And this summer's highly publicized employee discount pricing promotion took too many people back to the late '70s, when Detroit tried to induce customers to buy its cars by issuing rebate checks.

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Ms Smith said the government was also looking at whether pricing and promotion had an influence on young people's drinking habits.

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Ministers have ordered an independent review, due to report next summer, into the relationship between pricing and promotion of alcohol and the harm to health.

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Um says his higher estimates for the quarter reflect stronger-than-expected iPad 2 sales, plus favorable component pricing and a less dilutive than expected back-to-school promotion.

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The retailer has returned its former high-low pricing wherein a product is priced higher only to be marked down periodically as part of a promotion.

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