All of the incentives received offered a limited time percentage discount of the items left in the cart.
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It has teamed up for years with fashion designers to offer time-limited discount clothing collections, and it recently announced it will open a series of temporary boutiques featuring clothes, food and home furnishings from popular regional stores.
At that time it launched a discount concept outlet that appeared to be sandwiched between its deep mark downa at Last Call and its full priced assortments.
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If the imminent arrival of a new iPad doesn't bother you too much, refurbished units that carry the 3rd-generation moniker and lack a Lightning connection get a handsome discount this time around as well.
With a cash rebate, the customer knows ahead of time how big of a discount to expect.
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Travelers have an easier time getting free tickets on discount carriers in part because they generally have short flights with multiple departures each day on each route.
That kind of unconscious communication via gesture happens all the time, but people tend to discount gesture because they think of it as mere hand-waiving that accompanies (conscious) speech.
As a callow bond-trader, fresh out of college, he participated in one of the greatest of them all, in Japan in 1986, when the yield on the ten-year benchmark Japanese government bond fell to 2.5%, the discount rate at the time.
As autumn begins, several European cities are shaping up as bargains compared to the same time last year, according to two discount travel sites.
At the same time, scooping up stocks at a discount, even a smaller one than would have been the norm in the past, is one way managers can boost returns beyond that of the broader market.
Every time I order flowers it offers me a discount if I sign up for reminders.
The discount will be applied the next time your shop using your debit card at that retailer.
The liberated investor gave rise to a discount brokerage industry at the same time that technology made possible an explosion in trading.
The Euro was at an all time high and buying luxury goods at a discount to prices at home was very appealing.
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And when she appeared in a full-page Wall Street Journal ad cutting a hundred-dollar bill in half as a symbol of her discount philosophy, her long-time clearing house dropped her, and she was briefly threatened with Securities and Exchange Commission expulsion.
One example that Lodish admires: auto dealers that pitch the notion that now is a good time to buy a big vehicle because the discount will save customers more than enough money to compensate for the extra fuel costs over four or five years.
At the same time, GPS-oriented Foursquare fires him off a discount coupon for the restaurant.
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Today Cemex promises deliveries within 20 minutes of the agreed time and backs up the promise with a 5% discount for any delivery that arrives late.
But other marketing systems the hotel uses may not have known about your stay and sent you a pre-scheduled discount for a future visit at the same time.
For a limited time, existing MonoTouch customers can receive a 50 percent discount off a similar Mono for Android Edition by using their activation code as a discount code.
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Communities with Type B contracts, for example, typically discount the cost of additional care for a set time period.
It is time close this loophole for states, and stop the perceived discount customers receive based on their shopping channel.
Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.
Banks are also permitted to discount mortgage rates up to 30% for first-time buyers.
At the time Ray-Bans were sold in camera shops, tobacconists, discount stores, just about anywhere.
The Hayes issue perversely called for conversion at a 15% discount -- from wherever the common was trading at the time of conversion.
It was time to renew, they pushed back on SAP and got a typical small discount.
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To do that, they need to know where people are at a particular point in time and, more importantly, they need to know an ad for a discount or coupon will get to them instantly.
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Flubs include allowing for more orders than can be delivered on time, buying more inventory than an entrepreneur can sell and offering too big a discount.
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