On Apr 1, 1:41�am, Mark & Juanita wrote:
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 02:31:42 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Barss





wrote:
Charlie Self wrote:
: On Mar 31, 9:51???am, "RonB" wrote:
: RonB

: I simply do not understand franchise owners who allow problems to
: develop. The basic nut going into one of these things is on the order
: of a half million bucks, not something most of us can toss in the
: trash because we're too lazy to pay attention to training and too
: goofy to train staff.

The Tucson store has always seemed pretty well run, and very well stocked.

I got a letter, probably the same one Mark did. *The letter is
from corporate, and says that the owner is relocating for
personal reasons to Oregon, where he/they have another Woodcraft.
It's not clear anything is wrong with the operation successwise.

* I certainly did not intend to imply that in my posting. *The one thing I
have noticed is that they don't seem to be very busy most of the time. That
may be a function of the times I choose to go there vs. low volume traffic
in general. *Just found it curious that they were soliciting the customer
base for a buyer -- typically highly successful businesses that come up for
sale come up quietly and are snapped up by someone who is properly
networked before anybody else even realizes the opportunity is there.


I sometimes wonder about their solicitations. Shortly after I got let
go, they solicited me for a job, IIRC, a product manager. I called the
then manager of that department and asked about it. The list went out
widely, and, to me, stupidly, but I did give him the word that I might
consider going back if they fired my former boss and his boss. Since
then, I think something like 50% of the top personnel have changed,
maybe more, but that's more related to the president's retiring and a
replacement being hire than anything else.