Some others offer discount at gyms or fruit Fridays replacing voluptuous cherry scones with platters of fresh fruit instead.
Carriers are willing to offer a discount because they can lock customers into multi-year service agreements.
Getting buyers to agree to pay early and sellers to offer a discount might seem like an impossible task.
If they have excess spaces available, they might offer a discount or if parking is tight, could charge a premium for a reservation.
Company A allows the customers to buy any of its products separately but will offer a discount if a customer buys A-1 through A-5.
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Competing only on the ability to offer a discount equivalent to sales tax is effectively operating an offshore account, at the expense of your consumers.
Yelp will apparently continue to offer some discount services for merchants.
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Of course, the fact that college officials are willing to offer a discount on future tuition shows they believe they can earn more on investments than the increase in tuition.
The very fact that the seller must offer a discount shows "the tie is imposing some kind of burden on buyers, " Elhauge says, either by reducing access to competing products or eliminating competitors that would drive prices lower.
As it shifts production to Vietnam, Lever Style says it is able to offer clients a discount of up to 10% per garment.
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This effectively means that an ATM operator cannot offer customers a discount or benefit for completing a transaction over a network that is less costly to the operator.
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So it seems like everybody wins: the consumer gets a discount offer, the banks receive a commission on the sale, and the retailer sees an increase in business.
Before a One Kings Lane sale begins, staffers work with vendors to secure goods at a price that will let the site offer a deep discount and still charge about 50% more than what it paid.
Discount stores offer more fashion-forward merchandise for price-sensitive consumers, regardless of the household income.
Some retailers "double" coupons, meaning they give twice the face value of the discount or offer buy-one-get-one-free promotions.
Or a refrigerator maker could work with the app, and offer a 10% discount on a more energy-efficient model than the clinker the app identified.
But with 70% of the tablet market, does the Mini offer enough of a discount to help protect against erosion of share from the low end?
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It has teamed up for years with fashion designers to offer time-limited discount clothing collections, and it recently announced it will open a series of temporary boutiques featuring clothes, food and home furnishings from popular regional stores.
The Theatre Development Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides access to live theater, said Wednesday it bought all the tickets for the matinee on April 27 at the Foxwoods Theatre and will offer them at a discount for children and adults on the autism spectrum.
To compete with Samsung, Apple has been forced to offer a trade-in discount of 7, 000 rupees towards a new iPhone 4.
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In turn, the discount stores will offer a wider range of fresh food, such as fruit and vegetables, to match shoppers' demand for healthy alternatives.
This means providing a discount, special offer or inclusion in some sort of exclusive program in order to provide customers a return on investment for their time.
The Italian bank UniCredit plans to offer new shares at a steep discount to raise capital.
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Beware policies with ultra-cheap rates, such as "discount cards" that offer 25% off doctors' visits and prescriptions.
If Apple traded on par with an 80% growth of Google, or a 20% discount, it would offer investors 38% upside.
There are talks with Europcar, one of the largest car rental companies in Europe, to offer smart owners a 20 percent discount on rentals so they have access to larger vehicles when needed.
"Whilst in the short term this will only benefit non-season ticket holders, it is my intention to offer an additional one-game discount to those season ticket holders who renew for 2010 in the 'early bird' period when it is announced, " said O'Connor.
So companies are going to keep finding ways to mine data to figure out what we need, what we like, what we might like, and how much of a discount they need to offer on Sour Patch Kids to get us to buy them every time we shop.
Japanese smartphone-owners, by contrast, are most likely to download a discount coupon or a special offer (see chart 2).
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Even if Apple traded at a 40% discount to Google, it would offer investors a 12% upside from its current price, which is a decent return over a year.
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