2 a person or an organization that buys a product or service: --
customer evaluation/feedback/testing We now need to trial these products and get customer feedback before developing them further.
customer expectations/needs/preferences They adapt their services to meet customer needs in different countries.
a dissatisfied/unhappy customer The store has changed its image in an effort to win back unhappy customers.
a satisfied/happy customer Studies show that each satisfied customer will tell one other person about your company.
future/potential/prospective customers a cost-effective way to reach prospective customers
a loyal/regular customer We like to reward loyal customers with special offers.
a big/good/major customer The farm's biggest customer is a restaurant chain.
appeal to/attract/bring in customers techniques to attract new customers
We aim to respond to all customer complaints within 24 hours.
We need to convert more website visitors to paying customers.
Our new ordering system means we can serve customers more efficiently.
3 used to emphasize that, in business, it is very important not to disagree with a customer or make them angry: --
Rather than masking the problems that afflicted her business, she paraded them in full view of her customers.
However, the growth in popularity of selfcatering accommodation may indicate customers' rejection of this trend towards ' pseudo-domestication ' by hotels.
The latter denotes products for which customers are prepared to pay higher prices.
Such a crop variety may not be high yielding, or have acceptable colour, size and other attributes deemed more valuable by farmers and/or customers.
At print shop service counters, customers can place orders for document services in person.
Although both are physical in nature, customers use quite different resources for referring to each.
We will see that in the face of such troubles in recognition, customers employ alternative reference forms to perform reparative work.
The customer's utterance in line 1 satisfies all the conditions for a question to elicit information from the salesperson.
