Sentences with phrase «on slim profit margins»

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In addition to providing a big sales boost to Amazon, AWS also ingests tech profits into a company that's traditionally run on very slim margins.

The Niwot, Colo. - based shoemaker reported sales of $ 363.8 million, up almost 10 percent from the same quarter in 2012, but the slimmer profit margins sent the stock down 20.2 percent on Thursday from the previous day.

Profit margins on grain are slim, which means every extra cost matters, including the cost of transportation — and the relatively spread - out landscape of existing organic mills means many growers need to travel far.

The hospitality industry typically operates on a fairly slim profit margin and no child wants to be left behind — or help finance — someone else's edge.

Using LSI it would still show close to the same profit for me as I'd make through Amazon, but I can imagine it wouldn't for someone using Lulu since there is a slimmer profit margin already on Lulu.

Amazon operates on extremely slim margins to create its price incentives, they need these tax loopholes to create their profits.

Not to spit on publishing, but seriously, what to do about ebooks and slim profit margins pales in comparison to the cultural impact libraries have and the financial challenges they're currently facing.

The company has seemingly stopped carrying devices from all those companies due to its growing relationship with Apple and slim profit margins on hardware slashed to the bone.

Many stores suspended relationships with Amazon recently, such as Walmart and Target, as they were tired of making slim profit margins on the hardware.

Then on Wednesday, a post appeared on the Post's Wonkblog comparing the Amazon / Hachette fight to the debate over net neutrality: «Wanting to give consumers access to its products through the biggest single pipeline available, Hachette may relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further.»

The slim profit margins of books; the problems of bookstore returns; the quandary of Borders closing and Amazon forever selling books as a loss - leader; how to make people actually pay for content, and so on... And yet.

UPDATE: The Washington Post covers the story on Wednesday, May 14, noting that Hachette may be forced to «relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further» and that, as Amazon's market share increases, «if there's no real choice of where to buy things, maybe there should be some other way to retain pricing power for those who produce goods in the first place.»

Returns on equities are impossible to predict, but the McKinsey researchers point to several factors that have changed since the «golden era,» including lower inflation, lower interest rates, slower economic growth and slimmer corporate profit margins due to greater competition.

Profit margins in this business are already slim — many salespeople spend 60 percent or more of their income on overhead.