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phorneker · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:04 am Post subject: Back to School shopping

(A little background here: When I am not working on my website, or freelance consulting, I work in retail.)

This past week, having worked four straight days in the shoe department, I have had plenty of moments where I have three to four customers at once asking for my attention in finding shoes for customers. You could say that this is the retail equivalent to a denial of service attack. Smile

How many of you find that the retail stores are just as busy during the "back to school" week as it is during the month of December?

Rhakios · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: RE: Back to School shopping

We don't get much "back to school" business in a builders' merchant. Since the weather picked up though, we do see quite a few more builders. They all seem to be digging holes to put plastic drainage in at the moment, we've had to place three stock orders already this month Shocked

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donoreo · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: RE: Back to School shopping

I used to work for Radio Shack (Tandy stores to guys at one time) in Canada. Back to school was huge, but not like Christmas. We did sell more calculators in Aug and Sept as well as computers. Computers were bigger for back to school than Christmas.
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bigjohn · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Back to School shopping

Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2354

Yeah, I know about "back to school'. Not in the way like the retailers (and their suppliers Wink

) do, but the end of the summer holiday (or any holiday period for that matter) doesn't go unnoticed in the Public Transport sector. Overnight the vehicles fill up, transporting kids to and from school. All sorts: young kids, just going to kindergarten with their mums (and the occassional dad on his way to the airport), the GCSE candidates, weary A-graders starting at their new school and the 'experienced' braging teens in their last year. Oh well, it'll wear off once they get their first job... Confused

1slipperyfish · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject:

we don't have a back to school rush in the spying industry, every day is a rush Very Happy

i'm thinking of going to work at a builders merchants(perhaps as manager) for a holiday, it would be more relaxing than flying to cyprus Very Happy

paul
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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2354

And then you wake up? Rolling Eyes

M0PHP · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah back to school is always busy for me.. that's when the kids come back and I get the usual "I forgot me' password!!"
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Rhakios · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject:

And I didn't think our management could get much worse. Rolling Eyes

Let's face it 1sf (troll), you can scarcely manage to tie your shoelaces, what chance do you have of managing a business in an industry you know nothing about?
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1slipperyfish · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

Rhakios · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

Please do try one up your street, and not up my street. Razz

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1slipperyfish · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

i'm at the end of your street now, just watching<sinister smillie>
paul
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Rhakios · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject:

There is a fat bloke up the end of street just at the moment, ugly looking SOB as well. Shocked

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