Indeed.
Funny story...My last job I worked all the wayyyy up to manager at a "big box" store. It took me 10 years to do this.
It was Thanksgiving disguised as "Black Friday" 2018...we had 4 checkout counters. There were lines all across the store full of merchandise jam packed in shopping carts and full of people. There were people still waiting to get into the store!
I wanted to open up 2 extra checkout lanes over at the pharmacy (which was closed on Thanksgiving).
This would have given us 6 to speed up the lines.
I had to get upper level approval to do this.
I was denied and told like a fairy tell, 'they'll buy more things as their waiting' by the District Manager.
LOL...maybe in 1996 or 2006.
It's Thanksgiving!!
How much merchandise can one customer put into a shopping cart before bolting off to Walmart, Target or even Amazon?
A lot actually..
But how much patience?
Very little.
Not long later, the company filed for bankruptcy and folded and we were all subsequently sent to the unemployment line...
Now before you all crap on me, we were #2 in the district and #5 as the "fastest growing store".
And all we had was just 35,000 sq feet unlike our sister stores which amassed well over 100,000 sq feet of merchandise and 12 extra pages of BF ads.
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ShogunofYonkers (78637)
4 years ago
I wouldn't give you any crap for being laid off, that sounds like an awful experience
I hope you secured a more stable job quickly
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exithereplease (3553)
4 years ago
I did not actually Shogun. That was my dream job. And I worked like a horses dumb ass for it.
For all those wondering what retail chain I worked for...
Shopko:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopko
And no. We weren't a victim of the Internet. We had a dot com as well.
"Dollar General" spread out like a virus in the Midwest...
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