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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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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>> Chris Crawford
>> Fine Art Photography
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>> 260-747-3962
>>
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
>>
>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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