Sentences with phrase «spend less this year»

(Another indication shoppers may not be swayed: According to the NRF, many families said they plan to spend less this year because they are reusing items bought last year.)

«If anything, people are going to be spending less this year on gasoline and diesel.»

In its annual holiday consumer survey, one - third of consumers said that they would spend less this year.

On the other hand, about 15 % of guys are going to spend less this year.

Among those who plan to spend less this year, «shaky» job security and a desire to save money were the most common reasons cited for tighter budgets in CreditDonkey.com's 2012 Holiday Shopping Survey.

Not exact matches

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.

The later hasn't happened, perhaps because households are spending about $ 600 per year less on gasoline, Poloz said.

I believe in the years to come, how we choose to spend our time and what we decide to work on is going to make us less mechanical, and more human.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

So if you like the idea of spending a year or two less of your income on a home, Monrovia is a good place to buy.

Household spending fell 0.4 % in October from a year earlier, less than the median estimate for a 0.6 % annual decline, as shoppers spent less on food and transport.

His comments followed less - than - stellar data on U.S. consumer spending that showed that even as confidence hit its highest level in more than 16 years last month, Americans are still holding their wallets tightly.

And I was completely happy with my Windows laptop (believe it or not, I'm a big Windows 10 fan) until the hardware broke, less than two years after I spent a thousand bucks on it.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

Apple and Facebook clearly both have the cash to quickly ramp up in video, but they would both still be spending far less than leaders in the streaming entertainment like Netflix (spending $ 6 billion on original programming this year alone) and Amazon ($ 4.5 billion).

But Americans are increasingly spending less on clothes and home furnishings, a trend that could hurt the companies» businesses for years to come.

In 2014, per person health - care spending grew 5.4 percent, well above the overall inflation rate of less than 1 percent, and the center expects spending to rise at an average rate of 5.8 percent a year from 2014 to 2024.

But those buyers made 9 % fewer purchases than last year, and they spent 5 % less.

Sources say AT&T and General Motors are two prolific brands expected to spend less on advertising during this year's event than the one in Sochi.

College is becoming less and less a place to kick back and spend a few years «figuring things out.»

The dollar store was one of the fastest growing retailers in the years after the Great Recession as low - income shoppers looked for lower prices and closer stores to spend less on gas.

Although Duncan believes he can contain growth of health - care spending at 3 % a year, that's less than half the rate observed over the past 15 years.

When he ran the numbers for one client, Tallal calculated that putting away money early would result in significant savings: «By starting when his two children were infants and setting aside about $ 6,500 a year for each child, the business owner would wind up spending nearly $ 400,000 less.»

Both studies found that until Americans hit the latter retirement years, when health care expenses tend to scale up, they're spending far less than 85 % of their pre-retirement income, on average.

«[It helps to] understand that in 10 years you're going to spend less overall and pull back.»

It's just instead of a gaping mouthful of full - colour cancer, we're gently reminded to drink less, quit smoking, cut down on salt, exercise more, eat more vegetables and get a check up or we could spend our golden years cold and with wolves after us.

The average American spends almost $ 800 per year on lottery tickets and people who make $ 20,000 or less spend an average of 10 % of their income on the lottery.

Looking further at those trends, the study reveals that men spent less time on social media than women (5 vs. 7 hours per week), decreasing their hours by 1 from the previous year.

Although black consumers spend $ 1.2 trillion every year, companies often underestimate how much their brands depend on black consumers, and are therefore less inclined to reinvest their profits in those communities, explains Evans.

People who gave us permission to use their Facebook data were on average younger (48 years vs. 57 years), more educated, more likely to be female (58 % vs. 50 %), and more likely to be unmarried (66 % vs. 71 %), with slightly lower scores on mental health and life satisfaction, significantly more self - reported friends (4.5 vs. 4.0), and less time spent interacting in person with real - world friends.

It's also worth noting that Asian unicorns spend a little less time in the womb, taking five years to be born.

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.

In fact, some of the folks I work with who have millions stashed away spend less than $ 82,770 number each year.

As a rule of thumb, if you spend less than $ 10,000 per year on gas, dining, or hotels, the Stash Hotel Rewards Visa card is probably not worth the fee.

A lesser - known North Korean cyber-espionage outfit has become more active on the international scene in 2017, after spending the previous five years targeting only South Korean government agencies and North Korean defectors.

We also think spending is being supported by the impact of cheaper gasoline, since the average Canadian household is spending about $ 600 less per year to fill their tank.

The number of companies planning the same level of investment as last year fell to 20 % whilst only 1 % said that they would be spending less than last year.

Therefore, if you spend less than $ 10,000 each year, you will come out ahead by using this card, instead of the Stash Rewards Credit Card.

Overall, this budget adds new details about how Ottawa will spend some of the $ 93 billion in new money the Liberals had already set out for infrastructure — $ 11.2 billion will go to affordable housing over the next 11 years, less than the $ 12.6 billion over eight years the Federation of Canadian Municipalities says was needed.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

Annual healthcare spending per head is 2.6 times higher for persons aged 65 - 84 compared with adults less than 65 years old, and 5.7 times higher for persons aged 85 and over.

And among the approximately 1,000 firms that buy back shares and report R&D spending, the proportion of net income spent on innovation has averaged less than 50 percent since 2009, increasing to 56 percent only in the most recent year as net income fell.

We get to plug revised expenses into Max's income statement and help him turn his spending around to get him out debt in less than ten years.

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

Or about $ 10 billion a year less than the country spends on universities alone.

If you're consistently forgetting to pay by the due date, if you're paying multiple annual fees but spending less than $ 20,000 on credit cards each year, or if you're not paying off balances each month, then chances are you have too many credit cards.

If business spending doesn't pick up, there's even less likelihood of years of great growth.