on 12/22/2007, Larry supposed :
> 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

If BB and CC are such crummy stores why do you bother entering them? Is
it that you have free time from checking cell coverage behind Walmart?