How many jobs does the big box retailers give out?
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The average Lowe's store has over 100 employees.  If you work hard and are willing to learn, you can move up very quickly in these types of companies.
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Hundreds. From the big boys such as AOL to some Mom and Pop operation next door that provides service for a few customers in a local area.
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In Tampa, you have all the call centers, verizon, aol, bellsouth, Zytel, and alot of the others.  They start between 10-14 an hour.  The retail stores hire techs around 9.  You also have Road Runner, they start around 11 I think, cable pullers around 8, and of course if you have a truck you can install cable for a commision.\n\nTo get higher, if you have the education, you'd go for the private companies looking for IT work, you might start as high as 15 an hour if you keep looking.
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Yes, in fact one of the largest is Merry Maids and there are several franchise janitorial opportunities and they make excellent money and they're very profitable.\n\nIf you are looking to start a janitorial business, the business rules are always the same and actually, they are quite simple. Here's my advice about starting ANY business!\n\nA business can offer three things to their prospective new customers. The three things are; quality, service or price.  However a business cannot give all three, so, a new business must chose which two out of the three they are going to market.  Keep in mind that service (providing a service or product) when the customer wants it is going to cost something. Providing quality service or products costs something too!\n\nTake Wal-Mart for example.  Their choice is price and some quality.  Think about it; try to find a person in a Wal-Mart department that is available to help the cutomers and also think about the long check-out lines.  Typically these types of "box" store such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target go after the price and some quality market and stay away from service.  On the other side are the stores that offer quality and service and then charge more for their goods, such as; Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdale's, etc. Go visit a BMW or Porsche dealer then go to a Ford or Chevrolet dealer and you'll see the contrast.  The Porsche or BMW dealer will offer you a glass of champagne while you MIGHT get a cup of coffee at a Ford or Chevy dealer.  The sale guys at the BMW or Porsche dealer will be wearing  three piece Armanni suits, they guys at the Ford or Chevy dealer will probably be wearing slacks and a pull over golf type shirt!  The difference is that one car will probably cost $30,000 more, so , they sell quality and service!\n\nA successful business decides by way of a business plan which two pieces of the pie they are going to offer and then tailors their sales and marketing efforts towards that market.  For example, let's say you're going to start a janitorial service business.  I would go after the people and clients that want and need quality work such as doctor's offices, dentists offices, banks, etc. and are willing to pay a bit more for it.  In other words, adding value to your service goes a long way in getting and keeping good customers. Price customers usually will always be the ones that will leave when a better price comes along and this is usually not the case when selling and providing quality workmanship and service at a fair price.  There is an old adage in business that goes something like this; "The sweetness of low price is forgotten long after the bitterness of poor quality is remembered."\n\n  Businesses that typically fail are those that try to offer all three items (quality, service & price) and in business  it cannot be done since quality and service come with a price which must be paid by the customer.\n\nTo sum up, pick which two items you're going to offer your prospective accounts and go after the market that fits the two you've picked and don't waste your sales or maketing efforts on the inappropriate type of account or market you are seeking and by all means write a good business plan before you pay out the first dime!  If it doesn't look good on paper, it's not going to look any better after you've spent your money trying to get your business going and remember this phrase as well; If you don't know where you're going, chances are you'll never get there!  Good luck and I hope this helps you!
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Some of them make six figures. Check my source for more details =)
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The best bet is to look up the basic chain stores under the employment tab...like KFC, Target, etc.\n\nI included below the first I found...really try your own research first, ok? This took me all of 25 seconds...
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Yea, Lots of jobs. People make money and bring food home for their family. Its entertainment, people like watching other people get beat up.  ADVERTISEMENT...people see commercial, so people buy product, so that money goes to the company which disperses through the employees, which go to the children, food on the table, and Xmas presents.  There is value in anything that has to do with money.
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NONE, and what's more interesting is that I had an assignment involving interviewing a librarian, and she stated there are lots of incentives out there to lure more people in the field. there is a shortage! once I couldn't get any help because of staff shortage in a small community library, one person was in charge of the entire floor on a Saturday morning>
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It is all about the bottom line.\nThe store that does the best sales gets incentives from corporate. It only affects the bonuses that the top managers get.\nBesides that they are looking to get promoted as well.
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You have to solicit the corporate sponsors, but I think you would be surprised how many will actually donate.  Write a letter, make phone calls, try to set up face-to-face meetings.  \n\nAlso, individual store managers sometimes are given a small discretionary fund with which to make donations (supermarkets, etc.).  \n\nYou are doing noble work.  God bless and continued success!!
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The information provided by the previous answerer is quite exhaustive and useful, but is best suited to the big business houses with ample funds. Your question is about small business, as such please search out retail opportunities at:\nhttp://www.franchise-international.net/franchising/Retail-Franchise-Opportunities/44
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Bulk purchasing, exclusivity agreements, and low wages.
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The big companies usually make some employee sales of the company actives, I think that is the best cheap deal you can get, but you need to have someone working on a place that does this auctions...
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http://hebgrocery.com/aboutHEB/careers.jsp\n\nnothing specific...sorry.  I'm in SA so I actually know what ur talking about.  All I do know, however, is that HEB employees stay there much longer than WalMart employees. lol
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I was able to find the following:\n\n11% of all enterprises in the UK are retailers, with 183,830 VAT-registered businesses operating in 279,265 retail outlets. \n\n UK retail sales were £249 billion in 2005, larger than the combined economies of Switzerland and Ireland. \n\n The retail sector generates almost 6% of the Gross Domestic Product of the UK. \n\n More than a third of consumer spending goes through shops. \n\n Sales over the internet account for less than 4% of total retail sales, despite strong growth in recent years. \n\nEvery thing else I found was too dated....I suspect that due to the cost of market research, this information is proprietary and that you will have to pay for it from a research firm or subscribe to a business magazine like the Economist or such like.  So sorry.
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I don't know about jobs, but we started and now have a successful home business. We do all our work on the computer and phone in our home. Email rbowen12@windstream.net\nGood luck
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Most of the profit making of a store is actually VERY SMALL.  Most stores have sales in the way of what is called "loss leaders".  These are things like paper towels, toliet paper, sometimes meats, frozen foods etc that they place on SALE and are not making money on.  But while you are in the store puchasing these items, you pick up milk, pasta, bread and so on.  They make money on the stuff you pick up a dime at a time on the extras that go in your basket.  Most of the items they are making money on is placed on what are called ENDCAPS.  The ends and beginnings of each aisle.  Also by the checkout lanes, when they have one last chance for your kids to beg for candy, gum and you can pick up your latest issues of the Enquirer and see what Anna Nicole is up to this week.  Thats the last area before you leave the store for them to pick up a few more dollars off you.  Hope this helps you.