Sentences with phrase «of more discounts»

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MONTREAL — Watching television on the Internet is cheap and convenient, but so far only a small number of Canadians have cut the cord on traditional viewing as TV providers offer discount prices and spend more on programs to keep customers who pay bigger monthly bills.

Warren Buffett «s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (brk - a) has become Bank of America Corp's (bac) largest shareholder by exercising its right to acquire 700 million shares at a steep discount, more than tripling an investment it made six years ago.

He has rejigged Macy's loyalty program, slashed through Macy's notorious bureaucracy in the hopes of making it more nimble, hired some new top e-commerce away from eBay and begun to improve the clutter in his stores and chip away at Macy's discount - driven aura.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been severely constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have...

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

They also plan to conduct A / B testing to see whether it's more effective to, say, put the advertisers» names at the top of ads or whether it's better to lead with a call to action or discount or promotion.

What's more, Dick's is playing a very dangerous game given how many retailers have learned the hard way how hard it is to get customers weaned off of discounts.

Data reveals that more and more people are finally starting to realize the answer to this question is yes, leaving Black Friday shopping to those odd individuals who enjoy the bloodsport of in - person discount hunting.

More recently, 27 former executives of Air Canada Pilots Association issued a letter calling on their colleagues to embrace «new ideas,» implying support for a discount airline.

You get a $ 1 discount if you make more than 30 trades or maintain an average daily balance of at least $ 100,000 in the prior calendar quarter.

As more companies have shifted a larger share of their budgets online, discounts have become hard to come by.

Retailers regularly require wholesale discount prices of 70 percent or more, from the final consumer price on products, and those costs are passed on to the consumer.

With this space getting so much interest by all communities, there was a lot of pressure to grow quickly & companies began focusing on metrics such as onboarding more & more vendors, increasing queries per day by discounting.

Thousands of items including clothes for the whole family, shoes, jewelry, tools for the kitchen, bath, and more are available at deep discounts.

It's a marketplace handcuffed by certificate - of - need laws that limit the number of MRI centers and hospital beds in communities, granting providers regional monopolies, and preventing insurers from clinching discounts by offering to send patients to the providers willing to lower their rates in exchange for more business.

For a retailer with scant discounting and zero debt, Nasty Gal has racked up some seriously drool - worthy numbers: international sales of $ 128 million in 2012, four times higher than the year before; 535,000 Facebook fans; 420,000 Instagram subscribers; 68,000 Twitter followers; and more than 2 million monthly unique visitors to the website in September 2012.

Specifically, with Millennials, two - thirds say they will switch to a brand that provides a discount of 30 percent or more.

The addition of more «upscale» merchandise demonstrates the changes that the discount retailer has been forced to grapple with as the number of potential middle - class customers plummets.

«As the percentage of the elderly grows, I fear the pressure will grow to create even more of these sorts of discounts, making it more and more difficult to correct this inequity.»

It's of great benefit to offer our more satisfied customers a discount off of their next project for each referral pushed our way.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

It's a very intriguing and very simple call to action, but it's made even more effective by being paired with the value of a 20 percent discount for guests that book now.

Amazon.com on Wednesday unveiled more discounts on several grocery products at Whole Foods Market, days ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, sending stocks of rival U.S. grocers lower in early trading.

We might be losing $ 50 million per day today because our pipelines feed the middle of North America as opposed to the coasts, but when companies were selling the idea of more pipelines right into the heart of the now - discounted mid-continent market, they did so on the basis that we'd make millions of dollars per day taking advantage of a growing market premium.

But the Vegas hotel fell into the hands of Onex, which separated the Strip property from its parent last year after strategically acquiring more than US$ 200 million of its debt — at discount prices.

But supermarkets there are beginning to show signs of branding, and customer - driven sales like «buy - two - get - one - free» discounts are becoming more common.

Company execs said they started thinking about cutting the membership fee when they saw shoppers getting the hang of the «Smart Cart» savings more quickly than they expected, reducing the need to offer the up - front discounts on individual products.

This discount (cash adjusted) becomes even more compelling given our confidence that Apple will grow earnings per share at a rate well in excess of the S&P 500 for the foreseeable future.

Admitting that «drug prices are too high,» Wichmann pointed to UnitedHealth's efforts to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for everyday consumers through point - of - service discounts.

So far, it's been wireless carriers giving customers discounts on the devices in exchange for multiyear data - plan commitments, but with most people using their tablets at home and on the couch as a sort of second TV or computer screen, it might make more sense for television or Internet service providers to offer the contracts.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

Examples of perks can include fitness memberships, discount cards, office additions such as new break room features, free catered meals, and more.

When Takao Yasuda, the maverick founder of Japanese discount retailer Don Quijote, retired at the end of June, he could not have been more proud of the legacy he had built.

The companies have begun to market their «biosimilar» (a generic version of expensive biologic drugs) of Remicade — a copycat of J&J's best - selling rheumatoid arthritis and immunology treatment (which garnered more than $ 5 billion in U.S. sales last year) and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April — at a striking 35 % discount to its list price.

Thousands of items including clothes for the whole family, shoes, jewelry, products for the kitchen, bath, and more are available a great discounts up to 70 % off.

Despite Jung's efforts to position Avon and some of its products as more upscale, if marketers needed to hit a sales goal, they might heavily discount items — a no - no in luxury — in a subsequent catalogue.

Given its areas of specialization, Gilead wouldn't benefit as much from consolidation as, say, a generic - drug company would, but it still faces pricing pressure: To appease Medicaid and other insurers, Gilead is already steeply discounting its hep - C drugs, which can cost more than $ 80,000 for a 12 - week course.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

However, your company's chances of going viral are left more to fate than skill, but that's no reason to discount the importance of multimedia for your business.

It's typical for companies to offer discounts of 50 percent or more to Groupon customers.

The deeper investors discount the likelihood of Fed action, the greater the risk any move will trigger an overreaction with unpredictable and negative economic fallout, making policymakers more hesitant to act.

«Instead of trying to discount down a luxury vehicle, we start with a vehicle that really has a good price point but is more expensive than other vehicles in the segment.

This doesn't entail just adding on more discounts and promotional campaigns throughout the rest of the holiday season; that's expected.

In other words, if you tighten monetary policy, certainly by more than is discounted in the market — and what's discounted in the market is very minor rising market — that will reverberate through asset class prices, as well as then you can have a situation in terms of the economy.

The costs of the discount are increasing as delays continue for all three major proposed oil pipelines to export more oil from Western Canada, including Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion, Enbridge's Line 3 replacement, and TransCanada's Keystone XL.

Costs will also rise as the company said it plans to spend more on marketing, a move to fend off competition from hotels offering discounts on their own websites to lure travelers away from the likes of Priceline, which charges a fee for listing their inventory.

Anderson, who rounded up nearly $ 35,000 in sponsorships for his own nuptials, says more couples are willing to exchange a bit of promotion along with their vows, for free or discounted goods and services.

The addition of more «upscale» merchandise demonstrates the changes that the discount retailer has been forced to make as the number of potential middle - class customers plummets.