Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.electronics Subject: Re: Dick Smith Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:40:50 +1100 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ya6J60GH1WhxecGbw35FMQcMfrKJUWl/AynjC0SmBKLl8whnM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:d7P6u/QGwo/KZ9gdwwuRCqaoewU= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:50047 aus.electronics:30709 Petzl wrote > Max wrote >> It's so sad to see this store go. It was a niche store where you knew >> you could pick some items that the big electrical stores didn't have. >> What's the bet some small privately owned >> electronics stores will start opening up? They never stopped doing that. One of ours went bust a month before Dick Smith did. > might differ from store to store > They seemed to concentrate on computers and they had good prices and > someone seemed around to help > Everywhere else in store which was pretty big you could fire a gunshot > and no one would notice! > Just bad store operation Imo. Their prices were never anything to write home about. > Best practice in their case would be to have a > "maître D'" to assign someone to be served. No one does it that way. > Most shoppers are just doing price checks to then buy > on line, but their computer TV section showed me they > could be competitive with online. > Just needed to go back to a entrance desk personal with checkout. JB HiFi who ate their lunch, dinner and breakfast don't do it like that. > Roaming sales people don't work in this case. Bullshit. Works fine for JB HiFi.