Target stocks its shelves with low-cost bedspreads, shower curtains, and clothes with bright colors and funky designs.
That way you can work from home and still have a low-cost office to go to when you crave working near others.
For years, industry experts believed that such vehicles would emerge first in China, which is already the third-largest car market and the source of low-cost everything-else.
Manufacturing industries have been able to relocate from high-cost to low-cost locations.
Actually, Walmart was lucky its fashion foray didn't work. That would have hurt its low-cost reputation.
But it plans to drop ultra-low fares on new routes and may move some flights to primary airports, which are wooing low-cost carriers to boost flagging growth.
E Ink's technology has also been used in the Motofone, Motorola's low-cost mobile phone for the developing world, a Seiko wristwatch, a weather-station and a flash-memory stick.
After gaining local trust, Vathana launched a series of low-cost, highly ingenious strategies for keeping crops-and elephants-safe.
Although removal of excessive fluoride from drinking-water may be difficult and expensive, low-cost solutions that can be applied at a local level do exist.
Subsidies on rice exports by industrial countries also discourage higher production in low-cost countries.
These methods can be particularly expensive when done in the U.S., where factories must meet more stringent environmental and labor standards than in many low-cost nations.
It should also outsource more work to Asia and other low-cost centres.
Another low-cost start-up, Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, has also begun a service to London and is planning to launch services to Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, and Vancouver.
Academic research is also breaking down the mystique of hedge-fund managers and suggesting that it may be possible to replicate their returns using low-cost strategies in the futures markets.
China is no longer just the world's low-cost sweatshop.
The EJB proxy approach described in this article is best used when you need a lightweight, low-cost solution for sandbox, test, or proof-of-concept situations.
The future may indeed lie with the low-cost airlines, but they would be foolish to bet on uninterrupted growth.