Scale matters in such a low-margin business.
"Because groceries are such a low-margin business, the only way FreshDirect is able to make it work is by going after the more premium customer, and that means charging higher prices" than brick-and-mortar grocery stores, she said.
Since it was acquired by Reynolds and Reynolds, a large supplier of customer-relationship software, the CAReader remote-diagnosis system has looked destined for bigger things.Selling cars has become such a low-margin business that dealers see remote diagnostics as a way to keep customers coming back.
The trick will be if they can get the volume required to make such a low-margin business successful.
But capitalizing Priceline.com at $17 billion in such a low-margin auction business is a flight from reality.
The company's lukewarm reception may be a sign of a saturated IPO market, but more likely it reflects concerns surrounding this distance learning company's ability to turn a profit in such a low-margin business.
"The opposition can argue this is illegitimate if it is approved by a low margin".
Primary cancers with a high MVD at the tumour margin tended to form liver metastases with a high MVD margin, whereas primary cancers with a low margin MVD tended to form metastases with a low MVD margin (P=0.001).
There's such a small margin of error".
Second, compared with such things as cancer drugs and antidepressants, flu vaccines have been a low-margin commoditized item.
Such low margin also means that one major event can destroy a company's balance sheet for an entire fiscal year (think disasters like hurricanes, fire, flood, etc).
