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I've heard from multiple sources that the full quote is "the customer is always right about what they want," meaning they know what kind of product or service they're looking for. Does anyone else have info on a retailer that used this phrase? BrotherSulayman ( talk) 07:50, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Looks like the recent corrections may be zombie edits derived from a YouTube short from early March 2024, where a character describes it as "the full quote", and their boss looks it up on his phone and says "Jesus, you're right!" and makes a point about the service industry. Perhaps the YouTuber wrote the sketch on a day when the Wikipedia article did actually say that.
But I guess people who watch that video are looking the quote up on their phones and finding this page, which doesn't say anything about the "full quote", and are changing the text to back the video up. -- Belbury ( talk) 18:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
The Second Paragraph quotes from Frank Farrington's 1914 work and refers to it as "The Work" but never names it or indicates what sort of work it is.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7f:4c51:dd00:9d2a:5d0d:4bc0:b56a ( talk • contribs) 07:04, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
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I've heard from multiple sources that the full quote is "the customer is always right about what they want," meaning they know what kind of product or service they're looking for. Does anyone else have info on a retailer that used this phrase? BrotherSulayman ( talk) 07:50, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Looks like the recent corrections may be zombie edits derived from a YouTube short from early March 2024, where a character describes it as "the full quote", and their boss looks it up on his phone and says "Jesus, you're right!" and makes a point about the service industry. Perhaps the YouTuber wrote the sketch on a day when the Wikipedia article did actually say that.
But I guess people who watch that video are looking the quote up on their phones and finding this page, which doesn't say anything about the "full quote", and are changing the text to back the video up. -- Belbury ( talk) 18:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
The Second Paragraph quotes from Frank Farrington's 1914 work and refers to it as "The Work" but never names it or indicates what sort of work it is.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7f:4c51:dd00:9d2a:5d0d:4bc0:b56a ( talk • contribs) 07:04, 21 July 2021 (UTC)