Chapter 1: An Introduction to Consumer Behavior

Chapter 1

• An Introduction to
• Consumer Behavior

“Remember Me?”

• I'm the fellow who goes into a restaurant, sits down and patiently waits while the waitresses do everything but take my order. I'm the fellow who goes into a department store and stands quietly while the sales clerks finish their little chitchat. I'm the man who drives into a gasoline station and never blows his horn, but waits patiently while the attendant finishes reading his comic book.
• "Yes, you might say, I'm a good guy. But do you know who else I am? I am the fellow who never comes back, and it amuses me to see you spending thousands of dollars every year to get me back into your store, when I was there in the first place, and all you had to do to keep me was to give me a little service; show me a little courtesy."
• Source: From a Better Business Bureau bulletin submitted by An Arkansas Reader to Dear Abby