"Wilson" <ww@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ryan wrote:
>>When I discussed this problem with the shop owners they
>> all gave me the same answer. Well, I'm sorry, but I can't afford to
>> offend the employees because they are so hard to find.
>
> Wait a minute, this is nuts The owner of a bike shop can't afford to
> offend an employee who is offending customers because employees who
offend
> customers are harder to find than customers? Any owner of a business
> would have to be out of his mind to think this way.
I suspect there may be certain elite bike shops in certain metros that are
the way Dick Ryan describes them. You will not find those kind of bike
shops
here in the heartland. My experience with bike shops has been exactly as
Wilson describes it. Bike shops will sell whatever sells, most definitely
including re***bents. The problem is that they sit on the floor forever,
just taking up a lot of space.
[...]
> Well Dick, I reckon this must be how come so many bike shops go out of
> business every year. It seems their owners didn't have the required
> business sense to make a go of it.
I have run into many bike shop owners who are good businessmen but bad at
sales. They do not seem to know how to close. A lot of bike shops are one
man operations. They are almost always bad sellers as they get too cranky
from the long hours.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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