Actually none, thank God. Just the blue vest, a nametag, and two little things dangling from it. One says “sales associate” the other says “associate in training.”
As for the Wal-Mart only practices, I’m not conding them or saying they are good, but I, in general, thought of them as the kind of practice that most chain-box stores practice. It doesn’t really matter if Wal-Mart or Best-Buy sells one extra TV that day, so it’s price is just that, but a locally owned store is in more need to sell as much as possible, so getting a fifty dollar profit on something thast usually has a seventy dollar profit is better than nothing. I’m sure there is no harm in asking, but when you ask about every item I show you, after telling you we don’t give discounts period, you annoy me. As said, that comment was really directed towards that one guy who didn’t seem to get it. (And besides, if you are going to haggle, do it the right way and offer me a price first, cause if you let me offer one, I’ll try and screw ya ;))
As for stocking items in different places, to me, that doesn’t make much sense unles it is an impulse item or something that doesn’t really have it’s own place (like batteries, food, other random things.) And even if we were to stock them in different places, the other place will still have the same selection. Putting half of something here, and half over there, just annoys customers who have to walk across the whole store because the headphones they wanted weren’t in electronics, but over near the music section. Granted, there is a reason is doing that, the more they walk through the store, they more chances they have to see something else they need to buy.
Again, I’m not saying that Wal-Mart is good, or that it’s way is the only way, but sometimes the customers can be just as bad as the help.
