I was part of the Assistant Manager layoffs in 2013. I drove by a Staples today that said Party City - Get your balloons filled here. Did they turn part of the store into a Party City? Or did they make the tech center a balloon store?
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@OP Lots of changes: Sycamore, the new owners of Staples, purchased Party City. Configuration of the Party City location varies by store, with Party City services mostly performed by supervisors or managers in most places, it seems. Also, Techs are called Retail Specialists or Retail Sales Supervisors, EasyTech is mostly an internal name, and the matrix is referred to as TSOC now. Sometime around 2022, Staples started processing Amazon returns, and it is causing a ton of turnover for associates; solid people with good attitudes get hired and quit mid-shift. It's now almost impossible to be fired from Staples unless you are a creep, a thief, or you've managed to pi-s off someone who has pull with the DM or, God forbid, the DM themself.