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Why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong

March 29th, 2008

Positive Sharing, Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong:

“The phrase “The customer is always right” was originally coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London in 1909, and is typically used by businesses to:

  1. Convince customers that they will get good service at this company
  2. Convince employees to give customers good service

Fortunately more and more businesses are abandoning this maxim – ironically because it leads to bad customer service.

Here are the top five reasons why “The customer is always right” is wrong. (…)”

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