How bad can it be at Staples if SBA Canada is FORCING associates to spend $50 a week each on buying FS products to make the EBITDA target?
How stupid has management become - and can Sandy really support these sorts of dumb ideas?
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Total Desperation Last Throws of a DYING company. How sad - ok! Everyone buy our toilet paper! that will save us!
Are you required to enter in your Salesforce how many sheets of TP used each time you go?
If it's not in Salesforce it never happened.
This is hardly a new "strategy". Remember when SG would wag a virtual finger at everyone in her weekly blog about not buying your toilet paper and paper towels from Staples. Like we were the problem. Nothing new. Another winning Staples strategy, lame and unoriginal. Actually Lame and Unoriginal might be a good new tag line! Somebody tell SP while he is still in marketing.
What are FS products and how are they forcing employees to buy anything?
What are "FS" products? SBA Canada sales are down YTD about 7 million as compared to same time last year (283M versus 290M) and have been trending down for many years. SBA Canada margins are down over 10% overall so yes, it's a bit of panic time.
Rhetorical question about the intelligence of management right? If told by their masters & overlords they could impersonate a bag of dirt. Ditto for Sandy, he can REALLY support anything he is told to.
force everyone to buy their own laptops!
their own desks and chairs, too!
huge boost in earnings.