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The streetcar was certainly a loss leader for Collier, but his business, of course, was real estate.
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
Other business rules prevent recommenders from suggesting loss leaders—products that sell below cost to draw people into the site—or conversely encourage them to recommend products that are overstocked.
—Joseph A. Konstan, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2012
Leicester University Press, 1995, by Bill Lancaster, talks about how retail stores in the late 1800s discounted products to attract customers to buy, which laid the foundation later for retail and department stores to use the loss leader strategy to attract customers.
—Micah Logan, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Because of its size, and its ability to treat books as a loss leader, the company consistently undercuts cover prices that independent bookshops tend to stick to.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
Other business rules prevent recommenders from suggesting loss leaders—products that sell below cost to draw people into the site—or conversely encourage them to recommend products that are overstocked.
—Joseph A. Konstan, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2012
Leicester University Press, 1995, by Bill Lancaster, talks about how retail stores in the late 1800s discounted products to attract customers to buy, which laid the foundation later for retail and department stores to use the loss leader strategy to attract customers.
—Micah Logan, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Because of its size, and its ability to treat books as a loss leader, the company consistently undercuts cover prices that independent bookshops tend to stick to.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for loss leader
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“Loss leader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loss%20leader. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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