More and more major online retailers are offering free and convenient returns, and the experience is creating return customers.
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Anyone who stops by is promptly given a nickname - divulge your favourite footballer or hobby, and there you have it - and return customers are treated to warm greetings and hot tea.
However, the firm does not believe return customers at its UK stores were affected - or that chip and pin data in the UK was accessed as none is stored on the systems in Watford.
P. privileges. (Exclusive Resorts, Case's luxury-residence club, will own and operate some of the units.) Since 30 percent of Miraval's guests are return customers, it seems a safe bet that there's a ready-made second-home market here.
And loyal customers are return customers.
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In cases of delays of more than three hours "likely due to heavy winds impairing two of the available runways at JFK, airlines will be forced to return customers to the gate in great number and this will result in thousands of customers grounded with their flights canceled, " said JetBlue spokesman Mateo Lleras via e-mail.
In return, Indian customers allow outsourcing firms greater leeway in how they meet their commitments.
Mr Hester added that while the banks had now largely fixed all their structural faults, they still had to return to putting customers first.
The holiday shopping season was a success in numbers for retailers that saw customers return to stores and act on a heavily promotional environment in 2011.
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CPI's studios would ask customers to return weeks later to collect their portraits, after having them printed at centralized facilities something fewer customers are willing to accept in a time of ubiquitous instant printing services.
To qualify, customers must return the players by April 30 and have a receipt in hand.
There will be few reasons for customers to return unless they are given some unusual incentives.
Online retailers like Amazon and Zappos make it easy for customers to return items with pre-printed return labels.
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Inland Revenue.com falters as its on line tax return fails to attract customers and the woman snowed under with paper.
There must now be a fundamental shake up of banking culture and a return to banking for customers, not bankers.
So what can be done to restore health to the British motor trade and encourage customers to return to the showrooms?
In return for getting more customers, we would require insurance companies not to discriminate on the basis of preexisting conditions or arbitrarily jack up premiums.
If Coverity can continue to deliver customers a return on their investment in its software, it should continue to grow faster than the industry it leads.
This means providing a discount, special offer or inclusion in some sort of exclusive program in order to provide customers a return on investment for their time.
If the JCP executive team can reverse course soon they may be forgiven and former customers will return and give them time to rethink how to expand.
While upscale restaurants around the world struggle with how to handle the growing popularity of mobile phones at dining tables, Eva leaves it up to its customers to hand in their phones to the hostess who will then store them in baskets with their name on them and return them on the customers way out.
Manager Steve Dew said customers had to return an empty glass or bottle in order to be served another drink.
If this saves online customers having to return items through the post it can only be a welcome innovation in the fashion world.
It makes sense for Groupon to move beyond vouchers, given indications that just 20% of customers using Groupons return to a retailer for a second, nondiscounted visit.
According to The New York Times, the merchants are disillusioned by the legions of one-time customers who never return, and dozens of the coupon sites have folded.
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And Boeing's plans to develop Boeing Capital into a broad financing business were abandoned this autumn when the company decided (following complaints from its airline customers) to return to a focus on financing aircraft.
If Melissa Adelman's hunch is right, this will be the last January apparel retailers will have to brace for the swarm of customers looking to return or exchange all the ill-fitting clothes they got for Christmas.
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