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Where are the customers? Leasing company executive Michael Collins is puzzled why individual car-lease customers aren't battering down his doors these days.
Where are the customers? Leasing company executive Michael Collins is puzzled why individual car-lease customers aren't battering down his doors these days.

Where are the customers? Leasing company executive Michael Collins is puzzled why individual car-lease customers aren't battering down his doors these days.

Date11/18/1990
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126053F
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Tony Derose: Supersalesman in cars says his regular customers know he won't try to take advantage of them. He tries to do the best he can both for the customer and the boss.
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Yahya' Coovadia: After 22 years as a convenience store owner, he's thinking of installing an electronic door to better screen late-night customers.
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Canadian financial institutions must co-operate on using technology more efficiently to lower service charges for their customers, says an executive of Royal Trustco Ltd
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By Don Dutton Toronto Star, Within days of learning that a blind storekeeper in an Etobicoke office tower might have to retire Friday, his customers h(...)
By Don Dutton Toronto Star, Within days of learning that a blind storekeeper in an Etobicoke office tower might have to retire Friday, his customers h(...)
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9/17/1982
Sing it, uh, Sir: For 58 years, Simpsons staff and executives have been getting together and singing Christmas carols to their customers - all on company time and right under the boss's nose
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12/20/1982
Car salesmen all over Metro are ready for customers to come in and haggle
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Treating people like customers is the secret behind the $2,500,000 success of Mister Transmission, says Secretary-treasurer Jerry Etkin. The company started in 1963 with one shop and less than $10,000. Now it has 18 outlets.
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7/11/1969
Peeved with PET: At Batteries Included, owner Alan Krofchick has as much fun with his wares as his customers
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John Rose, who posts thumbnail reviews to warn his customers about books they may not like, with some of the thousands of science fiction works in his store of Queen St
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Llen prunes a plant in the nursery of and Cullen Pool and Garden Centres. He his customers a bonus in the forum of a newsletter he mails out to 24,000 homes nine times, a year. The newsletter is so well read that Cullen gets fan letters, thank-you notes and greeting cards. Ministers ask permissin to quote from the publication to illustrate a talk or sermon. Cullen's letters are chatty and keep him in touch with his clientele. [Incomplete]
Llen prunes a plant in the nursery of and Cullen Pool and Garden Centres. He his customers a bonus in the forum of a newsletter he mails out to 24,000 homes nine times, a year. The newsletter is so well read that Cullen gets fan letters, thank-you notes and greeting cards. Ministers ask permissin to quote from the publication to illustrate a talk or sermon. Cullen's letters are chatty and keep him in touch with his clientele. [Incomplete]
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