Sentences with phrase «called loss leaders»

Just like any other retailer, banks offer some discounted products, called loss leaders, which attract customers who, the banks hope, will buy other, more profitable products once they are in the tent.

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Big businesses know taking a loss on some products (called «loss leaders») to get people in their stores to buy higher - margin products can work.

Fresh home brand milk is going to be in the class of products along with things like Coca - Cola and nappies - the products that are regularly used as what I will call «loss leaders»... they are products that are priced very cheaply and that the supermarkets use to entice people into their stores...

The loss of 405 councillors and control of 12 councils is a major electoral setback for the Tories, whose right - wing MPs are now calling on their leader to resist Lib Dem moves to legalise gay marriage and push through Lords reform.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Bushwick faith leaders, small business owners and residents march and rally through Bushwick to call on Albany to close major loopholes in rent laws that are driving the loss of affordable housing in the neighborhood, Make the Road New York's office, 301 Grove St., Brooklyn.

While appealing to president Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the alleged barbaric acts of the military on the hapless students and lecturers, the union leader called for caution in using the military in a civil or students protest, stressing that the police which is constitutionally empowered should be used in civil matters to prevent loss of lives of the innocent future leaders.

In Oswego Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo congratulated Oswego's leaders for developing what he called a smart plan that can help a city and region scarred by the loss of manufacturing.

The first minister admitted that her call for a second referendum immediately after Brexit was a key factor in the Scottish National party's loss of 21 of 56 Westminster seats, including seats held by the architect of her party's rise to power, Alex Salmond, and the party's deputy leader, Angus Robertson.

1) Low population density means that it's difficult to get connections in some areas, combined with 2) Universal service requirements mean that regulated telcos make up their low density loss leaders in the highly populated areas, plus 3) Unmetered phone calls (unlike most other countries) has traditionally meant that people have been more reluctant to upgrade from dialup to broadband.

Or is it an odd form of loss leader call to action?