Sentence examples for failed pricing from inspiring English sources
"Our rates were higher until 2002, when Tenet's new management disavowed the old, failed pricing strategy and changed many things". UCLA Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, leading names in Southern California healthcare, also ranked near the top of the list in spending.
The service-driven health care firm has postponed its initial public offering indefinitely, following a number of failed pricing efforts, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Speculation on Kmart's financial condition had been intensifying for weeks as the company faced a cash shortage that was accelerated by a slump in holiday sales and a failed price-cutting campaign.
"They went out and hired hundreds of ex-Wal-Mart executives," he said, including Mark S. Schwartz, the president and chief operating officer, who directed the failed price war against his former employer before being dismissed in January.
The strategy failed: Price wars and higher selling costs thwarted efforts to match the hundreds of millions of dollars that America Online and Microsoft were pouring into marketing.
Rio Tinto has had a tense relationship with Beijing after failed price negotiations and China's arrest and conviction of four Rio Tinto employees.
And, as corn and soybean crops failed, prices for those commodities also jumped, causing many other food prices to rise dramatically as a direct result.
During his second term in office, the Panic of 1873, caused by rampant railroad speculation, shook the nation's financial institutions; banks failed, prices fell, and unemployment surged.
If this game of chicken succeeds, prices will go back up again soon; if the game fails, prices will fall even further.
The unexpected lawsuit, however, could rack up around $1 million in legal fees, which may put the company in an even tighter spot if the salary hikes should fail, Price told HuffPost.
The problem with the failed carbon-pricing schemes of recent years has not been the actual price increases they would inflict on families but the perceived price increases.
