Customers’ Strange Ideas
Is the customer always right? One New Zealand firm finds it sometimes difficult to reconcile customers’ requests with the old adage. In the past ten years the firms, which deals in motor accessories, has kept a record of things not in stock for which it has been asked. Requests for hardware, ranging from needles to egg timers and rain guages might be reasonably expected, but customers have strained the bounds of possibility almost to breaking point with, requests for fly papers, collar studs, cooked ham, cough mixture, fruijt and sweets, reaching the limit perhaps with an inquiry for a ferret net.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 88, 30 August 1948, Page 2
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104Customers’ Strange Ideas Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 88, 30 August 1948, Page 2
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