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In the next couple of years the businesses that thrive will be those that are tight with costs, careful of debt, cautious with cash flow and extremely attentive to what customers want.

But what was perhaps most astonishing about Mr Jobs was the absolute loyalty he managed to inspire in customers.

He set up personal links with many of his customers

To give customers a wider range of choices.

Sales assistants following customers around

Customers competing for good bargains.

Customers losing all sense of time

We're asking the customers to specify what they want," said Craig Prusher, the chain's vice president of government relations.

It's great because we play cards or just sit around and talk when there are no customers.

Em, I always serve the freshest possible food and I make the atmosphere as comfortable and as pleasant as I can, so that my customers will want to come back.

So you always aim to please the customers

Requesting customers to pay before taking the food.

Asking customers to leave their bags on the counters

Knowing the needs of customers.

At McDonald's, customers will spend on average 3 minutes and 9 seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.

Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

But the idea is, if you generate it from your side, it's got to affect the other side, if you get the right customers in.

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

If the investigation uncovers anything, it wouldn't be the first time a telecom provider got into 、trouble over the broadband speeds it promised and delivered customers.

My grandfather and father did not have much capital and our customers didn't have much money, either.

The big tobacco companies have always insisted that they are frank with their customers about the dangers of smoking and provide them with enough detail to make an informed decision.

Of the produce that does appear in the supermarket, commonly used sales promotions frequently encourage customers to purchase excessive quantities which, in the case of perishable foodstuffs, inevitably generate wastage in the home.

They competed with one another to attract more customers.

They will be discountable to regular customers.

Lower their prices to attract more customers.

Well, I don't think we do anything deliberately to upset our customers.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

Any take-back program will likely change over time, depending on what works for your customers and company goals.

As for our customers, they are all animal lovers, so they would never try to hurt the rabbits.

BSkyB, Britain's biggest satellite-television service, already provides 9 million customers with interactive ads.

Build a culture of collective values with customers.

Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

Customers can bring shoes of any brand into an Adidas store to be shredded and turned into alternative fuels for energy creation instead of being burned as trash.

Environmental conscientiousness isn't always enough to make customers recycle old goods.

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

Instead of discarding their old worn-out jeans, customers bring them in to be renewed.

It's perfectly safe for both rabbits and our customers.

Joseph's top priority became getting his hands on enough grass-fed milk to keep customers satisfied, since his own 64-cow herd wasn't going to suffice.

Our customers come in and enjoy their food and drinks, while little rabbits play about and brush against their legs.

So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.

The company also offers a repair program for their customers for a modest fee.

The company even provides mail-order repair kits and online videos, so that customers can learn how to fix a pair of jeans at home.

The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time: In one experiment, for example, customers of the grocery-delivery service Peapod were seen as of higher status than people who shopped at grocery stores that were equall

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg, but they demonstrate how helping customers get more use of their materials can transform value chains and operations.

They want to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the garbage dump.

To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

To motivate visitors to bring in more old shoes, Adidas Brazil promotes the program in stores by showing videos to educate customers, and it even offers a discount each time a customer brings in an old pair of shoes.

When customers do want to toss their pair, they can give them back to the store, which will repurpose and resell them.

An ocean view is much to the customers' taste.

And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.

Apart from serving the customers, you'll also do the window dressing.

Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers' senses.

By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems (生態(tài)系統(tǒng)), small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys.

Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

Get the technology that has proven to help the most demanding customers.

He interviews customers at the bar.

In ancient Egypt, a shopkeeper discovered that he could attract customers to his shop simply by making changes to its environment.

In department stores, the women's shoe section is generally next to the cosmetics sections：while the shop assistant is going back to find the right size shoe, bored customers are likely to wander over cosmetics they might want to try later.

Larry was traveling along 165 north after delivering to one of his customers.

One way to encourage customers to stay and order that extra round: put on some Mozart.

Other organisations such as banks ask customers to sign long contracts they may not read or understand, but Miller believes social media requires special attention because it is so new.

Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper metrobus and metrorail services by calling 202-962-1100.

Stanley was one of my customers.

The company's "Oshbot" robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product's location in the store.

The house structure is a key factor customers consider.

They customers-some thirty Parisians who pay just under $2 plus drinks per session-care quick to intellectualize(高談闊論), slow to open up and connect.

They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity.

They know that customers who buy the food first will feel happy so that they will buy more junk food later in their trip.

They motivate workers, and they make an impression on people who visit and might be potential, or prospective, customers.

This new six-month trial will help US find out if we can influence customers to stand on both sides in the long term.

Unlike fast-food places, fine dining shops prefer customers to stay longer and spend.

When a dark-colored cake was served on a black plate rather than a white one, customers recognized it as sweeter and more tasty.

When berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn't tell how much they'd had: those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn't feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.

Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friend,and a company may leverage "owned" media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Website.

Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren't charged it, but most didn't realize they owed it and few paid.

Fast-food chains should also stop offering "inducements" such as toys, cute animals and mobile phone credit to lure young customers, Stephenson said.

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.

Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers.

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company's products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

The users of their services are no their customers.

These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.

Under the ruling Thursday, states can pass laws requiring out-of-state sellers to collect the state's sales tax from customers and send it to the state.