While consumers do desire to buy, the companies to offer, the sort of physical goods deals that cannot be long term offerings for they cannot support that discounts demanded.
Successful products of this sort are not just existing goods stripped of some of their features.
The answer is that a combination of schooling and apprenticeship has proved a reliable supplier and shaper of the sort of labour German businesses need to make goods of high quality, even as similar jobs have disappeared in other rich economies.
The software provides basically the same sort of functionality as the goods from ENXSuite or Hara, both of which appear to be going through a difficult time.
What has investors running for the exits is Chairman Michael Levy's expansion into Europe and on-line sales of sporting goods--just the sort of aggressive brand-building they lavishly cheered a few months ago.
With backers such as Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, the company developed patented technology that allows merchants to sell goods in a sort of blind auction where consumers don't know precisely what they are getting but can win large discounts.
As recent as 2006, Russia had embargos of one sort or another on Georgian goods.
The setup pretty much guarantees thrills, and Mann delivers the action-movie goods, but with a sort of abstract, lyrical pictorialism.
One particular attraction is that businesses supposedly pay the money and thus will roll the costs into the prices they charge for their goods and services, a sort of energy version of the value-added tax.
Getting a discount is also a sort of insurance policy against ending up with badly made or fake goods from Chinese shops.
ECONOMIST: Chinese consumers are ganging up on their retailers
And demand for the sort of exports Germany has done well with, mostly luxury cars and specialist capital goods, tends to be insensitive to shifts in the exchange rate.
When this sort of thing happens, it makes the project of providing important safety nets and other public goods that much harder.
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