Some “breaking news” today, as Rick Dreiling has finally named his successor as CEO at Dollar General so he can start enjoying his retirement and the millions he collected from Longs when he left, among other places. And to no one’s surprise, it’s someone he knew from Longs, none Read More…
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When Your Favorite Market Closes
We see a lot of stories about markets closing and often forget about the customers left behind when their local store closes. The author of this article lost her favorite store in Chicago and discusses what happened in the area but the end result is there’s an empty building where she used to shop. Read More…
Beware of These Pricing Tricks Retailers Use to Fool Your Brain
This is from Lifehacker, and most are basics that you already know if you’ve worked in retail for a while. Pricing something 99 cents instead of a dollar is like instinct by now. I’ve also known for a while that Amazon can track my habits and might show me a higher price for an item Read More…
10 reasons Walmart is the worst company in America
This is from a few months ago and the 10 reasons are fairly well known, but to me the interesting part is the training video which it says are shown to new hires as part of onboarding. At the company where I work, we were told last year that there will be union elections in every Read More…
Retail Apocalypse: Major US Chains Closing 6,000 Stores Nationwide
The author of this article which appeared in Truth & Action took a list of planned retail closings and ties it to fear of Jade Helm, riots and economic collapse. He uses a list which has “more than 6,000 store closings” planned. Classic example of “There are two sides to every story.” I found Read More…
A Walmart Worker Explains Why Walmart’s Customer Service Is Horrible
Last week I published an article about a Walmart manager who was fed up and discussed a lot of the things he deals with. Today it’s an employee that gets to vent. A lot of what they talk about pertains to where I work at as well, and probably most retail chains out Read More…
Sunday Soapbox: An Angry Walmart Manager Strikes Back
The story below is from Gawker and is about a year old, but much of it echoed true with some of the things that go on where I work as well. It’s a long article but worth the read. I think the most interesting line is where he says “This company is being Read More…
18 Mouthwatering Facts About In-N-Out Burger
I have always admired the In-N-Out chain, not just because they make the tastiest burgers anywhere (just ask my friend from Tennessee what he misses most about not living in California any more) but also because they do one thing well and stick to it. While virtually every other chain has bastardized their brand by Read More…
Another Robust Quarter for CVS
Another successful quarter for CVS/Health, which used to be CVS/Pharmacy. No truth to the rumor that they will be changing the name to CVS/Profits soon. Same store sales are up 1.2% despite the front-end sales being down a whopping 6.1%. Most of that drop is of course due to the lack of tobacco Read More…
Working In Retail Sucks, It’s Official.
“It’s OK kid, you’ll only be doing this for the next 20 years or so.” Here’s the best 50 companies to work for in America, using the Fortune 500 companies and six criteria to determine job satisfaction. Since I have low job satisfaction, high job stress, can’t telecommute (in fact, can’t even sign on Read More…