This lowers the average retail price of the handset, reducing the short term profit of the new users.
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Note that hardware unit sales were up just 3%, but higher average retail prices gave a lift to hardware revenues.
While the price of cattle fell 50% between May and July 2003, the average retail price of beef fell only 14%.
Power and Associates' average retail turn rate for each segment in November.
Well, while there might not seem like much of a difference to the average retail investor, for the trading venue, there are cost benefits to becoming an exchange.
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Having remained on the sidelines for so long, money coming into the market from the average retail investor would definitely provide a boost to stock prices in the near-term.
However, operating margins contracted to 7.8% from 10% in the previous year quarter due to a combination of higher costs of materials and an increase in average retail incentive offered by GM.
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Given that average retail electricity rates have already risen an average of 50 percent across all sectors over the past 10 years, regulators will be reluctant to raise them still more in the future.
In addition to the retail price (MSRP), the manufacturer also attempts to estimate the average unit retail price (AUR).
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These manufacturers are able to analyze a price elasticity curve, yielding a forecast of the average unit retail price before product development dollars are spent.
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Declining average revenue retail sales.
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If the end result is that Wal-Mart's wage and health insurance costs rise to the industry average, the retail giant's sway with suppliers and manufacturers will most definitely keep it pumping out goods with the lowest customer price tags.
The average value of a retail transaction was actually lower last year than the prior year, but TJX managed to bring lots more customers through the doors.
The average vacancy rate for retail properties in the top 63 U.S. markets was 6.8% in the first quarter, down from a recent high of 7.5% in 2010, according to CoStar Group.
In his book, Vedder cites Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that Wal-Mart's wages lag the retail-industry average by just a small margin, an expected result given that the bulk of its stores are located in low-income areas.
On average, 21 cents of the retail sales dollar goes to artisan groups.
Manager turnover runs just 5% --one-seventh that of the retail industry's average.
According to the National Retail Federation, the average amount spent by a holiday shopper over the weekend was only up 6%, reflecting precisely the reported increase in total spend found in our survey.
Of the 31 retail sector REITs (in the FTSE NAREIT Index), the overall average dividend yield is 3.1 percent and the combined retail sector market capitalization is 135.35 billion or around 26 percent of the overall capitalization of the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REIT Index.
The average software unit price is lower than retail prices one would find in stores.
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It is calculated using the same blend of prices by which IDC determines the average software unit price, including: retail, volume license, OEM, free, open-source, etc.
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From 2004 to 2009, while online retail sales increased at an average annual rate of 16%, online apparel sales increased by 19% annually (data not available for 2010-2012).
At Verizon Wireless, the number of text messages sent by its retail customers dropped from an average of 2, 110 in the third quarter of 2010 to 2, 068 in the fourth quarter, then reached 2, 104 in the first quarter of this year.
But retailers of all stripes are benefiting from investor optimism for the economy and pent-up demand on the part of consumers as stocks in the consumer discretionary sector, which is heavily weighted toward retail, is up an average of 12.8% this year.
The compounded average growth rates of China's office and retail rents from 2007 to 2012, based on 10 major city samples, were 4.62% and 4.41%, respectively.
According to Judah Kraushaar, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, it now loses money on almost half of its retail customers, in part because the average customer buys relatively few products.
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