I wonder if America has lost sight of the importance of the sales clerk. Companies treat them like dirt, pay them miserably, and expect the merchandise to jump off the shelves by itself.
When I sold cameras, we had two sales reps who visited periodically. One was from Minolta, one from Yashica. They demonstrated their cameras to us so that we could demonstrate them to customers. Of the half-dozen brands we carried, guess which cameras we sold the most of. It ain't rocket science, folks.
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