Sentences with phrase «margin business already»

Groceries aren't an exceptionally high margin business already, but you can bet that Amazon will squeeze them a lot harder.

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If you've been swallowing the rising costs of doing business, watching as soaring energy prices and exorbitant health - care expenses choke your already - gasping profit margins, you're not alone.

Considering that WMT already has more scale and margins nearly 4x higher than Amazon's margins, it is fair to say that Wal - Mart has a strong competitive advantage over Amazon as it does over all other firms in the general retail business.

This absolutely could go sidewise: Zillow is already being hammered in the stock market — investors aren't generally fans of high - margin companies entering low - margin businesses, with huge amounts of volatility risk to boot.

The high Australian dollar is eating into the company's export margins, making the already challenging job of running an unpredictable agriculture business even harder.

Many small businesses are already operating on very small margins and increasing their costs, either through increased corporation tax or NICs would push many of them over the edge, at a time when 120 businesses are already closing every day.

Leaving aside the argument that that role may already be played by the VAT, there are some difficulties with this, arising from the fact shown above that the profits margins that business make differ between sectors and indeed between businesses of different sizes, as economies of scale can apply.

I can see spinning off devices as it is, at best, a low margin or loss leader that will become a commodity business... If it isn't already.

Doing business on the iPad threatens Amazon's already thin profit margins.

Although I already publish monthly dividend income updates and forward income projections, this post will attempt to cover the expenses, profit margin, and the business culture of my portfolio.

In fact, thanks to management's recent decision to sell underperforming businesses, such as Southern Comfort and Tuaca, and instead focus on higher margin and faster growing brands such as Slane Castle Irish Whiskey and BenRiach single - malt scotch, Brown - Forman enjoys some of the highest profitability in an already high margin industry.

Profit margins in this business are already slim — many salespeople spend 60 percent or more of their income on overhead.