In the midst
of price wars among competitors, the company is particularly proud of remaining one of the lowest cost brokers.
The news sent the shares of grocers like Kroger (kr), Supervalu (svu) Sprouts Farmers Market (sfm) and even Walmart, the largest U.S. grocer, and Target (tgt), down on fears of an intensification
of the price wars among the food retailers and that fact that Amazon will instantly have 450 new physical locations.
Not exact matches
The inflation
wars of the 1970s and 1980s led to a broad consensus on two fronts
among academics and policymakers: First, central banks are responsible and accountable for
price stability, which was often acknowledged through the formal adoption
of an inflation targeting framework.
A number
of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil
prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (
among them, concerns over the Syrian civil
war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).
A glut
of crude oil as demand weakens has ignited a
price war among OPEC members, bringing crude
prices to four year lows.
Here's how Tertzakian summed up the situation: «The oil
price war of 2015 ranks
among the most challenging
of any downturn in the 155 - year history
of Canada's oil and gas industry.»
Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming
of domestic violence was not simply the result
of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height
of human evolution» but came at the
price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive
wars among nations in Europe.
During the Revolutionary
War, the demand for coffee increased so much that dealers had to hoard their scarce supplies and raise
prices dramatically; this was also due to the reduced availability
of tea from British merchants, and a general resolution
among many Americans to avoid drinking tea following the 1773 Boston Tea Party.
«A civil
war has broken out
among the most powerful players in the pharmaceutical industry — including brand - name and generic drug makers, and even your local pharmacists — with each blaming others for the rising
price of medicine.»
A number
of factors congealed during this decade to end the American muscle car
wars,
among them high fuel
prices and ever escalating insurance rates.
Recently, there has been a minor
price war among the vendors
of e-book readers.
I'm all for
price wars among discount brokerages, but I worry about the level
of service clients receive in the bargain basement.
Airline travel changed the way many poor traveled to the United States, especially in the latter part
of the 20th century when
price wars among airlines made air travel affordable for most travelers.
Among those forces were the baby boom, in which post-World
War II babies matured and entered the housing market; deregulation
of the mortgage finance industry, which gave lenders the freedom to offer a wide variety
of loans, and a high inflation rate that combined with soaring housing
prices to convince consumers that home ownership was safe and sure.