Installing the equipment is costly at first--but handling and protecting cash is itself a costly and labor-intensive process.
Maybe you know that it also allows merchants to offer consumers discounts for paying in cash because it is less costly to process than other payment types.
But Shader believes utility companies will quickly sign on, because with consumers able to pay with cash at 7-11 stores, utilities will save money by not having to operate their own costly locations for customers to make cash payments.
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After all, that was the lesson of Iraq - winning the war was easy, winning the peace proved nigh on impossible and hugely costly both in terms of cash and men.
These are mutual funds wrapped up in a costly insurance policy that is taxed only when you cash it in.
Megan is developing animal vaccines because they involve less costly clinical trials than human immunization and produce quicker cash flow.
Moreover, you can't cash foreign checks there, and transferring money between banks can be costly and difficult.
That play, while doubtless the right move for the long term, results in a short term negative as opening new markets is costly and it takes some time before they go from cash draining to cash producing.
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It is a faster, cheaper and safer way to transfer money than the alternatives, such as slow, costly transfers via banks and post offices, or handing an envelope of cash to a bus driver.
Superior Well's enterprise value (market value plus debt, minus cash) is 29 times its trailing operating income (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation), also costly.
Maintaining and upgrading existing lines is costly especially as they are spread out through many rural areas, and without the wireless business generating cash flow it is far more difficult.
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