"For still there are so many things that I have never seen, in every wood, in every spring there is a different green."
-- JR Tolkien

Surviving Retail: ‘Some guy’ is on the phone

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The phone was answered on the third ring: “Company X, this is John, how can I help you?” “Hello John. This is Mr. Hodgson and I am...

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Surviving Retail: T-Mobile implies customer was a liar

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No one likes to be called a liar. And yet there was no other way to take how the customer service rep for T-Mobile was framing his response...

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Surviving Retail: You are more important than “just a….”

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Recently, I was in a store trying on rugby shoes and asked the salesperson when a new delivery of shoes might be expected as they were out...

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Surviving Retail: Making the Simple Oh-So-Complicated

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In the course of going about our lives, the Adventure Network team has ample time to experience all the joy and certainly much of the...

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