However, because higher prices create greater uncertainty, it is important to have tools in place to help manage this risk and take advantage of price peaks during the shorter intervals.
With Amazon having substantial experience in operating low-very low margin businesses, we expect the company to further cut down its prices to maintain a price advantage and rely on volumes to drive growth.
To explain: Home-financing policies of our government, expressed through the loans found acceptable by FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, favor site-built homes and work to negate the price advantage that manufactured homes offer.
Manufacturers and retailers have taken advantage of the customer acceptance and strong traffic in off-price malls by making their products available.
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Anyone being equally equipped eliminated any production advantage, and left only price to complete.
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Price and technology, traditional levers of advantage, have become merely the table stakes for entering the game.
And when you take price out of the picture, can Amazon give customers the advantage of seeing, touching and then buying what they want by scanning with their mobile phone and walking out the door with it?
An analytics maturity model will help you determine which can lead to differentiation and competitive advantage and which will be the price of entry.
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The device has a considerable price advantage over the iPad range and coupled with several new features, it is much better placed to compete with it.
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In the press release, the company explained it managed to increase sales volume in both their machinery and engine divisions, as took advantage of favorable price realization, as developing economies, where recessions were less severe, took deliveries to record highs.
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"And what's happened here is a lot of those first-time homebuyers that were excluded from the market because of the price range are now in the market and taking advantage of the tax credit, " which the Obama administration ushered in in February.
Technically, gold futures bulls still have the overall near-term and longer-term technical advantage amid some corrective, consolidation price action early this week.
Technically, December gold futures bulls still have the overall near-term technical advantage as prices trade choppy and sideways at higher price levels.
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Madeira was an exception to this rule, and because it escaped the British taxes Madeira enjoyed a significant price advantage over other wines.
Now it would have the additional advantage of removing price pressures through lower import prices and freeing the central bank to pursue anti-inflationary monetary policies.
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And governments and companies will probably take advantage of any drop in the oil price to build up stocks, thereby putting upward pressure on the price.
But what is only now coming to be understood, thanks to new scientific research, is the terrible price that men pay for their devotion, and the shocking biological advantage that women derive from indulging it.
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Holders of mutual funds lose out from such activities in dribs and drabs, since they are not able to take advantage of these price discrepancies.
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Because hospitals and doctors both decide on the services patients must have and dictate the price of those services, they often enjoy a powerful informational advantage over insurers.
The rush was on to take advantage of this price arbitrage that provided almost monopolistic prices, and only marginal costs of production.
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Likewise, the study did not include either plug-in hybrids like the Chevrolet Volt or full electric vehicles like the Ford Focus Electric and Nissan Leaf that carry higher price premiums, but boast a greater fuel economy advantage.
Comedy offers a dual advantage that genres like reality and drama do not: a cheaper price tag and the ability to repeat in syndication. (The genre's stand-alone 30-minute episodes--22 minutes without commercials--seem almost tailor-made for the otherwise distracting pre-dinner or pre-bed syndication blocks.) Though the latter is hardly the lucrative revenue stream it once was due to increased entertainment options, ailing advertisers and narrower fare, it can still deliver many millions--in some cases billions.
Dollar, Thrifty, Hertz and Advantage no longer allow bookings on AutoSlash though you'll still receive price-drop notices.
The results were often commoditization, price competition, little true innovation, slow organic growth, and no clear competitive advantage.
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This week, as banks and other big investors were panic selling, his customers were taking advantage of the price dip to buy more.
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Developing games for a uniform system is a huge advantage over the PC market with its wildly diverse array of price and power points.
The question Musk was responding to alluded to the stock price but also to the potential of something possibly going wrong and perhaps Tesla taking advantage of the situation to protect against that.
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They succeed where they have a price advantage, as in the pork business, where superior feeding, veterinary and other techniques are important.
Amazon built unparalleled warehousing, distribution and customer management economies of scale that still exert, by some estimates, a 19% price advantage over Walmart.
New brawny applications take full advantage of today's cheap Intel-based servers and are at the right price--low--with interfaces so intuitive that CAD novices, especially mechanical engineers, can swiftly pick them up.
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