Sentences with phrase «not loss leaders»

They basically have to insure with the other titles can be money earners and not loss leaders.

Because contraception distribution is heavily subsidised by Medicaid, the Title X family planning programme [10] and other programmes, low - cost and freebie contraceptive giveaways are not loss leaders for Planned Parenthood.

Plus, Google has come up with just the right formula for payment — one that will challenge PayPal, yet is not a loss leader.

Not exact matches

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

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.

The companies that didn't pay enough attention to underwriting were burned by losses, while longtime leaders like LendingClub Corp. and CAN Capital Inc. struggled with operational troubles and securing sufficient capital.

But that doesn't matter for voice assistant providers like Amazon — the hardware itself is a loss - leader anyway, so simply getting voice assistants into the home, no matter where they're located, gives them another touchpoint into users» lives that they can use to monetize their core services.

Chinese leaders will not take this loss lying down.

«The cost of the fight is up more than 200 % than previous fights, maybe 300 %, and it just becomes a law of large numbers where you say you can't possibly get a return on it — it would be a loss leader in a way,» explained Smith regarding the limited number of company - operated restaurants that will show the fight.

The public - policy leader for the largest US Protestant denomination isn't worried over Christians» loss of power.

Secondly, if Christian leaders use the concepts of the new ethic without explicitly clarifying what distinguishes them from the social doctrine of the Church and from the gospel, as is often the case, the faithful will be at a loss and will tend not to discern the difference.

Many have been resolved, but the IVCF chapter at the State University of New York at Buffalo plans to appeal its loss of official recognition for asking a gay student leader to resign when he would not accept its belief statement.

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.

It has already folded in three of the five largest metropolitan areas — Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit — while it has been only a propped - up nonentity in New York and a cut - rate arena loss leader in L.A. «I'm not kidding myself,» Foreman says.

Cazorla is not the only Arsenal star to have missed games for one reason or another, of course, and there are lots of factors involved in whether or not Arsenal would have been closer to, level with, or even above the current leaders had our little magician stayed fit, but I think we have to accept that his loss was a blow.

Former Arsenal defender Sol Campbell, one of the greatest minds in football, laments his former side's lack of leaders, accusing them of not turning up in the League Cup final loss to Man City.

He was not, however, pleased by the loss of his «amigo», Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who was ousted by Gustavo Rivera.

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.

The loss of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general elections was not only a defeat but a rejection, hence the party needs a new leader for successive elections, former President Jerry John Rawlings has said.

What leaders haven't told us is that when chunks of Greece's debt are canceled, this means accrued losses for other European national accounts, European banks (and us), paving the way to greater deficits.

But it's still probable they will draw back, as another change of leader will certainly mean an immediate General Election, and I don't think it could do more than mitigate some of their losses.

The governor acknowledged replacing convention centers is expensive, that the state did not have money and that convention centers overall are loss leaders, bringing in net dollars to the city but often loosing money in construction and operations.

It is «truly bizarre» the loss of 25 million people's personal records has not made the government reconsider the practicalities of a nationwide identity database, the Conservative leader said today.

The Lib Dem leader said he had not anticipated the scale of the losses when he entered into a coalition with the Conservatives.

«We have got to look deep in our souls, but we shouldn't open our veins,» said Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the Labour party, as she implored her colleagues to stop bloodletting after the party's loss and the resignation of Ed Miliband.

«LGBT people and our allies remember the sting of last year's marriage equality loss and are determined to elect leaders who won't back down when equality is at stake.»

In the last three years, the Long Island Nine has become the not - so - solid seven with the conviction of ex-GOP Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges and the election loss of freshman Sen. Michael Venditto after federal charges were leveled against his father, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who is now on trial.

No doubt, his party, Accord Party, can not recover from the loss, hence, the defection of its leader.

This does not end with the credits, as Wallace continues keeping a balance — albeit a skewed one, this is a movie meant mainly for American audiences — by showing the mental mêlée played between the leaders of the two armies and the fact that the dead Vietnamese soldiers were just as unfortunate losses as the Americans, just that they are on the side that normally gets the shaft in Hollywood cinema.

Here, a son — and now king — shaken by the loss of his father, must return to his homeland to be shaped into a true leader, where the general narrative thrust wouldn't be out of place shuffled in with some spare «Macbeth» passages.

It's not clear why the rest of the task force didn't support that view, but some charter leaders have expressed fears that even a voluntary neighborhood preference could be a slippery slope leading to a loss of autonomy.

Coming out with a de-contented, loss leader, lure them in Pacifica in a few years after you discontinue the Grand Caravan isn't going to cut it and is only going to hurt your image as you try to sell the loaded models.

Remember, that's all on the loss leader model, not the one you actually buy.

Where 99 cent novels seem to be the way to go on Kindle, Kobo doesn't use books as a «loss leader» — eBooks are the ONLY thing we sell, and our prime real estate needs to be dedicated to books that we can actually earn money on.

I don't know how large their market share is, but they adopted the loss - leader idea for the reader itself and sell ebooks through four sites, at least.

But the program itself is a loss leader — meaning that Amazon really doesn't make any money directly from eBook sales.

And don't talk to me about loss - leaders — if you need to half - price Harry Potter to get customers into your shop, perhaps it's time you took a long hard look at who you are as a bookseller and what you're trying to do.

Those 99 cent books don't take up much server space, and they also are loss leaders for more expensive items.

More bookstores are going to have to take this approach (or one like it); if they don't Amazon will continue to drive wholesale prices down, shrinking profits to the point that selling books will be nothing more than a loss - leader for them.

I don't think e-Book subscription systems, like Kindle Unlimited is sustainable, except as loss - leaders.

In ALL your books (not just the Loss Leader titles), stick in some brief, clear front matter that says something like «More books by Libbie Hawker are coming for your Kobo reader (or Apple, Nook, etc.) all the time!

I have two titles for free at the moment, purely as promotional loss leaders, and ironically, neither in KDP — the philosophy behind my free titles being that if you try my work, a substantial portion of you will not mind parting with the cost of a cup of coffee for more of it.

What Macmillan and Hachette and HarperCollins are saying is that the $ 9.99 «loss leader» Kindle model is not tenable — either for the publishers or for Amazon.

So, we shouldn't worry too much about the loss - leader $ 199 price of Kindle Fire.

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.

B&N needs to focus on selling content, not just devices, and to that end these devices are almost a loss leader.

From the outside, it looks like the pricing was not just a loss leader on the devices, but a way to discourage competition.

With his most powerful prose yet, Lee shows us that war damages people far beyond any other kind of abuse life offers and that persons damaged by the losses, violence and displacement of war will go to great lengths to work out either retribution or salvation... If I could, I would make the book required reading for politicians, diplomats, world leaders and arms dealers, though many of them would possibly not get the message.

But I don't believe that Amazon can truly sell ebooks as a loss - leader forever; I'm of the belief that Amazon sells its cheaper e-ink Kindles at a loss, too — at some point, something's got ta give.

«Agency pricing» has been, since its inception, nothing more than a means to control the retail price that Amazon, not Apple, can charge for an ebook — a means to break Amazon's strategy of using ebooks as loss - leaders to sell the Amazon Kindle.