retail margin

"I want to emphasize that over the past few months, retail margins have increased dramatically as farm prices fell," he said.

Merchandise sold at retail margins, business was good, and a loyal following was formed.

Also, warehouse clubs have had huge growth in the last two decades, bringing prices down by cutting usual retail margins.

With rising operating costs and shrinking retail margins, seasonal stores all over the Saskatchewan began to close.

Citing the increased retail margins, he said, "We think it is only fair that retailers absorb this small increase without raising prices."

He's squeezed the paper thin retail margins on the forecourt, they will claw that back make no mistake.

For example, the exclusive purchasing agreement by itself raises the manufacturer's margin, but may lower the retail margin.

Retail margins were all very similar, and exclusive distribution deals were rare and usually inconsequential.

When the recession of 1980 hit, cost cutting caused the program to lose popularity, and the growth of credit card transactions competed for retail margins.

This increases competition at the retail level, all other things being equal, compared with the no-restraint position, and so reduces retail margins (see Waterson, 1990).

These industry estimates of the price of a cheap cartridge and typical retail margins are the figures which the OFT will be investigating.

Retail Margins Rose in December A word of optimism crept into the retail reports of the holiday season.

But Ravi Dhar, a professor of management and marketing at the Yale School of Management, said Fair Indigo might end up on the retailing margins.

Several of Ahold's supermarket chains in the United States, including Giant-Landover, reported significant declines in operating income because of a weak dollar and retail margin pressures.

The company's operating earnings last year amounted to 3 percent of sales for the department stores -well below United States retailing margins of 5 to 10 percent - while the variety and food stores produced an average margin of 1.3 percent.

With a retail price of US$499.99 and shipping, marketing, research and development and retail margins to account for this indicates that the profit margins on the Chromebooks are quite thin, requiring a large production run to make a profit.

Compared with retailing margins on Pampers and Huggies of 5 percent or less, Drypers often nets grocery stores as much as 12 cents for every dollar of sales, according to Ms. Hyman of CS First Boston.

This plus a 6 cent per litre wholesale margin, plus a transportation allowance of 0.5 to 2 cents per litre, and a retail margin of 4 to 5.5 cents per litre (or to a maximum of 7.5 cents per litre for full-serve gasoline).