The reason for that, though, is ordinary enough: whatever its trading update due on January 15th may show, and whatever the management's efforts to push up sales in its off-seasons, the wonder of Woolies is not its trading but the sites it has that others might make better use of.

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Businesses and individuals just aren't spending enough to push sales up quarter after quarter.

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But the overall sales growth, particularly from iPhone sales, should push profits up nicely.

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Rising retail sales should push transaction volumes up for payment network providers.

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With sales languishing, any slow payments can push up AR days.

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But Thailand cannot afford to push that strategy too aggressively, for fear of cannibalising existing pick-up sales in the country.

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One Plan B option the new coalition came up with would push the legislature to remove restrictions on how the city can spend current sales-tax revenues on MARTA, the existing bus and rail system in Atlanta, before building new light rail in gentrifying, in-town neighborhoods.

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Auto sales have helped figured prominently in the latest rounds of economic data, helping push up CPI and industrial production.

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On the bright side, higher sales of the more profitable pickups and luxury cars in the U.S., could push up its margins.

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The trend will only start to accelerate as more marketers who grew up in the Internet era push for it and specifically, tie it to key business objectives like driving incremental sales or lowering marketing costs.

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