customer base

noun

: a set of customers one can depend on
The company has a solid customer base.

Examples of customer base in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Dollar Tree stores target middle-income shoppers, while lower-income consumers make up a sizable percentage of Family Dollar’s customer base. Bychris Morris, Fortune, 5 June 2024 Much of the town of Oakville burned down in 1893, but the store was rebuilt and transformed from a mercantile into a grocery store that became more gourmet as its customer base did. Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024 Advertisement Thousands of brands large and small try to make it into Erewhon every year, hoping to tap into the elite grocery chain’s coveted customer base: generally young, eager to spend on whatever is in at the moment and likely to hype it on TikTok and Instagram. Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024 That could mean either focusing on developing new in-home fitness products and attacking the traditional gym business industry, or focusing on embracing its existing customer base and capitalizing on their devotion to the brand. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 3 May 2024 In the report, Heiman says their subscriber base declined due to not having the right inventory levels for customers (its active customer base is currently 132,000 subscribers as of last October). Tina Charisma, Essence, 23 May 2024 The most loyal customer base for El Califa de León originally came from politicians of the old ruling PRI party, whose headquarters is about five blocks away. Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024 Unlike many of the area’s ski-centric seasonal hotels, the Weston hopes to capture this consistent customer base with summer-weather activities. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 May 2024 Its customer base ranged from judges, lawyers, stockbrokers and business people enjoying a quick lunch, to off-duty strippers, cabdrivers, cops, newspaper workers, drinkers and other denizens of the night who stopped in for a sausage before calling it a day and heading home. Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024

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“Customer base.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/customer%20base. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.

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