And secondary ticket price comparisons from the last few NBA All-Star Games seems to support this supposition.
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Mobile shopping, price comparisons and internet only deals will rival doorbusters in terms of value offered and complexity.
Another ploy to frustrate agents is bundling or otherwise making price comparisons difficult.
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Now layer on e-commerce, with mobile technology enabling real-time price comparisons, and the exercise of pricing becomes even more complicated.
Airlines, hotels, and car-rental companies could offer price comparisons on their own sites, a model successfully adopted by US insurance companies.
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Messaging meant to shape customer opinion never makes it past the customer reviews, recommendations, blog posts, price comparisons, mobile apps, etc.
Other industries that have fought off price comparisons with such obfuscation before travel is a shining example may well fox Jango as easily.
When price comparisons on Froogle are only a click away, it has become a sign of sophistication to get the best price.
Minnesota health care providers collaborated on the HealthScores Web site, which allows price comparisons between 110 providers for 103 common medical procedures.
That said, the travel industry has gone digital in other countries online booking is cheaper and allows easier price comparisons so it will surely catch on.
The convenience of online shopping and the ability to make price comparisons on the Internet has completely changed retail trends in the past decade.
Price comparisons between Reed and its competitors are difficult because fees--often discounted--are related to what services the clients want and how many users they have.
They either used a car-broking service or did their window shopping and price comparisons on the Internet and used a broker to line up a local deal.
Americans do the same but, focus primarily on price comparisons.
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International price comparisons of a differentiated product such as Internet connectivity should be taken with a grain of salt because the quality of Internet service might not be comparable.
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Target will soon be flexing its omni-channel muscles with its new service, code-named Cartwheel, which will integrate online and mobile channels, offering features like coupons, rebates, and price comparisons.
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This holiday season, a lot of predictable trends are unfolding: Online retail is growing faster than brick-and-mortar shopping, consumers are increasingly doing in-store, product price comparisons from their smart phones, etc, etc.
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And although it has convincingly shown itself able to confound the efforts of retailers to avoid easy and direct price comparisons, it has a harder time dealing with what their suppliers do.
This they do not only by cutting prices and offering wider choices, but also by allowing consumers to make real-time price comparisons and to switch rapidly (and frequently) to the cheapest provider.
While it makes sense for The Economist to compute a Big Mac Index for a product that is basically the same wherever it is sold, price comparisons of services that are highly differentiated across countries are less revealing.
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The knowledge comes from a new feature called Zbubbles, which gives online shoppers real-time price and value comparisons.
Privately held companies, for whom in most cases only 2004 data were readily available, were valued based on comparisons to prevailing price-to-earnings or price-to-sales ratios for similar publicly traded companies.
Regarding price, Cisco would like to avoid the inevitable iPad comparisons.
As for comparisons with the competition, the stock's price-to-earnings ratio of 18, based on estimates for earnings in the coming 12 months, looks pricier than military contractors competitors like L-3 Communications Holdings or Northrop Grumman.
Some of those comparisons produce positive dumping margins (whenever the U.S. price is lower than the home market price) and some yield negative dumping margins (whenever the U.S. price is higher than the home market price).
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