Sentences with phrase «when consumer prices»

CPI - type riders will grow only when the Consumer Price Index increases which may be more or less than 5 %.

Not exact matches

Marketing comprises everything a company does to attract and retain customers, which includes determining where and when a product is sold, its optimal price, how it's creatively positioned in consumers» minds, and even actual attributes of the product itself.

For example, refining margins tend to expand when oil prices decline as the savings refiners reap from using cheaper crude to make gasoline and other products aren't immediately passed on to consumers at the pump.

Disruptive innovation: In an industry ruled by low prices, proved that the segment of U.S. consumers prepared to pay more for local, responsible, organic, fresh, or natural grocery products is much more than a niche when there's a perceived personal benefit.

The head of the largest U.K. wine retailer said that for now consumers were safe because they bought stock in advance, but when they run low, new orders will bring higher prices.

Hyundai and Kia both increased their shares of the U.S. new - vehicle market in the past decade, particularly during the economic downturn of 2008 to 2010 when consumers sought out fuel - efficient and relatively low - priced vehicles.

Rising commodity prices and international trade also put a wedge between producers» prices (what firms receive when they sell the goods and services they produce — this is the price firms use to calculate the real wage that tracks productivity) and consumer prices (what consumers pay to buy stuff — the lower they are, the greater workers» purchasing power).

When prices collapsed, so did demand because too many consumers were stuck with debts worth more than their assets.

Beginning with those officials, antitrust regulators in general worried about corporate power only when it led to increases in the consumer prices.

Friedberg says the vast majority of people claim that they want healthy and sustainable food, but when it comes time to pick a restaurant or a meal, consumers will always prioritize taste, price, and speed — in that order.

Nothing against distributors, it's just nice to be able to set our own prices, to not absorb the cost of a middle - man, not have to raise our prices to support that... because when you do, the consumer ends up paying that cost.

When leasing, the consumer pays a percentage of the car's price in monthly installments, as opposed to taking out a loan based on the full price.

U.S. consumers, meanwhile, are the least price sensitive when planning vacations, with 54 percent admitting they don't let sales on fares or room rates impact their destination choice.

The movie theatre sparked a backlash from consumers this week when it shrank the sizes of its beverages — but kept prices the same.

When AT&T and Time Warner announced their $ 85 billion blockbuster merger in October 2016, politicians immediately said the deal would be scrutinized for its potential to raise prices for consumers.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, April 30 (Reuters)- The term «demand destruction» is again entering the lexicon of the current crude oil market as the sharp rise in prices raises concerns about when do consumers start cutting back on their fuel consumption.

In other words, consumers will not pay $ 300 for a Michael Kors or Coach bag in a department store when they can get one at the outlet mall for half the price.

And pricing power becomes a concern when it's Amazon (or another platform company) that owns the customer relationship, as evidenced in the retail sector, where big brands have sought to build their own direct - to - consumer sales channels to offset the impact of Amazon's pricing power.

When the company launched in 2014 in San Francisco, chief executive and founder Matt Dalio envisioned his product for the one billion consumers in emerging market economies whose price point is less than $ 200.

Consumers need a reason to pay full price, and when sales and promotions permeate the stores, it's difficult to get them to fork over the big dollars.

Consumers have been slow off the blocks after having been burnt the last time around when they locked in prices at around US$ 80 a barrel in 2014, a level that crude hasn't even been within sniffing distance of since.

The product is called Fairlife and it will sell for twice the price of regular milk when it hits store shelves nationally in December, Coca - Cola's North American chief Sandy Douglas said at Morgan Stanley's Global Consumer Conference last week.

«Time will tell,» though if the code has an effect on the upfront prices of handsets, as consumers may get smaller subsidies when signing onto two - year instead of three - year contracts, he added.

Marketplaces are a double - edged sword; they provide incredible access to a large group of consumers, but the competition is cutthroat when you are competing on price and don't own your customers.

To determine for whom and when to adjust prices, you can observe customer buying habits and do consumer research through interviews and focus groups.

If pork, wine, and other products lose sales to China, they could ultimately go out of business or be forced to charge higher prices when selling to businesses and consumers back here in the U.S.

«Consumers may pay closer attention to gasoline prices when they fill up before or during a long weekend trip, however industry data shows no such pre-long weekend price increase trend.»

Even in a flat housing market, consumer spending could weaken since homeowners will not feel as rich as they do when prices rise.

When it comes to online shopping, a big problem is that consumers don't spend enough time doing different searches and instead they focus on Google searches to find the best price, experts say.

«From a consumer's perspective, it's confusing to know when to buy tickets because you can buy them one day and see prices go to half that price a couple weeks later,» Groetzinger says.

In fact, when pressed on the issue, Verheul speculated that perhaps costs would not increase since Canadians already pays higher prices for pharmaceutical drugs than consumers in European countries such as the UK, France or Germany.

The question is often asked by critics, isn't this just hurting American consumers who want to go out and buy washing machines or solar panels, that they're going to pay a higher price at the store when they go to do that?

Hoguet, who is not a millennial, went on to note that Macy's internal economists accurately predicted a number of metrics last year when crafting the company's three - year plan — such as GDP growth, inflation, employment and wages — but missed the mark on GAAP growth, and fell short on sales of general merchandise, apparel and furniture, partially because they didn't predict how much off - price retail and consumer electronics would weigh on sales.

That was when governments first attempted to restrict supply of agricultural products in order to boost prices for farmers, and thus force high prices on consumers.

This alternative to the regular Consumer Price Index takes into account an economic phenomenon called the substitution effect, which reflects changes in consumer behavior when prices of substitutable goods move in different dirConsumer Price Index takes into account an economic phenomenon called the substitution effect, which reflects changes in consumer behavior when prices of substitutable goods move in different dirconsumer behavior when prices of substitutable goods move in different directions.

Yes, we're buying a ton more stuff online, but online prices don't diverge that much from other prices, at least as measured by our deflators (Mericle cites «outlet bias,» meaning the indexes don't always record when consumers switch to cheaper online sellers).

When the conversation turns to purchasing or price, consumers are directed to an in - store touch - screen computer to order online from Tesla's factory in Fremont, Calif..

If pork, wine, and other products lose sales to China, they could ultimately go out of business or be forced to charge higher prices when selling to businesses and consumers back here in the US.

At a time when fickle consumers are one click away from taking their retail dollars elsewhere, brands can't put a price - tag on privacy protection.

For example, when we have seen big moves in energy costs, such as the price of gasoline, there has been little evidence that consumers began to adjust their overall inflation expectations, either upward or downward.

Really March is when we saw the spike in consumer — in gasoline prices.

So, we had some prior priced items at a time when the consumer was skittish.

I think people have the perspective, especially... I'll opine on Washington for a second because I think a lot of people that write healthcare policy, they think it's an open market, but you really don't have... The consumer doesn't know price when it makes a decision.

It was cagey about if and when it would take its fiber - to - the - home show on the road, but if it does, it will pummel existing ISPs on price and service, have repercussions throughout the carrier equipment industry and entice a lot of end consumers to take on a more active role in marketing Google's broadband.

For simplicity, microeconomic theory begins by investigating a market in which there is perfect competition, a theoretical state that exists only when no individual producer or consumer can empower the market price.

However, the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) inflation in the euro area has remained below the ECB's 2 - percent inflation target since 2013, leaving the central bank of the 19 - nation euro area not much of a choice when it comes to hiking rates.

Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou from JP Morgan says global consumers enjoyed a US$ 1.8 trillion annual windfall — worth 2.2 per cent of global GDP — when oil prices crashed.

Not when millions of Americans are beset by plummeting home prices, stagnant income levels, deteriorating job opportunities and rising consumer prices.

As a reminder, real rates, important for the Fear Trade, are what you get when you subtract the consumer price index (CPI), or inflation, from the 10 - year Treasury yield.

Thus, he shared, «When housing prices go up, all of a sudden you see consumer confidence and consumer spending go up too.»