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BeetleB, Most of that old-style retail is dying out though. The department store model of Sears and Macys lost to the big-box model of walmart and best buy. The
by Noos 6y ago
BeetleB, Most of that old-style retail is dying out though. The department store model of Sears and Macys lost to the big-box model of walmart and best buy. These days you are lucky if there is enough staff to run the registers in a pinch; big box retail and specialty can be absurdly cheap.
Like the whole gamestop debacle-go into the store and you'll find maybe they have barely enough payroll to have more than one person in the store on non-peak days.
- BeetleB 6y agoGetting to the discussion at hand: Are they dying because of a lack of tips? It seems their decline is orthogonal to the issue. Also, as someone pointed out, they typically get paid commissions, but my there are lots of other places where one does get pretty good service without tips or commissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26023514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26023514