Writer Tom Foster, in «Reprogramming Retail,» depicts what is being called a «post-Amazon world,» in which scrappy, inventive retailers use quality, high - touch service and an appeal to customers» hearts to compete with the online giant's
massive economies of scale.
Not exact matches
Since they are the ones getting into the less - exploited asset classes and strategies, they are also not achieving the
economies of scale of a State Street SPDR ETF family or BlackRock's iShares, which can charge less based on
massive asset bases, said Michael Rawson, ETF analyst at Morningstar.
It has built a
massive battery plant in Nevada it calls a Gigafactory and plans to build several more
of these glob - ally in the next few years, thinking that
massive manufacturing
economies of scale will drive costs down.
The U.S.
economy is
massive on a global
scale, and much
of the country's economic capabilities can be traced back to the innovation, knowledge, and productivity that tends to be clustered in urban areas.
Justice Agbim noted that «the fuel subsidy fraud involved corruption and fraud on a very
massive scale»; that it involved many oil companies and officials
of government's regulatory agencies «looting and stealing
of trillions
of naira from the Federal Government
of Nigeria and threatening the security and
economy of Nigeria.»
Photovoltaics now benefit from
economies of scale, as well as from
massive government subsidies and investments that solar - thermal technologies do not have, says Mugnier.
This new distribution did not involve
economies of scale,
massive warehouses, the endless shipping
of paper in various stages
of production from one part
of the country to another.
See this MarketWatch article for more, but in short: risky lending on a
massive scale may once again be jeopardizing the
economy for all
of us.
The lack
of numerous competitors in both its defense and aerospace businesses, combined with General Dynamics»
massive size, which allows it great
economies of scale, results in not only above average margins and returns on capital, but profitability that has consistently increased over time.
Supreme Commander was a «spiritual successor» to Total Annihilation, an attempt to bring its
massive scale of combat, large selection
of units, an interesting
economy / base construction model, and the crowd - pleasing nuclear superweapons back into the minds
of gamers, and it being re-released at the time that Supreme Commander is getting its own sequel allows fans to relive history as they step into the future.
Mr McIntyre is exactly right: If we take Big Climate at their word that the entire global
economy needs
massive re-orientation on a
scale never before contemplated, it will require the largest societal consensus â $ «left and right and center, in America, in Canada, in Britain, in Europe... Yet all Big Climate does is retreat ever deeper into its shrinking echo chamber and compile ever longer lists
of people who are beyond the pale â $ «Professor Curry, Professor Christy, Professor Bengtsson, Professor Pielke, Professor Soon, Lord Lawson, the Bishop
of Chester, the winner
of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, the winner
of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics... It might be quicker for Mann, Trenberth, Gavin Schmidt and the other climate enforcers to make a short list
of those to whom they are prepared to grant a say in the future
of the planet.
True, some people argue that between dematerialization
of our
economy and a
massive scale up
of renewables, it is perfectly possible to pursue green growth for the foreseeable future, but others are arguing it's time to move to a post-growth society.
Electric cars have existed for a very long time, but unlike fossil fuel - powered cars, they stayed at the pre-Model T stage (no mass production, no
economies of scale, no
massive R&D;).
It seems to me that the wild west show down south over the last decade is what landed the entire world
economy in the tank, based upon the quick and easy sale
of homes on a
massive one - to - one
scale culminating in world - wide sales
of vastly over-valued U. S. real estate secured mortgages masqueraded as investment vehicles.