Tom's Supermarket Customer Analysis

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Tom’s Supermarket was founded by Tom Thumb in 1948 yet by 1956 it had grown to 20 stores. Thumb created a store for customers to buy food and essential needs for living. Following with the items you buy from Toms, there is always employees and customers. There are three types of customers short tempered, strong manners, and wandering customers. Although, the short tempered customers aren't my favorite type of customer the employees must be respectful and put up with the negativity. For example, this old guy got impatience at me due to the fact that another customer ahead of him card was inoperative; therefore the old guy grabbed his items after that went to a different check out. Succeeding, the next category of customers is strong manners.

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