consumer dissatisfaction

Consumer dissatisfaction with cable is most pronounced among people who are open to new technologies, according to the survey.

"We've reached the tipping point of consumer dissatisfaction with how customer service is being handled by the airlines," she said.

A ballot referendum in California brought about an insurance rate rollback, reflecting widespread consumer dissatisfaction.

These problems include abandoned calls, initial call delays, government regular, consumer dissatisfaction, and host of other problems.

But the airline's success comes at a time of increasing consumer dissatisfaction with airline service and ticket prices, particularly on shorter flights.

It said such services had "become increasingly unprofitable due to consumer dissatisfaction and the resulting difficulty in collecting bills."

The Joyless Economy: An inquiry into human satisfaction and consumer dissatisfaction, 1976.

Consumer dissatisfaction, the cost of processing complaints and the subsequent loss of good will have led Gateway Computers to eliminate rebates.

Finally the food arrives, and because the original order was not an entirely coherent affair, a lot of consumer dissatisfaction and misunderstanding hangs in the air.

Typical satellite telephone links have 550 to 650 milliseconds of round-trip delay that contribute to consumer dissatisfaction with this type of long-distance carrier.

The philosophy of Consumer Alert advocated free-market solutions to consumer dissatisfaction and promoted the belief that markets are best regulated by informed consumers.

The passage of Proposition 103 was the clearest expression yet of consumer dissatisfaction with auto and other insurance rates, and it sparked similar measures in other states.

Anything short of ideal dimensions results in some economic loss, he argues, whether it is in greater warranty costs, consumer dissatisfaction or a loss of reputation for the company.

To some extent these changes may be consumer driven, reflecting consumer dissatisfaction with impersonal and bureaucratised welfare systems in contrast with the range of choice in private markets.

Bank of America says that its surveys are not showing consumer dissatisfaction in any of its markets and that its branch network remains the main way it gets new customers.

The market for tomatoes in the United States is about $3 billion to $5 billion a year, but Mr. Churchwell said it was marked by consumer dissatisfaction.

For example recently, General Electric, Procter & Gamble and other companies have sought to preempt consumer dissatisfaction by installing toll-free telephone hot lines to their customer relations departments.

"But there is no Presidential involvement and there is no real consumer dissatisfaction in the Microsoft case," said Ron Chernow, author of "Titan," a best-selling biography of Rockefeller.

Still, Mr. Warden made his point: to side with the Government, a court must favor a would-have-been world of hypothetically greater innovation instead of the present, which has not yet created widespread consumer dissatisfaction.

"Consumer dissatisfaction, while widespread, has been disparate, so disparate that it doesn't have a chance against massive industry lobbying," said Gene Kimmelman, legislative director of the Consumer Federation of America.

The decision to approach the fuel economy problem through the label and not the vehicle came from Congress, which tried to address consumer dissatisfaction by ordering the change as part of the Energy Policy Act it passed in the summer of 2005.

Widespread consumer dissatisfaction, intensified competition and perceptions that menu items have not kept pace with customers' changing tastes have combined to produce what may be the most serious crisis ever faced by the senior managers of McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain.

To the Editor: Re "U.S. Economic Ills Spell Risk Abroad" (front page, Jan. 7): It's time that the international financial community consider the economic slowdown for what it is - consumer dissatisfaction with overconsumption.

"The automated teller machines answer real consumer dissatisfactions - the inability to get cash after banking hours and long teller lines," said Douglas D. Anderson, an executive vice president at the Corestates Financial Corporation in Philadelphia.

Mark Leckie, executive vice president and general manager of the Post cereal division, said that "consumer dissatisfaction" with breakfast-cereal prices "had hit a crescendo, and 59 percent of consumers were telling us that the prices had gotten out of line."