Sentences with phrase «more work for consumers»

We think the current rewards calendar creates more work for consumers — as they will have to be more mindful of purchases in order to squeeze out the most value.

Not exact matches

The company's sales in the region have tumbled 7 % for the first nine months of 2014 despite an overall increase in sportswear gear sales, as consumers buy more shoes, tights and shorts for working out and even for their casual streetwear needs.

The large majority of the more than 300 Google employees working on Glass are focusing on its uses for consumers, not its applications in the workplace, the Journal says.

However, in October the Indian cabinet approved a plan allowing New Delhi to work with Japan to make long - term LNG import deals more affordable for its consumers.

Consumers have come to realize that the company does more than manufacture clothing for outdoor enthusiasts, and Patagonia's staff members recognize that their work supports environmental causes.

This can work for the consumer if it delivers on the promise of facilitating access to high - quality primary care in more ways than currently delivered in the rather bare bones CVS Minute Clinics.

And in the end, the consumer appreciates that we put in more work to do that for them.

A workforce that is able to exploit consumer - oriented digital literacy is more engaged in its work practices and can be more adept at teaming, community - building, and professional networking without the need for burdensome manager oversight.

Ken spent his early career working with mission - driven businesses like Upromise and Eloan, and he was inspired to build Credit Karma — a platform where consumers can manage their full financial lives with more certainty, supported by a unique business model that creates genuine, organic value by reducing marketing inefficiency for banks and empowering consumers with information.

It works well for consumers who are hands - off with their investing and hope to get a little more from their retirement accounts.

Committee chair Damian Collins concluded one round of dark ads questions for the Facebook CTO by remarking that his overarching concern about the company's approach is that «a lot of the tools seem to work for the advertiser more than they do for the consumer».

Adams recounted that in 1891, Gillette and Painter had a very important conversation; Painter encouraged him to begin working on a product that would be thrown away after its use, which would keep consumers coming back for more of the product.

As a leading voice for funeral service, NFDA has been tracking trends and working with funeral directors and consumers for more than 130 years.

The companies «will work together to help more European consumer brands establish fast - track solutions for expanding into the Chinese market,» Zhang said in a statement.

In a bid to convince consumers businesses are having to become more like people, and genuinely charitable souls work hard for their causes and gain a lot of respect as a result.

While the zeros and ones behind publishing platforms get more complex, the process for content creators and consumers has simplified and should continue to do so.The bottom line is content creators who make good quality content that people are willing to pay for deserve a simple and transparent digital media sharing platform that fairly compensates them according to the consumer demand for their work.

As more americans are living in cities, there will deserve to be a broader array of mobility alternate options that work for both consumers and cities, he observed.

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

With consumer spending consisting of 70 % of GDP, how can we ignore the fact that 1 out of every 10 are not working, and likely another 10 % are underemployed and looking for more work to survive?

We could use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the basic human need for work, a need more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.

At Hormel Foods, we strive to bring more to the table for customers, employees, consumers, shareholders and the communities where we live and work.

To help work under tight deadlines, «We developed innovative tools — consumer discovery and co-creation sessions, for example — that rely on consumer input early and often and include early stage culinary prototypes to make the concept more tangible and easier to assess,» he says.

Working Class Heros The popularity of real dairy reflects a broader movement among today's consumers that underscores the extent to which they're «so much more interested in where food comes from, and how it's produced, as compared to the consumers of years ago,» says Barbara O'Brien, president, Innovation Center for US Dairy.

Mr Clarke, who has a background in fast moving consumer goods working for companies such as Kraft and Reebok, also said he was committed to the strategy laid down by his predecessors to shift Treasury Wine's production focus up the price curve to more expensive wines, also known as a «premiumisation» in the industry.

Food pairing Consumers are increasingly more willing to opt for wine paired menus according to Matthew Clark, and as Rachel Love says: «Food pairing is a trend that is continuing to grow; consumers enjoy learning about what works well with food and also see it as an opportunity to trade up on wines without breaking Consumers are increasingly more willing to opt for wine paired menus according to Matthew Clark, and as Rachel Love says: «Food pairing is a trend that is continuing to grow; consumers enjoy learning about what works well with food and also see it as an opportunity to trade up on wines without breaking consumers enjoy learning about what works well with food and also see it as an opportunity to trade up on wines without breaking the bank.

Leaders from the Produce Working Group worked in partnership with the HMC Research Partner, Datassential, to develop and field a consumer research study evaluating opportunities for increasing sales of more healthful menu offerings at QSRs.

For more than 50 years IRRI has been working to improve the lives of rice farmers and consumers by delivering improved varieties of rice.

Danelle has more than 15 years of marketing experience, and has been with Nielsen for over 10 years, working across various clients in the food, beverage, and consumer goods industries.

But it was not a panacea for an industry that needed to do more work to connect with American consumers.

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

The Democrat worked for more than two years to strengthen the law for consumers, but when the bill back came from the Senate, Tonko voted against the measure.

Economists consider rising demand for and orders of durable goods — items expected for work for three years or more, such as appliances, furniture, heavy machinery and vehicles — as an indication of improving consumer sentiment and a rosier economy.

(The decoy effect works on humans, too: When buying a used car, for example, consumers who value a lower price over fuel efficiency may choose car B over car A, which costs more but has superior efficiency.

Now, an international team of researchers led by Bingqing Wei, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware and the director of the Center for Fuel Cells and Batteries, is doing work that could lay the foundation for more widespread use of lithium metal batteries that would have more capacity than the lithium ion batteries commonly used in consumer electronics today.

While this work - around has worked for some consumers, it's getting a little trickier to pull off as more and more smartphones are now using microSIM cards instead of standard size SIMs.

If you are interested in reframing this conversation to a more practical and useful level for consumers, providers, and other valuable stakeholders check out the work being done to address these issues on the Homebirth Summit website at http://www.homebirthsummit.org/.

People trudge to their work or homes, there is very little joy, and advertisements for home suicide kits are more prominent than those for consumer items.

In order for this marketing tactic to work, consumers must embrace the behavior of scanning to access more information, which means that they'd have to see the value in doing this and build a routine for scanning into their everyday lives.

Operating across eight locations, the award - winning Me & MyCity 6th Grade program includes teacher training and learning resources for 10 lessons, followed by a visit to a miniature city where students work in their chosen profession and learn more about being a consumer and citizen, including banking, voting... and spending their hard - earned salary!

It is designed to give consumers peace of mind when selecting a fire protection company as those with Third Party Certification are more likely to have the demonstrable skills, knowledge, experience, and competence to do the necessary works in your premises and to provide you with recommendations should any changes be required (for example if you have had any recent building work or an extension to the building — this would likely affect your fire protection).

With the Ridgeline, Honda seemed to target consumers who wanted a second vehicle looking for more recreational utility or functionality for work and family life.

Despite the (moderate amount) of tripe that comes from both traditional AND self - published sources, it is good for the consumer, even if it does sometimes require more work up front.

As a safe, attractive mass - deployment product for work, it becomes much more attractive for consumers wanting to plug into work without making themselves IT nuisances for colleagues and managers.

While that's not welcome news for any industry trying to maintain budgets, libraries are typically charged more than consumers for library editions of many of their works.

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This would be far more understandable a concern if most consumers knew how much an author's work is stripped away in the editorial process by major publishers, and then understood that self - published authors often chose to pursue indie authorship because random gatekeepers had deemed their book wasn't fit or worthy enough for mass market publication.

The HarperCollins team is also working with Accenture to sell e-books directly to consumers — starting with the works of C.S. Lewis at cslewis.com and Narnia.com, with the possibility of more launches for other authors and genres — rather than going through intermediaries.

While DRM may seem unfair to you as a consumer, the issue is not so far removed from your own life: if someone took credit for a year or more of your job or simply deducted money from your paycheck because they felt they were entitled to your work without paying you for the time and effort spent, you could find your position on this matter much different than you might now.

If readers are aware that specific publishers have signed on with BookLamp for this streamlined browse - friendly process, consumers are more likely to start their searching in those publishers» catalogs of titles in order to take advantage of the leg work that BookLamp has already done for them.

It's also a positive sign that more consumers seem to be purchasing nonfiction, especially for juveniles; working under the assumption that a number of juvenile non-fiction titles may be school - related purchases, it might indicate that consumers are choosing to shop from their local physical book stores for their kids» book needs.