Posted on 11/10/2014 10:44:58 AM PST by Bettyprob
For the first time, the company will open the majority of its stores at 8 a.m. Thursday, and they will remain open until midnight. Last year, most of its doors were closed on Thanksgiving.The company joins the likes of Toys R Us and J.C. Penney, which will open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, while Sears, Kohl's, Macy's, Belk and Staples will open at 6 p.m. "Given the customer demand for store hours on Thanksgiving last year, we made the decision to open on Thanksgiving," RadioShack spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said. "It gives us the opportunity to stay competitive." "Given the customer demand for store hours on Thanksgiving last year, we made the decision to open on Thanksgiving," RadioShack spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said. "It gives us the opportunity to stay competitive."
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I believe you're correct. So how many years before this cranks up on Labor Day weekend?
Quite interesting. My niece managed one about 10 yrs ago, she was forced to put in so much unpaid overtime she moved on to another chain.
What exactly is it that people buy at RS anymore? They can get cell phones anywhere.
When I was a manager, you got paid an hourly salary, plus commission, plus a bonus based on the profit of your store.
In 1986 they paid starting managers $5.02 an hour. This amount could vary with the amount of revenue your store generated and with how long you were with the company. This would equate to about $10 an hour today.
The commission was a whopping 2%, BUT only when your commission exceeded your hourly pay, so if I were paid $200 in a week hourly, my commissions didn’t kick in until I had sold $10,000 in that week. Since my store rarely did over $20K a month, I didn’t see any commissions. What about Christmas time? Oh, for the months of November and December they lowered your commission as a manager to .5%!
The profit bonus was where you could make real money. I believe that you received 10% of the net profit of your store. They would pay you 50% of the bonus you earned in the middle of the following month EXCEPT for the months of November and December where you got 20% and they held onto the other 80%. The bonus they withheld was kept until the end of the fiscal year (June 30th). They would then tally how much bonus you had earned during the year and subtract that which you had already been paid, and cut you a check for the difference. It wasn’t uncommon for managers in my district to get checks of over $40k. You had to be careful, however, not to earn too much bonus. In your employment contract Radio Shack reserved the right to terminate your employment at any time, for any reason. If you were not employed through June 30th, you did not receive a bonus check. I had a friend who was expecting a $65K check and when the District Manager came by on June 29th, he thought he was going to be congratulated. Instead, they fired him. They claimed he had allowed his inventory to get out of balance and there were veiled murmurings that he had stolen merchandise from the store. Years later, the District Manager (now no longer with the company) told me that a large percentage of the uncollectible bonuses went to the District Manager since they became “net profit” and they got a bonus based on the net profit of the district.
To top it all off, they would cap your hours as manager. I was told that I could not work for more that 56 hours a week. My store was open from 10 to 9, Monday through Friday, and 10 to 6 on Saturday, for a total of 63 hours. Additionally, managers were expected to be there an hour early and an hour late, meaning that I worked 75 hours a week. When I complained to my DM, he said that I should hire a part timer. Of course the part timer wasn’t authorized to open or close the store, so the only time I could take off was in the middle of the day. To make matters worse, I would find, hire and train the part timer and then, if they were any good at all, the DM would transfer them to another store.
It was probably the worst job I had in my life, but it did embolden me to leave for a commission only sales job, at which I did very well.
I believe you're correct. So how many years before this cranks up on Labor Day weekend?
We are hurrying from November to the first/middle of October>
Of course those, who worship Christmas for the lights/decorations versus the Birth of Christ in this area have some of their out door Christmas lights going. We saw several this past Saturday night. They will probably welcome Labor Day Christmas/Halloween/Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.
I used to love playing with their tube tester machine when i was a kid.
Nowadays i don’t believe that you could buy a resistor or capacitor at Radio Shack anymore.
cell Phone and remote control cars is all that store is good for....
Why?
Pretty soon everyone will be sick of all the Christmas shopping hoo ha. How about we all go back to having Halloween and Thanksgiving? And Christmas after that.
I miss their Science Fair kits, I’d wish they still sold their crystal radio kit for a few bucks.
yea their 100 in 1 bread board electronics kits were really cool.
How many anti-beingopenonThanksgiving types will be burning up the wifi shopping online?
I still have my 150 in 1 kit.
While we’re at it, cancel Christmas too . . . think up some other reason to buy tons of useless junk at chain stores open 24/7/365.
Thank you Radio Shack...I will NOT be there on Thanksgiving or Black Friday.
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