Running to the lowest price on items is not a strategy that will work successfully for any retailer in the long run.
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Build to the lowest price possible with tight margins and relying on the volume of sales to make up a decent slice of income.
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The latest one, called Deal Finder, aims to point shoppers to the lowest online price for a particular product.
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Depending on where you live you may have to traverse several zip codes to garner the lowest price on a used car or truck these days.
But the system tended to favor car buyers by promoting the lowest price on the block, giving them leverage to go find an even better price.
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Within the last two years young people have become adept at using the Internet as a tool to obtain information on everything from the lowest price for a popular CD to information about various colleges and universities.
Unlike Ebay, where multiple buyers drive the price up, in FedBid, the government is the only buyer, so the sellers must compete to offer the best products at the lowest price.
You'll also be hard-pressed to find a safari on a clearance rack, but if you want to do it for the lowest price possible, go during the hotter, rainier season in southern and central Africa between November and February.
With the ability to offer lowest-price guarantees and exclusive online services, such as picking your own seat in an aircraft, the travel providers may well move into the lead.
It is now expecting the customer to trust that its everyday price is the lowest price.
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On the property front, the lowest house price to earnings ratio is in North Ayrshire, while Edinburgh and the Highlands have the highest ratio.
While bargain hunting, it can be tempting to make your purchase from the site offering the lowest price, but take a moment to research any vendors you're not familiar with.
It's also a good idea to monitor prices for your favorite items for about a month at your local grocery store to get an idea of the lowest price at which it is offered.
And whether your holiday celebrates buying gifts in a store, buying them online, or using an American Express charge card to finance the buy, your share of the holiday loot depends on your ability to sell to consumers what they want at the lowest available delivered price.
Firms would compete on a new exchange, vying to give the best services at the lowest price.
They are seeking the lowest-price, lowest-cost areas in which to operate.
These mechanisms refer to carbon reduction schemes in developing countries, which allow firms to reduce their carbon emissions at the lowest possible price.
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Both buyers and sellers then have the parameters to agree on a fair price, which Painter says typically settles in the lowest quartile of all transactions (the left side of the bell curve) compared to the lowest 6 percent of transactions before the change.
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Studies show that drivers in the U.S. spend an average of eight minutes cruising for city parking, mainly so they can find a space free or at the lowest price possible within the shortest distance of their destination, according to Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The application, U.S. Fuel Price Mapping, provides drivers directions to gas stations with the lowest prices in the surrounding area from a mobile device.
Business will always flow to the lowest priced product, even if the lower price is the result of government price controls.
Only 40% of companies saw negative reactions in their share price to earnings reports, the lowest percentage since the financial crisis, according to FactSet.
Howie believes that this process of buying and iterating to get the best results for developers at the lowest price is how the mobile advertising market will evolve.
Second, at least 5 percent of the volume of sales to the allegedly targeted group must be at prices that are lower than the average price of the lowest-priced non-targeted group by a margin (a gap) that is greater than the average gap between the average prices of all the non-targeted groups.
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"I want to buy as much of everything as possible for the lowest price, " he says.
He co-founded GoodRx to help uninsured, insured, and Medicare patients find the lowest price in their neighborhood or online.
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They left out works put up for auction that failed to fetch their reserve price the auctioneer's lowest acceptable bid for the work.
When Smart Fortwo Electric Drive goes on sale next year, it enters with the lowest price tag on an electric car to date.
The Treasury plans to buy huge amounts of distressed debt using a reverse auction process, where banks offer to sell at a price and the government buys from the lowest price upwards.
Mr Kerr said tendering for the provision of public services has moved on from the days when the lowest bid would win to a position now where both price and quality were given equal consideration.
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