In August, the companies resumed their normal role of taking customers away from the domestic automakers.

I am the owner of a small business and am often required to take customers to lunch.

Other restaurants open earlier, but also take customers until after midnight.

We've been slowly taking customers from planes for 15 years, but then we'll take even more of them.

"We are in a very rare situation where we can actually take customers from competitors," he said.

It's taken customers in the Midwest five years to get used to short.

He only takes new customers from recommendations, and only after looking them over.

A glass elevator will take customers up to a 24-foot-high selling floor or an art gallery above that.

"We are not out to take customers away from other malls," he said.