“in matters of taste”
https://www.snopes.com/articles/468815/customer-is-always-right-origin/
I had thought the same.
Obligitory:
This phrase doesn’t mean what everyone thinks it means. “The customer” != you, “the customer” refers to the market as a whole.
As in if I run Bob’s Hat Emporium and I only sell red hats, and purple hats become the latest fashion, well I best goddamn stock some purple hats.
It doesn’t mean that you gets this scarf for free because you found it in the wrong section, Carol.
It’s definitely not a literal rule that says do whatever a customer wants, but I think of it as a motivational concept to encourage employees to give customers what they want whenever possible, and if they want something you can’t give them, act sympathetic to them as if they’re right.
The Lord’s work, right here.
No capes!
Sir, this is a wendy. Next time complain at the store you got the suit from
I’m pretty sure the customer is on the left in this comic.
No, that’s the costumee.
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I don’t make costumes, does that make me wrong or left?
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