"Ranee Mueller" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Dee Randall" > wrote:
>
>> "JimLane" > wrote in message
>> ...
>
>> > Buy them at a competitor, if you can, then drop in and tell the manager
>> > that you have enjoyed doing your business with them for the past xxx
>> > years, but you are now shopping at xyz, because they cared.
>> >
>> >
>> > jim
>>
>> Cliche: Don't burn your bridges!
>
> How is that burning bridges? This isn't a friend or a family member,
> it's a store. If they want to work to prove themselves and regain a
> customer, so much the better. If not, they they lose a customer.
> Capitalism and free trade at work.
>
> Regards,
> Ranee

They would lose me as a customer, but I want to keep the door open if
there's some goody I would like to purchase that they have and it would
inconvenience me to go elsewhere. Usually I don't ever go back. When a
place goes out of business, it enters my mind that there were probably a lot
of people like me who didn't tell them that there merchandising stunk, but
I'm not in the business myself of informing others how they should conduct
their business so they won't go belly-up, nor do I care to hear anything
they might have to say to me; it only wastes my time - just as it does to
shop in their store and run the aisles looking for something they probably
don't have.
Walmart is a good example of running the aisles looking. I usually go there
when I have a list of about 5-10 items. I'm lucky if I get 2-3. Even those
2 or 3 items are inferior to what I really want and would may more for an
adequate product.
It's also nice to have a store pharmacy say that they will order something
for you, but Walmart even though they stock many, many items will do this
for you; but my thought is -- if you stock so many widgets, why can't you
stock my kind of widget.
Well, you can tell that I've been to the hospital in D.C. for a procedure
for my DH, and shopping in Fairfax and doing the driving in the raging
traffic. I guess I'm in a mood! Whew -- guess I'm over it now.
Dee Dee

Dee Dee