At Radioshack, literally everything is about the profit margin. The store in the U-Village in Seattle is/was one of the top 5 revenue stores in the entire chain

At Radioshack, literally everything is about the profit margin. The store in the U-Village in Seattle is/was one of the top 5 revenue stores in the entire chain, a fact they were proud of when they hired me. I worked there for less than a week before I quit because the culture was awful. It was a typical commission-based sales environment: We weren't encouraged to actually help anyone, we were encouraged to push bricks of batteries on people because they had the highest margin in the store. No one was to leave without a brick of batteries. Instead of making it easier for people to find a standard RCA cable, we hid them in the back and only left the "gold plated" RCA cables on the shelf. We were not allowed to sell an Apple computer, because the margin was too thin, so we were expected to push whatever PC we had on the shelf. It was a poison environment, and I for one don't feel the slightest sympathy for Radioshack's demise.