December's sales rose about 1.6 percent, but some companies said that the profit on the items sold was higher than last year.

As a result, the vendor makes a 75-cent profit for each newspaper sold.

Oh come on apple is making huge profits selling less phones.

But some companies said yesterday that the profit on the items sold was higher than it was last year.

As a result, its after-tax profit for each vehicle sold jumped to $1,000, from $570 a year ago.

That blows away their profit completely for the product they sold you (several times over), and creates exactly the right economic incentives.

Greg Barker made a £320,000 profit selling a flat the taxpayer had helped pay for.

If so, we may be able to make a tidy profit selling the technique to certain parties elsewhere.

Down the road I may decide to stock them, but there's not much profit selling a thirty-dollar item.

Big profits from banks selling ultra-complicated products that only British based whizz kids understand?