Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 8:49:31 GMT -6
I state my title as a question, not a statement. I don't know the truth of the matter, as I've only shopped at Frys. That all but ended when I left trucking and came to stay in one state full time (A state without a Frys close enough to use..sadly), but I've known them to be one of the 'go-to' stores for cheap prices on a selection so large for in-stock items, I think of them as a Super-Walmart for electronics.
It appears they may have more in common, at least in how people view them after this, with Walmart than with anything else. First.. I came across it with a very small, very short blip in my court filing news.
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Well, brevity is not always a value to be cherished..so I went to looking a bit more. What I found is what I came to share. I had no idea that THIS was how my Frys purchases of the past had such low prices.
ORLY? That is just low class and pathetic if that is how it works. It has been awhile since I was in one, and I make a hard point to avoid clerks anyway. They rarely know more than an average customer about what they sell these days, to describe a good % of them. Why bother? However, this sounds more like retail sales on a used car model.
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That is just rude. I imagine the profit above retail associate level must be pretty nice though, if your whole sales floor is working on pure commission. (People actually apply for this and call it work??).
Now, to address the most obvious problem here...The original lead doesn't give enough detail about what has been filed in court. The supporting story is sourcing from Reddit, originally. Material to define credibility, this is not. HOWEVER.... I have lists of bookmarks for just such an occasion, and I dug into them for this one. Visit the following site if you'd like to see more from Frys employees as well as some rebuttals from Frys management.
Frys Electronics at Ripoff Report
(As a side note, I've been using Ripoff Report for basic background checking companies and other things with public sentiment for longer than I've been writing about any of it. It's good to use, in context to what it is)
So, anyone have any personal experiences they can share to support or dispute what seems to be a real scam against employees? At least that is how it strikes this Rabbit, if there is truth to it.
It appears they may have more in common, at least in how people view them after this, with Walmart than with anything else. First.. I came across it with a very small, very short blip in my court filing news.
MARTINEZ, Calif. - Fry's Electronics stiffs salesmen of minimum wages through a "commission draw" system, a class action claims in Contra Costa County Court.
Well, brevity is not always a value to be cherished..so I went to looking a bit more. What I found is what I came to share. I had no idea that THIS was how my Frys purchases of the past had such low prices.
As part of a thread on Reddit, the onetime Fry’s employee goes into great detail about the problems he has with the store.
He says that Fry’s sales staff is solely dependent on commission to make a living, but if an item is discounted, there is no commission. And when it comes to price-matching, he claims that the difference between Fry’s sticker price and the matched price will come out of the associate’s commission.
“o it is their job and livelihood to say that sale item is either out of stock or that a higher priced crappier item is a much better deal, he explains.
He says that Fry’s sales staff is solely dependent on commission to make a living, but if an item is discounted, there is no commission. And when it comes to price-matching, he claims that the difference between Fry’s sticker price and the matched price will come out of the associate’s commission.
“o it is their job and livelihood to say that sale item is either out of stock or that a higher priced crappier item is a much better deal, he explains.
ORLY? That is just low class and pathetic if that is how it works. It has been awhile since I was in one, and I make a hard point to avoid clerks anyway. They rarely know more than an average customer about what they sell these days, to describe a good % of them. Why bother? However, this sounds more like retail sales on a used car model.
“For a salesperson to receive credit on ANYTHING, they must take you and your items to a computer terminal to: get your name, last name, address, phone number, etc.,” he writes. “Imagine doing this for a simple USB cable. You can either say, “fk it I don’t have time for this” and leave, but doing so just prevented a worker from their precious $0.10.”
That is just rude. I imagine the profit above retail associate level must be pretty nice though, if your whole sales floor is working on pure commission. (People actually apply for this and call it work??).
Now, to address the most obvious problem here...The original lead doesn't give enough detail about what has been filed in court. The supporting story is sourcing from Reddit, originally. Material to define credibility, this is not. HOWEVER.... I have lists of bookmarks for just such an occasion, and I dug into them for this one. Visit the following site if you'd like to see more from Frys employees as well as some rebuttals from Frys management.
Frys Electronics at Ripoff Report
(As a side note, I've been using Ripoff Report for basic background checking companies and other things with public sentiment for longer than I've been writing about any of it. It's good to use, in context to what it is)
So, anyone have any personal experiences they can share to support or dispute what seems to be a real scam against employees? At least that is how it strikes this Rabbit, if there is truth to it.
