TY - JOUR AB - You may not believe the customer is always be right, as James Cash Penney insisted, but you can't deny that he or she pays your salary, no matter what business you're in. But what is a customer? Is a customer a consumer? A king? A headache? All of the above? None of the above? We decided to find out what people thought a customer actually was. Here's what they told us. VL - 19 IS - 4 SN - 0275-6668 DO - 10.1108/eb039953 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039953 PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/01/01 TI - The Last Word: Customer T2 - Journal of Business Strategy PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 56 EP - 56 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -