{"id":1044,"date":"2008-08-05T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2008-08-05T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T13:23:23","slug":"class-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Class Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I want to avoid Stop & Shop for various reasons, not the least of which is that I don&#8217;t want them to become a monopoly in this region.<br \/>\nRoche Brothers has better meat, Shaw&#8217;s has a wider selection of groceries and the Windfall has a better deli.<br \/>\nStop & Shop has the best customer service at the podium, though, and that goes a long, long way.<br \/>\nRecently, I complained about the auditing policy Stop & Shop imposes on customers who use their hand held scanners.  They wrote an exceptionally gracious reply.<br \/>\nThen last evening, rushing to get Emme, James and I ready for the ball game, I managed to misplace a bag of groceries.  It was like losing a five dollar bill, not a tragedy, but still, the equivalent of a gallon of gas and maybe a pack of gum.<br \/>\nSeveral hours later, after dropping the kids off, I went back to the Mashpee Stop & Shop, mostly out of curiosity to see if I could figure out what happened to the sack of groceries &#8211; left it at the checkout, left it in a cart, etc.<br \/>\nNo one had turned it in, but the floor manager made me the following offer:  if I could produce a receipt, I could take home replacements for the items lost.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s exactly what happened.  Rather than handing me, a customer of almost seven years, a &#8220;tough luck&#8221; or &#8220;we&#8217;re not responsible&#8221;, Stop & Shop took the high road.<br \/>\nQuite remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I want to avoid Stop &#038; Shop for various reasons, not the least of which is that I don&#8217;t want them to become a monopoly in this region. Roche Brothers has better meat, Shaw&#8217;s has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1044\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}