Are we Houston’s team or not?
I arrived at terminal C no U of H shirts or other U of H related products
Go to terminal A
SAME THING.
I did ask managers at the stores that sold Houston tshirts why they did not have any.
Answer:
People ask us but we don’t get any
Are we marketing our school or not?
DFW has smu and even tcu goods.
Austin has you know who
LAX has USC or ucla
San Diego has SDSU…sometimes more often than not.
Phoenix has ASU and even UA.
I am in Nashville connecting right now…
Who do I see right in front of me two 20 years old ladies wearing U of H t’s.
Well, I asked this question more than once in a few stores and I consistently got back something along the lines of “their merchandising rules are kind of strict”. Maybe they were al lying to me but they were different kinds of stores.
If its anything like the shops in Houston the hourly clerks probably never get the information to the buyer. The GM is probably just focused on operations (getting people to come in) and doesn’t even want to get involved with merchandising trends. Probably scared they’ll pound him with more freight and no one to unpack it. That’s just my suspicion. This is the way managers think if they’re fighting for their job and don’t want to rock the boat or have to come in and run the store on a Sunday morning.
