And thereby generate bad-news stories about the chains that have such policies. Been noticing more and more news reports about this practice over the years, and they do not leave Corporate looking praiseworthy. Nor should they.
When I worked the last day of a failing retail chain, it was almost closing time, and my district manager literally said to our last customer: “If you give me $5, you can take everything!”
Sold. It was all junk, but sold. Then they exchanged numbers so they can do this again at the other store locations (which were closing on different days).
When I worked for American Greetings they would send us the same boxes of cards with a higher price. Then the DM would take the older boxes with lower prices and destroy them. What a waste!
And so somebody actually has to waste their rime destroying merchandise.
And thereby generate bad-news stories about the chains that have such policies. Been noticing more and more news reports about this practice over the years, and they do not leave Corporate looking praiseworthy. Nor should they.
When I worked the last day of a failing retail chain, it was almost closing time, and my district manager literally said to our last customer: “If you give me $5, you can take everything!”
Sold. It was all junk, but sold. Then they exchanged numbers so they can do this again at the other store locations (which were closing on different days).
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure… (´∀｀)ʱªʱªʱª
Or you could donate it, and AVOID bad publicity for once. I mean, you won’t get ANY publicity by donating THAT crap, but still…
When I worked for American Greetings they would send us the same boxes of cards with a higher price. Then the DM would take the older boxes with lower prices and destroy them. What a waste!