Although it attracts customer traffic, an ill-conceived price promotion has serious repercussions because it disproportionately draws bargain hunters, results in profit erosion and causes operational chaos due to erratic demands.
Their industry combines the high-wire risks of constantly advancing technology, opaque and often erratic market demand, and a voracious appetite for capital to pay for manufacturing equipment.
Healthcare is characterised simultaneously by routine, highly organised and ultra safe practices (e.g. blood product protocols) and unpredictable, erratic hazardous demand.
Then, the early years of the five highly competitive James children, born between 1842 and 1848, constantly moving around from Albany, New York, Europe, Newport, and Boston, undergoing a great many educational systems, subject to their father's erratic, intense demands and moral ambitions, a bewildering mixture of free choice, high expectations and close surveillance.
His troops were said to have "suffered under his too-frequent absences and erratic, inconsistent demands", for he frequently lost sight of what was or was not practically possible.
The retailing business is not getting any easier: New distribution channels and novel formats are nibbling at gross margins, the life cycles of products are shortening, fickle customers are becoming more demanding, and erratic changes in demand are forcing retailers to make decisions faster than ever before.
Instead, his in-your-face style and erratic, ever-shifting demands have alienated likely sympathisers.
Matt, Lohan's beleaguered personal assistant, has to keep up with her demands, erratic behavior, and general bad mood when she's been living in a hotel for a month because she can't find an apartment in New York.
