Im Afraid I have to agree. I run a store as part of a canadian chain that is not one of the indusrty big dogs. In canada software is bought 1/ EB, 2/ Futureshop, 3/ The rest of us. There are two main thrusts we fight against. Kids partially live in the mall, so EB has a natural advantage. They offer trade ins, so you can get some money back for old stuff and trade up to new. ( I think EB is reconcidering that in PC Games. they are begining to collect a lot of rubbish that will never sell anymore. )
Then the futureshop has a campain of "Get it First" (The FutureShop is owned by Best Buy) The get it first campain works for the day one junkies. Its hard to compete against those two major factors.
No matter what any survey company tells you that customers now a days decry a lack of custmoer service, its bull. your customer base will sell you out in a second for 1.00 off. Pepole will drive somehwere and burn up $5.00 in gas just to save a buck or get it a day sooner.
Your only hope is to offer great customer service. Not good, but Great. Tell the truth, if games are not getting good reviews, let clients know. Have abulliten board where you can post some of the good reviews, and some of the bad. Dont let your supplier stick you with crap games. A bad product mix will kill you as much as not enough clients. And if you have concerns about product returns from questionable customers deal with it fast. People that keep bringing back games, slam the lid on them and stop selling to them. Track your customers and know the bad ones. The amount of them is very small, but they can eat that small margin into nothing. If 2% of your clients keep bringing back games because they are copying them, there goes your profit as you clear out a used game.
You may have to concider the last option in this day of Wall Mart. Close. Wall Mart will be the death of the small community. Local lift will be erased, so unless your local city coucil gather up the courage to tell WallMart no, you may just be run over by the Big Dogs. You may have to something else.
Yup. Don't care. As the enviroment increases to get warmer the areas of the earth that will be effected the most will be the temperate mid bands of the planet, and that means The good U S of A and Europe will be hit the most. Fry em up. Temperature shft will effect us canadians less, and in some cases it help open up new land for usage. Stick another Yank on the Barbie. Just remind them that the US didnt want to help with the problem, and now thye can live with the consequences. Declining abilty to grow their own food, cities not having the power needed to run all those air conditioners.... Mother nature will take out on us. And if we do go to far, well, we will all die out, and the cockroaches can take a shot at running the place.
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Email is nothing. IF (and think how in the hell this would actually be a problem) Blackberry as a canadian company started to act against the security interests of the United States... Come on. If Canada ever wanted to stick it to the U.S. it wouldnt be via Email.
Canada is a net supplier of Electricity, Canada is the single largest supplier of oil to the United States. They supply approximately 10 billion dollars in goods a month more then is bought back from the U.S. And on 9/11 when air traffic was closed in the U.S. all those planes headed for U.S. destinations, the all got rerouted and landed in Canada. Canada just helped.
Canada and Canadian companies are not a security threat. These two countries haven't taken shots at each other since 1812. Trust me, Canada got over it. You want to worry about technology security. Stop manufactuing critial tech in China. They pilllage you IP rights, and U.S. companies do that simply because labour is cheaper, and you sell stuff another billion customers.
This arguement shouldnt be about security. It should be about a broken patent system that hands out patents to people who patent concepts, not actual devices.
and Thank you for your in depth analysis. i so glad lay people can just argue against the vast majority of qualified scientists who have been warning us for the past 30 years that we have been screwing badly with this planet.
For you we have a group version of the Darwin award.
Just dont share it with me.
Ha, of course, im stuck on the same planet as the rest of you idiots. you are taking me with you.
thanks for including me (Not)
I have seen the same thing happen. He is a position of managing people who do a job, and he does understand the job. That is just damn wrong management. for everyones sake he needs to go.
Now. Gone. Out the door.
Because he isnt contributing. If people arent contributing to your organization they are vampires. they take resources but create no result.
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Im Afraid I have to agree. I run a store as part of a canadian chain that is not one of the indusrty big dogs. In canada software is bought 1/ EB, 2/ Futureshop, 3/ The rest of us. There are two main thrusts we fight against. Kids partially live in the mall, so EB has a natural advantage. They offer trade ins, so you can get some money back for old stuff and trade up to new. ( I think EB is reconcidering that in PC Games. they are begining to collect a lot of rubbish that will never sell anymore. )
Then the futureshop has a campain of "Get it First" (The FutureShop is owned by Best Buy) The get it first campain works for the day one junkies. Its hard to compete against those two major factors.
No matter what any survey company tells you that customers now a days decry a lack of custmoer service, its bull. your customer base will sell you out in a second for 1.00 off. Pepole will drive somehwere and burn up $5.00 in gas just to save a buck or get it a day sooner.
Your only hope is to offer great customer service. Not good, but Great. Tell the truth, if games are not getting good reviews, let clients know. Have abulliten board where you can post some of the good reviews, and some of the bad. Dont let your supplier stick you with crap games. A bad product mix will kill you as much as not enough clients. And if you have concerns about product returns from questionable customers deal with it fast. People that keep bringing back games, slam the lid on them and stop selling to them. Track your customers and know the bad ones. The amount of them is very small, but they can eat that small margin into nothing. If 2% of your clients keep bringing back games because they are copying them, there goes your profit as you clear out a used game.
You may have to concider the last option in this day of Wall Mart. Close. Wall Mart will be the death of the small community. Local lift will be erased, so unless your local city coucil gather up the courage to tell WallMart no, you may just be run over by the Big Dogs. You may have to something else.
Yup. Don't care. As the enviroment increases to get warmer the areas of the earth that will be effected the most will be the temperate mid bands of the planet, and that means The good U S of A and Europe will be hit the most. Fry em up. Temperature shft will effect us canadians less, and in some cases it help open up new land for usage. Stick another Yank on the Barbie. Just remind them that the US didnt want to help with the problem, and now thye can live with the consequences. Declining abilty to grow their own food, cities not having the power needed to run all those air conditioners.... Mother nature will take out on us. And if we do go to far, well, we will all die out, and the cockroaches can take a shot at running the place.
Email is nothing. IF (and think how in the hell this would actually be a problem) Blackberry as a canadian company started to act against the security interests of the United States... Come on. If Canada ever wanted to stick it to the U.S. it wouldnt be via Email. Canada is a net supplier of Electricity, Canada is the single largest supplier of oil to the United States. They supply approximately 10 billion dollars in goods a month more then is bought back from the U.S. And on 9/11 when air traffic was closed in the U.S. all those planes headed for U.S. destinations, the all got rerouted and landed in Canada. Canada just helped. Canada and Canadian companies are not a security threat. These two countries haven't taken shots at each other since 1812. Trust me, Canada got over it. You want to worry about technology security. Stop manufactuing critial tech in China. They pilllage you IP rights, and U.S. companies do that simply because labour is cheaper, and you sell stuff another billion customers. This arguement shouldnt be about security. It should be about a broken patent system that hands out patents to people who patent concepts, not actual devices.
and Thank you for your in depth analysis. i so glad lay people can just argue against the vast majority of qualified scientists who have been warning us for the past 30 years that we have been screwing badly with this planet.
For you we have a group version of the Darwin award.
Just dont share it with me.
Ha, of course, im stuck on the same planet as the rest of you idiots. you are taking me with you. thanks for including me (Not)
I have seen the same thing happen. He is a position of managing people who do a job, and he does understand the job. That is just damn wrong management. for everyones sake he needs to go. Now. Gone. Out the door. Because he isnt contributing. If people arent contributing to your organization they are vampires. they take resources but create no result.