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Jon Johanning wrote:
>Does a book/record chain like Borders give a lot of autonomy to
>individual stores to order what the music department manager
>chooses, or.....
It depends on the chain's policies. Obviously, if the individual store has
a "buyer" the store has great independence. Even when the classical buyer
for the chain is regional, the store might have some latitude.
When I worked at a chain called "Sound Warehouse", the classical buyer
allowed the store to order up to a certain dollar amount on its own of
"particular" labels(not the major ones). I did this order once in lieu of
the classical manager. As I remember, I ordered about 50 titles for the
month. Everything else came from the "parent" warehouse except for special
orders which were handled through a local distributor. Some of the stuff
from the parent warehouse was a joke. They would often dump 10 to 15
copies of a "loser" disc on the store; these copies would take up shelf
space for a few months, then get shipped back to the parent.
Don Satz
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