I thought at the time that that move might backfire on them. Frnakly,
though, I though that most employees there were overpaid at 6, not to
mention 12. They seemed to be a place for folks that couldn't get on at
McDonalds. Not to mention that their prices wern't competetive.
billl Pearce
> No, I don't think they are. Circuit City had a lot of problems, and a
> couple
> years ago they fired all of their sales people, because the old staff was
> decently paid (around $12 an hour), while the company replaced them with
> people making only $6 an hour. It made the company look bad and they lost
> a
> lot of business because of it. In many parts of the USA, including Indiana
> (where I live), a person can survive on $12 an hour. Note that I said
> survive, not get rich or even be middle class. But you can live. No one,
> anywhere in the USA, no matter how low the cost of living, can eat every
> day
> and have even the most modest dwelling on $6 an hour. It is poverty wages,
> and it is what most retailers pay here.
>
>
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>
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>
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>
> On 4/4/09 3:00 AM, "Thomas Heide Clausen" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4Apr , 2009, at 06:36 , Chris Crawford wrote:
>>
>>> Nope, Best Buy is still alive and open.
>>
>> Didn't you forget the "yet" at the end of this sentence ;)
>>
>>> Circuit City is the American
>>> electronics store chain that went under recently.
>>
>> Ahh, right. Considering that BB is alive and CC is not, can I then
>> assume that the BB sales staff is even more pushy than their CC
>> counterparts were? :)
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/3/09 11:41 PM, "Thomas Heide Clausen"
>>> <Thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4Apr , 2009, at 24:41 , Moose wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>
>>>>>> I feel like we might offend people because we are able to have a
>>>>>> holiday in the US. Last week I read on this list that in some
>>>>>> stores more staff was present than customers. That cannot be good.
>>>>>> What are the thoughts about this on the list?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So what, they are going to be angry at customers who do show up? No
>>>>> way.
>>>>> They will exhort you to buy things, but that's not new. :-)
>>>>
>>>> But. nobody vacations in Best Buy anyways -- and didn't they go out
>>>> of business as well? :)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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