money.cnn.com— Court filing shows bankrupt electronics retailer seeks approval to sell merchandise in its remaining 567 stores.
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Actually, I've shopped a quite a few stores where "dark" was being experimented with. I liked it a lot. Spotlighting on the products with the rest of the store being pretty dim. It beats that fluorescent migraine-inducing lighting.
Right now, I'm not that happy about my job and I'm therefore looking for a new one. However, I'm also a web developer and it's damn easy to slip an email with a resume to a company or discreetly answer a cell phone call when I don't have customers to respond to. If you're working the register from 9 to 5 or answering customers' questions or the like, it's not exactly the easiest thing in the world to look for another job.
I tried to like CC, but I came out with a purchase only about 10% of the time I shopped their. The last time I went there I needed a ethernet card. There was a new store right by my house so I went there expecting to have a card in my computer in less than 30 minutes. Couldn't find a LAN card. Sales Assoc. #1 failed to find the cards, SA#2 also failed. Sales Manager checked the inventory and determined that they had none in the store! Went down the shooping strip to Office Max where they had 4 brands and 2-3 types for each brand. Bought the card there and never went back to CC.
The problem recruz, is that many consumers believe like yourself and so they start going to these liquidation sales scrounging for the "amazing deals". Companies of course know this and plan for it. Some of those consumers see 80-90% off of a price that nobody would ever pay and think they're getting a good deal. They aren't. They're getting the same deal as everyone else who ever buys that item.As an example, every time I've gone to the JC Penneys store near me over the last 8 years since it opened their jeans were on sale. Sometimes it's "buy one pair get a second pair for 50% off", sometimes they're "buy two get a third free", sometimes they do "red tag sales", etc. In every single case it works out to being a little less than $30 for a pair of jeans. They change the regular price every time to cause this to occur. While shopping, I've never seen anyone bring any jeans that weren't on sale to the checkout counter. Slightly less than $30 is the only price anyone ever pays for jeans in that store. But hey, if you really think that 80% off means something, then buy stuff and try reselling it at the regular price. Once you start looking at products and asking "what could I resell this for really?" then you'll see that these sales games they play are meaningless.
I forgot to mention that there's always the internet... and none of those stores will ever be competitive with sites like newegg or tigerdirect... or even amazon and ebay for that matter.
Mohsenxp.Sorry, but you're wrong. I actually do this stuff for a living, so you're messing with the wrong digger.Chicago Manual of Style 5.158 states:"Adverbs do not generally follow linking verbs such as be, appear, seem, become, look, smell, taste, hear, and FEEL. A verb of this kind connects a descriptive word with the clause's subject; the descriptive word applies to the subject, NOT THE VERB {He seems modest}. To determine whether a verb is a linking verb, consider whether the descriptive word describes the action or condition rather than the subject. For example, "the sculptor feels badly" literally describes the act of feeling or touching as not done well. But "the sculptor feels bad" describes the sculptor as unwell or perhaps experiencing guilt."
volatile36Jan 16, 2009
Actually, I've shopped a quite a few stores where "dark" was being experimented with. I liked it a lot. Spotlighting on the products with the rest of the store being pretty dim. It beats that fluorescent migraine-inducing lighting.
blackinthmiddleJan 16, 2009
Right now, I'm not that happy about my job and I'm therefore looking for a new one. However, I'm also a web developer and it's damn easy to slip an email with a resume to a company or discreetly answer a cell phone call when I don't have customers to respond to. If you're working the register from 9 to 5 or answering customers' questions or the like, it's not exactly the easiest thing in the world to look for another job.
monkeycatdxJan 16, 2009
I work at "The City" as an Experience partner, it is a very fun job and ill miss it.
srwoodJan 17, 2009
I tried to like CC, but I came out with a purchase only about 10% of the time I shopped their. The last time I went there I needed a ethernet card. There was a new store right by my house so I went there expecting to have a card in my computer in less than 30 minutes. Couldn't find a LAN card. Sales Assoc. #1 failed to find the cards, SA#2 also failed. Sales Manager checked the inventory and determined that they had none in the store! Went down the shooping strip to Office Max where they had 4 brands and 2-3 types for each brand. Bought the card there and never went back to CC.
ohnohecknoJan 18, 2009
So your saying that a company that had better stuff and better employees end up going out of business?? I dont see your logic here.
nonserviumJan 18, 2009
The problem recruz, is that many consumers believe like yourself and so they start going to these liquidation sales scrounging for the "amazing deals". Companies of course know this and plan for it. Some of those consumers see 80-90% off of a price that nobody would ever pay and think they're getting a good deal. They aren't. They're getting the same deal as everyone else who ever buys that item.As an example, every time I've gone to the JC Penneys store near me over the last 8 years since it opened their jeans were on sale. Sometimes it's "buy one pair get a second pair for 50% off", sometimes they're "buy two get a third free", sometimes they do "red tag sales", etc. In every single case it works out to being a little less than $30 for a pair of jeans. They change the regular price every time to cause this to occur. While shopping, I've never seen anyone bring any jeans that weren't on sale to the checkout counter. Slightly less than $30 is the only price anyone ever pays for jeans in that store. But hey, if you really think that 80% off means something, then buy stuff and try reselling it at the regular price. Once you start looking at products and asking "what could I resell this for really?" then you'll see that these sales games they play are meaningless.
jagedlionJan 20, 2009
Alas, Arizona laws would seem very strange indeed to many people, including the gentleman in question.
andrewmoyerJan 20, 2009
I forgot to mention that there's always the internet... and none of those stores will ever be competitive with sites like newegg or tigerdirect... or even amazon and ebay for that matter.
wendelgee2Jan 20, 2009
Mohsenxp.Sorry, but you're wrong. I actually do this stuff for a living, so you're messing with the wrong digger.Chicago Manual of Style 5.158 states:"Adverbs do not generally follow linking verbs such as be, appear, seem, become, look, smell, taste, hear, and FEEL. A verb of this kind connects a descriptive word with the clause's subject; the descriptive word applies to the subject, NOT THE VERB {He seems modest}. To determine whether a verb is a linking verb, consider whether the descriptive word describes the action or condition rather than the subject. For example, "the sculptor feels badly" literally describes the act of feeling or touching as not done well. But "the sculptor feels bad" describes the sculptor as unwell or perhaps experiencing guilt."
entinvApr 3, 2009
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