regarding the title
the customer is always right started in the clothing industry, specifically when a tailor would be asked to make a really weirdly colored design. the phrase was there to mean 'it doesnt matter how stupid they will look in it, they want it and will pay for it so ill make it"
then it got taken from that and used to mean that the customer is incapable of being incorrect. There is a German equivalent to the statement that translates to "the customer is king," holding the same meaning as what the tailors original form of the always right phrase meant, and that cannot really be stolen and re-meaning'd because nothing about being a king implies you cannot be wrong.
At this point its just easier to move out into the country where no one gives a shit. I can name numerous watering holes that never closed or never did half capacity or masks required. Flyover country is truly a thing of beauty.
It's a free(ish) market
Let people vote with their feet
the customer is always right started in the clothing industry, specifically when a tailor would be asked to make a really weirdly colored design. the phrase was there to mean 'it doesnt matter how stupid they will look in it, they want it and will pay for it so ill make it"
then it got taken from that and used to mean that the customer is incapable of being incorrect. There is a German equivalent to the statement that translates to "the customer is king," holding the same meaning as what the tailors original form of the always right phrase meant, and that cannot really be stolen and re-meaning'd because nothing about being a king implies you cannot be wrong.