Ultimately, she adds, merchants that adopt a surcharge should "tread lightly" by gauging initial consumer response.
Consumer response has been lukewarm, though, with 3-D TV sales falling short of industry expectations in 2010.
New lightweight and resilient fibers are churning out within the production pipeline and consumer response has been overwhelming.
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In our mobile phones business, the positive consumer response to our new Asha full touch smartphones translated into strong sales.
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In 2004 Scotts pulled the plug on Nature's Care, a small line of organic products it tested, because of lackluster consumer response.
Consumer response in Japan should give us some indication of how sticky a niche that is and how quickly HTC will push it here.
So Walmex can tinker with, say, the price of shampoo in one Mexico City store and get an instant read on the consumer response.
If the first product on the market had been a nutritionally enhanced rice rather than a high-tech tomato, consumer response might now be very different.
However, once a new product is launched, it is very important to monitor consumer response to it and to improve the product if necessary based on consumer response.
F-commerce is still in its early stages, but judging by the consumer response so far, many more retailers are sure to begin exploring it within the next few months.
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Among the companies looking into whether brain signals can supplement or replace traditional tests of consumer response to commercials are General Motors, Ford of Europe, and Camelot, the U.K.'s national lottery operator.
"Angry Birds' proven formula for fun and addicting gameplay translated perfectly to the big screen and the consumer response has been overwhelming, " said Jennifer Mirabelli, VP of Sales and Marketing for Activision Publishing, Inc.
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While many industry observers were surprised at the size and intensity of consumer response to the Netflix price change in July, it might be just as surprising that consumers still appear to be angry.
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The consumer response has been obsession.
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Frankfort noted the company's strong results reflect the increasing recognition of the Coach brand globally as well as a positive consumer response to the product offerings, and he said the company should continue to report solid results on the top and bottom lines through a combination of global productivity gains and distribution growth.
Akerson, speaking on the sidelines of the Automotive News World Congress during the Detroit auto show, said he has been pleased with consumer response to the newly launched Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, so much so that GM now expects to sell more than 25, 000 Volts in 2011 and will add another Volt-like product, perhaps in the form of a small electric van, in 2012 or 2013.
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Topol also provides his results for a consumer drug-response test provided by Pathway Genomics.
Chained CPI includes assumptions on consumer habits in response to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases in future years.
Called chained CPI, the new formula includes assumptions on consumer habits in response to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases in future years.
The new calculation, called chained CPI, includes assumptions on consumer habits in response to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases in future years.
It also had a new formula for the consumer price index -- called chained CPI -- that wraps in new assumptions on consumer habits in response to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases.
In response to consumer requests, it is adding copy and paste functionality to WP7.
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In response to consumer concerns about caps on heavy data users, Comcast is revising its rules for high-speed Internet subscribers.
Other related technologies like demand response, consumer-side controls and energy storage are expected to play an equally important role in distributed-energy networks.
Some of this is in response to consumer trends, in particular the rise of low-carbohydrate eating, thanks to the Atkins and South Beach diets.
In response to consumer preferences for ethical and sustainable sourcing, traceability, and quality, companies have also made bold sustainability commitments that implicate smallholder value chains.
Corynne McSherry and I previously explained the anti-consumer aspects of the graduated response deal.
The company said the move was in response to growing consumer demand for next generation television and better broadband.
Yesterday, the Consumer Confidence Index dipped in response to the notion that a deal would not be forthcoming.
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