"Organised confusion, pressured selling, misleading information - no market should be able to operate like that, and especially not one that provides an essential product that is getting more and more expensive," said chief executive Mike O'Connor.
"If you just worked on the basis of cost, you would have the cheapest providers - cheap care is often poor care and poor care often ends up being more expensive," its chief executive Dr Peter Carter said.
The tactic is "very expensive", Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, told analysts.
Hand separation of the items is expensive, said Mike Biddle, chief executive of MBA Polymers Inc., in Richland, Calif.
"These kind of projects are very complex and can be very expensive," said Andrew Ali, chief executive of Africa Finance Corporation.
The General Motors Corporation is increasing profit margins this year through cost-cutting and sales of more expensive models, its chief executive, Rick Wagoner, said yesterday.
"Putting in place a good crash investigation and maintaining good data for these kinds of analyses is complicated and thus expensive," said Peter Kissinger, chief executive of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
"If one were only looking at job growth itself for that period of time, it would sound expensive," said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Banc of America Capital Management.
"We knew that from a cost standpoint, if you had to lay down 100,000 pounds of composite material by hand, it would be very expensive," said Tom Cogan, chief project engineer of the 787.
