One reason for this strategy is to keep companies from being able to declare lockouts, which can be legal if a company can show that a strike elsewhere has deprived it of a customer for its products.
If a utility decides to shut off a customer for nonpayment, it can do so by remote control; if the customer pays enough money to allow resumption of service, the utility can also do that from a central office without sending out a representative.
Amazon will have you as a customer for life, if it doesn't already.
The company is not BBB-accredited, and BBB lists an alert on its page for Roca Labs, mentioning that it sued a customer for complaining about its product on a BBB site.
If I go to meet a customer for the first time, it's the older generation who are far more likely to be offended by me not wearing a suit.
"Once you start thinking about, 'I have a customer for seven hours,' then it's about design and service".
The important point about that hiring is that in so doing the military knew there was a demander (a customer) for the military services it would produce, namely itself -- the military.
We assumed that our insurance policy would come to our aid but, despite us being a customer for more than 10 years, it hasn't.
A private business is allowed to stop serving a customer for pretty much any reason it likes (although not if the EU has its way), and they have little recourse.
An example would be if a broker purchases a bond for $99 and resells it to a customer for $100.
