In the summer, for example, a store like Sunglass Hut sells at a very high volume and so the managers main concern is selling and making sure their staff is selling (they get commission) and so things like repairs/warranties are the least of their priorities. Luxottica has made it so that any warranty exchanges come out of the store figures (they have to exchange the item through the till, giving you a new warranty, and then they damage off the…
But, we are now three years post launch, and the company continues to do the bare minimum in marketing the division well past the launch of these other divisions. As a fighter, I pay very close attention to the amount of marketing that goes into and around my fights and I can tell you that you’d be hard pressed to find much that has been done to promote me outside of TUF 24, which was minimal in comparison to other…
A Bronx native whose parents were born in the Dominican Republic, Alberto spent summers as a teenager working as a cook at a sleepaway camp. By his last summer there, at age 19, he was overseeing a staff of eight. The experience “sparked my interest in leadership and management,” he said. I didn find that very funny at the time, but I can appreciate his relief at how easy it was. Pushing took about 20 minutes and my son was…
When open, it advertised fiercely competitive prices on its front windows and as a result became a popular destination for shoppers along Maple Avenue. Unfortunately, the business owned by Elvio Taveras fell on difficult times. Sandy Lerner apparently was on to something. Thirty miles away, in a depressed area of southern Oklahoma, Ron and Velma Castaneda tend to their game roosters in a backyard farm much smaller than Kozura’s expanse. Inside an old school gymnasium, which the Castanedas own, they…
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Damon Phillips remembers finding the “Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz” in his parents’ record collection with its 46 page booklet of liner notes about the music when he was about 10 years old. “I just sat there on the floor with those albums,” he recalls. “It was the first time I had read something trying to explain jazz. After nine holes, he remained two shots behind a leading quartet of McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Danny Willett. Scott tore…
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The image of David Byrne, lead singer of the band Talking Heads, crackles on screen. He wears an outsized suit and sings a song called ”Psycho Killer.” A crowd of two dozen shoppers gathers instantaneously. Byrne’s song is punctuated by the click click of computerized cash registers ringing up sales of Macy’s trendiest young fashions.. As true home theater enthusiasts we been designing our perfect escape since before we bought our house. We were just looking for the perfect house…