Sentences with phrase «system rewarded consumers»

Previously, the credit scoring system rewarded consumers who paid bills on time, even if they carried debt for years or decades («revolvers»).

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Another startup vying to revolutionize customer loyalty programs is San Francisco - based Perkville, which eschews punch cards as well as mobile apps; instead, consumers» e-mail addresses are stored in the participating merchant's POS system, and that address doubles as their virtual rewards card across the Perkville network, with all transaction data automatically uploaded into the system.

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

James Larue of the Douglas County Library system recently said «libraries and taxpayers who support libraries are being ripped off in ways that not only outrageously inflate the payment to publishers (surely their costs are not three times greater to provide the book to us than to the consumer), they also greatly reward distributors.

Interchange fee changes coming, and what that means for consumers — Cash payers had been subsidizing card users at stores, but that system's under fire; if it changes, so could rewards and prices... (See Interchange fees and consumers)

And, they say, their consumer research showed that people don't want to have to learn a complicated rewards system and will pay an annual fee for a card that hits those marks.

Stick to this easy system and you'll leave college with no consumer debt, some free stuff from your rewards program, a credit report that glows with your wonderfulness, and a terrific relationship with a major bank.

Our collection systems, called the «Brigade» programs, allow companies to reward their consumers for collecting and sorting their waste, which is then sent to TerraCycle to be recycled or upcycled into new, innovative products.

Proposed changes to PJM's energy pricing system could reward coal and nuclear plants in Ohio and elsewhere in the region while making consumers pay more, claim critics.

The creation of the consumer economy — a complex, interconnected system of institutions, goals, rewards, and punishments — was one of the great social projects of the twentieth century, when energy was cheaply abundant and two of our chief economic problems were overproduction and unemployment.

The fixed supply of tokens will circulate through the system in the form of consumer fees and miner rewards.

New patent filings from American Express suggest the credit card provider is looking at blockchain as part of a consumer rewards system.

True professionals do not go into real estate transaction service to get rich by talking sellers and buyers into dealing with them because they have the best systems or because they work cheaper; they go into the service because they know that they have much to offer consumers in the way of knowledge gained from industry - related experience and education beforehand; because they have an altruistic bent to their personalities which relieves them from the constant need to grasp, grasp, grasp for every seller / buyer out there who is looking for cheap, cheap, cheap Realtors, and, most important, because money is not the name of the game, but rather, an exemplary personal (not organizational) reputation is the reward at the end of the road.