Customers urgently need increased price and quality transparency to buy smart and offset the growing market power of providers.
How many people buy a smart phone we know, as we can see the shipping numbers.
The idea remains: if you can get them to save a little less and buy a smart phone, or a house, it keeps the narrative alive.
Most have benefitted by the ensuing rising tide of economic expansion and have been able to buy their smart phones, laptops, big screen TVs, cars etc.
Nonetheless, both Lowell and Wiener think health care is a smart buy right now.
We instituted "Smart Buy" national vendor contracts to help member bowling centers enjoy significant savings.
For fifteen bucks, this is a smart buy for anyone looking for some competitive gameplay on the cheap.
Thanks to Smart Buy, it literally pays to belong to BPAA. For the manufacturers, we created systems to allow them to roll out programs across our member centers.
When great wealth is generated instead by making smart buy and sell decisions in the markets, it smacks of inside knowledge, arcane financial instruments, opportunities that aren't accessible to ordinary people, and hocus-pocus.
So, are BP shares a particularly smart buy?
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Oh, now we're looking back--isn't it smart to buy Suzuki, given the rapid growth of minicars?
Most of us are locked into contracts that only make it money-smart to buy a new one every two years.
The brand is also gifting Acetrax Movie credit to customers who buy a new 2012 Smart TV, offering the ultimate family entertainment this Christmas.
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You can already buy things using your smart phone, of course.
The idea that using borrowed money to buy assets is the smart road to riches might lose currency, changing attitudes to home ownership as well as to parts of the finance sector such as private equity.
So, why do smart business people buy into optimistic TCO numbers?
Historically low interest rates, combined with real estate prices still depressed from the real estate bust and Great Recession, make this a smart time to buy.
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CEOs are happy to buy technology that makes their employees smart, especially about customers.
However, instead of cowering in anticipation of the popping, I think the smart move is to buy.
Because, as any smart investor knows, you buy at the bottom of the market, and Bordeaux recently has hit the skids.
That meant pirates could buy cheap boxes and so-called smart cards that were being subsidized by the company, hack into the system and get free service.
If you want to play it safe, one smart choice would be to buy the Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund, which, as the name implies, tracks an index of the global stock market.
Even if it's a great time to buy a car, it's still smart to be cautious about buying the stocks.
If I think its portfolio manager, Mitch Rubin, is smart, I might try to buy into Goldman and short Google to gain a trading edge.
Even a smart move in the early 1990s to buy Krups, a German competitor that owns one of Europe's strongest brands, was undermined by the debt burden taken on to acquire it.
They both offer you, the homebuyer or renter, all kinds of brain food to keep you smart about where and whether you should buy a home, sell a home, lease a home etc.
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Bankard president Chua sees his company's smart product as helping low-income consumers buy on installment.
Smart foreigners are falling all over each other to buy their way into the Japanese financial services business.
While my dad did buy too many things on credit, some of his purchases were smart, even if they were on credit.
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