Big-box retailers rely on sales of movie discs, not just because of the profit they generate, but because they lure customers into showrooms where they may be enticed to buy flat-panel TVs and surround-sound systems.
He says the sector has been hurt buy weak flat-panel TV demand, especially in China.
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That's not going to encourage them no matter how much money it put in their pocket to go and then want to buy a flat screen television.
Mrs Deviers-Joncour, who was employed by Elf, used some of the money to buy a luxury flat in Paris and spent freely, using a credit card provided by Elf.
One option to settle would be for Google to flat out buy TiVo.
Worthington agreed to buy half of its annual flat-rolled steel from Rouge for seven years.
Retail sales were flat and Best Buy (BBY) reported 30% drop in income for the second quarter.
Keith notes that while the Consumer Electronics Association sees industry growth this year of 5.6%, Best Buy sees same store sales flat to down 3%.
And he was good-natured about it and said, can't you just keep one, one case for me, so that when I come in - and I said, I tell you what, you let me know when you're coming in and I'll run across the street and buy you a bottle of flat still water and have it on your table.
Ford agreed to buy 40% of its annual flat-rolled steel from Rouge for ten years.
The percentage of shoppers purchasing electronics reportedly remained flat, meaning specialty electronics retailers like Best Buy are taking a corresponding share in the sales growth.
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If it can't, ViewSonic may wind up with a bunch of cool-looking, sophisticated, portable flat-screen devices that no one wants to buy.
Best Buy may not be touting any big January savings on computers and flat screens (though as with any store that could always come later), but offers.com did find a week-to-week sales plan on videogames right through January.
The stock is hovering just at its buy point of 30.77, ten cents above the high in a flat-base pattern that began in mid-June.
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Why buy a DVD on Amazon when you see an option to watch it for a flat subscription fee?
They found a taxi driver in Zibo who had saved enough to buy his home without a mortgage, and a professor in Wuhan who owned a flat close to each of the two universities he taught at.
Many of the world's best-known brands make a cult of simplicity: look at IKEA with its flat packs, McDonald's with its burgers or Berkshire Hathaway with its buy, improve and hold approach to investing.
She now predicts flat sales growth for the medicines, but has still said Schering shares are a buy.
With the economy still in recession, droves of discount shoppers will likely buy their chips, salsa, dips, sodas, beers, hot dogs--and even new flat screen HDTVs--at Wal-Mart.
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