But, from the perspective of this loyal customer, it is another case of Starbucks breaking faith.
"Ford has betrayed its workforce and its loyal customer base, " said the union's general secretary Len McCluskey.
This allowed us to build up a loyal customer base and keep growing while keeping our spend low.
Xbox has a very loyal customer base, and Microsoft threatens to alienate that base with this sort of move.
"We're buying a large deposit franchise with a loyal customer base, " said PNC chief executive James Rohr on a conference call Friday.
Citigroup is now a loyal customer--it contributes over 40% to total revenues--and has renewed its contract with I-flex for another five years.
These players with a loyal customer base and global presence have the potential to change the dynamics of the the single-serve industry.
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We let them deliver our product and our brand in a way that they thought most fitting for their loyal customer base.
Loyal Customer Base: Starbucks has a very loyal and dedicated customer base.
From LEGO sets to enterprise IT equipment, examples abound of establishing a loyal customer base through the development of a flexible framework.
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Believing foolishly that its loyal customer base would never desert its famous products, Kodak ignored competitors Sony, Fuji and other innovative digital camera firms.
In contrast, says Gordon, WaMu has a retail network of more than 2, 000 branches, which generates billions in profits and has a loyal customer base.
So rather than advertise, they turned their small but loyal customer base into salespeople, giving away 250 megabytes of free storage in exchange for a referral.
Back then, when Martha the Human Brand was found guilty on all counts, the brand lost a good deal of trust among her then-loyal customer base.
Brands will be rewarded just like they would for being wrapped in pink: sell more stuff, build a loyal customer base, and help people who deserve it.
With its loyal customer base, numerous marketing channels and international reach, we believe Tesco is the perfect partner to bring WE7's music services to a wider audience.
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On May 5, I spoke with a T-Mobile customer service rep, who began the conversation by thanking me for having been such a loyal customer for 3 years now!
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One of those most irked by the company's approach is the iPhone-toting president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a loyal customer since 1982, when he bought an Apple IIe.
The 80-year-old has been in business since 1984, but her shop could close after the Derby because her older, loyal customer base has shrunk due to illness and old age.
While that rate of defections might seem worrisome, the company paints its "churn rate" as an enviable statistic in its prospectus, calling its "loyal customer base" one of its key strengths.
Sure, a lot of people would say that we could subsidize the freemium business model for a few years until we built up a loyal customer base, then switch to a paid service.
When the prodigal returned, the firm's loyal customer base, starved for years of innovative new computers, rushed to snap up the slick, if rather expensive, machines that Mr Jobs began to produce for them.
This allows independent booksellers with loyal customer bases to advertise and sell Google e-books via their own venues and take an (as of yet undisclosed) cut of the revenue, an opportunity previously denied to them.
Scary in the sense that if you are a given brand in any category and even though your loyal customer has remained loyal for X number of years regardless of price, said customer is now willing to turn their back on you all for the sake of saving money.
Cardinals guard Russ Smith, the tournament's leading scorer and odds-on favorite for Most Outstanding Player, is a loyal customer of Waffle House where, he says, he likes to order a waffle, scrambled eggs with cheese, grits with sugar, two sausages and either "hot tea with three creams" or, if it's Sunday, a cup of coffee.
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Kindle Fire has staked out an important market position due to its loyal Amazon customer base and attractive (low) device pricing.
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Study after study shows that iPhone customers spend more and are more loyal reducing customer churn, a very big expense for carriers.
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