Sentences with phrase «avoid price wars»

But at under 6 pct of sales, the shortfall is a cheap way to retain customers and avoid price wars.

Setting your price right at the MSRP is also a common strategy used by the smaller retail shops to avoid price wars and still maintain a decent profit.

It was a world often governed by overt or indirect agreements as to price controls or price level maintenance that served the players» interests in maintaining high prices and avoiding price wars, but rarely, if ever, benefitted the customers.

Not exact matches

However, the British retail veteran — the keynote speaker at the Australian Food & Grocery Council's annual executive conference — says the major chains can avoid a UK - style grocery price war by taking lessons from successful retailers such as Britain's Waitrose and France's Leclerc.

During the Revolutionary War, the demand for coffee increased so much that dealers had to hoard their scarce supplies and raise prices dramatically; this was also due to the reduced availability of tea from British merchants, and a general resolution among many Americans to avoid drinking tea following the 1773 Boston Tea Party.

Listening to the words of Wenger on the subject, it appears that our boss has decided not to try competing with the spending power at Old Trafford, to avoid a bidding war that will push the prices even higher.

If Amazon was content with publishers learning the hard way, they would've avoided a PR war last year and let Hachette jack up prices.

The legal war over ebook pricing rages on but there's no need to avoid the skirmish.

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

Retailing With the Amazon / Overstock price war (which has settled down to price matching) as a backdrop, Rob Salkowitz offers some advice to proprietors of comics shops on how to avoid «showrooming,» the practice of customers coming to their shop to look at the stock but then actually buying it from an online retailer.

International ambiguity remains a small price to pay to avoid a cross-strait war.

We are seeing climate disruption leading to rising food prices, loss of biodiversity, deteriorating ecosystem services, increased chances of vast epidemics and nuclear resource wars and a general reduction in the odds of avoiding the first catastrophic collapse of a global civilization.

But Fard says buyers willing to face winter weather are rewarded with better prices and can likely avoid bidding wars.

The second is figuring out how to differentiate from new entrants and avoid getting dragged into a race - to - the - bottom price war that would decimate its slim margins.

Those looking to buy may want to consider a winter home purchase in order to avoid bidding wars and higher prices spurred by a potential increase in millennial buyers.»