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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 135. The proverb today is the

  • customer is always right. Yeah. I'm sure you've probably heard this line before.

  • This proverb before. All right. Let's look at the note. This proverb is often used

  • in the retail industry as a way of letting the customer know that a

  • particular business respects and cares about the wishes and

  • wants of its customers. And will go out of their way to please them or at least

  • do their best to try to please them. No matter how annoying or unreasonable a

  • customer may be. Yeah. Well if you've ever been on both sides. Now we've all been

  • customers before because we all have to buy things.

  • Not everybody has always been on the business side. But if you have, if you had

  • a job in sales or you had a sale for someone or you had your own business, you

  • know, that even though most customers are seem to be pretty fair and reasonable

  • you do, you could get your share of some customers they could just be an annoying

  • customer or an unreasonable customer that seems to be demanding too much . This

  • kind of policy says that really you should even try to put up with, with

  • those customers as well. So it is often cited by customers as a way of demanding

  • they should get good service. Yeah. So if you're not doing something for a

  • customer, you know sometimes you've actually heard

  • them say hey well what about the customer's always right.

  • like you know well what happened to this. Don't, don't you have that sort of policy ?

  • Don't you want a repeat customer ? All right. So that's what they mean by it's

  • often cited. So some customers may actually use it. You know, don't you

  • believe in , don't you believe in the customer's always right

  • All right. Let's continue. The origin of this proverb is difficult to pinpoint. It's

  • difficult to say exactly how it started or with whom. But it seems to

  • have gained popularity in the early 1900s and there's especially two

  • department stores. One of them may have created

  • that. They used it a lot in the early nineteen hundreds. Of course, it caught on since

  • then and it's been going the whole way since the early 1900s. But here's the two

  • stores. Some associated with Marshall Field's department stores in Chicago. So

  • I guess they used it a lot. They used it probably ... it's good way of

  • advertising. It's a good way of attracting new customers, especially any

  • customers that have gone to businesses before and had a bad experience.We do

  • know there is there is some truth to this policy like a lot of people if you

  • go to a store and you have a bad experience. Sometimes you say well I'm never

  • going back there again and there is some truth that you may lose that customer

  • forever, or it may take a very ,very long time

  • for them to come back if they ever come back at all. All right. Others believe it

  • could have come from London's Selfridges stores too. So both of these were in the

  • early 1900's and this is where this sort of a proverb was being said. It became pretty

  • popular and pretty big. All right. And here's just one example of how we may

  • hear it used. That business knows the importance of retaining ... remember

  • retaining means keeping or holding on to regular customers. So repeat customers.

  • Customers that will come back and buy from you again and again or use your

  • service again and again. And has adopted a policy of the customer is always right.

  • Okay. Anyway I hope you got it I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 135. The proverb today is the

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