‘The customer is always right’ … doesn’t mean anything any more.
Don’t get me wrong - actual customers will always have no power no matter what platform there is.
The problem these days is that sellers, competitors, marketers and salesmen have co-opted the idea of ‘customers’ to screw over the entire system for everyone - customers and sellers.
Whatever you do in online sales, whether it is selling or buying … never trust anyone and don’t promise anything beyond what you are originally expected to do.
Capitalism is like a cancer that invades, infects and destroys everything it touches. When you think it about the definitions for successful capitalism and cancer are exactly the same … runaway, unrestricted and unlimited growth is the goal.
“…in matters of taste” is the phrase you forgot, bud. The rest of your point is fine, but the rambling has no connection to the customer being right, just greed.
It never meant what people think it means. It means “the customer” in the sense of "the people.” The customer as a whole, not on an individual level.
It means if you have a hat store and you sell red hats, and all of a sudden red hats are unpopular (for some reason) but purple hats become in style, stock some goddamn purple hats.
It does not mean, and never has meant: “since I am a customer what I say goes no matter what, your hats are now buy one get one free and bend over so I can stick my fist in your butt.”
‘The customer is always right’ … doesn’t mean anything any more.
Don’t get me wrong - actual customers will always have no power no matter what platform there is.
The problem these days is that sellers, competitors, marketers and salesmen have co-opted the idea of ‘customers’ to screw over the entire system for everyone - customers and sellers.
Whatever you do in online sales, whether it is selling or buying … never trust anyone and don’t promise anything beyond what you are originally expected to do.
Capitalism is like a cancer that invades, infects and destroys everything it touches. When you think it about the definitions for successful capitalism and cancer are exactly the same … runaway, unrestricted and unlimited growth is the goal.
“…in matters of taste” is the phrase you forgot, bud. The rest of your point is fine, but the rambling has no connection to the customer being right, just greed.
There’s no evidence of that being used originally. It was just made up by people or reddit/tiktok
It never meant what people think it means. It means “the customer” in the sense of "the people.” The customer as a whole, not on an individual level.
It means if you have a hat store and you sell red hats, and all of a sudden red hats are unpopular (for some reason) but purple hats become in style, stock some goddamn purple hats.
It does not mean, and never has meant: “since I am a customer what I say goes no matter what, your hats are now buy one get one free and bend over so I can stick my fist in your butt.”
The saying is : the customer is always right in matters of taste