STAPLES OFFICE PRODUCTS DISSING THEIR STORE EMPLOYEES LITITZ, Pennsylvania

I find it funny that our friend here thinks other countries or companies now seem to use Chinese Yuans, or Euros or even A$ to transact business.  Jimbo, since the Euro crisis, no one wants to deal in Euro's for fear of the Euro's collapse.  Just look at the prices these countries had to sell their bonds for; Germany could only sell their bonds IF they paid a return in excess of 6%, when US bonds are paying between 1%-2%, and Germany is the healthiest of the Euro countries.  The Chinese Yuan is a blackmarket currency similar to the Russian Ruble, and has no value outside of China.  Countries can still only buy oil in US dollars ONLY!!  The Australians, Canadians, and Chinese are buying US dollars because it's the only safe haven out there for investing in anything right now.  If reality is as you say, there would be a huge migration to China, and there isn't.  In fact, the migration is really from China is to North America.

At the end of the day, there will always be unskilled labor jobs and brick and mortar locations because of the necessary convenience of seeing before buying, and the need to shop safer since more ripoffs happen when purchasing online.  There will eventually be less jobs like a clerk at Staples, but then that's not where the future jobs should be.

The fact is, you were wrong and your ulterior motive does not justify your complaint.

Anyone can be this stupid ?

Majority of the products are now manufactured abroad, most software programming are written abroad and with the level of education
of the USA citizen you will soon be looking for janitors jobs in China. 

In fact I glad that some of the companies no longer accept US $ they would rather be paid in euro's, Aus $ or Chinese Yuans etc.

Keep going to war with world maybe that will distract you clowns from reality thats what we are best at.

With your displayed level of education (written language skills) you should book your flight to China right now.  This way, you can get in on the ground floor and very possibly move up to "lead janitor" after 10 years.

that you attempted to (mis)use.

What kind of rant do you post for something REALLY serious?

Get a life!!

Unlike U to see the USA does not become a third world country with unemployed or soon to be  person like U in it. Soon we will be unable to sustain a service industry anymore, the warehouses will be based abroad and the online orders will be taken at some foreign site as they are already now.
 
Majority of the products are now manufactured abroad, most software programming are written abroad and with the level of education of the USA citizen you will soon be looking for janitors jobs in China. 

In fact I glad that some of the companies no longer accept US $ they would rather be paid in euro's, Aus $ or Chinese Yuans etc.

Keep going to war with world maybe that will distract you clowns from reality thats what we are best at.

why didn't you check first with the cashier before you made your $100 purchase?  It would have saved you embarrassment and possibly your post.  If the store was very busy, then they are doing something right and therefore may (I am inferring) stay in business.

This report has "ulterior motive" written all over it.  It will just be a matter of time before the OP "enlightens" us as to what that motive is.

", the feeling at the store from other shoppers was shock and disgust  "

   When embellishing a story here on ROR, it's always a good idea to make it believable.    Rather than being shocked and disgusted at the store, it's more likely that the reaction from the shoppers was :

"Look at that idiot making a fuss about using an online coupon in the store."

  Any disgust you noticed was probably directed at you.

    Your whining about dispensable employees would probably garner a chuckle from the employees themselves.    You have the world view of a 13 year old.



                                             

the coupon clearly marked for internet ordering only.  Who would have figured that's what they meant?

You were a little presumptuous weren't you?

BTW, I don't really believe the other customers were "shocked and disgusted."

You really love the hyperbole don't you, Jim?

Get over your personal "shock and disgust" and get on with life.

I knew it was an online coupon(it was printed at the very top lefthand corner) but contarary to stores like Best-Buy and Wal Mart who honor their coupon or match the deal in-store, STAPLES instructed their employees not to do so, the feeling at the store from other shoppers was shock and disgust, and let me tell you the shop was busy.  I am in no way inferring that these other stores operate above corporate greed, but on the face of it, unlike STAPLES, they are giving families in our community a fighting chance to survive, a gesture hopefully not lost on the SUITS at STAPLES and similar outfits.

P.S. Mahatma Gandhi said, when mechanisation and automation exclusively replaces human labor we have sounded the deathknell of society and civilization and returned to the a period that is undesirable and
will be soundly rejected.

See what is happening all across America right now!!! Scott Walker,  Scott Ridley and John Kasic, a few extreme examples.

Jim Lebanon

"considering the hardship the 99% in this country are facing"

99% appears to be an exaggeration. What is your source of this information?

you didn't read the coupon before going to the store and looking foolish.

It's quite a leap to assume corporate has decided "these poor souls were dispensable."

Harbor Freight does this at times and I would imagine others do too.

Why can't their mail/internet centers run specials when they're slow?

Another case of over-reacting to a non-issue.