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What happened to customer service at Sears?

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According to online surveys, over 80 percent of customers now give Sears poor customer service grades citing reasons of inept management, unreliable products, poor customer service, and a profound lack of employee training. Customer service begins with employees who want to be working and doing their best.

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Bad customer experiences make customer service mistakes harder to forgive

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Perhaps the most repeated complaint when having to deal with poor customer service is the need to keep calling back when something is wrong with a product. Therefore with all of this in mind, is it any wonder that poor customer service triggers those negative feelings in us?

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Counting down holiday shopping days: Great customer service needed

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What we don’t like however, are problems with the merchandise or services we purchase. Therefore customers are more likely to shop at the competition when customer service perfection fails. So what are some of the customer service “need to master” skills in order to create that exceptional experience ?

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I’m telling my friends about the bad customer service

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Still imagine all the damage this entire bad customer service experience has had on the business. How many times have any of us just left our would-be purchases on the ledge or on the counter because service was so slow? Some organizations seem to have misplaced the concept of customers first. photo credit: jeffkward.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Impact of poor customer service.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. According to The Australian , the company now plans to spend $100 million over the next four years to improve their customer service. Brookes also plans to equip 65 stores with 4,000 touch screen registers.

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Airports and excellent customer service – can it really be?

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The airport has a four-story amusement park for the children, and in Terminal 3, a city in itself, such passenger services as a dry cleaner, medical center, grocery store, pharmacy, jewelry and clothing stores all at one’s fingertips.

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Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

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Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? A clothes-sharing website for high-value items such as shoes. E-Mail me or follow me.

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