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| duckduck:
--- Quote from: edavid on September 26, 2019, 03:18:45 pm ---I think the receipt checks at Fry's are mostly aimed at corrupt employees. Anyway, there's something about the atmosphere at Fry's that encourages an adversarial attitude between shoppers and staff. Compare to Costco, where they are much more determined about receipt checks, but you hear very few complaints about it. --- End quote --- It is also my understanding is that retail loss prevention focuses on employees. At Costco, the story is that they primarily check receipts in order to ensure that you were not charged twice for a single item (this being difficult for them to disprove if you claimed it fraudulently). My experiences there tend to bear that out. When I only have one of each item they barely take notice, but when I have two of an item they will look in the cart or ask "you have two packages of the frozen hamburger patties?". Sad to hear that FRY's are not doing well. I made the long trip to the one in Houston several times when I lived there. Now that you folks mention it, I seem to remember having to return a defective computer motherboard. The place was awesome and had a cowboy and oil pump theme. I remember that I saw my first plasma screen TV there. It was US$Thousands. I remember being very impressed. I wonder how much they had to ring up in daily sales in order to keep the lights on in that huge place. I too chapped at being asked to show the stuff in my shopping bag and receipt. "May I see your bag?" "No thank you." * keep walking * People generally don't grab strangers in Texas. |
| maginnovision:
I've never seen anybody grabbed to check their bags. You leave and if/when you return an item they still don't much care you have no mark on the receipt. The Frys I know of had bigger issues with people buying items and returning them for full price. They'd usually wrap items and put back for a small discount. I know of companies who were doing this daily. |
| cdev:
If they really wanted to make a positive efect on the Bay Area, and other communities they locate in - based on their original decisions to locate there, when they do close, they should consider figuring out a way to turn those buildings into fire safe affordable live/work lofts for families and makers and starting small companies. And run the whole operation via some kind of nonprofit trust. Maybe maintaining a small presence in the form of much smaller stores that sold all the things they do now via their mailing list specials- which would take a lot less space. Because the insane cost of housing there is just destroying - especially the Bay Area. The cost of space has turned the Bay Area into something quite hostile to much of what its long term residents cared about when I lived there. Milions of people left because of this but would return if affordable stable place to live existed. Hundreds of thousands of people are communiting very long distances to work there in order so they can buy their homes. Those stores and parking lots are so large that they could reverse this situation, completely changing the trajectory of the area. |
| free_electron:
The prices in the bay area are nuts. A 2300 sq ft home , literally a box , with just enough land to place 2 chairs costs 1.6 Million $ Try finding any home that has a strip of land so you can plant a tree and it shoots over 2 million. Electricity is a rip-off. PG&E charges an arm and a leg in transportation costs for the Bay area. Commute is hell. You spend two or more hours of your life sitting in traffic. The attraction is gone. There is nothing remaining that is worth staying for. The covid situation has pushed people to work from home. So now you can work from anywhere. A shift is coming : the big corporations that used to spend megabucks on expensive real estate to house their employees have realized they don't need those buildings when people work from home. No need for relocation bonuses , no need for exorbitant salaries to meet the cost of living of the bay area. There is now a much bigger pool to fish in. I bought my retirement property. Half an acre of land, huge pool and 1800 sq ft home . For 1/5th of a 2 bedroom condo in the bay area. Been working from here for the last 2 months. |
| Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: free_electron on August 23, 2020, 05:47:55 pm ---A shift is coming : the big corporations that used to spend megabucks on expensive real estate to house their employees have realized they don't need those buildings when people work from home. No need for relocation bonuses , no need for exorbitant salaries to meet the cost of living of the bay area. There is now a much bigger pool to fish in. --- End quote --- I remember some years ago reading something in Bloomberg or WSJ about Millennials choosing companies that provide working not in the company/from home/Starbucks/Library or even on the Beach, going to the company office only on meeting days. At that time some of my colleagues thought that was basically stupid, that they would not be productive as they say they are, and that would not stick in old companies, more on new,young ones with young management. Well some years passed and a simple Virus made companies shift their view, and from now on nothing will be the same. Keep a skeleton crew on rotation on the company office for work that can't be done remotely (maintenance, assembly, etc) and the rest can be done whatever the worker wants to. |
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