The customer is NOT always right

Why do we persist in maintaining that the customer is always right, when we all know that isn’t true?

Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner
Published in
5 min readAug 14, 2023

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Perhaps you’ve patronized a business that had a sign on the wall saying something like: “We have only two rules. Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, see Rule #1.”

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Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner

Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com