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By expanding the fulfillment business to third party sellers on Amazon.com, it is tapping into a natural and captive market.
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Whether living in a Cheung Kong apartment, switching on a Fortress appliance powered by Hong Kong Electric, buying groceries at Park 'N Shop or toiletries at Watson's, listening to Metro Radio, or, soon, connecting via a PCCW-HKT line, people in the Special Administrative Region are a captive market.
CNN: From Ports to Portals
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Despite a decent knowledge base, established brands and a captive domestic market for consumer electronics, the big five have failed to bear the pain of a global downturn in the market for chips.
ECONOMIST: Japanese business
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Yes, this is bi-partisan pork, including some served up by representatives with strong Tea Party bona fides those who have sworn to end out-of-control spending and to unleash captive free market forces.
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I'm not in the imminent recession camp yet, but all of us should realize that the economy is a captive of the stock market.
FORBES: I'll stick with growth stocks
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The RFS accomplished what 30 years of subsidies could not accomplish a captive and rapidly growing market for ethanol which led to a rapid build-out of the industry.
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SmithKline, for instance, had to work hard to allay concerns that it might dump its risks into Lloyd's, run its captive into the ground, and then let the market foot the bill.
ECONOMIST: Lloyd��s of London
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Moreover, the process where debts are being "placed" at below market interest rates in pension funds and other more captive domestic financial institutions is already under way in several countries in Europe.
BBC: The beginnings of 'financial repression'?
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The discipline of the free market would never support the types of investments occasionally contemplated in regulated markets with captive ratepayers.
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