JUST over a week ago, Schumpeter wrote about the collapse of Mt Gox, the once-dominant Bitcoin exchange that disappeared in late February along with almost half a billion dollars of customers' cryptocurrency (and $65 million of its own)—all presumed stolen.
For around six dollars, a customer can obtain the Earl's Club, the Full Montagu, or the Original 1762: roast beef, Cheddar, and horseradish sauce.
Sports is the most outrageous example: what ESPN charges cable operators keeps growing, and is now approaching five dollars per customer.
As Crosman noted last week, the purchase price means that BBVA paid about twelve hundred dollars a customer — far more than what banks are usually willing to pay in an acquisition (and a hundred and sixty-two times what Facebook has paid for WhatsApp's users).
Redzepi said the price would have been significantly lower — a couple of hundred dollars per customer — had a key patron not backed out at the last moment, uncertain about the future given the election results in the U.S. At that point, his team had a tough decision to make.
You say "4 dollars" in your head, and then give one dollar to the customer, and say "5 dollars" (the original amount the customer paid you) out loud.
Many who make their living on the Hudson have been forced to refund several thousand dollars to customers.
Bill called the anarchist Hippo and would let him have credit up to two dollars; other customers were not allowed to charge so much as a nickel cigar.
The company, which Mr. Rew started with half a million dollars, offers customers the chance to buy a maple urn made by artists in New Mexico to hold a person's cremated remains.
Mirage's new Beau Rivage casino in Mississippi proved too fancy for the market there and the Bellagio in Las Vegas, with an Impressionist art collection worth several hundred million dollars, stole customers from the Mirage.
The cheapest custom item in the shop was a velour sweatsuit, which sold for three hundred and seventy-five dollars, but customers who wanted one were sometimes sent to shops in the outer boroughs; when the boutique was full of leather and fur customers, Day couldn't afford to waste time selling velour.
