She also praised annual holiday powerhouse Coach, which seems to have made a good initial read on high-price-point items as well as popular lower-priced items like iPod holders.
Let's face it: many free WiFi hotspots are tacked on as bullet point items to get customers into a shop or hotel, without much concern for quality high enough that it keeps visitors coming back.
She also praised annual holiday powerhouse Coach (nyse: COH - news - people ), which seems to have made a good initial read on high-price-point items as well as popular lower-priced items like iPod holders.
David Walker, senior vice president of logistics, says that electronic monitoring of items from point of origin to the warehouse could boost the chain's operating margin from 11.5% to 12.5%.
As well as carrying large items, they point out, airships are ideal for transporting light but bulky cargo such as flowers.
While Ms. Kemble sometimes goes through her medicine cabinet to remove highly personal items, she makes a point of not emptying the space totally.
But the meat of the board deck itself should be as concise and to the point as a single slide with key discussion items.
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With consumers in the U.S. and Europe limiting their spending on non-essential items, maintaining an attractive price point is crucial for many consumer-facing businesses like jewelry makers.
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Because of their light weight, strength and high melting point, ceramics are now incorporated into such military items as helicopter armor and parts in rocket guidance systems.
The other alcove is filled with Japanese prints, most by Utagawa Hiroshige, an apt point of reference for Van Gogh, as he collected such items.
Harry Reid has mentioned bringing up the small business tax cut, but none of the other items are headed for the Senate schedule at this point.
Final caveat: The items and prices listed in this article are a starting point.
But 3D printing has now improved to the point that it is starting to be used to produce the finished items themselves (see article).
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The Amazon offers don't carry minimum point requirements, but consumers can't use their rewards for certain items, such as Kindle downloads.
Online retailers can sift through billions of purchase observations to recommend additional items that a particular consumer might want to buy at the point of sale.
Is it a coincidence that the average number of items sold and the average selling price both increased after implementing mobile point-of-sale devices?
While none of the items sold by Ten Thousand Villages is a necessity, the low price point and charitable hook seems to have sheltered it from the worst of the recession.
Actually, one time I did point to a pound cake on the shelf behind the counter, one of many pastry items.
At this point, players can level up to level 200, and can find blueprints to craft items and later super-craft them with special recipes, making this a game with true replay value.
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The sanguine point out that this has no effect on cashflow, since such charges are non-cash items.
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The core index, which measures prices on items excluding food and energy, picked up 0.1%, just one percentage point under the estimate.
Using that point-of-sale data, for example, Casey's cut way back on candy items and made more room for sugary caffeine drinks (like Red Bull).
This point has been noted repeatedly by the Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency, and explains why items like aircraft modifications, pilot training and information systems are captured in the F-35 cost estimates but not in the support-cost estimates for previous planes.
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