Sentences with phrase «loss leaders big»

While you can't compete with the volume discounts and loss leaders big companies leverage, you can win by offering unique products and a personalized level of customer service that can't be matched by bigger companies.

Not exact matches

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.

Prices that appear better than ours fall into two categories: big bundles and temporary loss leaders.

Last year the Harper review of competition law recommended getting rid of the «take advantage» test to crack down more effectively on anti-competitive behaviour by big companies such as exclusive deals, loss - leader pricing and cross-subsidisation to stamp out new competitors.

The biggest loss is running back Bam Morris, last year's Division I - A scoring leader, who is now a Steeler.

It would have been a big help to Arsenal and our chances of winning the Premier League this season if Leicester City had managed to beat Chelsea or at least stop the league leaders from adding another three points to their total, especially after the setback of a defeat last week and the loss of their main striker Diego Costa this weekend, but the fragile Foxes could not even hold out for seven minutes.

Losing James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao during the summer was a big loss for Leonardo Jardim who has found the pressure of repeating last season's title challenge difficult to handle, and despite a wonderful unbeaten run during December and January which produced 11 victories in 12 games, a difficult February has left them 11 points adrift of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon.

He's the big leagues» active leader in losses (180); only six other pitchers have finished more games under.500 than the 46 Morgan was through Sunday.

His loss would be a win for Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who has pledged to support all incumbents — even Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., and tried — albeit unsuccessfully — to convince some big LGBT stakeholders like the Empire State Pride Agenda not to endorse Nunes against Huntley.

A source close to Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson happily noted, «Andrew's positions are definitely a boost for Senate Democrats and a big loss for Assembly Democrats.»

(Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver played a big role in both of those losses, although the fact that then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, a Bloomberg ally, also voted «no» on the stadium is often overlooked).

Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has been offered a hat by Andrew Neil after predictions of big losses for the Liberal Democrats proved correct.

Scheduling and Class Disruption One of the biggest complaints that surfaced from teachers and district leaders was how disruptive assessments are, leading to a loss of valuable instruction.

It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale selling model to an agency selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover releases.

Yes, they might make the latest Big Name Author book 99 cents as a loss leader — but those books are already selling well, even in an indie - dominated ebook world like we have right now.

That's the big problem in dealing with the everything store: Amazon uses the indie authors» ebooks as loss leaders.

Yes we know that Hachette and big 5 trad publishers want agency model and Amazon don't want to selling ebooks as loss leader forever.

Those deep pockets make offering free startup work a lot easier, provided enough of the loss - leaders generate big deals down the pipeline.