alternatives

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Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

An analyst at JPMorgan Chase asked on MidCap Financial’s earnings call last week whether the fund was considering strategic alternatives given the recent asset sale by Apollo’s REIT.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Such alternatives would only add about a negligible 20 nautical miles to journeys that sometimes exceed 10,000 nautical miles.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

The agreement also drops a court-appointed monitor the city objected to and provides two alternatives and limited the fees to no more than $150,000 per year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

You can see things that we cannot, you can see connections and possibilities and alternatives that are invisible to us, just as sraf was invisible to you.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman