1. Egg hopes by selling funds it can offset the costs of luring customers with unprofitable savings rates. 2. He made two desperate attempts to recoup by staging the kind of garish spectacle that had once lured customers to the Falls. 3. Now Butlins itself is struggling, its customers lured overseas by the package tour companies. 4. Also, department stores have been luring customers from apparel retailers with sales and promotional events. 5. American Express turned to smart cards as it was developing Blue, a credit card intended to lure younger customers. 6. And Chase is pushing to lure more customers into forsaking a visit to the branch for their home computer. 7. And after years of charging lofty rates, long-distance phone companies now write checks to lure customers away from their competitors. 8. Analysts say the problem was partly poor management and partly the wild success of Wal-Mart, which has lured Kmart customers right and left. 9. And other retailers -- from electronics stores to general discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. -- have slashed prices to lure more customers into their stores. 10. And while commercial sites usually require the use of a credit card, some pornography sites offer free photographs to lure customers. |