They were calling on the government to cut fuel duty and energy companies to reduce prices.
Merchants lobbied hard for a cap on debit-card fees, saying they would reduce prices if their costs fell.
But the pressure to reduce prices and costs is stronger than ever before.
And the move does nothing to ensure what is most needed: increased competition to reduce prices and accelerate technological progress.
The greater selection offered by the chain stores and their strong buying power helped reduce prices of the books they sold.
Eventually, the availability of generic biologicals will spur competition and reduce prices.
Less demand for consumer goods will reduce prices and also consumer debt.
The recession in Spain is serious, and the company has been forced to reduce prices on 4500 items in order to be competitive with low margin retailers.
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After unanimous support for a motion brought before the council on Wednesday night, the council intends to lobby the petrol retailers and wholesalers to try to reduce prices.
Any increase in capacity and efficiency tends to reduce prices.
Last week, Chrysler announced it would reduce prices on imported models of the Chrysler 300 and two Jeep Cherokees by around 30 percent to get rid of 2012 stock.
Apple agreed to the agency model for just one year, and, as publishers are acutely aware, Jobs has a history, with music and television companies, of fighting to reduce prices.
They concluded that to achieve the required export growth, China would have to reduce prices, which would be increasingly hard to manage, whether through productivity gains or a squeeze in profits.
Eventually, the availability of biosimilars will spur competition and reduce prices somewhat, and because of advances in technology, some of the follow-on products may even be superior to the original brand-name biologicals.
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Even if shale gas does not live up to expectations in Europe, the continent is already benefiting from it: as America imports less gas than expected, that helps bolster supplies and reduce prices for Europeans.
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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Other items on the Bush agenda included a call to Congress to grant federal authority (via the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) over the location of new liquefied natural gas terminals in an effort to increase the supply of natural gas and reduce prices.
Instead of focusing on jobs lost to the globalisation of information technology, Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics in Washington looks at globalisation's power to reduce prices and so help spread new technology, new practices and job-creating investment through the economy.
Several supermarkets have reportedly said they will reduce their prices once the tax is abolished.
He might as well claim that cutting subsidies for public transit will reduce gas prices.
And every year it requires those suppliers to reduce their prices by 10%, reports the Times.
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These factors normally combine each year to reduce gasoline prices in the fall (even in non-election years).
Saudi efforts to reduce oil prices come in the wake of warnings from Iran to not increase oil production.
Renewable resources, it adds, have helped reduce energy prices especially during those volatile periods when natural gas prices had spiked.
His main electoral pledge was to reduce electricity prices - believed to be among the highest in the world - by 25%.
B2B e-commerce could reduce average prices across the economy by almost 4%.
But right now, Obama should avoid the temptation of quick wins to fleetingly reduce benchmark prices and inch prices down at U.S. pumps.
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Reacting to Mr Chidambaram's budget, Mr Singh described it as "anti-inflationary", voicing hopes that proposed reductions in customs and excise duties would reduce higher prices.
In fact mobile might turn out to be the single biggest disruptor because it will reduce advertising prices more rapidly than anything has to date.
Some economists believe the Chinese central bank is clearly allowing its currency to rise faster than it otherwise would, in order to reduce import prices.
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