Chris@feddit.uk to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThe customer is always righteous [Roonie the Rabbit]cdn.masto.hostexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1438arrow-down113file-text
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minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·4 months agoThis too. But I wouldn’t call it more cynical; it’s simply that you don’t know how the goods are going to be used as well as the customer does, so from their PoV what you consider buying something dumb might be actually smart.
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoTrue, but it also means if the customer wants to buy a chocolate kettle then you sell them one.
minus-squarethanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoYeah I think the full aphorism was “The customer is always right in matters of taste.”
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This too. But I wouldn’t call it more cynical; it’s simply that you don’t know how the goods are going to be used as well as the customer does, so from their PoV what you consider buying something dumb might be actually smart.
True, but it also means if the customer wants to buy a chocolate kettle then you sell them one.
Yeah I think the full aphorism was “The customer is always right in matters of taste.”