But at least your penny-and-a-half of profit on the sales dollar comes with a scant dose of capital.
The chain nets an extraordinary 8 cents on the sales dollar before patronage refunds and taxes.
On average, 21 cents of the retail sales dollar goes to artisan groups.
Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.
In May (the latest month reported), unit sales were still off, but dollar sales rose.
Also betting big on sin-driven sales, Dollar General has been rolling out wine and beer to more stores.
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Comparing the global sales figures released yesterday with the U.S. sales figures released last month reveals that all but one of these medicines won most of its dollar sales in the United States.
U.S. dollar sales of prescription sleeping pills jumped 27% through last September, says IMS Health.
In terms of dollar sales, sales in Japan marked a 7% annual decrease.
Total PC dollar sales actually rose 1% from a year ago, as average prices increased 7%, reflecting the weakness in netbooks.
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The graph shows prescriptions, not dollar sales, and this strips away all the noise caused by price increases to show overall use.
That's more than double the dollar sales booked in the European Union.
Retail sales numbers measure dollar figures, not quantity or quality of goods.
Of course, Zetia will probably become a big drug, with multibillion-dollar sales.
Betting on the U.S. is significant--though Americans are still not, broadly speaking, wine drinkers, they're the fastest-growing market in terms of dollar sales.
It already publishes Call of Duty, the video game franchise that continues to astound cynics and fans alike with billion dollar sales figures.
As I stated previously, the total number of garments sold in 2011 decreased 5% vs 2010, but total dollar sales were up 5.3%.
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And if rankings are determined by dollar sales then a novella has to sell dramatically more to compete with a full length novel.
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The up-and-coming 90-story glass high rise, which will boast views of Central Park, has experienced a flurry of multimillion-dollar sales activity, particularly among foreign investors from Russia, South Korea, and China.
For example, Amazon.com, a famous Internet bookshop, says that 27% of its dollar sales are abroad, often to people who would otherwise be unable to find what they were looking for.
Does focusing on dollar sales disadvantage shorter works?
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Products they marketed with reduced calories, smaller portion sizes, or whole grains or other ingredients generally recognized as more wholesome accounted for more than 70% of their U.S. dollar sales growth from 2006 to 2011.
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Sales, in dollar terms, skidded 2.5% in the 12 weeks ended Dec. 30 from a year earlier, and were down 2.8% when counting just December, according to the market-research firm, after soda makers raised prices, further damping demand.
Analysts were blown away by the data and are now forecasting multibillion-dollar annual sales for Avastin.
To stay competitive, Netscape is having to spend more and more for each dollar of sales.
They employ, around and about, one quarter of the staff per dollar of sales than do, for example, WalMart.
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Better still, Intel reported gross margins of 63%, meaning Intel makes 63 cents in profit on every dollar in sales.
It is the true bottom-line measure of how much economic profit, or EVA, a company produces per dollar of sales.
But the top exec maintained that the figures add up to a mere pittance: 7.7% profit margin for every dollar of sales.
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