experience Tag

There is an art to customer service that I worried was waining for a while, but I see hope as I think it’s coming back. In my much younger years I spent a lot of time in bars, on the service side not as a customer…well admittedly not all the time. Under the wing of a brilliant restauranteur and talented sommelier, we were taught drinks and food service. It was a really enjoyable time in

In 2019 research showed… (now I know many will wince at an article that starts like this but bear with it, it’s pretty interesting…) that shoppers were actively avoiding the wave of self-serve checkouts and online automation that appeared in favour of staffed stores. The report noted that consumers actually value the tactile experience and human interaction over the distance that self-serve puts between them and the product. The drive for a traditional customer service