But the surgery centers that are advertising say the price cutting does not affect the quality.
Aggressive selling and price cutting sometimes lead to bad loans.
Investors generally feared a wave of price cutting would lead to lower profits.
Despite the price cutting, it only managed to pull in 2 extra customers.
He doesn't believe in a constant round of price cutting.
The problem is, Daiei hasn't been able to cut its own costs fast enough to keep up with the price cutting.
Nor can they point to evidence that across-the-board price cutting is likely to break out in the future.
Consumer spending, price cutting and lower inflation are interrelated, of course.
But as the industry has become more competitive, price cutting is reducing average customer revenue.
And competitive pressures drew other retailers into the price cutting.