I recently had a problem with meat that had gone off, at first i thought "let it go and pretend it did not happen". But then again I thought "why should I let it go if I spent my money on the goods". Going with the latter I decided to log a complain on a website called 'get closure', little did I know what kind of closure will I get.
When I was lodging the complain I was skeptical, I thought to myself this will not go anywhere, you know it's going to be one of those things that get ignored, considering that the complain was against a giant retailer, Pick 'n Pay to be exact. I thought they will just say whose this and throw the complain in the bin, but to my surprise they did not. Within 2 days of lodging the complain I got an sms saying they should reply to me by December 22. On the 18th of December I got a call from their Service Manager who asked me to come to the store so that we can resolve the matter. When I got there she was so nice you would think that i had done a good thing. I thought to myself isn't this person supposed to be angry and irritable after-all I have lodged a complain, But NO she wasn't. She was happy to refund me and give me the same package for free.
I was happy and thinking wow that's what I call service. On December 23 I got a call again from this lady saying can I please come to the shop there's something that we need to discuss. I got there and did my shopping first when I was done I went to her, to my surprise the store manager was there waiting for me. He apologised for the inconvenience caused to me, I was like but Martina (Service Manager) has already done that a few times, he emphasised how important it is that they satisfy their customers and gave me a box of chocolates.
Now coming to my point, Pick 'n Pay has come out and showed that no matter how big you are the smallest things still matter. I am a small customer compared to all the people who shop there but they treated me like a Queen. They showed that to get on top you need to start at the bottom. I hope that all the BIG people can learn from the BIGGEST people how customer service can be rendered
THANK YOU MARTINA, TREVOR AND PICK 'N PAY you guys really are INSPIRED AND YOU ROCK.

