While the tactic works for discounters like Wal-Mart, it has not motivated department-store shoppers.
Now the legal battle rages on between manufacturers of inkjet printers and ink discounters.
The retailers are seeing worried customers look more to discounters like those run by T.
Borders has been struggling in the face of increased competition from discounters and online book sellers.
Instead, e-tailers, flash-sale sites, and discounters are seizing this valuable search engine real estate.
In fact, in many cases, their shoes cost more than other discounters on the Internet.
But the discounters may retaliate with their own price cuts, leaving both with lower profits.
Discounters (29%) and supermarkets (17%) have taken on most of the stores, LDC said.
Renewed worries about the economy meant discounters and dollar stores have seen an influx of customers.
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He felt he would lose control that way, and he considered discounters low-life in general.
The company estimated that it lost about 1.1% market share in the third quarter, probably to discounters.
Discounters like Wal-Mart and Target were sapping it from the low end, and class acts like Nordstrom from the high.
Amazon, EBay, Walmart and other on-line discounters, have targeted the electronic sector as a loss leader department.
With 20% of traffic already, the discounters like Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran may be the biggest winners of all.
Best Buy has been working to turn around results as it faces tough competition from online retailers and discounters.
His name-your-price Internet venture, facing competition from other airline ticket discounters, has struggled.
Big Box retailers, discounters, off-price retailers and department stores are working hard to capture some of the holiday decoration sales.
Don't count on Delta or other majors, even as they chase more overseas routes, to cede any domestic business to the discounters.
Its stores range from 10, 000- to 17, 000-square-feet, and carry about 1500 items, a tiny fraction of what most supermarkets and discounters offer.
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The rise of big-box retailers, be they discounters or swollen supermarkets and drugstores, has given store chains the heft to bypass wholesalers.
In Germany, department stores are still icons of the inner city, despite the success of suburban discounters, such as Lidl and Aldi.
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Intensifying price pressure from super-discounters like Wal-Mart ( WMT), Target ( TGT) and Costco ( COST) threaten to make margins even slimmer.
There was red virtually across the board, including mass merchandisers, discounters, department stores, online retailers, dollar stores, specialty stores, and high-end retailers.
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The difference is partly thanks to lower inflation on the Continent and a higher number of hard discounters like Germany's Aldi and Lidl.
Wal-Mart also faced well-established rivals in Germany, like Metro, and hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, already comfortable with razor-thin profit margins.
They see international routes as key factors in turning legacy airlines back into cash cows as discounters grab more of the domestic market.
In the tightfisted world of publishing, where chain stores and online discounters make it tough to operate in the black, that's no small feat.
And in recent years Tesco has become vulnerable to attack from discounters like Aldi, old foes such as Sainsbury's and newer ones like Amazon.
Sold by American chain Toys 'R' Us and Japanese discounters like Ito Yokado, PCs are not going through Japan's cumbersome and expensive distribution channels.
It appears that Monsanto has clung to two-thirds of the business, cutting prices reluctantly and thus leaving a price umbrella for the first discounters.
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