Rental agents have become increasingly insistent that customers buy coverage, even when presented with evidence that the policy is not needed, because, for example, the renter already has coverage on a credit card or on a regular policy.
The demand for local grain is being fueled by bakers, who are responding to requests, often insistent ones, from customers.
But when you position your business as a technology innovator, the insistent query from customers and investors always is, "What have you done for me lately?" So Raytheon (a contributor to my think tank) continually reinvents itself in a bid to stay ahead of the pack.
And more than a year ago, its otherwise easy-going, fat-tolerant customers were so insistent about the lard issue that the restaurant was forced to abandon it in favor of vegetable oil, Mr. Price said.
The vertical relationship between Lindblad and its customers had been too insistent to encourage the forging of horizontal bonds.
But she added that "retailers need to understand that many of these sales and promotional periods might draw customers who are more insistent about getting a good deal".
Companies say they are being forced to improve their environmental practices by their customers, who are increasingly insistent that the products they use be associated with environmentally responsible practices.
In an age of convergence and simplification, customers are ever more insistent that computers, phones, TV, and music systems work together.
Workday, until recently pretty much a pure-play SaaS provider, recently said its customers have become increasingly insistent on the creation and extension of a Workday platform (PaaS) to allow for applications to be created, extended, and configured.
Siegel is insistent that without offering that level of control customers run the risk of throwing food away because they haven't bought into the corresponding dish in the first place.
He remains insistent, however, about sticking to just one blueprint for customers' investments.
