Get yer Chainreaction while you can

[Silvergoat]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37777345

Probably nothing to worry about...

 

[tufty]

Company buys competitor, shuts it down. Who'd have thought it?

 

[Silvergoat]

Re:

Then puts up prices. The usual kind of thing.

 

[Gerard]

Re: Re:

Then puts up prices. The usual kind of thing.

I noticed price creep.
Back in the day when I was buying a lot of new stuff (2000-2003) CRC were by far the most competitive with Merlin a close second. Wriggle were nowhere nearly as competitive -expensive and predominately selling downhill stuff...never bought from them.
Pity!

 

[Silvergoat]

Re:

Never ever bought from Wiggle – CRC has always been my preferred choice for kit – their prices, quality of service and prompt delivery are pretty good.

 

[02gf74]

They plan to keep 275 management roles, wtf are they managing??!!

Ridiculous.

 

[tufty]

They're managing to keep their jobs

 

[timkrik]

I just ordered a couple Turbo saddles. Should keep them in business a bit longer

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/us/e ... prod105812

 

[kingbling]

It's all to common in this day and age that the necessity of profit outweighs the impact on workers. Some call it business acumen...

I call it greed.

 

[Silvergoat]

They plan to keep 275 management roles, wtf are they managing??!!

Ridiculous.

One can never have enough managers, I find – where would we promote the useless staff to? I once worked in a department where there was three of us governed by five managers. They would call themselves 'the senior team" and would go off on 'strategic team building away days' – more like a sponsored jolly I'd say. Anyway, we had a revolution and the managers are now gone, replaced with just a [new] head of department, who has uncovered the spending habits and accounting oversights of the previous managers.