{"id":589,"date":"2011-10-04T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=589"},"modified":"2011-10-04T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:16:17","slug":"customer-service-lesson-can-i-pump-your-gas-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2011\/10\/04\/customer-service-lesson-can-i-pump-your-gas-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer service lesson: Can I pump your gas for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lytle&#8217;s Consumer Behavior had an interesting class project: to go see if they could pump gas for Shell station customers. Lytle tasked the students with finding out if customers were interested in having their gas pumped, oil level checked, windshield cleaned and tire pressure checked. There was no cost for this service &#8211; students just asked the customers to answer a few questions in exchange for the service. Click on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporternews.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/20\/motorists-prefer-not-to-pause-at-pump-for-check\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abilene Reporter-News<\/a> to read how the project went and what our students learned about consumer behavior by pumping gas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2011\/10\/04\/customer-service-lesson-can-i-pump-your-gas-for-you\/rick1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick1-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick1-490x365.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Lytle explains to the class how this research project will work<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2011\/10\/04\/customer-service-lesson-can-i-pump-your-gas-for-you\/rick2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-628\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick2-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick2-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick2-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick2-365x490.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick2.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Lytle shows his Consumer Behavior class how to properly clean a windshield<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_629\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2011\/10\/04\/customer-service-lesson-can-i-pump-your-gas-for-you\/rick3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-629\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick3-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick3-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick3-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick3-365x490.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/10\/rick3.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Learning how to check oil levels<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lytle&#8217;s Consumer Behavior had an interesting class project: to go see if they could pump gas for Shell station customers. Lytle tasked the students with finding out if customers were interested in having their gas pumped, oil level checked, windshield cleaned and tire pressure checked. There was no cost for this service &#8211; students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2801,2758,2750,2832],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coba-events","category-college-decisions","category-current-students","category-dean-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}