[Coco] [OT} Shack: was Re: Coco keyboard trouble

[Rob Rosenbrock]

After several years of working in corporate stores, I left to work a franchise store. The description given to you is somewhat true -- at least according to my recollection of years gone by. Things may have changed in the years, but I'd doubt by much.

A corporate owned store is required to carry the merchandise in the catalog, and only the merchandise in the catalog, and adheres to the prices.

A franchise store is independently owned and they can carry whatever they want. In general, they pay a higher cost for that merchandise than the corporate owned store, and they can (and do) carry merchandise from other wholesalers.

On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Blank Bruno wrote:

> On 01/17/2012 06:48 AM, Mark Ormond wrote:
>> 8<---snip--->8 My local one has a decent assortment of bits and pieces, but the mall store doesn't. (They removed them to make more room for larger retail items.). When my Commodore Pet 2001-8 went out I was able to run down there and get the diodes and voltage regulators I needed to fix it that night. So most of them have gone to crap, but not all. But don't ask for help with the components, you will just get blank stares from the staff.
> I was told by someone at my sort of local Shack that the ones with mostly cell phones/stereos and such are "corporate", while the ones with a good selection of things, somewhat similar to the good old days, are "independent franchises".  I don't know if he knew what he was talking about, but maybe that's a part of what the differences are.
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