Blackest of Fridays
Nov. 19th, 2007 02:03 pmSo, get this. Circuit City plans to let a limited number of people in the store at a time. Yeah, you heard that right. There'll be a line and we'll have security only letting customers in by fours at a time after the initial rush of 100 vouchered people are invited in the front door. So four people in only when four people leave. We will then have internal lines where before you buy you must submit your voucher one at a time and then listen to a sales associate pitch warranties and accessories. No one is allowed to lay hands on any item in the store until they have stood tall before an employee and heard a pitch, one at a time. Yeah....
It'll all be ok though. We saw a corporate video showing a polite Circuit City employee explaining the system to the customers and they all smiled and nodded and then began to diligently check their circulars. It was all happy and bouncy in the video. Every customer was polite and understanding and there wasn't even anyone upset when the outside line associates ran out of vouchers. There were also balloons, candy cane forests, rivers of chocolate, and lovable talking teddy bears.
I actually laughed hysterically at that point in the video and asked our store manager to quit showing the joke video and show us video of how we're really going to do things. Sadly, there was no other video forthcoming.
We're all going to die.
It'll all be ok though. We saw a corporate video showing a polite Circuit City employee explaining the system to the customers and they all smiled and nodded and then began to diligently check their circulars. It was all happy and bouncy in the video. Every customer was polite and understanding and there wasn't even anyone upset when the outside line associates ran out of vouchers. There were also balloons, candy cane forests, rivers of chocolate, and lovable talking teddy bears.
I actually laughed hysterically at that point in the video and asked our store manager to quit showing the joke video and show us video of how we're really going to do things. Sadly, there was no other video forthcoming.
We're all going to die.