Sentences with phrase «higher delivery costs»

He points out that the deep discounting and high delivery costs that characterize Web sales have made it hard for Amazon to turn a profit.

The Wall Street Journal says that the field Google is stepping into has historically proven to have high delivery costs and low profit margins of around 2 percent on grocery sales.

Not exact matches

The No. 1 U.S. online retailer is also looking to add a same - day delivery option on all items sold by third - party merchants on its site, a move that some logistics experts said may help offset the high costs of speedy, last - mile delivery.

Getting more third - party sellers to offer same - day delivery could help Amazon offset the high costs of offering fast shipping and building warehouses near large urban markets, says Jarrett Streebin, CEO of shipping startup EasyPost.

The results retailers have seen include higher sales, faster delivery times, easier inventory forecasting, improved margins, and lower costs.

But delivery operations are expensive to scale, so the company will help offset costs by charging companies a higher commission on orders that utilize Grubhub's delivery services.

Unfortunately, pricing has yet to be confirmed, but I imagine shipping costs will be quite high and international delivery rates extortionate.

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters)- United Parcel Service Inc reported higher first - quarter net profit on Thursday, driven by strong package volumes in its core U.S. segment, but higher costs from Saturday delivery and nasty winter weather weighed on operating results.

Maybe it's flooding that shuts down or damages offices, shops or distant factories; washed out delivery routes; crop failures and strained supply lines; higher insurance premiums or payouts; lost productivity at greater cost.

We work with Hueler Investment Services, Inc., the provider of the Income Solutions platform, to ensure delivery of high - quality products at a low cost — exactly what you'd expect from us.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

But the company said fuel surcharges and higher prices helped offset rising delivery costs in its U.S. ground business.

BridgeSat is developing an optical communications network that offers secure delivery of big data from LEO at low cost and high speeds.

This method also provides guaranteed fast delivery, reduced costs, low risk and an overall high quality.

Red Carpet Cleanses are only available for delivery in the Los Angeles area right now, though they can ship on demand (but be aware that the shipping costs are quite high, since it's something they don't normally do).

Even the cost of health care for the delivery of twins is higher than with a single birth.

The average cost per delivery was higher in the standard care group (AUD 3475) compared to the team - midwifery group (AUD 3324).

Some hospitals in the country are trying to combat those high costs by having a flat rate for deliveries.

Improving the homes of all low income households, rather than «LIHC fuel poor», households is required as it helps overcome the difficulty of «churn» arising from the relative Low Income High Cost (LIHC) definition and make the delivery and targeting of programmes much more straightforward.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

Chief executive Moya Greene has warned that the high cost of the service, which ensures a same - price delivery for letters anywhere in the UK, six days a week, is not sustainable in the face of competition in high - density, low - cost areas.

Delivering to high - density areas such as the inner city was much lower cost and helped to subsidise these deliveries — but by allowing these customers to «cherry pick» between Royal Mail and their competitors the system was unsustainable.

(7) instructs the shadow Sponsor Board and Delivery Authority and their statutory successors to apply high standards of cost - effectiveness and demonstrate value for money in the business case, to report back to Parliament with up to date costings and a realistic timetable for the duration of the work, and to include measures to ensure: the repair and replacement of mechanical and electrical services, fire safety improvement works, the removal of asbestos, repairs to the external and internal fabric of the Palace, the removal of unnecessary and unsightly accretions to the Palace, the improvement of visitor access including the provision of new educational and other facilities for visitors and full access for people with disabilities;

But the higher cost of delivery to the small restaurants will be factored into everyone's price, possibly harming the larger restaurants.)

The commission predicted that some New York City hospitals would close in future years because of high overhead and infrastructure costs and changing national trends in health care delivery.

In her essay, «The Tipping Point in Health Care: Using the Full Scope of Practice of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses,» Maribeth Leigh Massie, CRNA, PhD, MS» 98, a program director for the University of New England Nurse Anesthesia Program, argues that models of care delivery need to change to achieve the high - quality, cost - effective anesthesia care envisioned by the ACA.

This is my last gift guide of the season, and tomorrow marks the last day that many online sites will offer guaranteed Christmas Day delivery without the crazy high shipping costs.

Online coursework has been heralded as potentially transformative for higher education, including by lowering the cost of delivery and increasing access for disadvantaged students.

So long as the primary costs and method of delivery in higher education are based on labor, per - student appropriations will be the correct way to assess the magnitude of public support.

In today's budget sensitive economy it's becoming increasingly important for school leaders to find a way to achieve a high level of ICT delivery and support whilst also keeping costs down, and taking back control of their ICT, and in the school's that don't currently have an IT partner, 27 % are currently reviewing this option as they become more forward - thinking.

This will enable them to achieve a high level of ICT delivery and support whilst also keeping costs down.

Sole reliance on capital markets to finance infrastructure investments may result in deferred projects and / or higher overall project delivery costs due to the inherent inability of project sponsors to access capital markets at costs as favorable as the U.S. Treasury rate.

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Kindle You can get as high as a 70 % royalty rate from Kindle, minus «delivery» costs.

If your delivery cost goes too high, you're not going to make much royalty.

If your price is $ 2.99 or higher, you can still draw a high royalty (70 % minus delivery costs).

It also features HD playback and comes with the DataWind proprietary web delivery technology that offers high speed Internet browsing at the lowest data costs possible.

Since they do not have the same service delivery costs as traditional banks, they are able to offer higher savings account rates.

Loan Level Pricing Adjustments as follows: Adverse market delivery charge:.250 % Credit score: 1.75 % Condo:.75 % Total: 2.75 % or $ 7,425 Monthly Mortgage Insurance at.94 % (higher if you live in a soft real estate market) = $ 212 per month Assuming 2 % normal closing costs and a 5 % interest rate, your APR is 6.15 %.

However, the fee may be significantly higher, possibly up to $ 4,000, depending on the breed and associated costs (rarity, medically involved pregnancy / delivery, etc.).

He states that FCVs still have not overcome the following issues: high cost of the vehicles, high fueling cost, and a lack of fuel - delivery infrastructure.

This ambiguity in actual delivery costs means that companies must price projects on the higher end of the spectrum to avoid losses.

First wind power has been found to have numerous issues such as noise, visual pollution, death to our feathered friends, inconsistent power delivery and very high cost requiring large subsidies from the government.

However, consequences of the judgment is likely to result in increased costs to the gig industry in order to comply with the new employment laws, and it's probable that these will be passed on to the consumer, such as through higher fees, delivery rates and prices for goods and services.

That said, in my view, lawyers and legal organizations that want to prosper — whether in high volume or high stakes legal work — must invest to reduce delivery cost.

Use your experience to put a figure on a piece of work that is higher than the costs of delivery, and charge your client that amount up front to give them cost certainty.

Therefore, the High Court passed undertakings by which traders committed not to «create the false impression that the consumer has already won, will win or will on doing a particular act win, a prize or equivalent benefit, when in fact taking any action recommended by the [trader] in relation to claiming the prize or other equivalent benefit is subject to the consumer paying money or incurring a cost which is either: (a) a substantial proportion of the unit cost to the defendant of the provision to the consumer of the thing described as a prize or other equivalent benefit; or (b) in the case of a charge stated to be for delivery and insurance, used by the defendant to finance in whole or in part its acquisition, handling or other cost of the making available of that thing, other than the actual cost of its delivery to the consumer and insurance (if any) in transit» (account rendered by the CJEU in C - 428 / 11 at para 20, emphasis added).

Practice Management Focus on the Delivery of Legal Services: Executive Committees and Managing Partners in mid-size law firms will devote more of their time performing the strategic planning function and managing the substantive and business sides of their law firms in an effort to provide high quality, timely and cost - effective service to clients.

As described in the article, current law firm values such as comprehensiveness and quality - by - proxy (e.g. reputation, pedigree) are not central to the delivery of high - value legal services as measured by quality and cost.

This process avoided the exponentially higher cost of outside counsel manually reviewing and categorizing each contract while substantially compressing delivery time and promoting accuracy.