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open a business, provide all your retail locations with WORKING display items. Then when it's time to update your display models with the new version, PAY to have all the items shipped back to you. Then pay employees to track, unwrap and resell the old (now used) merchandise, pay the store overhead that is now reselling that used merchandise. Meanwhile coordinate with your accounting dept and try and figure out how to justify the expense of all this - WITHOUT passing that cost onto the customer. (hint, you either have to raise prices, buy oversea's or cut wages)
Calculate the cost on doing that a few times a year, X 25,100,300+ stores. The indignant feelings will fade fast. The reality of what it takes to run a business is known only to those that do it. It's easy to read a quarterly report and see the money made but have no idea what the cost of generating that is.
Please dont misread my post as an attack. I just think that people should be more educated on things before they decide that company's are not being good stewards of society and think they should throw money away, so that nobody is offended.
Company's that sell/service sani-cans have an EXTREMELY high profit margin. But nobody decides their not doing the right thing by placing their products for free in the projects or in low income area's. There are things that I dont like about
WalMart as well, but I still go there all the time. I have to laugh at the people that complain about the part time positions, insurance issues, night shifts. Those people KNEW what the position was going to entail BEFORE they got hired. They knew the benefits, the insurance and welcomed the job offer, Yet once in, they decide it's no longer fair and want the rules rewritten. They cant see past their own lunchbox. Almost every state in this country has a "work at will" contract with workers. That means that EITHER side can terminate the work agreement for ANY reason other than age, sex, religion etc. If the terms of employment are no longer satisfactory, then you are free to leave without penalty.
Dont even get me started on unions........Sorry, I could go on and on.
