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Author: Karishma Sehgal

unhappy customer
By  Karishma Sehgal

March 24, 2025

The art of listening to what’s not said: How I learned to detect customer frustration without a complaint

Have you left a restaurant mildly annoyed but still told the waiter it was “fine” before vowing never to return? That’s the quiet churn many businesses face daily, a trend that’s costing them more than they realise. I’ve worked in fast-paced...

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