Men vs. Women

Why give this thread topic the title of "Men vs. Women"?

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Originally posted by e:
Why give this thread topic the title of "Men vs. Women"?

Please read the paper. I just didn't like the way a person just opened a business was saying customers always want to talk to men.

What i should have asked in the post at the end was does who had you prefer to talk to , men or women ?

I wish that place would shut its doors and put the money behind re-opening Culpepper's. I'll continue to get my batteries at Wal-Mart.

I worked at a local hardware store back in the 80s,... there were 2-4 male salespeople and 2 female, usually 1 but when it was busy there were 2. The men and most of the women preferred the males to wait on them. Im sure the battery business is looked upon as the hardware business is or was at the time as a "guy" thing. IMHO the men were looked upon as being more "knowledgeable"... i didnt say smarter, i think more knowledgeable if different. But, that wasnt the case at the hardware store. I was green as a gourd. Just a snot-nosed kid outta high school. The women had as much knowledge as the women. It was just that the public as a whole didnt and dont see it that way.

To quote dogs article...
Posted 18 February 2007 09:24 AM
I was reading about the new business Batteries Plus on page 4D of Sunday's T-D.

Sonia Lee (the owner) starts out whining that customers had rather talk to men.....If I had JUST opened up a business I believe I'd be talking about the products to prove what I do know instead of whining about what customers think of me or how professional or skillful I am.

I didnt read the article, but he is correct about the products vs the whining lol.. kinda sounded like she was selling herself rather than batteries, but again, i didnt read it...

She didnt have any trouble selling me a $130 laptop battery. Might want to consider cheaper pricing than OEM as a way to bolster business. They have lots of stuff but know your prices before you go in.