Sentence examples for sales shift from inspiring English sources

You have seen some of your sales shift to mobile.

— The Ford Motor Company on Tuesday reported its best first-quarter earnings since 1998, even as its sales shift to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.

These agreements are critical as movies, music and other media — which account for 28 percent of Amazon's total sales — shift from physical to digital form.

While music downloading has pressured all parts of the music industry, he said, the sales shift to mass marketers has contributed to record store closings.

The publishing industry is going through unprecedented upheaval as sales shift to the internet but also as digital books are bought in rising numbers.

"They recently invested in price again so that means other areas need restructuring – particularly as grocery sales shift to the online channel," he said.

The company also said a greater percentage of prescription sales came from more profitable generic drugs, while the mix of general merchandise sales shifted to higher-margin items.

Although its predecessor outsold its two rivals, the new one has seen disappointing sales, shifting a mere 160,000 units in the last financial quarter.

G.M. fared particularly badly in Germany, where its market share dropped even as the overall market shrank and where G.M.'s remaining sales shifted toward smaller, less profitable cars.

Tesco is attempting to fight back against fast-expanding discount chains Aldi and Lidl at the same time as it deals with a slump in food commodity prices and changing shopper habits, with sales shifting away from large supermarkets and towards the internet and small local shops.

Chrysler has long depended heavily on big pickups, sport utilities and minivans for the bulk of its sales, shifting its lineup only recently to build more small cars and small sport utilities, as well as crossover vehicles, which are S.U.V.'s based on car underpinnings.