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<blockquote data-quote="GorillaG" data-source="post: 4285595" data-attributes="member: 49083"><p>I recall as a teen my dad had a car lot and I was always at the closest parts store getting some quickly needed part. This was a big, popular, busy store with several countermen. Their policy was to take phone calls first and have counter customers wait. As you know each call can be lengthy back then, no computers. Find out what part was needed, look the number up in a book, write it down, then go search for part. When it was finally your turn if the phone rang they made you wait again. Mom and Pop operation of course so if you didn't like it tough luck. No corporate office to complain to. Never understood that business model but then again I often see counter-intuitive crap like this in business. I don't get how businesses with an FU policy survive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GorillaG, post: 4285595, member: 49083"] I recall as a teen my dad had a car lot and I was always at the closest parts store getting some quickly needed part. This was a big, popular, busy store with several countermen. Their policy was to take phone calls first and have counter customers wait. As you know each call can be lengthy back then, no computers. Find out what part was needed, look the number up in a book, write it down, then go search for part. When it was finally your turn if the phone rang they made you wait again. Mom and Pop operation of course so if you didn't like it tough luck. No corporate office to complain to. Never understood that business model but then again I often see counter-intuitive crap like this in business. I don't get how businesses with an FU policy survive. [/QUOTE]
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