Just left my shift and it’s very busy, lines 10 deep at every checkout.
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Checkout lines 10 deep on Black Friday? That's nothing and a failure. The Target at our mall had 22 registers going full tilt with lines backed up so far they were winding through the store.
Not in Nashua.
How am I "wrong"? I stood in the fkn lines myself.
1gfn wrong.
Penney's and Kohl's had lines more like a hundred deep.
I think Carlos Slim shops here.
I'm the OP. Yes, there are a lot of immigrants or "new Americans" who shop at our store. It's a two floor store, with a Target as another anchor of the mall (which was way busier today than we were) but no Wal-mart is close. I'm as p-ss-d as anyone one else with what's going on and everything but it was very busy today, I was surprised...we'll see.
There's only ONE checkout b/c we want to keep customer members waiting, hoping that they'll remember they forgot something, and traipse around the store again
looking for it so the store will look populated
We be sneaky little buggers
" lines 10 deep at every checkout" -- super-slow checkout because of credit card pitches, SYW pitches, and PA pitches. And antiquated registers.
Sears Nashua is a little bit of a special case, because there is little meaningful competition nearby. The closest Walmart is across the river, and if you have ever been there, it looks like a third world bazaar inside. The next-closest Walmart, which is a pretty nice one, is really far away and a pain to get to. Khols is way up the pike.
Plus, many of the H1B visa tech throngs that have turned south Nashua into "Little India" are not comfortable venturing far from the safety of Little India, especially the non-working wives in their Sarongs and head wraps.
I am honestly a little surprised, though, because there is a Target anchoring the other end of the mall, and a Penny's; I thought that they would drain all the business away from Sears.
Sounds like an average Saturday morning at Home Depot.