Posted on 12/26/2022 9:55:30 AM PST by Red Badger
Yes. Very shocking that employees of a commercial company would be expected to push that company’s products. Whatever is the world coming to?
The credit card quotas aren’t unknown at other retailers.
I KNOW. Transform all the advertising to cater to hip “urban youth” and watch the merchandize fly off the shelves.
This silly article appears to be a “below average Freeper” detector. Nothing in it is any surprise at all from a traditional retailer. Some people do well in this kind of establishment and others don’t. It’s ok.
Without paying for it!.....................
I once had a co-worker that had a night job at Sears.
He sold the then new, at that time, IBM clone computers to people, plus printers, monitors and floppies.
He made a goodly amount on commissions, until one day the manager moved him to sell SEWING MACHINES.
Seems he was making TOO MUCH MONEY.
He quit in disgust...............
And if people aren't buying what the company is peddling, is it the employees fault?
You don’t know anything about retailing, apparently.
Heh.
I think Dillards has their biggest sale of the entire year on January 1. It is an established thing, or so I have been told.
LMAO
Selling particular products.
I have some experience with this, being told to sell products to customers who clearly didn’t want them.
If the sales didn’t happen, you were threatened with being fired.
It was the reason I left my last job.
The biz went under not long after.
Not because I left, but because sales tactics like that were a sign of desperation.
And I saw the writing on the wall.
Not to mention I actually liked my customers and trying to suckered them into spending their money on something they didn’t want really pi$$ed me off.
“...pressured to get the store credit card.” Reminds me of getting pressures to get the useless covid vaccination. “You haven’t gotten it? And you pretend to care about people??”
I avoid Kohl's in particular because of the way they push those credit cards at the register. If you make a sizable purchase, they guilt-trip you by saying you would save "X" amount of money on your current purchase by signing up for one and asking you why you would not want to save all this money on your purchase. Meanwhile you look in back of you and there are 10+ people in line waiting to check out and they are glaring at you because you are now the one holding up the line, arguing with the cashier about a credit card.
The registers themselves are a disaster. Each item requires about 20 keystrokes and the register spits out a four foot long paper receipt. I'm not kidding.
Good on you for leaving. I would’ve felt the same way...and done the same thing. Can’t abide that kind of tyranny.
My warning to Dillards. I don’t like pushy sales clerks. I will shop elsewhere.
I didn’t leave because I thought it tyrannical.
I left because I thought what my employer was requiring me to do was unethical.
They made their choice.
I made mine.
:-)
Not sure I know the mall, but I am very familiar with the FWB/Destin/Niceville area. Go there often.
I worked PT at a Toys R Us, mostly on the Babies R Us side and we had quotas on how many CC accounts we had to open and loyalty cards to get people to sign up for. And for example, on 4 a hour shift I was expected to open 2 CC accounts and sign up 4-6 loyalty cards. And if someone tried to open a CC account and got turned down, we didn’t get any credit for it. It was ridiculous.
Dillards was the only place in Memphis I could find a white broadcloth shirt with point collar and French cuffs in 16 1/2 x 35.
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