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Sonya
at Sun Jun 10 14:14:27 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sonya ]
Okay, as a pet store slave that has been in the business for most of my life I have to play devils advocate over a couple points. ONE first and foremost....there are a boat load of crappy pet stores out there, more bad than good likely. Not defending them.
Pet stores have a near impossible task finding people who want to work and who are generally passionate about all sorts of animals and learning and obsessing about. If you are lucky you can get someone to work one department and do it competently. It is like finding a book store worker that loves every genre and can tell you the topic and jist of every book they sell. There is some need and expectation of research on the part of the purchaser.
Pet stores exist for beginners. Face it. You aren't gonna find an Argus or cool boa morph in a pet store. No one is gonna wholesale out their hard work and babies. So pet stores are stuck with wild caught, wholesaled animals.
But, with a passionate store you will find people willing to find you the products you want and push you in the right direction to learning more and having healthy pets. Dying animals don't create repeat business. GOOD pet stores have passionate people that know more than you are at least similar and can share info. But face it, pet store slaves have their limits. The ownere limits what can happen. The manager limits too.
And too, when you know everything about everything then you can realize that the kid in the store at least has the potential for learning and getting better.Only thing he learns if you are rude and uppy at them is that you are a jerk. (this is a generic 'you' not insinuating that you HH or jobi would do such a thing)
And after all.....what of you don't really kinda enjoy going into pet stores? Come on. Okay, there are hideous ones that you run out of, scream, burn your clothes and shower after....but there are cool ones too that are like going to the zoo when you were a kid.
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Sonya
I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny
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RE: Pet Shop - "Tame Sav - $79.99" - Sonya, Sun Jun 10 14:14:27 2007