In marketing, coupon codes can be used for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product from an internet retailer.

On 13 January 2011, HBC announced that U. S .- based discount retailer Target Corporation would purchase the lease agreements of up to 220 Zellers stores, which have not yet been identified, for C $ 1. 825 billion.

Rival retailer Woolworths launched its Everyday Rewards fuel discount card nationally in 2009 and by August 2010 had 5. 1 million cardholders, with 2. 7 million linked to the Qantas frequent flyer program.

Unless the publisher or author has fixed their discount rate, the higher the volume sold the lower the royalty becomes, as the retailer is able to buy at greater discount.

* Resale price method ( RPM ): goods are regularly offered by a seller or purchased by a retailer to / from unrelated parties at a standard " list " price less a fixed discount.

* Smart mobs who arrange the meet up over the Internet and show up at a retailer at a specific time and use their number to negotiate a discount with the retailer.

In 1985 the Myer Emporium ( and Target, its discount department store ) merged with GJ Coles & Coy forming Coles Myer Limited, then Australia's largest retailer.

The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, including the Northeast, Upper South, Midwest, and the District of Columbia, making it the fourth largest discount retailer in the United States.

* Action: in June 2011 3i bought a majority stake in this discount retailer.

Operates Pyaterochka, one of the largest discount grocery retailers in Russia in terms of sales, Perekrestok, which runs a leading chain of supermarkets in Russia, Kopeyka, a leading discount grocery retailer, and Karusel, one of the largest hypermarket chains in Russia.

* Sy Syms ( born Seymour Merinsky ) ( 1926 – 2009 ), philanthropist, founder and Chairman of the discount men's clothing retailer SYMS, graduated from Midwood High School.

The company is the second-largest food and drug retailer in its competitive market, where it competes with such chains as Ahold's Giant-Carlisle, Giant-Landover, and Stop & Shop ; A & P's Pathmark, Super Fresh, A & P, and Food Basics ; Wakefern Food Corporation's ShopRite ; Walmart and its warehouse club subsidiary Sam's Club, and warehouse club competitor Costco, natural and organic products retailer Whole Foods Market, Wegmans Food Markets, Trader Joe's and its discount sister Aldi, North Carolina-based Food Lion and Bottom Dollar Food, as well as other smaller chains in various markets.

" Sugarhood ," as it is known by the locals, is home to two shopping centers that collectively feature a ShopKo, a Toys " Я " Us, bookseller Barnes & Noble, clothing retailer Old Navy, a Whole Foods Market, a Bed Bath & Beyond, a Petco, several fast food and family restaurants, and a 10-screen Cinemark discount cinema.

Currently Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, operates more than 1, 300 discount stores in the U. S. Target and Kmart are Wal-Mart's top competitors.

Riverwood Plaza is a small shopping centre on Belmore Road that features Woolworths and Coles supermarkets, discount retailer Go-Lo, specialty shops and a food court.

When May's Executive Vice President Dave Babcock learned that Geisse had resigned from Target Stores, he spoke with Geisse about starting a new discount retailer, resulting in the founding of Venture.

Under his guidance Tengelmann expanded: in 1971 it took over the grocery chain Kaiser's ; in 1972 Haub founded the discount grocery retailer Plus.

A favourite sketch, which became known as the show's signature, was an impersonation of a long-running ad for Irish discount electrical retailer PowerCity, where actors looking surprisingly like those in the adverts, wearing the same bright red jumpers, would wax enthusiastic about prices ending in 99 pence in " Bull Island City ".

Although not a part of the Shopko organization, in 1999, Shopko signed a contract with Payless ShoeSource, leasing the chain floorspace within Shopko stores, thus replacing the previous contract with J. Baker, Inc. as the retailer in charge of the discount shoe department.

Both companies have since undergone reorganization and Phillips, once a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum is now part of ConocoPhillips, an American oil and discount fossil fuel company, while Alcolac International has since dissolved and reformed as Alcolac Inc. Alcolac was named as a defendant in the Aziz v. Iraq case presently pending in the United States District Court ( Case No. 1: 09-cv-00869-MJG ).

There are also many discount department stores such as Conway which includes a furniture and decoration department named Conway Design, La Onda, Dorian's, Saks, Madison Store and El Titan among others.

After his second full climb of the fence in Loudon, N. H., they ran a discount on ladders and fencing at the stores with a campaign named, " Hey Tony, we've got ladders ", where anyone who presented the advertisement in national newspapers in their stores earned the discount.

The most common licensing models is per single user ( named user, client, node ) or per user in the appropriate volume discount level, while some manufacturers accumulate existing licenses.

Wellington also has Walkers are Welcome Status and recently an Outdoor Walking shop opened to cater for the many walkers named Wrekin Rambler, which offers discount to walkers and uniformed services.

These include: the ' A-brands ', a store brand and a discount brand named Euro Shopper.

A ' Bus & Tram ' Discount Card is specifically given to disadvantaged and ' unwaged ' groups, primarily those on ' Job Seekers Allowance ', ' Employment Support Allowance ' and receivers of a variety of disabilities allowances, at half-fare rates for bus and tram services only ; these cards simply charge the full rate on journeys not included in the discount scheme.

AUSA has over 100 affiliated clubs, two bars on campus ( Shadows and Toasted ), University Book Shop, the StudentCard discount card, Student Job Search on campus, market days and events such as Orientation, Re-Orientation, Summer Shakespeare, End of Daze, Capping week, Womensfest, Cultural Mosaic, Blues Awards and Ecofest.

Ocean State Job Lot, headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is an American chain of 106 discount stores operating in New England and Upstate New York.

Ocean State Job Lot prefers to lease buildings where previous supermarket or discount stores used to be.

The discount rate used is generally the appropriate Weighted average cost of capital ( WACC ), that reflects the risk of the cashflows.

However the assumptions used in the appraisal ( especially the equity discount rate and the projection of the cash flows to be achieved ) are likely to be at least as important as the precise model used.

The determined growth rates ( of income and cash ) and risk levels ( to determine the discount rate ) are used in various valuation models.

By presenting the card, the purchaser is typically entitled to either a discount on the current purchase, or an allotment of points that can be used for future purchases.

When Clubcard or Nectar points are used for money off supermarket shopping, they roughly equate to a 1 % discount, although offers can increase this discount by as much as 4 times for certain rewards.

The Netscape brand is still used, as of 2012, by AOL to market a discount Internet service provider.

The discount rate which is used in financial calculations is usually chosen to be equal to the Cost of Capital.

The NPV of a sequence of cash flows takes as input the cash flows and a discount rate or discount curve and outputs a price ; the converse process in DCF analysis — taking a sequence of cash flows and a price as input and inferring as output a discount rate ( the discount rate which would yield the given price as NPV ) — is called the yield and is more widely used in bond trading.

The rate used to discount future cash flows to the present value is a key variable of this process.

A firm's weighted average cost of capital ( after tax ) is often used, but many people believe that it is appropriate to use higher discount rates to adjust for risk or other factors.

A variable discount rate with higher rates applied to cash flows occurring further along the time span might be used to reflect the yield curve premium for long-term debt.

* Exponential discounting, a specific form of the discount function, used in the analysis of choice over time

The term " toy " or " toy-grade " in regards to radio control cars is used to describe vehicles of the pre-assembled type generally found in discount stores and consumer stores.

* In the late 1970s, Dayton used to have speed limit signs of, a production flaw that allowed the signs to be bought at a discount.

During the specie suspension from 1862 to 1878 western states used the gold dollar as a unit of account whenever possible and accepted greenbacks at a discount wherever they could.

However, assumption-dependent concepts are still widely used ( such as the setting of the discount rate assumption as mentioned earlier ), particularly in North America.

Policy decisions about how much to spend on research and development, health and education all depend on the discount rate used to analyze the decision.