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Re: Warning about Best Buy!

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From: Jim Dompier
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 00:00
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In article <6s0tml$6k7$1@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, 
stan@thunder.temple.edu says...
> Doobie (doobie**remove**@mailexcite.com) wrote:
> : Hmmm, makes be wonder why such stores don't require new employees
> : to have degrees in computer science and a decade of retail experience
> : before they'll hire them for the $6/hour job.   And, even if you were
> : right, you wouldn't have made an extra cent.
> 
> No one with a degree in computer science would want to work at a discount
> retail outlet for a $6.00 hourly wage without any benefits nor commission
> when jobs paying many times that amount with great benefits are readily
> available elsewhere. The only way for Best Buy to hire well-qualified
> individuals would be to pay them commensurate with their experience which
> means YOU would be paying a hell of a lot more money for the things you
> buy there, right? Good personnel do not come cheap. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
And this is Exactly why they do not have computer geeks working in these 
stores. As long as this industry continues to sell products with very 
little profit margins, we can expect this to continue. In fact, if profit 
margins get any lower, retail will close and everything will move to the 
web and/or swap meet...


-- 
Jim Dompier

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From: zisleNOTsoft@lava.net (Jim Dompier)
Subject: Re: Warning about Best Buy!
Date: 1998/08/27
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