Best Buy; price gouging during emergency!

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Ken, I was being completely legit about this offer here:

Bring me evidence that the nearest one that you live near even does this, and I'll post a video of me eating my own shoes or Gnug can ban me for life.

And you don't even know how a damned scanner works.
Okay, I scan something. What happens?

Wait - you mean that the scanner checks the product against the inventory as listed by the corporation as to the number of objects I have in the inventory?[/url]
By this logic, I can walk into an Art Store with a case of Liquor, scan it, and pay for it.

With what you've stated thusfar, you'd think that you also believe running it backwards on the scanner makes the product go back onto the inventory. :lol:

 

[scalyblue]

Alright, let me clarify some things.

First of all, if you want to contradict me you must first have been a salaried retail manager at one point in your life, and at another (or the same point) be a salaried retail manager at bestbuy.

Salaried managers do not make 9 bucks an hour, Assistants make at least 40k, and store (facility) managers make at least 70k. Plus bonuses.

For bestbuy, water is usually bought on consignment from an outside vendor, like coke or pepsi. The vendor comes in, stocks the coolers, and invoices the store. The inventory assistant sees to it that these invoices are paid.

Again, big box retailers, especially bestbuy do *not* receive dasani water through from their own warehouse, its delivered to the store by a coca cola employee and billed via an assembly external order. Why is this? Because all coke products, including dasani, are locally bottled. In most of the stores, the coolers aren't even the property of the store itself, and are maintained by the employees of the bottling companies.

That being said, a manager at bestbuy can change the price on any product to any value for any reason. If it's not a good reason, that's grounds for termination. However, no matter what the manager decides to change the price of the water for, the outside vendor ( again, coca cola for dasani ) will still bill the store EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

Also, coca cola has a very, very, VERY rigorous policy on its pricing and positioning for its product. If you disparage the brand or fail to set a promotion or fail to order enough product, or do something like, I don't know, change the price without authorization,, they can fine your store's P&L or threaten to pull out, and then you have regional yelling at you for being non compliant, that's a potentially career ending move right there.

When I worked at bestbuy, our store was billed about 1.14 for a 1.69 bottle of dasani.

Now let's say that you are the manager of this store. Will you open your cash register, hand somebody twenty five dollars and say "Oh, please oh please take my twenty five dollars, I don't need it, nor do I need my job." and let them walk out with a case of water on top of that? It would be cheaper to cut the bottles open, let them empty down the drain, and file a claim with coca cola for reimbursement.

I wouldn't. I'd rather sit on the water until it rotted. It'll eventually sell.

Note that, this particular bestbuy is about half a mile down the road from more than one grocery store, so why the hell is anybody coming here to shop for water the day before a hurricane?

Oh, and bestbuy's systems do not furnish the ability to create bulk signs. There is no 'each' sign stock, nor is there a way to customize a sign. You input a sku, you get corporate authorized signage for that sku.

Here's the order of events as I see it

Hurricane is announced
Manager asks for an extra shipment of water from the vendor
Only available water is inoviced per bottle. Well, fuck. Why did my receiving supervisor even sign for this?!
Okay fine, let's stock up the case completely, since we're stuck with it now. I'll submit a ticket to corporate to see if you are allowed to do a price drop because you don't have room in the warehouse for a dozen more cases.
people who are too lazy to drive to pathmark or target come in and ask if they can by the water by the case
sure, fuck it, -scribbles with a marker- here's what we have to charge by the case, have a blast.

Hell, if the manager was trying to do something shady, he would have done something like petty cashed a truckload of water and sold it under the open amount geek squad sku, then written off the petty cash discrepancy against the payroll of the department supervisor he liked the least.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Salaried managers do not make 9 bucks an hour, Assistants make at least 40k, and store (facility) managers make at least 70k. Plus bonuses.

Really, that's something you wanted to draw a line on? :facepalm: :mrgreen: :lol: :twisted:

 

[kenandkids]

By this logic, I can walk into an Art Store with a case of Liquor, scan it, and pay for it.

With what you've stated thusfar, you'd think that you also believe running it backwards on the scanner makes the product go back onto the inventory. :lol:

Now you're being fucking stupid.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Now you're being fucking stupid.

... only to try to explain where you've gone wrong.

 

[kenandkids]

Salaried managers do not make 9 bucks an hour, Assistants make at least 40k, and store (facility) managers make at least 70k. Plus bonuses.

Really, that's something you wanted to draw a line on? :facepalm: :mrgreen: :lol: :twisted:

Having been an assistant manager at retail, fastfood, and movie theatre, and manager at the theatre...

The managers at each of these made under $40k per year, including myself, and this is from the years 1995 to 2000, when wages were much higher than now.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

By this logic, I can walk into an Art Store with a case of Liquor, scan it, and pay for it.

With what you've stated thusfar, you'd think that you also believe running it backwards on the scanner makes the product go back onto the inventory. :lol:

Now you're being fucking stupid.

I know.
Your own logic is total bullshit, isn't it?

(Hytegia's Theorum of Debate: If the statement can be argued in reverse, with the integrity and positioning of the logic kept sound, then the statement is false.)

Oh, I love how you're not going to take me up on my challenge. And I also love how you ignored the first half of the post that shows the problem with your logic inherently.

Scaly hit the nail on the head - I forgot about the fact that Vendors do that, not the Corporation. But even then, it's higher than the Manager that deals with Vendor supplies, too. That is taken care of by the Area/District/However the Corporation divides itself.
However, we both made the same points in the end.

 

[kenandkids]

I know.
Your own logic is total bullshit, isn't it?

(Hytegia's Theorum of Debate: If the statement can be argued in reverse, with the integrity and positioning of the logic kept sound, then the statement is false.)

Oh, I love how you're not going to take me up on my challenge. And I also love how you ignored the first half of the post that shows the problem with your logic inherently.

Scaly hit the nail on the head - I forgot about the fact that Vendors do that, not the Corporation. But even then, it's higher than the Manager that deals with Vendor supplies, too. That is taken care of by the Area/District/However the Corporation divides itself.
However, we both made the same points in the end.

Yes... you totally made a point by not using anything close to what I said and pretending that it was what I said...

 

[scalyblue]

Having been an assistant manager at retail, fastfood, and movie theatre, and manager at the theatre...

The managers at each of these made under $40k per year, including myself, and this is from the years 1995 to 2000, when wages were much higher than now.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Best-Buy-Salaries-E97.htm

 

[kenandkids]

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Best-Buy-Salaries-E97.htm

I'm almost impressed. 98% of the entire company makes under $18 an hour...

I concede that the top 2% in Best Buy were paid well according to that...

 

[scalyblue]

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Best-Buy-Salaries-E97.htm

I'm almost impressed. 98% of the entire company makes under $18 an hour...

I concede that the top 2% in Best Buy were paid well according to that...

It's interesting how you can quote a direct refutation and concede an assertion you already made.

 

[Aught3]

Wow. :shock:

Locked for sanity's sake.