The phrase "distant customers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to customers who are geographically far away from the company, a store, or a business. For example, "We are working on ways to better serve our distant customers."
Firms selling higher quality products sell to more distant customers and incur higher distribution expenses.
The Bordelais have never quite acclimated to the embrace of distant customers.
An exporter must find and introduce itself to distant customers, comply with alien regulations and set up distribution channels abroad.
Dozens of fledgling electricity producers began to erect central generating stations and use a network of wires to distribute their power to distant customers.
And profitable product management means using imperfect information to figure out how to meet distant customers' changing needs (social, temporal, spatial, and experiential distance).
Unlike outsourced manufacturing jobs, call center work requires voice-to-voice conversation with distant customers; part of the product being exchanged in these interactions is a responsive, caring, connected self.
The messenger was the owner of the store, delivering one book for a distant customer.
If this keeps up, Singapore's bankers may soon be introduced to two groups of distant strangers: customers and shareholders.After a series of offers since June 12th, all five of Singapore's banks are now engaged in takeover bids, as buyers or targets.
Still, even the most distant of customers often seeks a hint as to which of the two dishes they are choosing between may be more noteworthy, and I find the response, "They are both very good" a weak cop-out that either means "I've never had either one" or "I'm not allowed to say anything disparaging about the menu".
Aerotropolis firms, many in the high-tech and advanced business-service sectors, are often more dependent on distant suppliers, customers and enterprise partners than those located in their own metropolitan region.
Particularly for companies that are somewhat distant from customer transactions, such as consumer-goods makers and B2B firms, this requires developing fundamentally new skills and structures for gathering and analyzing customer data, interacting with customers, and focusing on the experience design along with product and creative design.
