Sentence examples for captive customer from inspiring English sources

Mobile e-commerce is booming, and an Amazon phone will foster a captive customer base.

It was an unglamorous, low-growth business, but it had a captive customer in USX and predictable cash flow to service debt.

Some people concerned about nuclear safety say that a buyer is under more pressure to keep a plant running, even if it needs maintenance, than an old-style monopoly utility with a captive customer population.

We prefer the hybrid companies that have a portion of their old captive customer base as well as some of the new-economy electric space, typically exemplified by the merchant power generators or the companies with wholesale power trading operations.

That, the critics say, allows large lenders to charge a captive customer base above-market interest rates on the refinanced loans". Christian Berthelsen and Alan Zibel in The Wall Street Journal.

Google engineers prototype new applications on the platform; if any of these begin to get users' attention, developers can launch beta versions to see whether the company's vast captive customer base responds enthusiastically.

Effectively, they're captive customers.

Well, not as long as we're captive customers.

Nstar has 1.4 million captive customers in the greater Boston area.

"That means the merchandise is coming, the captive customers," Father Solalinde said.

Catering there has a number of advantages, including steady, captive customers and limited competition.