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The client company was a major retailer in the city and had been for the past hundred years. They operated a city store and three suburban stores, employing 64 buyers for 64 departments staffed in turn by 2,000 employees.
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It was a concern no doubt exacerbated by my having to present the long-serving company secretary with a weekly invoice on behalf of my consulting group for my 40 hours of input. In comparison with his own weekly paycheck, the amount would have been a source of considerable stress. It was also 10 times my own paycheck!
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Cleland, K.N. (2013). Multi-Department Store Whitewashes the Past. In: IMPROVING PROFIT. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6308-1_22
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