What I learned from black friday

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

If you've ever owned a business you'll understand why any store-front retailer, large or small (but especially small), has very little ability to compete price-wise with most online sellers.

It's easy to bitch in an online forum without considering the dynamics involved.

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Oh I know, but my main complaint is listening to a large size retailer employee giving me a speech on why the prices are so high when an equally sized retailer down the road is selling the very same thing for significantly cheaper (and not on sale) The only reason large retailers can offer cheaper ammo prices is because they have the capital to buy in bulk which lowers down their cost and small businesses cannot compete with which again wasn't the case here.

I went out to pick up my very first Glock, a Glock 19 G4, that I wasn't able to get on Wednesday ...largely due to a wee bit of laziness IMHO on the part of the guy behind the counter, but I'll leave that for another day. Anyway, picking up my Glock 19, and I was number 693 in the queue for background checks. Seems Black Friday was a good day for firearm sales.

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

I agree. I just don't think most people could handle either one of those. Not to mention operating a small business and having to make payroll, week in and week out, for a few years at a time. Employees expect to be paid whether the business is doing well or it's struggling. It's not easy.

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The best is when employees aren't liking their commission-based pay, are told to hang on because business is predicted to hit a slow period, and then they beg to be laid off so they can collect unemployment for a couple years without having to do jack shit for it.

The issue I see here, is that an employee of a large retailer is rarely qualified to be having a conversation about pricing with a customer in the first place. Owning a business, and working at a business are two vastly different things.