News tagged with “price war”. Found:
34 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 34 tagged news reports
High street set for price war, says retail body
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 hour ago
Credibility
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that overall shop price inflation in November was 0.2 per cent — almost unchanged on last year. Prices are being kept down by a host of discounts and promotions as stores fight to encourage reluctant customers...
Tags: shop price, price war, United Kingdom, London, British Retail Consortium, Deflation, Business Finance, Inflation, world food price crisis, Disinflation
Small booksellers in the Bay Area feel the pain of price wars
Danville :: VA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility With a list price of $26.99, "The Lacuna" is one of the anticipated best-sellers Amazon.com and Walmart.com are using as incentives to get customers onto their Web sites to buy other items along with the book. But the blowout prices are more than just...
Tags: Bay Area, Clark Kepler, Barbara Kingsolver, Bill Petrocelli, small booksellers, Amazon and Walmart, price war, Amazon.com, Danville
India's Expanding Telecom Sector Witnesses Price War
Shanghai :: China | 11 days ago
Credibility India is the world's second largest wireless communications market after China. Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 27 November 2009 Photo: AP An unidentified fisherman speaks on his mobile phone on the outskirts of Chennai, India (file) Share This India's rapidly...
Tags: India, price war, Rajat Mukherji, smaller towns, mobile phone, China, Shanghai, Idea Cellular, Communications in India, NTT docomo, Business Finance, Mobile phone companies of India, Telecommunications industry in China, Mobile telecommunications
For Wal-Mart and Amazon, the First Round of a Price Fight
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Now Wal-Mart , the mightiest retail giant in history, may have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com . In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the two heavyweight retailers are waging an online...
Tags: price war, Wal-Mart Stores, AM Amazon, Amazon.com, Minneapolis, Criticism of Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Business Finance, Black Friday, Target Corporation, Walmarting, Technology Internet, Wake Up Wal-Mart
Consuming Issuse: The phoney supermarket price war
London :: United Kingdom | 18 days ago
Credibility Tesco and Asda are said to be locked in a festive price war, handing hard-up customers some festive cheer in the recession. Before cracking open the bubbly, it's worth remembering that Father Christmas visits only once a year and the last time he descended...
Tags: Asda, price war, Tesco, Sainsbury, United Kingdom, London, Acronyms, Wal-Mart, Sainsbury's, Supermarket, British brands
Debenhams kicks off price war with £250 million sale
London :: United Kingdom | 22 days ago
Credibility Debenhams yesterday threw down the gauntlet to its retail rivals as it announced a £250 million four-day sale and predicted a high street Christmas price war. The group said it would slash the prices of tens of thousands of items in a move it claimed...
Tags: Debenhams, price war, United Kingdom, London, Wal-Mart, Department store, Business Finance, Acronyms, Asda
Business Diary: Price war or marketing hype from the grocers?
Reykjavík :: Iceland | 25 days ago
Credibility But many in the industry doubt there is ever any new money involved in these affairs. Malcolm Walker, chief executive of Iceland and one of the country's most successful retailers, told Retail Week in 2007: "Everyone knows price wars are bullshit – you...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, price war, Iceland, Reykjavík, Bernard Madoff, NASDAQ, Asda, Facebook, Stamp duty, economics, Confidence tricksters, Tesco
Asda pledges £150m of Christmas savings
London :: United Kingdom | 27 days ago
Credibility The country's second-largest supermarket chain has also announced that its sales, excluding VAT and petrol, were up 5.6 per cent on last year in the three months to September 30. This is a slowdown from the previous quarter's 7.2 per cent rise, "entirely"...
Tags: David Sillitoe Asda, Sainsbury, Tesco, price war, Britain, supermarkets chains, Justin King, chief executive, christmas price
House prices 'to keep on rising'
London :: United Kingdom | 29 days ago
Credibility Its latest monthly survey shows that sellers are now beginning to return to the property market. But they are still being outweighed by the number of potential buyers registered with estate agents. In October the balance of surveyors reporting price rises...
Tags: house price, Britain, market share, price war
Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target in DVD price war
Bentonville :: AR :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Wal-Mart is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books. The move led rivals Amazon.com and Target to reduce the prices of some of their online preorder...
Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., online preorder, price cut, Amazon.com, price war, DVD
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
