Former Retail Store Manager Steve Cano to Succeed Ron Johnson as Apple Retail Chief? [Updated]

[robwormald]

My (albeit very limited) experiences with Steve Cano when I was a retail employee were not positive. He always struck me as very much a Best Buy / Curry's type of manager, as opposed to RJ. His push was very much for sales / service metrics when he came on board (as opposed to the previous customer satisfaction metrics).

Glad to see Apple isn't putting this guy in charge of retail Ops

 

[tmroper]

They may not be wearing suits, but they look like total "suits" to me. I don't get any kind of Apple creative vibe from that photo at all. Without Steve, I have to wonder who's going to keep the left brain MBA types in their place.

 

[the8thark]

I think the article is mis-leading or confusing it's facts. They tout him as an example of how you can rise to the top from a sales associate, then state that he STARTED as a manager of a store.

Not the same thing, and getting from "unnoticed sales monkey" to "manager" is quite a fight in the jungle, IMHO.

This is very true.

 

[ajohnson253]

talk about a come up

 

[iRCL]

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The weirdest looking person on the planet just got replaced by the 2nd weirdest looking person on the planet.

 

[AidenShaw]

Johnson's using a flip-phone, right?

The weirdest looking person on the planet just got replaced by the 2nd weirdest looking person on the planet.

Cano isn't hard on the eyes....

 

[LLIBSETAG]

Ron Johnson & Steve Jobs

Hopefully I am wrong, but I do not recall reading any statement from Ron Johnson regarding Steve Jobs' death..?