false 61141705 621074 3267288 193336890X 9781933368900 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3267288.The_Customer_Is_Always_Wrong_The_Retail_Chronicles 3.08 86 The Customer Is Always Wrong is a tragicomic and all-too revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell their tales. Jim DeRogatis, author of Let It Blurt, for example, describes hanging out with Al himself at Al Rocky's Music Store, while Colson Whitehead explains how three summers at a Long Island ice cream store gave him a lifelong aversion to all things dessert-like. This book not only shines a light on the absurdities of retail culture but finds the delight in it as well.]]> 600318 3.13 90 42 47517 3.32 442 160 36483 3.53 645 112 51038 3.53 577 143 445848 3.33 166 57 262084 3.60 3463 451 252053 3.41 215 91 111012 3.61 533 147 335573 3.23 132 48 316318 3.20 96 42 1021440 3.09 87 41 2580354 3.08 86 41 10029 3.57 3273 664 634465 3.10 107 49 70162 3.21 239 79 2580353 3.08 86 41 183493 3.54 243 77 2580355 3.08 86 41 823555 3.08 86 41 634835 4.37 309 84 41185 3.37 904 225 150768 3.26 126 49 2580352 3.08 86 41 2008 0 0 false Thu Jun 25 20:38:31 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 20:38:31 -0700 2009