4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:3907dd5b-3fd3-495a-ac8b-
3240ebea2dae@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> Circuit City said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that its board
> approved a special cash retention award program for its top executives
> including Chief Financial Officer Bruce Besanko and a long-term
> incentive plan for CEO Schoonover and other top executives.
> "It seems like the top executives are paid more for poor performance,"
> Merrill Lynch analyst Danielle Fox posed the question for management
> on the call. She asked what kind of incentive plans the company had
> for its rank and file employees instead.
>

Right THERE is the big mistake......

CC used to have all sales staff on commission. They'd follow you around
and SELL you something and do everything they could to keep you from
bringing it back, including swapping out your bad one for a new one
without the corporate bull$hit.

That changed when they moved from the old profitable store to the new one
across from the mall. Nobody cares if you buy or not, now. Their pay is
fixed. Who gives a $hit?

And they do the STUPIDEST things....let Verizon sell the phones...we'll
rent them floor space and stop selling phones entirely....STUPIDS.
Let's sell STUPID products:
USB record players
100 different landline phones
The same Communist (Haier) little fridges for $150 that Home Depot sells
for $70.
$30 memory cards for $90....a whole wall full of way overpriced memory
cards. If buy.com sells a 4GB card for $25, wonder what wholesale at CC
is?....$10, $8?
25 types of over $100 tiny computer speakers noone wants.
Blue computer fans?
Blue computer lights?
25 DVD-R for $59?
The stores are only partly filled with the dumbest stuff noone
wants....at outrageous prices...and little turnover.

CC's terrible history of service when it's broken on their extended
warranty plan is the stuff webpages are made of.....

I just can't believe neither BB or CC sells a decent stereo with REAL
speakers (that means a Woofer in the same cabinet as the tweeters...12”
woofers, not 6) for under $1000. I was in Best Buy, today, and they had
some PoS from Yamaha priced at $900!...for the receiver! There’s one
tiny shelf of 6 stereos in the store! “TVs do NOT a stereo make!” Some
stupids in the stereo business needs to join the 21st Century! There
should be a HARD DRIVE and MP3 PLAYER in all stereo receivers....not an
AM RADIO! 500 GB hard drive....remote hard drive over WIFI from the
computer in the den...wireless! Turn the stereo on, call it over wifi
from the mainframe and LOAD IT WITH MUSIC! The stupid asses think we’re
still using CDs and need to by an EXTERNAL CD changer!

Well...Duhhh....!!

Larry
--
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
"I have been to several major Chinese cities and have seen first hand
shops crammed with obviously fake American products." - Jon Dudas,
Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Rights.

How can they be fake? The Chinese make all "American Products" I use!