Sentences with phrase «price war between»

Not only has Wal - Mart grabbed a big share of the food buck, but the discount giant's aggressive development strategy also has sparked a price war between traditional supermarkets.

Because prices are posted on giant lit up signs, this can cause a price war between two nearby stations.

Right now we are seeing a price war between Sunnis and Shiites, a side scenario in a broader war sparked by the USA invasion of Iraq and obama's meddling in Syria.

Europe is facing a new conflict: Platts editors discuss a potential gas price war between US LNG and Russian pipeline gas.

Though it ended the price war between the two competing companies, this merger was not enough to stave off the encroachments of a third company: Del Caribe Fisheries Ltd., owned by American Ed Devorak.

There are, however, a pair of feuds that DIY investors and Canadian discount brokerages may want to keep on their radars, namely the commission price war between US online brokerages and the efforts to rescind the Department of Labor's... Read More»

Moving on... in light of the nascent price war between Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Borders would like you to know that its Kobo e-reader now includes a $ 20 gift card and double Borders Bucks for whenever you drop cash in the store.

To add - Personally, I'm hoping that this leads to a huge price war between Google Books and Amazon, selling e-books at a loss and giving us consumers a brief period where we can get tons of them for cheap.

In the USA there is a huge price war between Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Sony.

I wish I were a disinterested party in this price war between the traditional publishers and Amazon.

The rivalry has sparked a price war between Amazon, Apple and a number of book publishers.

That puts it at the same price as the Kindle Touch and the Nook Simple Touch, which really was an essential step considering the aggressive price war between Amazon and Barnes & Noble right now.

2018-04-08 17:32 Aldi's Australian chief executive Tom Daunt has described the discount supermarket chain as being the piggy in the middle of a price war between the two Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more.

Aldi's Australian chief executive Tom Daunt has described the discount supermarket chain as being the piggy in the middle of a price war between the two Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Last July Jane became so outraged at the consequences to her industry of the $ 1 a litre milk price war between the supermarkets, that she fired off an angry post to the Facebook page of Coles.

Metcash has enjoyed a number of good years while Coles was struggling, but now it is fighting to compete as the price war between Coles and Woolworths plays out.

It prompted speculation it will end the price war between Coles and Woolworths.

The price war between Fidelity, Vanguard and Charles Schwab is continually heating up.

This key category is the current battleground for a pricing war between Amazon and Walmart that is terrifying big - name brands.

Thanks to the price wars between all of the major ereader brands, we are in the era of the no frills ereader.

San Pedranos claim that on occasions when price wars between these companies reached fever pitch, Alfonso and George Alamilla, local purchasers for Caribbean Queen Seafoods Ltd. in San Pedro, paid as much as 16 cents per pound for lobster tails.

A greater incidence of service tax is likely to trigger price wars between insurers because buyers would now become even more price conscience.

Those subsidies started going away around 2013 and ended altogether earlier this year as pricing wars between the carriers hurt their businesses.

Not exact matches

Given the recent war between the federal government and the industry over the prices Canadians pay for wireless service, that may be an understatement.

In light of the tug - of - war in the crude oil space, where prices have traded between the low $ 40s and low $ 50s since March, Cramer used the charts to try to foresee the commodity's future.

The Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt / Syria in the fall of 1973 hastened the 1970s oil crisis when OPEC declared an embargo that raised the posted price of oil from $ 3.00 a barrel to approximately $ 12 by spring of 1974.

The war between Shari Redstone and Dauman comes as the company struggles to cope with declining cable TV ratings and plummeting stock prices and may impede plans to sell a minority stake in Paramount movie studio to outside investors.

NEW YORK Oil prices fell about 2 percent on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on China, reigniting fears of a trade war between the world's two largest economies that could hurt global growth.

With tensions running high between the US and EU, analysts have warned that the spat could devolve into a tit - for - tat trade war that would cause prices to rise and damage economic growth.

The DJIA is still within 10 % of the highs that it hit earlier this year, so it is safe to speculate that a full on trade war between the world's two largest economies probably isn't being priced in at the moment.

Bitcoin price (BTC) continues to make small sideways movements over the last week showcasing a tug - o» - war between bulls and bears...

Nehru's suspicion of businessmen shaped as much by the European distrust of capitalism between the wars as by India's forced de industrialization by the British East India Company committed him to state control of prices, wages, and production, and to strict limits on foreign investment and trade.

But domestic - focused processors are under intense pressure as margins are sandwiched by the spiralling cost of milk and depressed prices on retail shelves due to a supermarket war between Coles and Woolworths.

He also believed the brutal supermarket price war, which has lasted about four years between Coles and Woolworths, was not to blame.

It added «It is very pathetic that the governor of Imo State Chief Rochas Okorocha will be belittled himself to this level by going uncontrollably from house to house and one market to another calling people to come out and open their shops on that fateful day Biafrans were celebrating and honouring those who paid the ultimate price during the great war in the history against the people of Biafra between 1967 and 1970.

There are striking parallels between Buhari's first stint in power as military dictator and his current democratic presidency - oil prices have crashed; appointments have favoured the North; important political allies have been displaced; governance is focused almost exclusively on a war against corruption; concerns over rule of law and human rights are re-surfacing; and economic policy is floundering!

This unspoken understanding between competitors» is actually contradictory to current perceptions of players within financial and other competitive markets where price wars and retaliation are seen as common.

FLORENCE, ITALY — The Mercedes SLK fires a loud shot in the price - value war between Mercedes - Benz and BMW.

Amazon's Odd Hardback Pricing War: Shelf Awareness posted the news that Amazon was undercutting their hardback book prices between 50 % to 65 % of bestseller titles (JK Rowling's Gailbraith - published book isn't as deeply discounted).

For instance in France there is a law saying that book prices have to be decided by the publisher and not the seller, so that kind of war between publisher and seller can't happen.

Clearly this space is only just starting to heat up, especially as a price war grows between Google and Amazon.

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

Besides, price wars are often wielded without considering the cost; some writers may authorize repeatedly, resulting in ambiguous copyrights; and in terms of management, its often direct dialogue between content and channel in China's digital publishing, missing such links as production, marketing, and data digging in between.

On Monday, the site reported, «Amazon.com quietly began discounting many bestselling hardcover titles between 50 % and 65 %, levels we've never seen in the history of Amazon or in the bricks - and - mortar price wars of the past.»

In the UK, there is usually a fierce price war going on between Amazon and some new entrant; currently it is Sainsburys, previously it was Sony and Nook.

To unravel the link between a number of strange and violent events, ex — MI6 agent Jack Price enlists the help of young London detective Patrick West — drawing him into a eye - opening conspiracy stretching back to the Second World War.

Reading between the lines a bit, it seems as though publishers now consider libraries to be the competition and have fired the opening shot in a kind of price war.

The price war in e-readers is on and the scrum between Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble may be enough to change the buying calculus for dedicated reading devices.

In a decision that could start an e-book price war in the publishing industry, a federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and three major publishers in a civil antitrust case that accused the companies of collusion in the pricing of digital books.