Comments on: Apple May Be Immune to Economy, But Stores Aren’t

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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:57:00 +0000

[...] das Geschäft in den Apple Stores deutlich rückläufig ist. Der durchnschnittliche Umsatz in den Apple-Ladengeschäften ging um 17 Prozent zurück. Die Umsätze fielen von 7,1 Mio Dollar im ersten Quartal 2008 auf 5,9 Mio Dollar im ersten Quartal [...]

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By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:59:46 +0000

From what I have read, this not a number of employees, but man-hour equalivlaant. In education, we call this FTE (full time equalivalant), for example, a half-time teacher is a .5 FTE (because I guess saying half-time is too clear and easy to understand).

-Drew

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Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:07:53 +0000

[...] das Geschäft in den Apple Stores deutlich rückläufig ist. Der durchnschnittliche Umsatz in den Apple-Ladengeschäften ging um 17 Prozent zurück. Die Umsätze fielen von 7,1 Mio Dollar im erstehn Quartal 2008 auf nun 5,9 Mio Dollar im ersten [...]

By: level1alt

level1alt — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:06:50 +0000

6 less employees = 6 more costumers that will fit in the store.
Everytime i visit apple store here in charlotte nc it’s packed full

By: APPLWatch

APPLWatch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:20:15 +0000

Are you sure about this story? My understanding is that it wasn’t 1,600 people laid off. It was the equivalent number of man hours cut from the stores-which is certainly not the same thing.

By: JS

JS — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:08:34 +0000

Ed,

The headcount at the stores has already decreased 1,600. As in “it’s already happened”, not as in “Apple is about to layoff 1,600 people in its retail stores”.

And it didn’t do it via layoffs. It did it via attrition. Retail, even Apple Retail, has a high turn-over. As people quit, Apple simply don’t hire someone to fill that spot.

1600 spots over 250 stores is about 6 people per store not rehired over the last year. Not so hard to imagine, huh?