The retailer has returned its former high-low pricing wherein a product is priced higher only to be marked down periodically as part of a promotion.

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By shifting income from high-tax to low-tax countries through transfer pricing, using hybrid entities that are treated as corporations in some countries and flow-through entities in others, stripping profits from high-tax countries through intracompany financing, repatriating under favorable tax conditions, and other tax avoidance mechanisms, multinationals mitigate the impact of being headquartered in a high-tax state.

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More and more younger workers are no longer willing to work for low wages in blue collar positions, and the high costs of real estate are pricing low-cost manufacturing out of China.

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The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.

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The current pricing of Android phones is not working against Apple in either the high-end or the low-end smartphone market.

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On the other hand, it could be an expensive endeavor for Amazon with high investment costs in data centers and competitive pricing to fend off market entrants, but that would be a low-margin strategy.

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