If the same book is available in paper and paperless form, Amazon says, forty per cent of its customers order the electronic version.
Customers order online, and they can set up a personalized, customized burger for your profile (and even post it on your social media accounts).
Eddie Lam, whose Chinese restaurant had its grand opening this week, reports that at least four-fifths of his Asian customers order their food in English.
Retailers such as Levi's and Brooks Brothers are already experimenting with the Dell Computer model, where customers order products that are made especially for them.
Regulars duke it out for the top spot, moving up the menu chart if other customers order their personalized burger, earning credits for future meals as they go.
Auto factories in Europe and Japan have long been set up to build cars to order, because European and Japanese customers order cars instead of picking them off the lot at auto malls.
Customers can order the Samsung Omnia M from Phones 4u online now for delivery by 1st August.
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Once lined up, customers can order anything from notebook computers to 50-cent replacement keys from Insight's Web site.
Customers who order the 918 Spyder also have the opportunity to acquire a special-edition 911 Turbo S Coupe or Cabriolet.
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Beginning Wednesday (today) through Saturday, customers who order a glass of Louis Roederer champagne will receive a jewelry box containing a barcode.
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Online customers can order personalized shoes in virtually any color or style.
This includes more overhead space, upgraded interiors, and the option for World Traveller Plus (economy plus) customers to order off the Club World (business) menu.
As an added bonus, the first 500 customers to order the Motorola RAZRi online at Phones 4u will receive free MOTOROKR S305 Wireless Stereo Headphones.
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Customers who order today will begin receiving their units in March.
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Customers who order FiOS TV and Internet service will receive the "Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" game and Xbox LIVE Gold Membership token within 30 days.
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Customers can order Screen Pack on U-verse TV channel 9910.
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Starting last month, customers who order EchoStar satellite TV service can get--free--a DVR with 100 hours of storage (120 gigabytes) and a "30-second skip" button expressly designed for ad-zapping.
The company desperately needs to get its hands on MCI's (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ) lucrative corporate customers in order to pull off a recovery.
It needs the names of individual customers in order to determine the proper amount of tax due, because some of the sales in question might have gone to tax-exempt entities.
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The online merchant was made infamous by the New York Times piece, in which Borker boasted about bullying customers in order to boost the search rankings of his website DecorMyEyes.com.
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Apple's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes a process for placing an order and then notifying customers when an order is ready to grab at a pick-up station.
So how can retailers and brands tap into the instincts of their desired customers in order to understand what they value and to achieve the desired outcome of consistent engagement, loyalty and wallet share?
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For the second type of entrepreneur, Spanos advises them to build a prototype and test it out on potential customers in order to determine whether the initial hypothesis about the opportunity is right or should be changed.
Customers can order a PC-based system and pick from licensed game packs from companies like Atari, Midway, Sega, and Capcom, or plus in their own Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and use the cabinet and its large screen and durable controls for a retro gaming experience.
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As for the business operators who complain that they cannot afford to handle the increase, when one calculates the small amount of price increase they would have to pass along to customers in order to cover the costs, it is likely that impact will be so minimal as to have no impact.
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With the publication of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recommendations laying out what private insurance companies should be required to spend on actual health care for their customers in order to meet the medical-loss ratios (MLR) mandated by the Affordable Care Act, private insurers are threatening to abandon markets where they believe they can no longer make money under the proposed regulations.
But judges cannot make workers accept lower wages and they cannot order customers into the showroom.
It's also flexible, so customers can easily order more bandwidth through a Web site.
Beginning today, GameStop pre-order customers can get the Wii U for less with exclusive trade bonuses.
Keeping track of your customers' typical order sizes will make suspiciously large orders stand out.
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