Starbucks lost customers after an increase in late July of 9 cents a cup caused some customers to go to competitors instead.
She and her reporters are direct in telling their sources that if scoops go to competitors, a price will be paid, and that if moguls appear at the conference of a competitor, like The Wrap, they can expect to be spanked.
Anderson and Srinivasan [2] declare that dissatisfied customers highly tend to go to competitors.
Other shoppers said they were going to competitors because of their layaway programs.
Potential riches from e-readers, digital music players and tablet computers all went to competitors because it could not get its products to market quickly enough.
But the ban began threatening the hospital's financial viability because prospective patients were going to competitors that were not smoke-free.
The goal, they say, is to keep premiums down to keep customers from going to competitors, and sometimes even a few dollars can make a difference.
It is too early to claim an all-out broker exodus, and many who are leaving are simply going to competitors that are dangling better pay packages.
But others, knowing that brokers have become more important to the bottom lines of their employers, are simply going to competitors that are dangling better pay packages.
Ahmed said on Friday that most of the £40m of lost orders would not be recovered because they had gone to competitors.
