With the flier's permission, the airline shares a chosen customer's personal data with the T.S.A., which then decides whether that person will get expedited security.
Asked to choose from a list of expressions about what they'd most like to be called, survey participants chose "customer" overall at 66%, with "guest" coming in at 22% and "consumer" ranking last at 5%.
"Regardless of what financial path our company chooses, customers should expect the same or better service quality".
After the winner is chosen, customers will be able to vote online for some of the elements in the Super Bowl ad.
IBM, for example, estimates that it saved $377m last year by using its private exchange, through which it can reveal sensitive price and inventory information to chosen customers and suppliers.
I'm also at a point in my life where I like to choose customers I want to work with, because if I don't like working with them, we're not going to be very good at it.
For the most part, convincing people to switch away from dirty energy is an unprofitable and work-intensive process, requiring electrical company representatives to approach thousands of randomly chosen customers.
Indeed, any homeowner who has scoured the telephone book looking for a contractor has discovered that it is often now the contractor who gets to pick and choose customers rather than the other way around.
In contrast to Mr. Schrager's ruthlessly exclusive SkyBar at the Mondrian hotel in Los Angeles, doormen here don't pick and choose customers based on the quality of their nose jobs.
When chosen, customers who already have their billing and shipping information stored in an Amazon account can pay by entering their Amazon password, just as if they were on the Amazon Web site.
