Sentences with phrase «relies on the consumer price»

Currently, the federal government generally relies on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to index provisions of the budget and tax code to account for cost - of - living changes.

Not exact matches

They rely on daily deal services like Groupon and they are willing to sacrifice other expenses like designer fashion, cars, and meals out at fancy restaurants to acquire the items they find necessary for their daily lives, according to the Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for 2011.

No longer able to rely simply on price as a point of difference, Expedia and rival Booking Holdings, which owns Priceline, are fighting back by offering events and activities beyond hotel and airline reservations and spending lavishly to market directly to consumers.

Traditionally, small business owners have been slow to adopt video conferencing because of the inconsistent quality of consumer - grade systems and the prohibitive price of enterprise - level offerings, causing them to rely on the traditional conference call.

Right now, the federal government largely relies on what's known as the Consumer Price Index, referred to as the C.P.I.

Mr Durkan first accused multinational suppliers of price gouging soon after joining Coles from Britain in 2008, saying Australian consumers were paying at least 10 per cent and as much as 100 per cent more than British consumers for packaged groceries because suppliers had been making excessive profit margins in Australia and relying on annual price increases for margin growth.

But the NPA said, «The Authority encourages consumers and the media to check on the price board of retail stations to determine the true prices of fuel on the market and not rely on the data from any group of persons who purport to project fuel prices which always turns out to be poor and inaccurate.

In Japan, for example, which relies on imported liquefied natural gas, prices exceeded $ 16 per million British thermal units, six times higher that what U.S. consumers paid.

No doubt an iPad Mini priced as low as just $ 199 could prove to be too much for many of the Android tablets that have been relying on a low initial cost to entice consumers.

The consumer shift away from e-books and back to print may be a good sign for the industry, as e-book sales seem to rely on cheap prices.

Schuchart warns against relying on the look of the product to sell it because pricing may make it hard for a consumer to weigh the pros and cons.

which they're forced to rely on more, driving up the price of cars over time and forcing their fellow consumers also to get cars and forcing local governments to pave roads to the standards required by cars and hospitals to build emergency wards to the standard to handle frequent and severe car collisions.

These market trends could continue, and consumers in Florida and elsewhere that rely heavily on natural gas will end up paying the price.»

Germany's Energiewende has only succeeded in massively elevating Germany's consumer power prices, making its power almost twice as expensive as power in neighboring France, which relies heavily on nuclear.

Price swings are often felt more acutely by electricity consumers in states that rely more heavily on natural gas.

Because so much of Google AdWords» automated advertising platform relies on historical data to accurately price ads and place them in front of the consumers most likely to click, a good PPC manager handling a new campaign requires a great deal of patience and continued optimization while that search data history grows.

What most consumers aren't aware of is that, in some cases, simply relying on name recognition and price can actually cause more damage than good.

By removing the price tag from Windows, not only does Microsoft remove a major obstacle to consumer adoption, it frees itself from having to rely on gimmicks like Ultimate Extras so it can instead focus on making the platform the best it can be.

The GSE commenter argued that providing a disclosure that the consumer is meant to rely on for understanding pricing trade - offs in a document that contains the proposed disclaimer would cast doubt on the document's reliability and cause consumer confusion.