Consumer buying patterns are evolving as shoppers become more cost conscious, but at the same time they also have a heightened awareness of manufacturing conditions.
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Dell has been focused, diligent, hard working and very cost conscious.
Determining whether the agency is going to be cost conscious enough.
The government thinks it has a way to mitigate the upward pressure on medical costs: Make patients more cost conscious by goading them into high-deductible insurance policies.
The worthy goal here is to nudge people toward health insurance that, while fully covering them for catastrophic medical problems, makes them very cost conscious about small ones.
Sarah Kliff had a nice follow-on piece in the Washington Post that elaborates on my chart and some possible explanations for why consumers are so much less cost conscious in health care.
We are quite optimistic about the iPhone line up overall, and the introduction of the 4S allows Apple to cut the prices for past devices and thus bring some more cost conscious users to the iPhone family.
Where they have thrived is either in cost-conscious emerging markets or in cost-sensitive areas of developed markets defined by clear specifications and minimal innovation.
If so, then both clubs will have greater incentive to be somewhat more cost-conscious.
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The intent is that participants will become more cost-conscious and careful about overpayment or overutilization.
He expects that Apple will launch a new series of iPhones aimed a more cost-conscious buyers.
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Cost-conscious chatterboxes snapped up deals offering calls of unlimited duration within the same network.
They are better equipped and connected, more used to trading at a distance, more cost-conscious.
Sales at stores that offer lower prices for cost-conscious consumers also reported weaker sales than analysts expected.
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These new programs handled in a more cost-conscious way than the NASA of the 60s, of course.
The possibility of selling diagnosis-and-treatment packages to cost-conscious managed-care organisations could boost the firm's sales still more.
This combination of low-fee products and zero commissions makes Fidelity the de facto destination for cost-conscious, self-directed investors.
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Like other wholesale chains, BJ's Wholesale Club experienced a recession-based boost as cost-conscious consumers sought out cheap prices.
If economic conditions deteriorate, he figures, more cost-conscious shoppers will head to Walmex.
If governments are to be convinced of the case for investment, a more cost-conscious approach will have to be adopted.
"We're redefining what cost-conscious Kenyans can expect from a smartphone, " said Peter Arina, general manager, Safaricom' s Consumer Business Unit.
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Still, a cost-conscious Uncle Sam may in the future dial back the scope of certain weapons programs, or eliminate some outright.
In fact, cost-conscious consumers may start buying more fancy food than before, to make up for going out to restaurants less.
Pressure from consumers, in theory, should make health practitioners more cost-conscious too.
It often leads organisations to be too cost-conscious, to create standardised products and to ignore the needs of different types of customer.
Promotions picked-up toward the end of the month, enticing newly cost-conscious shoppers.
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But cost-conscious investors take note: This popularity has made the supermarkets the King Kongs of the fund world, says East Greenwich, R.
Such clusters give firms a useful advantage in a productivity-obsessed, cost-conscious world.
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One reason why I think CROs are likely to be change-makers for the drug industry is their culture: they are by nature cost-conscious businesses .
With the new launch, SAP is focusing on cost-conscious small businesses to expand the reach of its ERP solutions by leveraging the on-demand software model.
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