Still, these companies cannot ignore e-commerce, because people increasingly buy items of nearly any kind online.
Players will still be able to buy items to get ahead, but the game itself will remain as-is.
For now, Facebook will not take a revenue cut if its users ultimately buy items using the collection feature.
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Reps often get into the business just to buy items for themselves and have no intention of selling or recruiting, Robinson said.
The increased acceptance to buy items like pants and shoes online has had some companies launching specific sites for certain types of apparel.
Electronic Arts faced a currency crisis last year when hackers figured out how to make unlimited amounts of "gold" used to buy items on Ultima Online.
Other applications allow multiple social-media users to chip in and collectively buy items, and some let shoppers make payments to merchants without leaving the social-media sites.
The third flag is the inability of a large number of US corporations to pass higher material costs on to consumers, even for basic must-buy items.
Dead Space's developer, Visceral, has stressed players do not need to buy items in Dead Space 3 in order to finish it - but gamers have been concerned about what the innovation signalled.
"Since we know how easy it is to prey on people's insecurities and encourage them to buy items like this, an unsightly-toe-scrunch-cover-up might make a great holiday stocking stuffer for someone, " Jacobs says.
DoGoodBuyUs and CharityGiftMarket allow consumers to buy items such as a notebook made by New Forest Earth to prevent deforestation in Mexico and Equador, a rice bowl from Mai Handicrafts to benefit street families in Vietnam or a necklace made by FallingWhistles to promote peace in the Congo.
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While still at McKinsey, Artun wrote a machine learning algorithm that clustered customers who tended to buy items similar to each other and related that cluster to various sales coverage efforts, which were the items that salespeople seemed to be most comfortable selling together, and built a matching algorithm to match salespeople with customers.
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About half of Wal-Mart's grocery shoppers, according to ARG, stick around to buy other items.
Fans can now buy certain items through the Fox.com website or through the Fox Now apps for iPad.
You would likely buy fewer items or nothing at all because of the energy required simply to navigate through each page.
As people buy more items they can add to their digital collections.
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The Syndicated Television Network Association publishes studies that show just how much these talk shows influence consumers to buy certain items during the holiday season.
Of course, no retailer has an incentive to highlight lower prices on other, competing sites, much less provide a link by which to buy those items.
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While it is easy to argue that all consumers will continue to buy staple items no matter what, the outlook for discretionary spending is less clear.
His modus operandi was to target old women and listless teenage cashiers, buy cheap items with his fake Benjamins, keep the change, and hit the road with the real cash.
Mr. Wenig said minors would be able to buy most items available on the site, but eBay would design ways to shield younger users from viewing or purchasing adult content and products.
Mr Mears said he was unable to provide receipts for money he gave to one Matchams worker, referred to in court as Mr Cooper, who he said had been paid to buy certain items.
These products may cost more but I pay less in fuel and energy to buy them, I buy fewer items and I gain an education about food every time I speak to a local farmer.
"The supermarket industry is positioning itself as a place to buy prepared items so you don't have to go out to eat or cook, " she says, arguing that a rotisserie chicken that is labeled with a calorie count at a takeout restaurant should also be labeled at a grocery store.
Rather, by advertising to your customers, they will buy from you more often, buy higher priced items, tell their friends about you and so on.
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Deposit holders who do not want the bonds will be given bank certificates that they can use to buy big ticket items such as properties and cars.
The firm, which has 35 John Lewis stores in the UK, pointed to the boost given to sales in the last week of 2010 by customers rushing to buy more expensive items ahead of the VAT rise at the beginning of last year.
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