The Chinese government imposed complex price controls in January on a range of farm products, like cooking oil and grain.
Food prices increased sharply despite the government's imposition of complex price controls on Jan . 15on many foods, including pork, eggs, flour and cooking oil.
Any sticker shock, analysts said, may be the result of Amazon's complex pricing system coming into conflict with consumer expectations of a traditional subscription.
The economist Susan Woodward has shown that the mortgage industry's reliance on abstruse and complex pricing schemes makes it difficult to comparison-shop effectively.
An astute businessman, Rubens had a complex pricing structure which was based on how much of a painting he did himself.
"We will not tolerate anticompetitive conduct, whether it occurs in a smoke-filled room or over the Internet using complex pricing algorithms," Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer, of the department's antitrust division, said.
They've led a sheltered life, their directors pay themselves small fortunes and they were allowed to get away with their disgracefully complex price tariffs for far too long.
Gormley, who took over in April, has scrapped Majestic's complex price offers and broken with its warehouse roots by allowing customers to buy a single bottle of wine rather than a minimum of six.
In the current case, he was accused of stealing $27 billion in oil from subsidiaries of his own conglomerate over several years, through highly complex pricing schemes that prosecutors maintained were not noticed by the Yukos auditors at the time.
Clarke said Asda's price guarantee scheme, under which it promises to refund customers if their weekly shop is not at least 10% cheaper than it would be in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Waitrose, was under review because shoppers were becoming tired of such complex price-matching schemes.
