Let’s play a game. I’ll name two retailers and you guess which one has more locations in the five boroughs of New York City. Ready?
Starbucks vs. Dunkin’ Donuts
McDonald’s vs. Burger King
Rite Aid vs. CVS
Coach vs. H&M vs. Pinkberry
Best Buy vs. American Apparel
According to a new study from the NYC-based think tank, Center for an Urban Future, the numbers are suprising.
Dunkin Donuts has more locations (341) in the five boroughs than Starbucks (235). Though Starbucks’ has more than double the amount of Manhattan locations (186 vs 78). McDonald’s has 248 locations compared to Burger King’s paltry 92. Rite Aid has 209 locations to CVS’s 108, but not as much as NYC-favorite Duane Reade (with 216 locations). Coach and H&M have as many NYC locations as California upstart Pinkberry (all with 12 locations in the city) and would you believe that American Apparel has more locations than Best Buy (16 vs 9).
The details revealed by the study are interesting, with a thorough breakdown of how many locations each retailer has in each borough. It is worth downloading the PDF and taking a look at their results.
Couple of interesting commentaries on the report from the New York Daily News, the New York Observer, and the New York Post.
Photo above from Flickr user lab2112, used under Creative Commons.
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Here is one thing I believe in: customer service is not one way street.
Customers, as well as businesses they deal with, have an obligation to better customer service. Customer service cannot go from bad to good if the company doesn�t know that they are providing bad customer service. On the same hand, customer service cannot continue to be good or great if the company doesn�t know that they are already providing that level of service. It is important for the customer to communicate with whoever they are able to in order to help build good customer service relationships.
I�d like to share with you five ways that you, as a customer, can improve customer service in the places that you shop. Although the scope of this post is geared towards retail, restaurants, and industries where customer interaction is one-on-one, the basic tenets that I will describe can be applied to almost all of our business relationships.
Most of these ways should seem simplistic and obvious, but that’s the point. Talking to friends and family, it doesn’t seem that a lot of people are doing these incredibly simple and easy things that they can be doing to help businesses improve customer service.
For a little back story as to why I wrote this, check out my other post: On poor customer service and me being a poor customer.
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I think one of the greatest, yet creepiest, commercials of recent memory all involve Burger King’s “King”. Especially the new one where the King wakes up in his bed, rubs his eyes and looks at the crowd in his bedroom. Because of my fondness for the King (and the fact that I am still mad that I didn’t buy a King mask for Halloween), I find this video especially funny. The King flipping off all of the BK competitors to the tune of the Safety Dance? Hilarious.
Link via Church of the Customer.
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