These comments sum it up pretty nicely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498841 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498841 http://news.ycombinator.com/ite

These comments sum it up pretty nicely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498841 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498841 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499044 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499044 3 or 4 people per store is very low and is probably not that different, if at all, from typical hiring practices. They just synchronized these ones up for an event. It's also almost summer - college students might be quitting their jobs to leave for the summer, and high school students might be getting hired.