{"product_id":"the-customer-is-always-wrong-the-retail-chronicles-paperback","title":"The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeff Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom mom-and-pop general stores to big-box, strip-mall chains, it is impossible to consider the American experience without thinking about the buying-and-selling retail culture: the sales and the stockrooms, the shift managers, and the clock punchers. \u003ci\u003eThe Customer Is Always Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLet It Blurt\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Martin\u003c\/b\u003e edited the retail anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Customer Is Always Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e and in 2009 released his fabricated memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Dog Ate My Nobel Prize\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eC. Max Magee created and edits the online magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e. He has appeared on NPR's \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Philadelphia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors Include: Thomas Allen - Kyle Beachy - John Brandon - Sonya Chung - Elizabeth Crane - Rudolph Delson - Rivka Galchen - David Gates and Jonathan Lethem - Joshua Gaylord - Lauren Groff - Garth Risk Hallberg - Owen King - Benjamin Kunkel - Reif Larsen - Victor LaValle - Emily St. John Mandel - Clancy Martin - Michael Paul Mason - Joe Meno - Ander Monson - Victoria Patterson - Tom Piazza - Marco Roth - Nancy Jo Sales - Katherine Taylor - Deb Olin Unferth\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 7.48 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760142975264,"sku":"9781933368900","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f0329fb7d5cd05e16eb92e7d720e2e86.webp?v=1780172702","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-customer-is-always-wrong-the-retail-chronicles-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}