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...price they paid for them," Lofchie stated, "and, since there is no profit for us to deduct, we sell them for that price, which often turns out to be almost a third loss than the same book would cost at one of the local stores. In that way, both buyer and seller get an unusually good deal...
Paul Berkeley, chair of the Allston Civic Association, said that even if Harvard or another buyer could facilitate the removal of CSX, an extensive renovation of the landscape would need to follow...
AUTOMOBILES Despite Fisher's experience, most automakers are highly attentive to changes in demographics and consumer preferences. The wider profile of the U.S. buyer is cited as one reason that SUVs and other so-called light trucks outsold passenger cars in 2002. "The quickest way to alienate customers is to have them rubbing against something," says Michael Arbaugh, a top Ford interior designer. The seats in Ford's already spacious Lincoln Navigator were widened an inch for the 2003 model, and the room between driver and steering wheel was opened up considerably. In its 2003 Focus compact, Ford narrowed...
...tools," says John Menzer, head of the company's international division. It was a humbling lesson for Bentonville. To help offset losing the advantage of logistics abroad, and to increase its pricing power at home, Wal-Mart has decided to use its mass to become a better global buyer. The company is reaching farther back into the supply chain to source products such as hardware and apparel that it now buys from outside vendors and importers. "We realized that as we continue to expand internationally the need to leverage international and domestic buying power was key, and the only...
...Fair Trade success is not to slander companies for their bad habits (like Starbucks, the only major specialty coffee buyer that won’t certify that five percent of its beans are Fair Trade), but to encourage them to offer more Fair Trade products. If Fair Trade were on brew every time I opened my cup, I would drink it. Regular Fair Trade purchases and suggestion box comments will do the trick, because rather than a movement of noise-making, this is a movement of expressing consumer interest—the companies are there, after all, to meet consumer...