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What you'd have said to customers who bothered you ... if only you'd thought it fast enough.
“Please leave and take your business to the Internet.”
To a customer who loudly announced to several customers in the store that no one should ever buy at retail and anybody can get "it" online. "Several customers asked me how I was able to be so calm in the face of such a rude person. I replied that it was either that or I was going to shoot her." — Anonymous
This story is from the June 2010 edition of INSTORE
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