Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and proofreader ...

It’s fashionable today to talk of becoming “customer oriented.” Or to focus on that moment of truth when customers experience the actual transaction that determines whether or not they are completely ...

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