shop hours?
05-31-2009, 09:59 PM
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shop hours?
This is kind of an informal poll. What are your shop hours? I'm asking because there are two guys in my shop(installers) and normally we work M-W 11-7:30, T-Sat either 10-6 or 12-9 and Sun 11-6. Now they want us to work M-Thurs 11-9, Fri 3-9 or 10-5:30 Sat&Sun the same as before. The managment is concerned that we are missing business not having installers after 7:30pm. I don't think that's the case. I was just wondering if anyone else in the industry thinks the same. 10.5 hour days and working every weekend seems a bit much to me.
06-01-2009, 08:43 AM
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That's exactly what they'll do, I'm trying to find a solution that they can't say no to. If most other businesses are sucsessful not being open all those hours then why are we? If we really are losing that business then it would support a third guy, even if he's part time. I don't think we are missing business, at least not enough to support such hours. I think that the sales team is not focused on SELLING install. They offer it to customers but they don't show the value. You guy's are doing fine, what are your hours?
06-01-2009, 10:48 AM
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We are open 10-6 on Mondays, 10-7 Tuesday to Friday, 10-6 on Saturadys and Closed on Sundays. These hours work great for us, sometimes if we are working late on something we will keep the doors open and sometimes you might get the odd people coming in but majority of people come in during normal buisness hours.
06-01-2009, 11:37 AM
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9:30 - 5:30 monday to friday..........9:30-5:00 on saturday....and not a minute more....my guys all have lives outside of work and i rarely if ever ask them to work late
06-01-2009, 12:21 PM
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For the most part our schedule is as follows:
Sunday - 10-6:30 (Ya I know)
Monday - 9:30-6
Tuesday - 9:30-8:30 or 9:30-6 (week 1 - one installer, week 2 - two installers)
Wednesday - 9:30-6
Thusday - 9:30-8:30 (week 1 - one installer, week 2 - two installers)
Friday - 9:30-8:30
Saturday - 9:30-8:30
Can I come work for you?
Sunday - 10-6:30 (Ya I know)
Monday - 9:30-6
Tuesday - 9:30-8:30 or 9:30-6 (week 1 - one installer, week 2 - two installers)
Wednesday - 9:30-6
Thusday - 9:30-8:30 (week 1 - one installer, week 2 - two installers)
Friday - 9:30-8:30
Saturday - 9:30-8:30
Can I come work for you?
06-01-2009, 02:01 PM
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We are open 10-6 on Mondays, 10-7 Tuesday to Friday, 10-6 on Saturadys and Closed on Sundays. These hours work great for us, sometimes if we are working late on something we will keep the doors open and sometimes you might get the odd people coming in but majority of people come in during normal buisness hours.
06-01-2009, 02:13 PM
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I hear ya man.
I'm trying to be done here at 6-6:30 on a Saturday, the Store is DEAD (well Car Audio anyways)
Everything in the plaza closes so people dont drive in cuz everything looks closed, and you cant even really see our store from the main road.
We maybe miss 1 or 2 customers, but book them in for Sunday, it's only one sleep away
I'm trying to be done here at 6-6:30 on a Saturday, the Store is DEAD (well Car Audio anyways)
Everything in the plaza closes so people dont drive in cuz everything looks closed, and you cant even really see our store from the main road.
We maybe miss 1 or 2 customers, but book them in for Sunday, it's only one sleep away
06-02-2009, 01:11 PM
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I work for a big box store and I think that's the problem. They don't understand anything but retail. The management thinks that because we're open that people will come in and buy.There seems to be no listening on they're part. They complain that it would be more profitable to not run the bay so they extend the hours to solve the problem?
