AJ,
It was the early afternoon, though I'm not sure if it was the lunch hour or later than that.
When supermarkets get busy, they usually make a P.A. announcement, "All cashiers and baggers up front!" But I guess CPU isn't set up for that.
The store was also in the middle of remodeling, with the business center gone.
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What did you think of today's news? It sounds like greenmail to me. I bet Tom Joyner has a relationship to the advertising firm they agreed to hire.
Excerpts:
WASHINGTON (AP) - A protest urging CompUSA to advertise with black-oriented media has ended with the nation's largest computer retailer promising to hire a black-owned advertising firm and offer store discounts to the protesters.
"We're using urban radio, just not to the extent we should be," CompUSA chief executive Jim Halpin said Tuesday on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," a radio program that galvanized the protest...
Since the protest began 10 weeks ago, the Dallas-based retailer has been inundated with calls and letters, Halpin said. Host Joyner and Black Entertainment Television commentator Tavis Smiley, a regular on the show, urged listeners to send the company cash register receipts from their purchases at CompUSA to illustrate black buyers' impact on the company's bottom line. |
