agreed. At what cost is this to the customer? We have yet to see if the Apple store experience will change for the negative. If it's better then we should applaud apple. let's wait and see.
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Apple to Eliminate Several Business and Event-Related Retail Positions
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agreed. At what cost is this to the customer? We have yet to see if the Apple store experience will change for the negative. If it's better then we should applaud apple. let's wait and see.
That business comes in regardless. Business Managers at Apple Stores don't close sales, and they can only offer, at most, 5%o discount on some items (and you have to spend $30K per year for that IIRC).
But, but... Why wait to Sunday, April 23?
They just scheduled wrong! /s.
Apple should have waited for this coming Sunday 1, and round-up an all-hands, "April's Fools" meeting, instead.
I was only comment on rhe disdain for profits. If there were no profits people wouldn't be in business.
So we are going to kill the biz team cause we do not care about pro's I mean how much clearer can we make it to you. The Mac Pro is going to die the iPad Pro is just the super power iPad. They are dumping the biz team cause they know they are going to just dump the pro customer over the side of the ship this year. Why people some one to sell to a market your exiting.
This does not mean that by eliminating these positions, the Apple Stores will lose “up to 20 percent” of their revenue.
It’s not the “existing managers, senior managers, store leaders, and market leaders” who are eliminating these positions. It’s way above their head. It’s always the same story - “No one understnds how much I do around here! This place can’t function without me!"
If one feels their employer (any employer) has their best interests at the forefront of every decision the company makes, they are sorely mistaken. No company will continue to spend money where it’s not receiving a return of some sort. And for reasons that are beyond most all of our knowledge, Apple believes these positions are not providing an adequate return.
Kind of hard to do good business when you have 500+ day product refreshes.
Apple is too flakey which is why schools have replaced iPads with Chromebooks and Macs with
PC a long time ago.
Apple is too flakey which is why schools have replaced iPads with Chromebooks and Macs with
PC a long time ago.
And there you go. Overpaid. Delusional. Sure, this is conjecture, but it’s about what I was thinking, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it were the truth & reason.
20 years B2B sales. 10 years Procurement. Why?
You're anecdote aside, my comment was about your attempt to equate Dell and HP not having retail stores with Apple's situation as if they are somehow related. They are not.
When we buy Apple products for our business, we do one of two things, we either buy online or we go to an Apple Authorized Reseller. Why you ask? Well, first off they understand the business side of things, but also because if we are walking into a store it is because we have very little time, going to the Apple store is further away and is a lot more crowded, making it take substantially more time. With the authorized reseller, we are usually in and out in under 5 minutes.
While I completely agree, companies need to make a profit, nothing wrong with making a heck of a profit, but at some point... maybe when you have more money than most countries... it is time to give back.
Hire a few extra positions, make training MORE enjoyable and memorable. Create a 'love' for the company, even if it doesn't let you get the 1 or 2 extra points this year. Happy, well trained employees create a synergy that pays out in dividends.
PS. I never understood the reason to continually IMPROVE profits, year after year. Guess that is why my company isn't in the top 500, I'm happy paying the electric bills at the office and putting some food on a couple of other families' tables.
I use the business team at least weekly to order items. I much prefer having a local guy that I can call and email for bulk orders, who handles our DEP account correctly, and knows the nuances of our business. I have no desire to have someone at corporate that I get bounced between, and cannot hook me up with things same-day. This is a bummer, my guy was next in line for management, and it would have been a nice raise for him.
Just munching on popcorn and read doom and gloom comments.
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Its the gig economy stupid... I predict A.I. will be greeting you at the Apple store in the next 5 to 10 years...
Considering Apple is the most profitable company in history, I don't think eliminating 4 positions will have a major impact on their bottom line.
Yeah....that partnership with IBM is just all about fluff.
My personal experience here....the business team at my closest Apple Store (Mall of Georgia) was never very responsive. Any time I made a business related purchase I ended up being done with the product in hand before they ever got back to responding to my email.
Lots of people here pulling out their hair, but I have seen no mention of anyone talking about how they actually used this service for the places they work. Can anyone shed light on if it was effective, and if it was even being utilized? I personally don't know anyone who has ever bought volume shipments of computers from a retail store instead of having them delivered directly and then went to a store for group classes, and I've never seen a group IN an Apple store taking one of those classes.
In fact, I think it would be hard to assume that VARs wouldn't have a huge advantage in B2B sales as they would be more familiar with competing product lines and would therefore be better equipped to point out the right solutions, as well as solutions that go far beyond Apple's core lines of business.
In fact, I think it would be hard to assume that VARs wouldn't have a huge advantage in B2B sales as they would be more familiar with competing product lines and would therefore be better equipped to point out the right solutions, as well as solutions that go far beyond Apple's core lines of business.
So your organization sent you to an Apple store with a P-card every time somebody wanted something?
I enjoy using macs personally but wouldn't have any use for them in business. Although if i did, i'm not running to an apple store in a mall somewhere to talk to some random apple store idiot. Usually a person comes to me or at least have their contact info. Not having experience with apple business, I'd assume that contact would be a business manager. So who are current businesses that use Apple going to call for their needs?
Oh well, I'm sure Apple has it thought out.
Oh well, I'm sure Apple has it thought out.
I thought they fired the ex-Dixons CEO. Seems his shadow looms large over Apple Retail.
Is 2 months severance pay normal? I thought it was based on length of employment at the organisation and not necessarily in the same position as companies change those too often
Well, Apple is going to find out whether the personnel was worth the $$$$$.
Your bet is obviously on the negative.
So the one person who has experience with this specific position at apple retails says the position wasn't needed, and can be fulfilled in other capacities, but everyone else wants to doom and gloom Apple?
