Rembrandt
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Stopped last night at Scheels to get a couple Dillon press items and saw how a big retailer is handling the rush on guns & ammo. (Des Moines)
Scheels stores are in huge multi-level open mall type areas where you wander from one specialized department to another. Since the sales personnel are out numbered and can't handle the swarms of buyers, they have barricaded the entire gun, ammo, and reloading section off with folding tables tipped on their sides...kinda like a fence with only one gate (entrance and exit). Only allowing a designated number of people into the area accompanied by a sales person.
The line outside this corralled area waiting for admittance had to be 20-to-25 people deep. You had to take a number and wait for someone to come out before the next person could go in with their store appointed chaperone. I'm sure they're concerned about having too many people crowded in a tight area as well.
I was rather impressed at how well and organized it was working, instead of resembling a Black Friday mad dash of people knocking each other down, this store was doing it right.
Scheels stores are in huge multi-level open mall type areas where you wander from one specialized department to another. Since the sales personnel are out numbered and can't handle the swarms of buyers, they have barricaded the entire gun, ammo, and reloading section off with folding tables tipped on their sides...kinda like a fence with only one gate (entrance and exit). Only allowing a designated number of people into the area accompanied by a sales person.
The line outside this corralled area waiting for admittance had to be 20-to-25 people deep. You had to take a number and wait for someone to come out before the next person could go in with their store appointed chaperone. I'm sure they're concerned about having too many people crowded in a tight area as well.
I was rather impressed at how well and organized it was working, instead of resembling a Black Friday mad dash of people knocking each other down, this store was doing it right.