The feedback was corrosive, rife with sniping about slow service, bland assortments and high prices.
Their reasoning was that this would complicate payments, slow service and annoy customers who weren't accustomed to credit card-only sales on airplanes.
He responded to their complaints of slow service and arrogant engineers by adding 400 customer-service agents to take orders and quote jobs faster.
But reams of sales data weren't what Roberts wanted when customers were upset with lousy food, slow service, sloppy stores and surly employees.
Financial firms are not exactly loved by the public: foreclosing on a mortgage is far more invidious than slow service at the checkout.
The search was made more difficult because heavy cellphone use caused slow and delayed service.
Like the 3G iPhone, the Instinct runs on a fast cellular network that promises speeds similar to what people get with slow home DSL service.
Lesson: Find a slow-evolving service -- did anyone say insurance?
But they have been painfully slow to offer the service, despite a glaringly obvious need for it.
Aasen said she was waiting for Maggie to call her back with an update but knew cellphone service was slow in the area.
Reconciliation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new-economy position.
Even the commercial service is slow compared to most consumer broadband.
Washington (CNN) -- As competition expands among airlines to offer passengers the latest in-flight entertainment options, intercontinental routes have been slow to add Internet service.
Now a few big convoys are trundling across, but the service is slow and expensive, so northern farmers are paying more for their petrol and receiving less for their sugar.
Service is slow at Mama Racha in Palermo Soho, but with its views of the bustling adjacent plaza, sitting outside with a mate can be a pleasant way to spend the afternoon.
Mr. Samuelsen has previously said the union could voice its displeasure by enforcing work rules that could slow down bus and train service.
Yet this process could prove to be more drawn out than previously expected, and that sector of the economy is likely to see a very slow pace of disinflation in service prices, despite overall hiring cooling fast.
Meanwhile, some app makers have said that the service has been slow to get started because the TLC's rules are cumbersome, especially a section intended to mollify concerns from vendors who provide the meter and credit-card systems to the 13, 000-strong fleet.
It actually links directly back to a piece I wrote earlier in the week regarding the slow and spectacular death of customer service.
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Weather service meteorologist Bill Goodman said a slow-moving cold front across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic could bring more rain on Monday.
The surprise slow-down in the euro zone private service sector was met with similar results in manufacturing, which dropped below expectations to 48.4 in the factory index from 49.0 in August.
Going forward, growth in the subscription fee is likely to slow due to pressure from pay-TV service providers and expected competition from NBC and Fox, who are planning to launch nationwide sports networks to compete with ESPN.
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One of the most troubling issues it faces is the slow growth in subscribers to its dial-up service.
As the US and Europe slow, Hong Kong's trade-dependent service industries will suffer, and this will translate into higher unemployment and slower growth.
International Business Machines ( IBM) is the company Hewlett Packard ( HPQ) secretly wants to be, one where high-margin service and software businesses support huge but slow-growing (at best) hardware divisions.
Then a slow and orderly process is followed to return reactors to service.
Cablevision began selling its Optimum Voice Internet telephone service in 2003, and while it was slow to take off, it's now got nearly a half-million customers.
Forcibly pushing out new Windows updates to a desktop or even Wi-Fi-only laptop PC might be ok, but it could cause an iPad connected via 3G to become unusably slow or, worse, result in unexpectedly-large service charges.
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