"How awful," Mr. Killeen, 35, said, "for customers to see a guy in a suit standing around doing nothing here".
IBM spokesperson Tim Breuer said, "For customers that want support and porting [to the new version of Solaris], we're providing that".
Those were the choices ordered by the trickle of takeout customers during my visits, but the 50 or so Thai dishes hold more interest for me and, Mrs. DeToro says, for many customers.
At present, Edwards says: "For all most customers know, we could be funding polar bears in Greenland".
Still, he said, for many customers, "we don't know when those checks are going to come".
Phillipo said for now customers will have to fire up the Tile app proactively to see if they're missing anything before they drive away.
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But he has left many of the prices unchanged for years, and says that, for customers, a used bookstore with no bargains would take much of the fun out of the quest.
Nonetheless, he said, competition for customers has never been greater.
Leron Gubler, the chief executive of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, said competition for customers is so intense that as many as 70 different sales agents wander the area's star-emblazoned sidewalks armed with brochures.
