Sentences with phrase «as overall consumer spending»

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Spending an estimated $ 632 billion in online retail by 2020, consumers will refer to A.I. shopping bots not just for shopping, but as an overall efficiency tool for all of their goods.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

These policy trends, as well as the tendency of consumption to increase its share within GDP as per - capita GDP rises, suggest that mass - market consumer spending should grow materially faster than overall GDP growth.

Tmall, which serves as a gateway to China for large foreign brands, controlled six of every 10 dollars spent overall for business - to - consumer sales online in China during the second half of last year — and even more in sectors like apparel.

Future research will look at how every extra second consumers spend on a page affects their relationship with an organization, as well as their perception of its credibility and their overall brand attitude.

As a self - described environmentalist, minimalist, and overall conscious consumer, I wanted nothing to do with the incessant waste and over-the-top spending that the wedding industry perpetuates.

And there is significant spending growth potential for small business credit and charge cards, as card's share of overall small business spending is much lower than card's share of consumer spending.

In the worst case, consumers are not able to spend as their debt rises, repossessions skyrocket, the auto market seizes up and the overall economy stalls.

As mentioned — though the Discover it card offers a large 5 percent bonus on certain categories of spending, when we look at the percentage that the average consumer spends in those categories averaged out over four quarters, the overall rewards rate on the card is low.

Merchants in virtually every field are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn as consumers spend less on their products; increasingly, they are forced to offer customers greater discounts and better values overall to attract and retain them.

«Utilities are as significant and regular part of households» budgets, and spending on utilities has risen more quickly than overall consumer spending — 56 percent versus 38 percent growth since 2000,» says Louise Kelly, president of the Demand Institute.

Part of the reason Target has had such a sluggish year, with shares dipping roughly 2 %, is that there has been an overall softness in the apparel market due to warmer weather, and consumers have been spending much of their discretionary income on car downpayments to meet a pent - up demand for autos as the economy picks up steam, Feinseth said.