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Essentially, what retailers are trying to do is ensure that every customer is profitable on their own.
Other than in 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo Metro, the largest subway company in the city, has been profitable.
the largest subway company in the city, has been profitable.
So they'd have to attract a lot of vacationers to be profitable.
From the beginning, Etsy wasn't profitable.
From the beginning, Etsy wasn't profitable.
They were cautious about adopting new technology that had yet to be proven reliable or profitable.
They were cautious about adopting new technology that had yet to be proven reliable or profitable.
The study found that in places with high solar flux or more solar radiation in the area, solar canopies could be incredibly profitable.
selling solar back to the grid at going rates could still be profitable enough to make solar canopies worth it in the long run.
As food prices started to rise, it became profitable for farmers, both large and small, to invest in agricultural technologies that would improve crop yields.
it became profitable for farmers,
they are so much cheaper that it's profitable for firms to have many teams, many employees remote.
profitable for firms to have many teams many employees remote
They haven't been profitable enough.
They have bounced back in the sense that their credit quality has been stable; they've been consistently profitable.
Goldenvoice wanted to do more there but couldn't compete with what companies like Ticketmaster could pay artists, so started a music festival approach of lumping many bands in together and hoping that sheer quantity could make it profitable.
and hoping that sheer quantity could make it profitable.