http://www.8052.com/forumchat/read.phtml?id=136131 the sad fact is that some are paid "by scale', not by qualification.

I have, on my occasional foray to Circuit City, always found salespeople pushing me to buy an 'extended warranty' NEVER a person that could telle me "why should I buy this unit instead of that one" with more justification than "that one is better". Oddly enough, however modest my needs, the more expensive unit has always been stated as the better choice.

On the contrary, at the competitor {Best Buy) I have found the knowledge level of the employees to be much better though still hardly 'good enough'.

So, if the paople at Circuit City are overpaid in relation to their value the move is a correct business decision.

BUT, If they want me as a customer, they should keep the payscale, fire the dumbons, and hire paople worth whatever the payscale is (it must be decent, or the move makes zero sense).

I can not imagine any business sense in saving money by hiring unqualified people, but it does sound as if that is what thay are about to do, so we will, probably see a similar thing next year when they try to go even lower.

If they want to stay in the computer business, they will fail, but if they want to concentrate on selling cheap TVs it may work.

Erik