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‘Tis the season to rev up the customer service

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Statistics for the 2011 shopping holiday season look a little scary for merchants this year. And what that means is the need of customer service representatives demonstrating those people skills that assure shoppers they are making good decisions. Luckily 49 percent say they are going to spend the same amount.

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Customers not feeling “a little love back from Starbucks”

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Stabucks UK has a lot of unhappy customers today after the company decided to change the terms of their loyalty program. The previous rewards card offered a free drink for every 15 transactions and a discount on filter coffee. Now when I need something from a drug store, I use whichever one is closest to me.

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Small Business Saturday – a boon for local retail stores

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Small businesses can answer their own phones instead of having to “press one” to begin the maze of customer service, as well as actually do hands on personal service for customers while they wait.

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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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Supermarkets: How to Build a Winning Loyalty Program

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One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.