Sentences with phrase «cent of consumers paid»

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We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

Higher pay is needed to fuel consumer spending, which makes up nearly 70 per cent of economic activity.

License both the business and the consumer column and pay just $ 0.40 per subscriber per year, for 24 columns — that's the incredible bargain price of just 1.67 cents per user for each article (for instance, your clients could send Green And Profitable to their vendors and dealers, and Green And Practical to the end - buyers of their green products or services).

One would hardly realize that the problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (about 15 per cent) and a tax shift off property and the higher wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).

The report quotes a consumer study of 204 Chinese organic buyers, which showed 71 per cent of shoppers were prepared to pay up to 50 per cent more for organic food.

Mr Durkan first accused multinational suppliers of price gouging soon after joining Coles from Britain in 2008, saying Australian consumers were paying at least 10 per cent and as much as 100 per cent more than British consumers for packaged groceries because suppliers had been making excessive profit margins in Australia and relying on annual price increases for margin growth.

It's hoped a 10 - cent drink container refund scheme will nearly halve the millions of empty bottles left at NSW parks, beaches and waterways in the next five years, but consumers will have to pay slightly more for their drinks.

The first, a «Refund CDS» would be framed around a financial incentive: «A consumer would pay an additional 10 cents on the price of a drink and receive it back if and when the empty container is returned to a designated collection site.»

According to Oduntan in an interview granted to a national daily, consumers pay less than «40 per cent of their actual bills.»

Graphic Online gathers that the transport operators are proposing an increment of about 15 per cent but Mr Amoabeng and Mr Kumah were tight lipped on how much they want consumers to pay.

Consumers in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a per - capita income of $ 400, pay as much as 34 cents per kilowatt - hour.

This follows years of pay rises being limited to one per cent, until a September 2017 pay award that allowed for a 2 per cent increase to the main pay scale but still left salaries trailing, with the Consumer Prices Index 12 - month rate at 3.0 per cent in October 2017.

One problem that Chen already foresees with his business model is preventing consumers from paying a few cents for a bundle of ebooks; in theory, authors may fear the allure this pricing model may hold for ebook pirates.

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), mortgage insurance lenders pay out only about 40 cents in benefits for every dollar spent by consumers on this type of policy, while it is 90 cents on the dollar paid out to consumers with regular term life insurance policies

Younger consumers who are used to paying for 99 - cent smartphone apps with their credit cards generally see nothing wrong with pulling out plastic for small retail purchases at places such as coffee shops and restaurants — the heart of Main Street...

NDP: Update the Consumer Protection Act to cap ATM fees at a maximum of 50 cents per withdrawal; ensure all Canadians have reasonable access to a no - frills credit card with an interest rate no more than 5 % over prime; eliminate «pay - to - pay» by banks in which financial institutions charge their customers a fee for making payments on their mortgages, credit cards, or other loans; take action against abusive payday lenders; lower the fees that workers in Canada are forced to pay when sending money to their families abroad; direct the CRTC to crack down on excessive mobile roaming charges; create a Gasoline Ombudsperson to investigate complaints about practices in the gasoline market.

In fact, over the long term, consumers get back in claims payments an average of only about 65 cents on every dollar they pay for insurance, he says.

I would rather pay every cent of the $ 90,000 in consumer debt that we once faced, than go through that, unless I had no other option to keep a roof over my daughter's head and food on our table.

Why pay somewhere between $ 1.04 and $ 1.35 to eliminate one dollar of your debt under a debt consolidation loan when you could eliminate that debt for about 30 cents on the dollar by making a consumer proposal?

And for some of the major add - on products, such as consumer credit insurance, the payout was even less, representing around five cents in claims paid for every dollar that you've paid in premiums.

If 20 per cent of your take home pay is going towards consumer debt like credit cards or lines - of - credit, then you are headed towards financial trouble and should get some help now — not when you run out of options.

Younger consumers who are used to paying for 99 - cent smartphone apps with their credit cards generally see nothing wrong with pulling out plastic for small retail purchases at places such as coffee shops and restaurants — the heart of Main Street small businesses in the United States.

You may be able to legally walk away from a debt without paying a single cent by using debt validation, just like thousands» of other consumers have done.

In Queensland, over the first five months of this year, electricity consumers paid the highest wholesale prices in the NEM, 30 per cent above the average.

However, following arguments, the Consumer Forum has directed the insurance company to pay the Insured Declared Value (IDV) of Rs 11.70 lakh for the damaged car with a fine of Rs 15,000 to the complainant at 6 per cent interest per annum from the date of rejection.

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), mortgage insurance lenders pay out only about 40 cents in benefits for every dollar spent by consumers on this type of policy, while it is 90 cents on the dollar paid out to consumers with regular term life insurance policies

For example, a consumer could use her tokens to just pay what it costs to illuminate a single lightbulb for 15 minutes, something that would amount to a small fraction of a cent.

For their part, Zoocasa receives 35 per cent of the agent's commission entitlement as a referral fee, with almost half of this amount paid back to the consumer as a closing gift in the form of a cash rebate.

Zoocasa received 35 per cent of the agent's commission entitlement as a referral fee, with almost half of this paid back to the consumer as a closing gift in the form of a cash rebate.