Granted, the felicitous weather also can hinder home-improvement retailers because of lost sales of winter merchandise.
For all the record companies' bleating about lost sales, nobody is about to starve.
When their bank funding dried up and they couldn't print their catalogs on time, they lost sales.
The present case involves lost sales -- not a lost ability to be a viable market participant.
Yet brand managers, staring down the barrel of a lingering recession, often blame high prices for lost sales.
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Is it number of customers called, time with customers, number of customer surveys, recommendation scores, lost sales reports?
If his department had to pay for those lost sales it would be amazing how flexible inspection hours would become.
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The risks cut both ways: Too much stock can bring slower turnover and cash flow, while too little can mean lost sales.
There is no drug in development, at Pfizer or anywhere else, that could replace all of Lipitor's lost sales all at once.
The best way to recover the lost sales tax revenue is to require all online retailers to collect sales tax, regardless of nexus.
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Accordingly, the profits of downstream firms are squeezed by both higher costs, due to import restrictions, and lower revenues, due to lost sales.
Those rings, which operate across borders, are raking in billions of dollars every year, costing legitimate drugmakers a small fortune in lost sales.
Firms with fewer than 500 employees would bear two-thirds of the job losses and more than half of the lost sales, it says.
Leaders who inspire trust garner better output, morale, retention, innovation, loyalty, and revenue, while mistrust fosters skepticism, frustration, low productivity, lost sales, and turnover.
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But electricity customers are being asked to pay towards the impact of the damage to the underwater cable by covering the cost of lost sales.
Novartis, for instance, is facing scrutiny at plants in different countries and has lost sales of several key products this year ( read more here).
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Hampered by a shortage of car parts in the aftermath of the earthquake, firms such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan could see significant lost sales.
Such awful results, and the prospect of more lost sales, are a terrible outcome for Ron Johnson, CEO and President for only just over a year.
Cost: Millions of dollars in lost sales and contracts.
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Apple's success has also bred heightened competition in the computing, software and home electronics arenas, and any loss of momentum by Apple will result in both lost sales and a lower stock price.
E-book piracy may be overstated : 50% of the most illegally downloaded files are collections of books, most of which are irrelevant to the pirate downloading them and therefore do not represent lost sales.
In any event, expect a suit soon asking for a temporary restraining order on the new regs, a clause that grandfathers in the 48 manufacturers from last year and demands damages for lost sales.
While people are certainly looking for value, as a former manager for a mid-size Banana Republic store in Massachusetts, I take issue with casting blame on showrooming as the reason for lost sales.
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So it will be interesting to see if that lower price on iPad minis will prompt enough more people to go for an Apple tablet to make up for any lost sales of much more expensive big iPads.
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The results of a meeting were often lost in a morass of documentation done online in the evenings from home, resulting in lost sales, missed opportunities to share and learn, and a data vacuum that prevented management from knowing what was wrong and how to fix it.
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Mobile commerce will transform retail, both because the transparency of pricing will force big box stores to be much better merchants or die, and because store associates armed with mobile devices can now do everything from save lost sales, to carry a POS device in their hand.
" Although Koh admits it's undeniable that Samsung has violated certain patents, Apple has failed to show that it has lost sales to Samsung specifically because of these patent violations, noting that "it is not a case where the patented inventions are central to the infringing product.
The thing about piracy that is often left unsaid is that not all of those pirated copies would convert into game sales even if we could eradicate piracy entirely. 4 million pirated copies of a game is not the equivalent of 4 million lost sales, even if it may indeed represent lost revenue.
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Sales of DVD discs have begun to decline, however, and Blu-ray has yet to take up the slack, leading some analysts to conclude that retailers risk losing sales to movie downloads, much as they lost CD sales to music downloads.
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