While North Carolina was the – close – favorite coming into the contest, its advantage in the first half came from what many had considered its Achilles heel.
When a customer instead has a low sophistication (high quantity, low prices), her behavior does not change between closest and favorite shops.
We define retention rate of a shop as the share of the customers that have that shop as closest and favorite.
This means that the sophisticated customers (and the ones that spend more on average per item) tend to have two wildly different behaviors in the closest and favorite shops.
The broadcast ad, titled Cocktail Party, shows a woman rejoicing that the city has not closed "our favorite museum".
That shopping center is closing your favorite Italian restaurant to put in an organic juice bar instead.
From the killer opener, "For What It's Worth" right up to the closing crowd favorite, "I'll Take You There," "Live: Hope At The Hideout" is BIG!
Wall Street billionaire Steve Schwarzman got apoplectic when someone suggested that we close his favorite tax loophole (carried interest which allows him to pay a much lower tax rate than the rest of us).
Our closest and formerly favorite airport is Stewart/Newburgh (SWF), but prices for flights from there have become outrageous.
Nash travels to Europe occasionally to attend soccer matches; he said he followed the English Premier League the closest — particularly his favorite team, Tottenham Hotspur.
