For Paul Roll, the director of the Paris Tourism Office, the Chinese visitor is "a peculiar kind of customer".
Yet in a peculiar psychological oddity, customers rarely flee.
In this paper, with regard to the customer characteristics peculiar to B2C e-commerce and the turbulence of the competitive market, a new fuzzy location model is proposed to optimize the distribution system design in B2C e-commerce.
National monopolies in share trading look increasingly peculiar, not least to their customers.
She's a natural, if peculiar, entertainer for these high-paying customers.
Yet, when I asked Grandinetti why publishers should view Amazon as a partner, he said, "We've always been a company focussed on customers, not competitors" — a peculiar way of describing your suppliers.
Wilbur and his brother Harbour, who runs the family bookshop, anchor the story with their contrasting temperaments, but its fluttery, eccentric heart belongs to Ms. Henderson, who plays a bookshop customer who joins their morose and peculiar family (Scott).
Such models are not peculiar to emerging markets: Dell builds computers to its Western customers' specifications, and Western management gurus have been advocating networks for decades.
(America, for example, has tens of thousands of water firms, many of them serving only a few thousand customers).The international water business has its own peculiar problems.
What had once seemed like a brilliant idea -- carriers' buying and selling future access on those fiber networks to meet expected customer demand -- became a swap meet unto itself, with its own peculiar bookkeeping.
