Retail Watchers

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑April 1st, 2024, 9:11 am Inventory workers are extremely prone to errors. They may under count many items. Scanning an items at such a speed misses much.

Yup, I have had discrepancies in the thousands (negative).

Recounts always found the money.

HCal wrote: ↑April 1st, 2024, 11:12 pm I think Tesco would be better

"(The Montréal Metro subway is old, grungy, yet a fantastic and incredible model of efficiency in public transportation. You truly don't need to own a car on the island. Even the new trains somehow are grungy)" OMG, what happened? I was there around 1970 and it was gorgeous and the residen...

This is pure speculation but the hyper focus on Easter this year may have to do with conservative upset about the proclamation our current President made for March 31st which is also Easter. With that said, no matter what anyone does, someone is going to be upset in today's environment. I know ther...

Probably the same way they feel when they hear "Merry Christmas" the whole month of December... but it is easy to go ahead and delete/disregard the e-mail and be done with it. Throughout December you have no idea when you may be hit with a "Merry Christmas." To be fair, there's ...

Being a retail focused board, it should be noted the majority of retailers are cutting lunches to 30 minutes as they reduce their staffing. If fast food is severely curtailed then these employees will not be able to leave the store and eat. They certainly can't go to a sit down restaurant. You can ...

In response, to prevent the same type of advancement among their employees, restaurant owners organized the National Restaurant Association (NRA) in 1919, a powerful organization created to preserve and expand the subminimum wage. This is where the tip culture in America was established unlike Europ...

Also, the sit-down restaurants will suffer from this too as employees can get the $20/hr at fast food and will go work at fast food instead... they'll need to increase wages as well, which in turn causes the price increase, which in turn lands them in the same exact spot as the fast-food places... ...

They are also 100% closed for business today. So they at least do take the massive revenue loss from closing today to be consistent with the beliefs of their owner. They get holiday pay as well. The last two retailers I worked for both were closed on Easter but it was not a paid holiday. I didn't a...

storewanderer wrote: ↑March 31st, 2024, 10:15 am They are also 100% closed for business today.

So they at least do take the massive revenue loss from closing today to be consistent with the beliefs of their owner.

I wonder how their non christian employees feel about this greeting.

Perhaps they do not hire non christians?