Sentences with phrase «disappointing sales»

When discussing disappointing sales of a specific title, one of the first questions a rep will ask is if the book is on the shelf face - out.

If your business is dealing with disappointing sales figures, there are a few things you can do to improve team performance.

This is just another week of disappointing sales for me.

However, it's possible that Android tablets in general had disappointing sales in the past quarter.

Many retailers have reported disappointing sales and profits this year.

Despite disappointing sales, the same report also announced a new game coming in 2016 and an animated series starting in the fall.

Or it could simply be telling us that consumers finally decided to take advantage of strong automobile promotions that were nearing an end, and that we'll see disappointing sales next month.

Very disappointing sale if you don't own a PS3.

But this quarter, it seems more and more companies are announcing improving earnings yet disappointing sales.

However, it only arrived in 2014, and disappointing sales led to a series of revisions that appeared in the following year.

's ultimately disappointing sales aren't indicative of its quality.

However, the company is now in the process of cutting its global workforce by 4,500 as it struggles to deal with a shrinking market share and disappointing sales of that device.

Not having an effective marketing strategy in place is the number one reason why most authors fail to get noticed by their target audience, and end up with disappointing sales.

Barnes & Noble is clearly taking aim at its competitors and looking to stand out in the e-reader category, following disappointing sales of the first Nook Touch.

On the flip side of the coin, big companies are shuttering their Facebook storefronts after disappointing sales on the world's biggest social network.

This week's news includes: Ouya game developers sound off on disappointing sales numbers Nvidia plans July 31st launch of the Shield Telltale Games confirms Clementine returns to The -LSB-...]

This week's news includes: Ouya game developers sound off on disappointing sales numbers, Nvidia plans July 31st launch of the Shield, Telltale Games confirms Clementine returns to The Walking Dead Star Control now owned by Stardock and Battlestar Galactica writer / producer collaborating with Sony Santa Monica

LittleBigPlanet was one of his personal favorites because of its artistic direction, despite its somewhat disappointing sales figures.

In response to an inquiry on whether or not Harmonix's recent restructuring had anything to do with disappointing sales performance, a spokesperson told IndustryGamers that this is certainly not the case.

He was referring to Jeff Kirwan, whom he put in charge of the Gap brand's turnaround in December, soon before star designer Rebecca Bay left following a string of disappointing sales results.

The company's performance had slipped on his watch, suffering from disappointing sales growth and deteriorating margins.

Shares of Starbucks were trading down nearly 5 percent Friday after the coffee chain posted another quarter of disappointing sales growth as holiday offerings failed to draw in customers.

The quarter's disappointing sales trends sparked fears that Whole Foods continues to cede market share in the organics business to Wal - Mart (WMT), Target (TGT) and others in spite of efforts to lower prices in areas like produce.

The original version had really disappointing sales (one of the worst debuts ever for the series), so in comparison, this «Professional» version seems to have done rather well during its opening week (though nothing to write home about, unfortunately!).

After somewhat disappointing sales of last year's Galaxy S5, Samsung went back to the drawing board, creating a new glass - and - metal design for the Galaxy S6.

We've seen what's happened to BlackBerry and we've also seen the direction that Nokia took after rather disappointing sales.

Later today, Apple will issue its first quarterly financial report after the iPhone X's release, and already there are grumblings about disappointing sales relative to Apple's sky - high expectations.

The retailer also reported disappointing sales last quarter.

The iPhone X is far from the only flagship handset to have reportedly suffered disappointing sales.

B&N disappointing sales does not come as a surprise for Dan Eldridge.

Samsung will launch not only the Galaxy S5 later this month but an updated version of its Galaxy Gear smartwatch, insiders claim, a surprisingly early refresh to the wearable which arrived with great fanfare late in 2013 but reportedly disappointing sales.

while J.M. Smucker also reported disappointing sales stateside.

Lady Gaga looked like she was heading toward the music business elite, but her last album Artpop had disappointing sales compared with hits The Fame / The Fame Monster and Born This Way.

Excitement for the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models sparked sales of 39.3 million iPhones in the last quarter — a record for the months of July through September — and made up for more disappointing sales of the company's iPad tablets.

After all, the stock — despite the recent selloff driven by disappointing sales of the new iPhone 8 — has surged 33 % this year, adding $ 200 billion in value, and prompting predictions that the Colossus of Cupertino will soon boast the world's first $ 1 trillion market cap.

The reports coming in now on the 2006 Christmas season show disappointing sales figures, with every indication that major retailers had to offer deep discounts to attract buyers at all.

Kimberly - Clark, which makes consumer products including Kleenex and Huggies diapers, fell 1 percent after reporting disappointing sales outside the U.S.

All three of these reasons contribute to the failure of the device and the first reason is the definitive cause of why the entire handheld market today has contracted and both devices from Sony and Nintendo have seen disappointing sales across the board.

In part motivated by the game's big budget and subsequently disappointing sales figures, developer Remedy Entertainment decided to trim back the development scale some for the series» next release by making it an XBLA exclusive.

The Ford Taurus, on which the Lincoln MKS is based, also is posting disappointing sales, with numbers down 35.2 percent in August and down 21.6 percent year - to - date.

Innumerable are the tales of authors getting nice advances, having the books disappoint the sales department, getting dropped by their publisher and not being able to find another (or having to go to with small, niche publisher) because of lousy numbers.

An e-partnership between booksellers and Google already had been set to end when Google announced this year it was dropping out, citing disappointing sales.

It would be a shame if Dead Space Extraction and MySims Agents turned out to be great games only to be met with disappointing sales like Madden 10, but EA would have nobody to blame but themselves.

While average review scores could be a culprit, Italian America activist group UNICO National believes their boycott of the title had far more to do with the perceived disappointing sales.

Case in point, The Beatles Rock Band, developed by Harmonix and released by EA in 2009 to critical acclaim and acceptable if slightly disappointing sales.

Despite a positive reception, Max Payne 2 sold poorly, leading Rockstar Games» parent company Take - Two Interactive to cite the «continued disappointing sales of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne» as one of the causes for the company's reforecasted sales for 2004.

The lowered prices come after reports claim Apple is reducing its iPhone X production by half over disappointing sales during the holidays.

The companies started to feel the impact in the recent weeks as Apple continues to reduce the orders for its 10th anniversary handset amid disappointing sales.

The Midwest posted the most disappointing sales, with a decline of 3.6 percent from 2001.

Following disappointing sales for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Square Enix has announced that the long - running franchise has been placed on hiatus.