The document discusses customer expectations and attitudes towards goods and services. It explains that customer attitudes are guided by their expectations and motivations. There are different types of customer attitudes: economizing customers focus on value, ethical customers consider corporate social responsibility, personalizing customers want customized experiences, and convenience customers prioritize ease. The document also outlines desired service expectations like ideal and normative expectations, and adequate expectations including experience-based, acceptable, and minimum tolerable expectations. It provides strategies for managing expectations during the pre-purchase, service encounter, and post-purchase phases as well as exceeding expectations through customer relationships, under-promising on service, and providing unusual service.