Sentences with phrase «bucks out of the consumer»

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Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

Trautmann: We originally envisioned sending Frost out to publishers for standard 22 - page issues; we realized pretty quickly that we wanted to work with Monkeybrain, and for a variety of reasons (mostly involving not crushing our illustrator under the weight of deadlines every month) that a minimum of 16 pages of story (plus a varying amount of backmatter, essays, illustrations, behind - the - scenes material and so on) would allow us a lean, stripped - down «footprint» for our story and still provide a lot of bang for the buck for the consumer.

And given that Amazon's system has to allow the rest of us to buy and review books, nothing short of blocking the honest consumer - readers and the hard - working indie authors from using their site will put a stop to someone out to make a quick buck.

The media, as driven and owned by the banks would have «us» believe that this act is a mandatory lifeboat response having to do with managing risk and loss precipitated by natural disaster credit - card reliance (since our government was out partying during these events and cutting birthday cake) and the mortgage fiasco which in fact was created by the banks themselves when they threw billions of dollars at unqualified consumers around 2001 with knowledge of their poor risk and just to make a buck.

Thanks to a tanked economy and the advent of devices like tablets that are pulling focus away from sustainable design and putting it back on competitive features like cameras, displays, touchscreens and so on, companies (and consumers) are wanting to put the focus on what they have to offer consumers in bang for their buck rather than what green they get for the green they're doling out.

It is as if every consumer is out there to make a quick buck out of a bad situation, and the insurance company somehow will have to pay for damages that are not owed.

A new entrant, however, is a white - colored ceramic model for high - end consumers who are ready to shell out thousands of bucks on smartwatches.