Opinion / Columnist
Make the customer king again
25 Nov 2018 at 09:01hrs | Views
The marketing mantra 'customer is king' seem to have melted away with time as traders take their customers for granted. Gone are the days when shopping was a pleasure, to be received with a smile as one walked into a supermarket to pick a few items.
Most chicken outlets and in-store butcheries sell 'cleaned' chicken casings and chicken feet making it easy for their 'kings', not at TM Chadcombe. Chicken casings are sold as is, forget the price tag but uncleaned.
The pre-packs look quite catchy from the holding fridges but in this heat one my have 'company' on way home with swarms of flies following the pong.
Once uncleaned chicken feet have been refrigerated, cleaning them later is a Herculean task with the outer skins literally 'refusing' to come off. Is it asking for too much for TM Chadcombe to sell cleaned chicken offal and feet?
Similar products from Pick n Pay in Harare CBD are sold clean even the skins are immaculate, are both traders not two sides of the same coin? Pinching one's nose when trying to prepare a meal is not a stroll in the park. With stratospheric prices of beef not reachable by many, why punish the poor twice?
Selling dirty chicken offal is, to say the least, cruel. The bulky pre-packed chicken casings appear big and quite much yet one remains with only 200 gr after washing them. Its the poor people who made you great, do not take from them.
Gabarinocheka. Msasa Park.
Most chicken outlets and in-store butcheries sell 'cleaned' chicken casings and chicken feet making it easy for their 'kings', not at TM Chadcombe. Chicken casings are sold as is, forget the price tag but uncleaned.
The pre-packs look quite catchy from the holding fridges but in this heat one my have 'company' on way home with swarms of flies following the pong.
Similar products from Pick n Pay in Harare CBD are sold clean even the skins are immaculate, are both traders not two sides of the same coin? Pinching one's nose when trying to prepare a meal is not a stroll in the park. With stratospheric prices of beef not reachable by many, why punish the poor twice?
Selling dirty chicken offal is, to say the least, cruel. The bulky pre-packed chicken casings appear big and quite much yet one remains with only 200 gr after washing them. Its the poor people who made you great, do not take from them.
Gabarinocheka. Msasa Park.
Source - Gabarinocheka
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