Studies predict more customer turnover in an industry already rife with it.
With entities that do report an incident are likely to experience more than four times the customer turnover.
Too little safety stock can result in lost sales and, thus, a higher rate of customer turnover.
Faced with customer turnover and price wars, the carriers hope data services can help restore their profit margins.
This could cause poor service delivery, customer dissatisfaction, high customer turnover, and loss of market share.
Yet in the fourth quarter, Cingular was able to reduce customer turnover to a record low 2.1 percent.
But that system sped up customer turnover so much that sales increased to $1,200 an hour, from $800, on the first day of use.
What the restaurants tended to lose in higher food costs, they made up for with volume and considerable customer turnover.
Street prostitution, the prostitutes say, can still be lucrative if customer turnover is high enough.
In restaurants many of the garnishings are already added to increase customer turnover.