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E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.

E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.

The increase of e-book sales will force the book business to make changes not seen for centuries.

Display and sales restrictions: California has a rule prohibiting alcohol displays near the cash registers in gas stations, and in most places you can't buy alcohol at drive-through facilities.

Sales in 2009 could be barely half of that

Well, at 3:30, you're seeing our sales representative there and then you're free till the evening.

The company's sales representative

That's because we have a wonderful sales manager ——you!

Sales assistants promoting high margin goods

Sales assistants following customers around.

The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

Sales of these foods have greatly increased in recent years

Well, I'd like the position of sales manager if that position is still vacant.

As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers.

The district manager is the key to the success of the sales representatives in his district

Most have worked their way up from sales representatives, and they are very proud of the role they played in the company's growth.

The initiative shown by the sales representatives

A preliminary review of Mexico's taxation found a fall in purchases of taxed drinks as well as a rise in sales of untaxed and healthier drinks.

According to the firm's vice-president of Marketing and Sales, "We benefited from low expectations."

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to ￡1.11 billion in 2016.

Hello, is that the Sales Department?

However, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment", adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from ￡43 in 2014 to ￡41 in 2015.

McGraw Hill, which controls 21% of the higher education market, reported in March that its digital content sales exceeded print sales for the first time in 2015.

Sales have doubled from $5 million in 2014 to $10 million in 2015, with 25 new branches planned for 2016.

Sales people often fall into this category.

She recently designed a gamification strategy for a sales training company with a storm-chasing theme.

This is after the country's main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.

This is pushing sales of new microwaves which are expected to reach 135 million annually in the EU by the end of the decade.

Thus, rising microwave sales could be seen as a positive thing.

Of the produce that does appear in the supermarket, commonly used sales promotions frequently encourage customers to purchase excessive quantities which, in the case of perishable foodstuffs, inevitably generate wastage in the home.

Such was the case in the early 1990s when Sears imposed a sales quota on its auto repair staff.

They were obliged to work more hours to increase their sales

They resorted to unethical practice to meet their sales quota.

Why did you sales people accept them?

Well, I'd like the position of sales manager if that position is still vacant.

It runs sales promotion campaigns

"About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls (短缺) in cold-weather goods," said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

According to the International Business times, electric car sales are expected to increase as Volkswagen is still recovering from its emissions scandal.

An analysis of car sales in Germany found that cars with gills that were upturned like smiles sold best.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

If you're able to come this afternoon, you can give your name to the sales manager and they will be able to assist you.

In 2007, Nokia accounted for more than 40% of mobile phone sales worldwide.

It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with "'non-store retailers" like food trucks, can mask major changes in individual retail categories.

It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk of online sales.

It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread anger from consumers.

Macy's reported its sales plunged 5.2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wide—ranging challenges.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up" double-digit" increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

Sales of Barbie dolls have been falling every year since 2012, according to CBC news.

Sales of grass-fed yogurt and kefir(發(fā)酵乳飲品) on the other hand, have in the last year increased by over 38%.

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord&Taylor.

The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.

The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even though it hasn't been accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning.

Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.

While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.

with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.

Yet Walmart's year-over-year online sales only grew 7 percent, leading its CEO to lament, "Growth here is too slow."

A good first impression increases sales.

His first boss's sales ideas reasonable.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

I need to hand in a sales report next Monday, and it's already Wednesday today.

It can promote her online sales.

It promoted the sales of artworks.

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

Researchers in Britain found that when French music was played, sales of French wines went up.

This passage most likely comes from a popular sales book.

Amazon.com, with its network of warehouses, also collects sales tax in every state that charges it, though third-party sellers who use the site don't have to.

And though print ad sales still dwarf their online and mobile counterparts, revenue from print is still declining.

Big chains have been collecting sales tax nationwide because they typically have physical stores in whatever state a purchase is being shipped to.

Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friend,and a company may leverage "owned" media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Website.

Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren't charged it, but most didn't realize they owed it and few paid.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

Now, rivals will be charging sales tax where they hadn't before.

Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.

Sellers that use eBay and Etsy, which provide platforms for smaller sellers, also haven't been collecting sales tax nationwide.

States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.

The decisions made it more difficult for states to collect sales tax on certain online purchases.

The ruling is a victory for big chains with a presence in many states, since they usually collect sales tax on online purchases already.

The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.

Those retailers may face headaches complying with various state sales tax laws.

To find out, the researches controlled for various factors that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry, and sales -- and for indicators that a place was desirable to live in, like growth in wages or population.

Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids' clothes.

Under the ruling Thursday, states can pass laws requiring out-of-state sellers to collect the state's sales tax from customers and send it to the state.

Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.