These expert recommendations and rock bottom prices might be a better reason to try something new.
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Back in the day, Gillette sold its razors at rock bottom prices for the sole purpose of supplying razor blades.
Retailers have attempted to cope with this customer power shift by offering rock bottom prices in order to ring up much-needed sales.
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Stores are still fairly full of merchandise and rock bottom prices are likely to remain or go even lower to clear out inventories before the Jan. 31 fiscal year end for many retailers.
Falling prices may discourage people from opening their wallets, but rock-bottom prices also encourage spending.
In Ryanair's case, Mr Koehler foresees 70% of its extra passengers coming from new demand created by rock-bottom prices.
It followed an upsurge of debate about the frequent sale of state-owned enterprises at rock-bottom prices to their managers.
At the same time, it's adding upscale goods to draw in a wider shopping audience interested in more than rock-bottom prices.
These can be produced exclusively for a supermarket chain at rock-bottom prices.
After World War II Lowe's became known hundreds of miles around for rock-bottom prices on nails, copper pipe and lumber by the railcar-load.
In a slumping economy, suppliers quoted rock-bottom prices not just manufacturers of steel, glass and scaffolding but also painters, sculptors and other artists seeking commissions.
Five months ago he could have snapped up an American hotel chain at rock-bottom prices, as investors fretted about an oversupply of rooms and disappointing profits.
Although higher yields are hardly an attraction to western farmers faced with food surpluses and rock-bottom prices, the prospect of lower chemical costs through fewer applications of pesticides is more enticing.
But they had customers and a distribution setup, so they began offering a full line of computers and accessories on the same basis: rock-bottom prices made possible by keeping costs low.
They bought pieces directly from artists for rock-bottom prices.
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But they did have customers and a distribution setup, so they began offering a full line of computers and accessories on the same basis: rock-bottom prices made possible by keeping costs low.
Wal-Mart already lures plenty of customers to its stores through rock-bottom prices for groceries, but wants them to toss more items such as clothes and household goods into their shopping carts before heading for the till.
Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.
Over the past few months, cash strapped Chesapeake Energy has faced several headwinds as its leadership team misgoverned and aggravated the operations already marred by rock-bottom gas prices.
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There has been turbulence in businesses associated with coal as coal has lost its vigor lately as the preferred fuel option for electricity generation in the U.S. amid rock bottom natural gas prices.
Rock-bottom gas prices are already fueling a surge of new manufacturing activity in the U.S. Consumers, from big utilities to condo buildings in New York, are also converting to burning the cheap new gas.
Although Sy has dabbled in property for years, wisely buying up big chunks of Manila and other areas when prices hit rock bottom in 1998, not much was done with the real estate, which represents just 3% of revenues.
Herzfeld Advisors purchased high-yield and loan participation closed-end funds at discounts of more than 30.0%, because the prices hit rock-bottom during intraday trading, said Gondor.
It would be selling the bonds and buying the stocks because what's happened to the extent that you have bonds in your portfolio, interest rates are at rock bottom, which means that bond prices are up, the funds have done very, very well, so take some money out of the bond funds and put them into equity funds.
"The economy still faces powerful contractionary forces in the shape of widespread recession abroad, and at home falling house prices and stock markets, blunted monetary policy as banks constrain lending and rock-bottom business and consumer confidence, " says Andrew Smith, chief economist at KPMG.
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