Amazon, the world's larget online retailer, has been under pressure from a lot of publishers for
the low prices it charges for e-books to spur demand for its electronic reader Kindle, hoping to fend off new rivals such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O) that are set to join the e-books fray with their own devices.
Not exact matches
If you sell training or education,
charging low prices will cause your clients to give up at the first sign of resistance, difficulty or struggle.
A trip to SunTrust Park to see the Atlanta Braves costs $ 51 (and ticket
prices for the team are the league's
lowest — with some seats available for $ 6), while the Los Angeles Angels
charge just $ 52.67.
Unlike many grocery chains, Market Basket is said to have no debt, which saves it from having to make monthly debt payments and gives it room to earn a profit despite
charging low prices.
Shyp comparison - shops across the carriers and
charges you the
lowest price for shipping.
A McKinsey study showed that 80 - 90 % of poorly - chosen
prices are actually too
low, meaning companies systematically underestimate what they can
charge.
With four major players remaining in the wireless market, consumers should continue to benefit from competition that has
lowered prices, eliminated two - year contracts, and done away with all sorts of annoying fees and extra
charges.
If you just
charge people a
lower price when there's a lot of wind and sun (when the supply of electricity is abundant and cheap) and a higher
price at times when there's not, they'll reduce consumption when electricity is scarce.
Amazon previously
charged 15 percent on all grocery items, but will now
charge only 8 percent on the
lower -
priced goods for at least the next year.
Amazon recently told businesses that sell non-perishable grocery items on Amazon.com that it was
lowering the fee it
charges them on items
priced at $ 15 or less.
To critics who say that small businesses will lose out if people can compare
prices online, and that the businesses may be forced to
charge prices that are too
low just to compete, Mason said: «Even if a business might make a little less on each hamburger, they'll sell enough additional hamburgers to far outweigh the reduced margin.
Efficient
pricing will, in general,
charge users with high demand more than users with
low demand even if those users impose no additional costs on the network.
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price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and
lower margins; our ability to
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pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock
price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant
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Because gas bars associated with large retailing chains tend to enjoy high volumes of sales, they can afford to
charge lower prices.
«I think what you are finding is for relatively
low investment the manufacturers can get a very high image vehicle on the road and also
charge a nice
price for it,» said George Peterson, president of AutoPacific, a research firm.
«Most firms make a profit in two ways: by
charging a service fee of $ 10 to $ 30 or $ 40 per transaction, and by pocketing the difference between the
low price at which they buy currency and the higher
price at which they sell it to customers.»
AT&T's $ 29
charge is steep, but it could kick off an arms race of sorts for privacy services that could ultimately lead to
lower prices and better protections for all.
The easy way is to
charge less, but
lower prices usually mean
lower gross margins, which will force you to spend your startup capital faster than you should.
Upper respiratory infections had the
lowest median
charge of $ 740 (95 % CI: $ 651 — $ 817), while a urinary tract calculus (kidney stone) was
charged the highest median
price of $ 3437 (95 % CI: $ 2917 — $ 3877).
This service is often called «immediacy,» and the dealer
charges for it in the form of a bid / ask spread (buying from sellers at a
lower price than he
charges buyers).
If the amount
charged (based on carrying costs) doesn't attract tenants you are told to
lower the
price until it does.
VCIT
charges one of the
lowest expense ratios in a segment filled with competitively
priced ETFs.
These
charges reflect both a
lower oil and gas
price outlook and the firm steps we are taking to review and reduce Shell's longer - term option set.
But it got at an important question: How is a company that
charges low prices and has high shipping costs ever going to make money?
This was the basis for insisting that the iPhone must have a
low -
price model: surely Apple would soon run out of new technology to justify the
prices it
charged for high - end iPhones, and consumers would start buying much cheaper Android phones instead!
You might be less competitive in some market segments (and
charge lower prices there), but this
pricing strategy can allow you to focus on
charging higher
prices and reaping bigger profits from the flagship products — where you are truly the market leader.
Treatment
charges in spot markets, where there is scant surplus material, hit a record -
low of $ 10 / t last month, with one trader saying that suggests zinc
prices may keep climbing after rallying 60 % in 2016 and 29 % last year.
In accordance with Bitcoin
price data service, on March 26 Bitcoin transaction
charges have hit a document
low of just one satoshi per byte.
4)
Price caps on utility
charges will generally seem like a good idea to the people who currently benefit due to having
lower electricity or water bills.
Therefore, Saudi Arabia can afford to
charge lower prices for oil when the dollar rises.
«Discount»
pricing doesn't mean
lower charges.
July's Consumer
Price Index painted a similarly weak picture, with respective monthly and annual gains of 0.1 % and 1.7 % held back by moderating housing costs and sharply
lower cell phone
charges.
its stupid kill the wall street brokers and the speculators and poof we have
lower fuel
prices that simple they are dictating the fuel
prices now since opec has not risen the
prices they
charge...
«You can take wine from Australia to the other end of the world and sell it at a
lower retail
price — that causes me to question the
price being
charged here,» Mr McLeod said.
Jersey Australia is advocating simpler milk payments with one
price for milk solids, butterfat and protein and an appropriate volume
charge that penalizes
lower solids milk.
Suppliers also face some tough questioning amid evidence that they
charge higher
prices to smaller retailers to compensate for
lower prices when dealing with supermarkets - known as «the waterbed» effect.
Ticket
prices should be
lowered then, why
charge high amounts if you're not gunna spend that cash on new signings??? Oh well Arsene knows best I guess.
What angers me is the
low price we've offered for a player with an unbelievable goalscoring record when we
charge the highest ticket
prices in the world.
Liverpool's cheapest Anfield season ticket is # 710, significantly more than at City, United and all clubs outside London; in fact it is the Premier League's fourth most expensive
lowest -
priced season ticket after Arsenal's # 1,020 (for 26 matches), Chelsea's # 750 and the # 745 that Tottenham Hotspur
charge at White Hart Lane.
If you have more than 1 child in diapers, the
price per child can be much
lower, since they
charge for only one delivery fee.
It could do so by requiring school districts that
charge lower prices to increase
prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.
So there is hardly 100 percent buy - in to the notion that
low - income children are being underserved because «full
price» kids are not being
charged at least the full cost of producing a meal.
Compared to a district which
charges just $ 1.50 for a paid lunch, the district with the higher paid
price, and significant participation by those students, can generate far more revenue than the district with the
lower paid
price.
Kim Paetschow, assistant director of the Lisle Park District, said the center will offer «a full range of fitness equipment and services at a
price significantly
lower than is usually
charged by private health clubs.
In other words, it's exporting steel and aluminum at a
lower price than it
charges at home, artificially depreciating the market and under - cutting U.S. manufacturers.
The Department of Consumer Protection is
charged with ensuring a fair and equitable marketplace for consumers through various initiatives including scam alert and protections, licensing of plumbers and electrical engineers, helping consumers find the
lowest gasoline and oil
prices, ensuring accuracy of weights and measures, protecting consumers from the sale of unsafe children's products and other programs aimed to ensure fairness to Westchester's consumers.
Low - income families, or fixed income groups like pensioners have been left struggling to pay the
price, with additional
charges added to meals on wheels, day care centres, or homecare services.
He said: «we don't want to run into monopoly, because if you allow anybody to
charge any
price, some big operators can
charge lower price today and get all the customers to their network at the expense of new entrants.
Surprisingly, there's bipartisan support for congestion
pricing that would
charge drivers going into Manhattan while while also
lowering tolls on bridges outside of the area.
Others have
charged unreasonably high
prices while promising
lower utility bills, the PSC has alleged.