“Grubhub has advertised that diners will pay a single, low-cost amount for Grubhub’s services in connection with a delivery order,” the FTC wrote in a statement.

The larger ones have business offices in California but tend to manufacture elsewhere, including in low-cost, less-regulated states such as Texas and Arizona.

Chinese banks and local governments have provided low-cost loans, land and other incentives to locally owned automakers, enabling some to sell cars for less than they cost to produce.

In particular, liquid-phase processes, which apply coating materials in a liquid state, are suitable for low-cost mass production.

For more than a decade, viewers have embraced the cable channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” themed programming — dozens of low-cost movies that begin rolling out in mid-October and play virtually around the clock.