They said the companies had not tried hard enough to sell the cars, or had even discouraged sales.
Sales at department store fell 0.2percentt in November from a year earlier, as unusually warm weather discouraged sales of winter clothes, the Japan Department Stores Association reported.
The gradual shift from charging transaction-based fees to an advisory fee model, amid a global move to discourage sales of risky exotic instruments, has added to the pressure on margins.
In an attempt to discourage sales representatives from hyping the value of GSK medicines, the company stopped paying them commissions.
Investors seemed to think the higher prices would do more to boost the bottom line than they would to discourage sales.
The book then becomes this secret, dark artifact, imbued with the powers and properties of a famous death which would not discourage sales, one imagines.
City leaders are leery of discouraging car sales.
Land has grown so scarce that all over the city, walls are painted with the words "This land is not for sale" to discourage fraudulent sales.
It has a liberal returns policy, pays commission in a way that discourages sales staff from being pushy and offers an enormous range of products.
That's a no-no, he wrote, and any employee caught discouraging a sale for such reasons would be "subject to disciplinary action".
