April 2014 - Page 6 of 19 - I Hate Working In Retail

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Florida woman goes on rampage after storeowner won’t exchange dollar bills for her jar of coins

 

This past Monday, a woman became furious with a storeowner when he declined to exchange dollar bills for her jar of coins. Surveillance video shows the woman aggressively pointing at the owner of the A Plus Food Mart in Mt. Dora, Florida before knocking items off the counter. As News 13 reports, the outburst only got worse from there.

 

 

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The woman is seen here knocking items off the store counter. (News 13)

The owner, who was not named, says that he tried explaining to the woman, also unnamed, that he didn’t have time to sort through her jar of change. She got frustrated and knocked items off his counter. He followed her outside his business and says the angry woman was screaming racial slurs and threatening to kill him. But that isn’t the worst thing that she did

 

 

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This is the moment when the woman allegedly hit the seven-year-old child. (News 13)

Danya Bennett was sitting outside the A Plus Food Mart at the time with her daughter, seven-year-old Kami. Kami told News 13, “We was just sitting here minding our own business and he told us to call the police,” and, “Her crazy.” Ms. Bennett told the station, “[The storeowner’s] saying she tore up my store, call 911, something’s wrong with her.” When the woman took a swinging punch at the owner, she missed and hit someone else. Little Kami says, “When she was trying to swing at him she hit me.” That’s right, the woman allegedly hit a seven-year-old.

News 13 writes that Kami has a bruise on her face and that she said she’s suffering from nightmares. Her mother told the station, “I’d like to see justice served, it’s aggravated assault and I’d like to see her behind bars.” Mt. Dora Police say they are reviewing the case and that the investigation remains open

 

Sourced from yahoo news.com

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REMINDER: Sears Is Still A Retail Superpower. Take a look at the Map

 

Sears frequently makes headlines for its tumbling stock price and falling sales.

But despite many store closures in recent years, Sears and its discount chain Kmart still have an insane amount of locations.

Morgan Stanley is out with its latest retail “Atlas” which shows the breakdown of various retailers by geography.

Their Sears and Kmart map shows that despite the doom-and-gloom headlines, the retailer is still quite powerful.

Sears and Kmart have more than 1,000 locations each, for a total of nearly 2,500 stores. For comparison, competitor Macy’s has 843 stores.

Here’s the map.

sears kmart store locations map Morgan Stanley

 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-sears-and-k-mart-locations-2014-4#ixzz2zk221wIN

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6 British Flops Primark Will Hope To Do Better Than In America

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Primark is coming to America, with US fashionistas preparing to snap up their budget items at the chain’s first store, set to open in Boston, Massachusetts, later this year.

The retail chain, which has 269 stores covering nearly 10 million square feet of selling space across Europe, is looking Stateside, as it eyes a chunk of the massive market on offer.

The British fashion giant will be treading a well-worn path as many big British names have tried to crack the American market, with varying success.

Here are 6 big British names, that Primark are undoubtedly hoping to avoid emulating, who had a tough time trying to take on the United States.

  • Laura Ashley
    Fashion chain Laura Ashley was forced to sell all its US shops for a dollar in 1989 after being rocked by a series of profit warnings.
  • Tesco’s Fresh & Easy
    Tesco was forced to sell its US arm, Fresh & Easy, in 2013 – after costs piled up, leaving the supermarket giant with a bill of nearly £2 billion. Tesco’s rival Sainsbury’s had similar problem, being forced to sell its Shaw’s grocery chain in 2004 after it failed to take off.
  • Robbie Williams
    Robbie Williams had to admit in 2013 that his dream of cracking America was over as the struggle was “too exhausting”. The former Take That singer said: “When I released my compilation album The Ego Has Landed I went to America for two months to promote it.” “The album sold one million copies. That was not bad. But I don’t want to work that hard.” “I’ve concluded not to try it again. After that I did not promote any album in the US.”
  • Piers Morgan
    Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan rode high in America as a judge on the American Idol TV show and even got his own show on CNN, before getting cancelled due to poor ratings.
  • HMV
    Entertainment giant HMV sold its last US shop in 2004 after failing to make any profit, just years before it would be forced to enter administration in Britain.
  • WH Smith
    High street newsagent WH Smith suffered in the retail meltdown following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, selling its 280 US hotel and 180 airport stores in 2003.

 

Sourced fromthehuffingtonpost.com