The phrase "lose custom" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means to experience a decline in customers or to lose the patronage of customers. Example: The restaurant's poor service caused them to lose custom and their profits declined significantly.
Desperate not to lose custom, Hitachi's consortium reluctantly matched it, yen for yen.
The problem with this is that local cafés and restaurants lose custom because, naturally, people don't want to pay "twice" for food and drink.
But in big cities that attract shoppers from miles around, councils are conscious they could lose custom to competing city centres.
What is more, the backdoors that agencies would like to see installed could also let malicious hackers get in too, not least those based in China.As for America's technology companies, they worry that they will lose custom, in particular abroad.
"The government needs to be understanding of the sector and not tax it out of existence … Such is the weak pricing power of much of the bar industry that bar operators have to either swallow tax increases themselves or lose custom to the supermarkets," he said.
She argued that consumer pressure and media scrutiny would mean providers blocking or charging extra for bandwidth-heavy services would soon lose custom.
They also depend on how fat the profit margins are in the firm that loses custom, since that determines how much each consumer gains from switching.
Hitherto, it seems to have assumed that such "bad" publicity saves it more by deterring compensation claims than it costs in lost custom.
Ms Kolleh said that last week she decided she had "had enough" of losing custom and chose to communicate her frustrations more directly.
Unable to sell a business whose building was threatened with demolition, they waited for the local council to buy them out, losing custom as the surrounding streets were emptied.
Wholesale, British cocaine is Europe's most expensive.A big reason for cheap retail prices, say police, is that dealers have discovered cutting agents which allow them to pad their products without losing custom.
