a «defective condition» as a condition, upon normal use, dangerous beyond the reasonable consumer's contemplations.

But unlike the olden days of SSDs, modern drives won't wear out with normal consumer usage, as Tech Report tested and proved years ago with a grueling endurance test.

IDC previously forecast the fourth quarter to grow at less than 1 % year over year as initial supply constraints surrounding the iPhone X and higher than normal prices on many flagships could lead to consumers playing the waiting game until prices come down after the holidays or opt for a more affordable device.»

The Gear S2 is Samsung's latest smartwatch to hit the market and, as fits the normal consumer expectation of the latest device having advant...

When Tom Bosley says «the new becomes the norm and the new normal is very different for the generations who are following us» he is referring to younger professionals joining the industry, as well as a digital world that is having a deep impact on emerging consumers.

Antitrust laws are intended to protect consumers and promote normal marketplace competition by preventing such trade restraints as price fixing, group boycotts, and monopolies.

Romney's goal for lenders to return to more normal lending standards is something NAR has been calling for quite a bit in the past year, and the paper cites as one of the roadblocks to this some of the rules to come out of the big Wall Street reform law enacted two years ago, including the qualified mortgage (QM) rule, which is being drafted by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

For the same price as working with a normal agent, consumers can take advantage of buyer specialists, listing specialists, marketing department, transaction coordinators, listing coordinators, client development and virtual assistants.

Using 2000 as a «normal» year in which the market saw neither a bubble nor a bust, the metrics on home prices in relation to consumer prices imply a 14 percent undervaluation, and in relation to rental rates, a 20 percent undervaluation.