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Re: Lego Outlet in Georgia has NO black thunders left
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:48:13 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Stanley writes:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:17:29 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> wrote:
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> > Well the question is, are we a BIG enough market to keep a person busy
> > full time? Or would we be willing to conform to the hours a part timer
> > kept?
No it probably wouldn't. I started this thread by posting a couple prices and
sets that were unusual (forgot about the nebula outpost though). For the most
part though, the store gets a lot of the same stuff over and over again, the
stuff that's not all that great tends to just sit there.
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> I can't see employing someone full-time to do this. What I can see is
> hiring a part-time kid to do it or maybe tacking it onto the duties of
> another employee, if they aren't overworked already.
I don't like to talk about anyone working conditions but here is my take.
Dawsonville is in the middle of nowhere in the scheme of metro Atlanta. I
imagine they get bus groups, but what is the average age of those folks?
During weekdays most kids are in school, so the parents probably won't bring
them along. My guess is that the weekends are big business, the weekdays
probably aren't. That's just my guess though.
> 'Course, the store may not have a computer with net access...
They may. I know the computers they use for checkout are actual computers
because they demoed (sp?) the lego locomotive train software for someone on
them once. Whether they have modems is another question though...
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> Almost sounds like something one of us could do each day. Say I call
> an hour after they normally get stock each day, get the listing of
> sets they've received that they can sell to us (discontinued stuff),
> and in exchange for using up 20 of my Sprint PCS minutes each week
> they give me a 10% discount. I then post the results here, probably
> without even taking my first pick.
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> No new employee, no forms to fill out, etc.
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> That doesn't handle the "someone to take all the orders" side of it,
> tho...
My thought is you probably wouldn't need to go through all that. From what I
have seen, the inventory doesn't change that much. If the manager looked at
the lists I'm posting this weekend, he could probably just update it
occasionally, like every two weeks. BTW there is never any train stuff since
ONE guy keeps on buying all of it (Thanks for sharing!!! :)
Matt
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