When prices rise, there may be multiple causes, since there are many factors that drive the retail price paid at the market.
Amazon with its background in retail which is also a price conscious market should be comfortable with the business model.
Then he pulled the plug on an emerging retail electricity market by imposing a four-year price freeze.
The group owns a diverse portfolio of retail outlets centered on the low-price market, primarily selling textiles, clothing and footwear.
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Any move to build Apple products in Brazil would surely be more costly than building them in Asia. iPhones and iPads for sale in the retail market go for at least three times the price of US retail, leading many Brazilians to smuggle unblocked handhelds in from Paraguay, duty-free.
There is a case for protecting domestic households from price volatility until a genuinely competitive retail market emerges.
When the blackout struck, prices in the unregulated wholesale market were about three times the fixed retail price.
U.S. gold futures were steady to marginally higher early Tuesday as the market awaited government reports on retail sales and producer price inflation.
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Thinking that a downturn may be near, retail investor Hiromichi Kobayashi placed set-price orders below the market on Thursday morning on some issues, surprised to see them executed so quickly as prices fell.
Similar price action is present in retail groceries like The Fresh Market (NYSE: TFM), up more than 3% on Wednesday after a four-day sell-off that took the stock into technically oversold territory.
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In December, the pressure group Farm called on Tesco to use its "market power to ensure dairy farmers receive a fair share of the retail price".
But it also contributes to blurring the line between retail and wholesale investors, since it gives small-timers the same price information and market access as huge pension funds.
Since 2008, a Boston start-up, Gazelle, has been providing a service that buys your old iPhone and other high-end consumer devices, cleans out all its personal data, and then resells it at a profit in an emerging market, such as China, where plenty of people are happy to pay less than the retail price for the latest version to own your old one.
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