Nobody cancelled. A fifth of the base stopped ordering.
In businesses without contracts, customers rarely leave. They just order less often, and the metric that should catch it does…
You benchmark three competitors. None of them took the work.
Most firms define their competitive set by who looks like them. Buyers define it by what else the money could have done, and the two lists rarely match.
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