The firm suffered in the first half of the year after delays on passing on higher selling prices to customers until October.
The electronics seller struggled with a pinched consumer last year, in addition to continued competition from sellers like Walmart that can offer competitive prices to customers.
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And most importantly, its costs would drop below its price and as the company gained market share, it could raise prices to customers who bought the product after the company had gone way down the learning curve.
Clearly, if MHI is going to make a business of this (as well as of its short haul MRJ commercial jet) it is going to have to find a way to cut its costs and reduce prices to customers.
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And second, if the cost of the power rises because of the expense of imported coal, these outfits are neither strong enough to absorb the financial hit themselves nor capable of easily passing it through by raising prices to customers.
"Due to the current weak market, we wanted to offer attractive prices to our customers to boost their morale, " the spokesman said, explaining the decision to cut its car prices despite an increase in input costs.
The company is also known for avoiding rotten products and for retroactively applying any decline in product prices to existing customers as well as to new ones.
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Nicholas Economides, of New York University, says that when firms have a measure of market power, they can engage in price discrimination, charging different prices to different customers.
My conclusion is that the company is becoming irrelevant to investors and a liability for manufacturers since they will have to justify discount prices to other customers unless J.
The goals are more complex: there is no simple bottom line, there are no prices to measure customers' preferences, and indeed there is often no customer apart from the politicians.
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Firms that try to charge different prices to different customers for non-transparent reasons are defecting from this social norm, effectively imposing costs on the rest of society for their own benefit.
The high capital depreciation of this equipment must be offset by running it at full capacity, so rather than cut production the market participants lower prices to entice customers away from their competition, creating a downward price spiral.
Ergen has said he would be willing to establish a national pricing scale that would offer rural customers the same prices offered to urban and suburban customers where satellite and cable services are in direct competition.
Ed Prado, who runs Tradebonds, claims to be able to offer his retail customers prices up to 1.5 percentage points lower than they could get from traditional brokers.
He also stressed the value that Camden's low prices bring to the customers, insisting it's Angelos' altruistic wish to keep things affordable.
Britain's utilities are at last reducing their prices to compete for customers, who seem keen to shop around: 4m switched suppliers in the first ten months of 2006.
Firms may also keep prices stable because they are providing insurance to customers who dislike volatile prices, especially when buying expensive things.
Chip makers themselves have also felt confident enough about their prospects to raise the prices of the chips they supply to customers under contract.
Traditionally, and by law, FERC has been bound to set electricity prices according to the production source that customers use and the amount they consume.
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The best prices are still offered to customers who make the effort to find and clip coupons.
We will continue to work together with small businesses in all product categories to lower prices for customers.
Bundling can play a part in price discrimination, as different bundles of goods and prices may appeal to different customers.
In short, it has promised to match prices that customers find on identical products at top online retailers, such as Amazon.com, the websites of Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys R Us and Babies R Us.
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In exchange for the 28-day delay in renting new releases, Netflix is able to acquire online content at cheap prices, which it passes on to its customers.
Such benefits are likely to include lower prices and investment in the business to better serve customers.
Despite the pending mergers, prices will continue to decline and customers will reap the benefits.
The worst approach, he says, is to try to keep prices secret from customers.
All of them have slashed prices on hardware to reach new customers.
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If broker-dealers are stuck with losses even after Nasdaq's compensation is paid out, that could impact the prices that they provide to retail customers, Mr. Nagy said.
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