This appears to be true in practice, too, although some businesses in several cities in which car2go operates have complained about its vehicles being legally parked for days at a time, displacing customers.Your correspondent used the service for a recent trip to his doctor, where he would remain for an unknown period while having tests and waiting for results.
And many of its displaced train customers had the added stress of navigating dense crowds and hard-to-find gates at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a difficult task even under normal circumstances.
Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
While it was expected that small businesses near the site of the World Trade Center would suffer from the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, which displaced 100,000 potential customers from office buildings in the area and thousands more from their homes, wider economic damage from the attack is still rippling outward from ground zero.
Related environmental meta-trends (i.e., decreased freshwater access and global climate change) are threatening to disrupt organizational operations due to reduced resource supply (e.g., inadequate water) and the potential for a displaced workforce and customer base (Shen et al. 2011; Wei and Fang 2012).
The town's hotel is usually full, and shop owners find customers among the displaced.
The supermarket has begun a 45-day consultation with nightshift workers and with staff displaced by plans to merge customer service counters.
In New York, particularly, activists point out that the real estate boom has coincided with the shuttering of small businesses, as old customer bases are displaced by affluent professionals with (save for the enterprising foodie contingent) decidedly less of a taste for homemade tofu and spicy pork jerky.
"I.B.M. came out of those years still large and enormously important to its customers, but I.B.M. was displaced by Microsoft," he said.
And when two of its independent brokers had their offices destroyed in the World Trade Center, Chubb quickly compiled lists of their customers and, in one case, mailed those customers the phone number for the displaced brokers temporary offices.
