Sentence examples for captive customers from inspiring English sources

Effectively, they're captive customers.

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

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

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

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

The end of the Soviet Union meant the plant lost its captive customers.

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.

You could be a captive customer.

And ST never had a captive customer.