{"id":1728,"date":"2022-03-25T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2022-03-25T23:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T22:59:40","slug":"lepicier-et-son-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"L&rsquo;\u00e9picier et son client"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Si vous trainez sur Internet, vous allez voir, souvent, partout, m\u00eame, la citation suivante, en fran\u00e7ais ou en anglais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00ab\u00a0Un client est le visiteur le plus important de nos locaux.<br>Il ne d\u00e9pend pas de nous.<br>Nous sommes d\u00e9pendants de lui.<br>Il n\u2019est pas une g\u00eane dans notre travail.<br>Il en est l\u2019objectif.<br>Il n\u2019est pas \u00e9tranger \u00e0 nos affaires.<br>Il en fait partie.<br>Nous ne lui faisons pas une faveur en le servant.<br>C\u2019est lui qui nous fait cette faveur en nous en donnant l\u2019occasion.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><cite>Mahatma Gandhi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00ab\u00a0A customer is the most important visitor on our premises.<br>He is not dependent on us.<br>We are dependent on him.\u00a0<br>He is not an interruption in our work.<br>He is the purpose of it.\u00a0<br>He is not an outsider in our business.\u00a0<br>He is part of it.<br>We are not doing him a favor by serving him.<br>He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><cite>Mahatma Gandhi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Et il y a des gens pour gober l&rsquo;attribution de cette citation bien connue (et pleine de bon sens, d&rsquo;ailleurs) \u00e0 Gandhi? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aucune r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, aucune date, aucune indication, juste le texte et le nom, avec parfois, bien s\u00fbr, une belle photo pour impressionner le lecteur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On se demande bien comment, un jour, un homme plein d&rsquo;imagination a attribu\u00e9 ce texte \u00e0 Gandhi. La seule activit\u00e9 professionnelle de Gandhi a \u00e9t\u00e9 juriste, puis avocat, et il n&rsquo;a jamais tenu de commerce de sa vie. Bon, maintenant, dans certaines r\u00e9gions de l&rsquo;Inde \u00ab\u00a0gandhi\u00a0\u00bb d\u00e9signe un \u00e9picier, mais ce n&rsquo;est pas une raison! Autant attribuer la citation \u00e0 Napol\u00e9on ou \u00e0 Victor Hugo, tant qu&rsquo;\u00e0 faire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On la trouve en version anglaise, avec m\u00eame une date de discours en 1890 en Afrique du Sud:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laramyk.com\/blog\/gandhi-on-customer-service\/\">https:\/\/www.laramyk.com\/blog\/gandhi-on-customer-service<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laramyk.com\/blog\/gandhi-on-customer-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\/<\/a><br>Sauf qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;est arriv\u00e9 en Afrique du Sud qu&rsquo;en 1893, en 1890 il \u00e9tait en Inde, il suffit de lire n&rsquo;importe quelle biographie.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=580%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=1024%2C812&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=768%2C609&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=1536%2C1219&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=2048%2C1625&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=1200%2C952&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?resize=1980%2C1571&amp;ssl=1 1980w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/PrintersInk.jpg?w=1740&amp;ssl=1 1740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On sait, par contre, qu&rsquo;elle apparait dans un interview donn\u00e9e par un dirigeant am\u00e9ricain de compagnie automobile au journal \u201cPrinters\u2019 Ink: A Journal for Advertisers\u201d, en 1941. C&rsquo;est Kenneth B. Elliottn Vice President charg\u00e9 des ventes de la compagnie automobile \u00ab\u00a0The Studebaker Corporation\u00a0\u00bb, qui s&rsquo;exprime ainsi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is, of course, not possible to state with any practical exactitude what the customer is. But there are several common denominators to be found when we consider the customer in terms of what he is not. These things, I think, are fundamental to intelligent customer relationship and, it may be added, most of them apply pretty well to the vast majority of prospects as well.<br>1. The customer is not dependent upon us\u2014we are dependent upon him.<br>2. The customer is not an interruption of our work\u2014he is the purpose of it.<br>3. The customer is not a rank outsider to our business\u2014he is a part of it.<br>4. The customer is not a statistic\u2014he is a flesh-and-blood human being completely equipped with biases, prejudices, emotions, pulse, blood chemistry and possibly a deficiency of certain vitamins.<br>5. The customer is not someone to argue with or match wits against\u2014he is a person who brings us his wants. If we have sufficient imagination we will endeavor to handle them profitably to him and to ourselves.<\/p><cite>Kenneth B. Elliott, \u201cPrinters\u2019 Ink: A Journal for Advertisers\u201d 1941<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"423\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Studebaker.jpg?resize=423%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Studebaker.jpg?w=423&amp;ssl=1 423w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Studebaker.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>La m\u00eame citation, plus ou moins modifi\u00e9e, sera attribu\u00e9e, dans les ann\u00e9es 1940, \u00e0 d&rsquo;autres dirigeants d&rsquo;entreprise am\u00e9ricaines. Parfois, le \u00ab\u00a0client\u00a0\u00bb sera remplac\u00e9 par le \u00ab\u00a0contribuable\u00a0\u00bb\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C&rsquo;est en 1970 qu&rsquo;un journal indien, \u201cForeign Trade of India\u201d, publiera, dans une page de publicit\u00e9, cette citation en anglais, en l&rsquo;attribuant au Mahatma Gandhi qui, mort depuis bien des ann\u00e9es, ne pouvait pas se d\u00e9fendre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Et des lecteurs anglophones, sans doute, ont lu cette publication qui \u00e9tait en anglais, puis ont diffus\u00e9 la chose sans v\u00e9rifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Et des francophones l&rsquo;ont traduite et diffus\u00e9e, sans v\u00e9rifier non plus\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Et plus personne n&rsquo;a eu le bon sens de se poser la question \u00ab\u00a0Pourquoi cet homme, qui vivait frugalement, qui n&rsquo;avait jamais exerc\u00e9 une quelconque activit\u00e9 commerciale, aurait-il dit \u00e7a?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On aurait aussi bien pu attribuer \u00e0 Saint Fran\u00e7ois d&rsquo;Assise \u00ab\u00a0Acheter au son du canon, vendre au son des violons\u00a0\u00bb, ou \u00e0 Talleyrand \u00ab\u00a0Que votre parole soit oui, oui, non, non; ce qu&rsquo;on y ajoute vient du malin\u00a0\u00bb.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merci \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/08\/02\/gandhi-customer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/08\/02\/gandhi-customer\/<\/a> d&rsquo;o\u00f9 j&rsquo;ai tir\u00e9 ces informations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=1728\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/?p=1728\" data-type=\"button\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si vous trainez sur Internet, vous allez voir, souvent, partout, m\u00eame, la citation suivante, en fran\u00e7ais ou en anglais. \u00ab\u00a0Un client est le visiteur le plus important de nos locaux.Il ne d\u00e9pend pas de nous.Nous sommes d\u00e9pendants de lui.Il n\u2019est pas une g\u00eane dans notre travail.Il en est l\u2019objectif.Il n\u2019est pas \u00e9tranger \u00e0 nos affaires.Il&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pallarea.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Epicerie-Inde.jpg?fit=1600%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pallarea.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}