Sentences with phrase «consumers sell back»

Then we want to be able to have ordinary consumers sell back the electricity that's generated from those car batteries, back into the grid.

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The Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley startup, valued at $ 1.1 billion, became the first company allowed to sell genetic tests (and accompanying health - risk reports) for 10 different diseases directly to consumers without a prescription.

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.

Traditional banks have also sold their bad loans to these nonbank companies, which have then packaged them up in products for sale to consumers and, also, back to the banks.

For instance, what if Patagonia works with retailers and consumers to recycle clothing that has been too worn to be resold and then sells the used materials back to its upstream suppliers at a lower price than comparable virgin materials?

If pork, wine, and other products lose sales to China, they could ultimately go out of business or be forced to charge higher prices when selling to businesses and consumers back here in the U.S.

In the wake of the financial crisis, the bank has drawn back from its investment and overseas units, selling off assets to concentrate on consumer and commercial banking on home turf.

Back in 2015, I decided to send my spit to 23andMe, the company that sells direct - to - consumer genetics tests.

And because TomboyX only sells directly to consumers, it doesn't have purchase orders from large department stores that it can use to back a bank loan.

They know those contributions might become public at some point, and no company that sells a product wants to risk the kind of consumer reaction that engulfed Target in 2010, after it contributed $ 150,000 to a Minnesota group backing a conservative candidate opposing gay marriage.

If pork, wine, and other products lose sales to China, they could ultimately go out of business or be forced to charge higher prices when selling to businesses and consumers back here in the US.

Back in 2014, Shaun Moore and his cofounder Nezare Chafni started selling a consumer video doorbell called Chui with facial recognition technology.

Regulators voted for affordable net metering in Arizona Thursday, letting consumers with rooftop solar panels sell excess power back to the utility, a major incentive for homeowners to invest in renewable energy.

Outspoken Coles and Woolworths critic, winemaker Garry Crittenden, is backing an initiative aimed at hitting back against the dominance of the supermarket chains by giving boutique wineries an online sales platform to sell their labels directly to consumers.

I started Jurassic Sands back in 1992 and as a licensed professional geologist, I ensure the play sand we sell meets all the rigorous safety tests required by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Over the past eight years, the social investment fund has backed a portfolio of companies selling insurance products totaling $ 40 million, of which $ 33 million went to low - income consumers in Africa and Asia.

Chicken nuggets may soon log more miles than you realize: In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would, for the first time, allow poultry raised and slaughtered in the U.S. to be shipped to China, processed, and shipped back to be sold to U.S. consumers.

With dynamic pricing, provided from the power market and smart meters, installed by utility companies it is now possible for consumers to sell electricity back to the grid and trade it like a typical commodity.

These products are also sold online, while some consumers buy them abroad and bring them back to the United States for personal use.

Department stores used to be the biggest buyers but they are struggling in a tough consumer climate themselves, so orders are down or they are asking designers to take on more of the risk (i.e. accepting back stuff that doesn't sell, or waiting on payment until stuff sells).

Companies should quit trying to sell an experience to consumers and get back to doing what they do best... shovel consumer products out and let us figure out what we want to do with them!

«It is hard to imagine that a flood of mass market consumers are switching from a product that has an average price of under $ 300 during [back - to - school] to one that had [an average selling price] of over $ 600 in Q2,» he wrote.

«It can be profitable to sell a consumer a TV set or e-reader, but far more profitable to have that device owner come back and use your storefront as a content hub.»

This process has actually been ongoing for quite some time and began with the emergence of tools that digitized the back - end of the business; word processors, computers, design software, email and much more (which changed writing, editing, typesetting, design etc) and has over time moved from there towards more front facing aspects of the industry (production, distribution, selling) before starting to make a large impact on the consumer side of the industry, consumption in the form of ebooks and web - reading (not to mention making many other forms of content from music to games available to those consumers).

That's what the «consumer» actually purchases and that is where revenue is generated, as many companies ship back product or sell it as a loss, when it is not sold to end - users.

The loophole they can always fall back on of course is they are only marketing to the general consumer sales market, but remind them of the potential market they are missing out on by not being able to sell their products to public schools and other governmental bodies covered under the protection acts.

According to a Reuters article from back in June, this is partly because it was too complicated to sort out the logistics for a larger operation similar to those that Amazon has in other countries such as its home market of the U.S., Europe, Japan and elsewhere, where the company also sells physical books, consumer electronics, household goods, and much more — often from a selection of third - party retailers as well as itself.

Amazon will lose around $ 10 for every $ 199 Kindle Fire tablet it sells, but the company will make back that amount as a small profit when consumers buy digital content, according to a report by market research company IHS iSuppli.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advises that you do not have to pay back a reverse mortgage unless you sell or move from the home.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has pulled back the curtain on the notoriously secretive industry, which collects and sells billions of bits of consumer data, and has issued a comprehensive report on the big three credit bureaus, Experian, Equifax and TraConsumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has pulled back the curtain on the notoriously secretive industry, which collects and sells billions of bits of consumer data, and has issued a comprehensive report on the big three credit bureaus, Experian, Equifax and Traconsumer data, and has issued a comprehensive report on the big three credit bureaus, Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.

A) The company's sales decline as European consumers scale back their spending, and B) the euro depreciates against the dollar as European investors sell euros and invest in safer securities denominated in other currencies (USD or not).

So they lend money to the consumer and move to the «receiving» side of interest, but they also borrow from Wall Street (by selling the mortgage - backed securities) in order to avoid being on the «paying» side of inflation.

Those who decide not to sell their homes have to pay the company back at the end of the 10 - year period, similar to a loan, with an annual effective interest rate that's capped at about 15 percent, comparable to rates on some credit cards or unsecured consumer debt.

In that state, near prices become higher than far (i.e., future) prices because consumers prefer to have the product sooner rather than later (see convenience yield), and because there are few holders who can make an arbitrage profit by selling the spot and buying back the future.

Consumer awareness of grain - free dog foods and treats is high, but this doesn't mean pet specialty retailers can kick back and let the products sell themselves — retailers must educate, promote and discuss.

Yes, this is a free country but it certainly isn't a free choice when 70 % of consumers don't know what a puppy mill is or the connection to pet stores, the Internet, ads, farmers / flea markets and puppies being sold out of the back of vehicles.

When Meowijuana was founded and launched, the objective of the company was based on four key principles: 1) to build something among friends that we could have fun doing together; 2) to create a brand that would be considered as a household name to the markets and consumers we sell our products to; 3) to manufacture a quality product that could back the brand; and 4) to make a «Meowtain» of cash.

But, those boastful claims came back to bite them in the ass when the company was forced to admit last month in a lawsuit with Purina that «a «substantial» and «material» portion of Blue Buffalo pet food sold to consumers contained poultry by - product meal.»

Citi to refund $ 5 million to cardholders for illegal collections — About 2,100 Citi cardholders will get $ 5 million back for inflated interest payments on debts sold to collectors, under a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau crackdown... (See Refund)

They managed to get some copies that were sold back from consumers but the damage was done and a lot of information on the game was released on the web.

If enough people see no value in purchasing the used products at GameStop than GameStop will either drop the service or have to modify how they offer it (lower price of used items to consumers, lower payback for selling back a game, not buy as many because they won't retain their value as long, etc...)

When Xbox's motion tracker first appeared back in 2010, it became the fastest selling consumer electronic of its time with over 10 Million units sold within the first 6 months of its release.

Apple has started a buyback program (I sold them back my last iPhone) but smarter consumers than me can get a lot more money on eBay or Craigslist.

The subsidies don't stop there either as many if not all states pay residential consumers retail rates for electricity they «sell» back into the grid, as opposed to wholesale rates that utilities pay to other suppliers.

Furthermore, in the case of solar, consumers (in Arizona at least, and I believe in other states as well), are paid retail rates when the «sell» their electricity back to the utility as opposed being paid wholesale rates — that is another form of subsidy that further distorts the market.

A note on my comment of a country of Shop Keepers and Burger Flippers ``... Today the US has a consumer - based economy where nearly everything is manufactured overseas and sold back to us in our stores.

Diogenes, if you want to sell it look for framing ideas at the other post i posted above, a fee and dividend CO2 tax is maybe the best instrument to reduce emissions, since the savings go back to the consumer and people who actively participate in carbon footprint optimisation win even more.

While Ford has spent much of the year talking about its plans for connected cars and cities, it's back to talking about the trucks and SUVs it's going to sell to consumers to pay for all that advanced technology.

Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 even became the fastest - selling consumer device back in 2011, winning recognition from Guinness World Records at the time.

Although there is no confirmation as to the reasoning behind this decision for Best Buy, it's possible and probable that it's for the same reasons why AT&T and Verizon both backed out from selling flagship devices coming from the brand — political pressure on grounds that Huawei devices would be a security risk to the U.S. consumer.