Convenience and the ability to compare prices and get better deals are some of those reasons.
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The Internet has made it easier for buyers to shop around and to compare prices.
By making it easier to compare prices and wages across Europe, it will increase competition.
The only way to know if it is actually a good deal is to compare prices.
Athenahealth is also an investor in Castlight Health, which allows patients to compare prices for medical procedures.
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She said she has been roaming department stores checking the price of gold jewelry and surfing online to compare prices.
Smartphone apps like RedLaser or ShopSavvy allow you to compare prices online.
But the best way of buying a car is to compare prices between dealers and car importers - many websites have useful comparison charts.
Aside from making direct purchases, consumers were using their iPhones, iPads, and Android devices to compare prices in order to get the best deals.
The creation of the euro in 1999 was supposed to encourage prices to converge, by making it easier to compare prices in different countries.
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Call local drugstores or visit their websites to compare prices.
And once they are inside a store, they are using their phones to compare prices with online offers, check product reviews, order out-of-stock items directly, and pay for their purchases.
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One thing that could start to change those habits is the increasing use of the internet, where many intending car buyers go to window shop and to compare prices and options.
Health insurance exchanges will make it easy for all Americans to compare prices, benefits and performance of health plans to decide which quality affordable option is right for themselves and their families.
For those shopping ahead of time, it pays to compare the prices with benchmarks.
It is easier to compare advertised prices on new items because the quality is the same and the information is more readily available.
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This is as easy as going online to an internet listing site like Rent.com (an eBay company) to compare rental prices, availability and amenities of different properties.
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Now he's taking the data he's culled and turning it into an index that online buyers and sellers can use to compare selling prices of cars, homes and apartment rentals.
Prices are also 9% lower than at the big hospitals in town, says Jon Soderholm, the heart hospital's president. (Sanford says it's impossible to accurately compare prices.) The only thing that the heart hospital is guilty of, in Soderholm's mind, is having a 70% market share.
More than half of tablet owners (53.8 percent) will use their device to research products, compare prices, redeem coupons, look up retailer information or purchase products, according to the survey.
But what most consumers care about is how much the service will cost and how those prices compare to the other 4G carriers, namely Clearwire and Sprint.
Stores have been under siege in recent years, not just from the rise of online shopping but also from the way mobile phones empower people to compare their store's prices, item by item, with a rival store nearby.
The LeapFrog report also found that 64 percent of women who plan to shop look for sales and compare prices online.
Meg McCabe of Aetna hopes that consumers will soon be able to use their smartphones to enter symptoms, find doctors, compare prices and schedule an appointment.
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The carrier hopes to upgrade AA.com so members can compare fare prices with mileage requirements, the spokeswoman added.
The advantage to customers, he notes, is that they can compare prices of over 2, 500 aircraft, either through the website or on the PrivateFly mobile app.
The drama is playing in one of Broadway's smallest theaters, and the nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club is geared around limited runs with lower-priced subscription tickets, so its grosses do not neatly compare to shows playing larger commercial houses with higher average prices.
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"You would be able to go to an exchange on the Internet or an 800 number and compare prices or whatever, " he said.
The internet lets people compare cities and neighbourhoods by whatever criteria matter to them, from house prices to commuting times.
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