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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:

> When checking out apparently some salesguy put his ups sticker on there 
> so he or she got credit for that sale.  Pretty clever.  I would really 
> hate to work for a retailer who kept metrics like that.

Yeah, is sort of annoying because even when you find and pick the item
yourself, if one of the sales people see you carrying it, they'll slap a
sticker on it.

Last winter I went there with the kid for something and was waiting around
the pickup counter up front and asked the manager about it, she said the
main problem to solve was the floor people going missing. They were supposed
to have whatever it was, 10-15 people on the floor but customers were
wandering around looking for assistance.

The stickers show they were alive during their shift, didn't say anything
about a commission but I suppose there is one too.

I understand your comments about the sata adapter price spread. The same
goes with the brackets for flat screens. Melissa wanted a set in her office,
wall mounted and they had one of those Sony Google TV ones for $279 (the 24"
one). 

There must of been eight different brackets for it (100mm vesa), and that
was just the stationary ones. The swivel/tilt ones probably had another 10
to choose from. The stationary ones, $4.99 to like $45, and I really don't
know why. All of them seemed to have the same two peices of bent metal with
an assortment of chinese screws that have heads on them that will sheer off
if tightend too much.

At least it's a choice I guess.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

p.s. I see why Logitech and Sony bailed out of the Google tv market now,
that thing is just pathetic. It's about on par with the Boxee Box but both
are really a disappointment.