Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
by mschuster91 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:39PM
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> If this were the case, VW would surely have abandoned ship and shuttered their factories. They haven't.
VW has a huge customer base in enterprise and government. As long as trucks are not affected by faked emission tests, both won't dump Volkswagen. And even if: many large corporations and government institutions run their own car/truck repair shops, sometimes even their own parts storage (the most extreme is certainly UPS) in order to save money - and you can't just switch over all that to a new manufacturer.
> Similar situation with BP - they are not in the doldrums.
For gas directly sold by BP to customers: who cares? Consumers only look at the pump price, they're not as politicized as e.g. during Brent Spar 1995. The other branches / customers of bp are all corporate, where there is no incentive except prices to switch suppliers.
People have short-term memories and will vote with their wallets if they see a new product that seems "worth the cost" of ownership.