If a gewgaw ordinarily goes for $2, you needn't pay $200 to be virtuous, but you ought not try to beat the merchant down to 20 cents, either.
And for a special bar of chocolate, you can't beat Makers and Merchants' Fairtrade offering.
Wal-Mart successfully beat small town merchants because they created a vastly more efficient warehousing, ordering and inventory carrying system, driven largely by a superior computing infrastructure.
All aggrieved parties found an opportunity for social reform in 1905 06 when a series of demonstrations, held in protest over the government beating of several merchants, escalated into strikes that soon adjourned to a shrine near Tehrān, which the demonstrators claimed as a bast (Persian: "sanctuary").
A Key Bank rep came in with an offer and a flyer—"We'll give you 300 bucks if we can't beat your current merchant rate plus give you $100 to switch to our service".
Sam Dillon (NYT) ASIA PAKISTAN: TAX PROTEST CONTINUES -- The police in Peshawar fired tear gas at merchants and beat up some of those who demonstrated against the government's efforts to catch tax evaders and impose a 15percentt sales tax.
It was written soon after the death of Bellow's own father, Abe, a failed bootlegger turned coal merchant, who beat his children and derided Saul's literary aspirations.
Gang members destroyed the store of one merchant and beat the 11-year-old daughter of a landlord who refused to sell them property for a gambling parlor, officials said.
New Zealand hit back as Everitt crossed for a converted try but the hosts were soon back on the front foot, with Merchant beating three tacklers and taking another one over the line with her for an unconverted try.
From time to time, the proudly independent merchants put aside differences to beat back threats, from defenders of public morals trolling for banned books to a proposed city ordinance banning sidewalk stalls.
