{"id":206100,"date":"2020-05-29T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/?p=206100"},"modified":"2020-05-29T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:30:04","slug":"sweet-service-award-goes-to-absolute-pets-sour-service-award-goes-to-clicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/sweet-service-award-goes-to-absolute-pets-sour-service-award-goes-to-clicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Service Award goes to Absolute Pets; Sour Service Award goes to Clicks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"The Sweet Service Award<\/b> goes to Absolute Pets in Camps Bay, and to its staff member Bukeka, for her kindness and advice shown to me in buying cat food, a name tag for a new cat, as well as cat treats. I\u2019m a brand new cat owner, and her interest in my new cat whenever I shop there is a delight, reflecting that she herself loves pets. <\/p>\n

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\"\"The Sour Service Award<\/b> goes to Clicks on Regent Road in Sea Point, for its store manager telling me to buy Smarties elsewhere in future, when I requested to be served by a staff member with a mask. The only cashier at the desk wore a visor but no Clicks branded mask, he being the only staff member not wearing both Covid protection items. He had already touched each of the 28 Smarties boxes I was buying to count them, and another staff member could not take over his till. I was told to go the next till, where a staff member counted each Smarties box again by touch, a process that took double the time it should have and doubled my risk! My request was seen as a major insult, despite not wearing a mask being contrary to Corona Virus Lockdown Level 4 regulations.<\/p>\n

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The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog. Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at chrisvonulmenstein [at] gmail.com. Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, WhaleTales Blog: www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog Tel +27 082 55 11 323 Twitter:@Ulmenstein Facebook: Chris von Ulmenstein Instagram: @Chrissy_Ulmenstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  The Sweet Service Award goes to Absolute Pets in Camps Bay, and to its staff member Bukeka, for her kindness and advice shown to me in buying cat food, a name tag for a new cat, as well as cat treats. I\u2019m a brand new cat owner, and her interest in my new cat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,39707,39790,40259,248,32565],"tags":[40214,40245,39886,32378,6360,39708,35626,39791,40037,1931,5807,862,40261,40260,1528],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t