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…
Gwyneth Paltrow living off of food stamps?
The writer of this Business Insider article decided to take the Food Stamp Challenge to see if he could live on them for a week. Gwyneth Paltrow took the challenge as well. Which brings me to the fact that while in my area we don’t see a lot of EBT users (EBT being the food 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…
France Mandates that Supermarkets Give Surplus Food to Charity
Kudos to the French here!! While you can argue about government intervention in business, etc., they are doing the right thing and trying to fix something that I’ve talked about before–the needless waste of food. With tons of homeless people everywhere, seeing dozens of loaves of bread thrown out each week (along with 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…
6 Dark Secrets Harbored By Your Favorite Foods
Ok, this is some scary stuff. Just checked my kitchen and I have some meat that looks red but may or not be spoiled, some Orowheat wheat bread that is probably just colored white bread, and some rice in the cupboard that contains arsenic. Luckily I don’t drink almond milk and don’t drink Read More…
2 Things People Get Away With at Work (And Nowhere Else)
This list originally had 4 things but the other 2 are from an office environment and these were more appropriate to retail. I’ve rarely brought my lunch to work so never had one stolen, but I have seen it happen numerous times to my employees. They come to you with this look of “Who 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…