Even though both the companies missed market expectations in their latest quarterly results, Home Depot seems to have handled the difficult housing market and slow demand recovery better with successful cost-cutting and efficiency initiatives, store remodels, improved service and better pricing strategies.
She noted that the Senate last year passed a bill that would have stopped the postal service from eliminating Saturday service for at least two years and required it to try two years of aggressive costcutting instead.
With insurance companies acting as the middleman and cutting deals with providers as they see fit, consumers rarely even know the actual cost of a medical service.
As part of other cost-cutting measures, control centre staff at West Yorkshire's current Birkenshaw headquarters will be moved to the service's current Safety Central building in Leeds.
In the most extreme instances, some households have canceled their cable packages entirely a process known as "cutting the cord" and relied on a lower-cost alternatives such as Netflix or another service such as Hulu.