The corporation hands out the award. The latest award was $5000.
These awards come from a number of reason:

1. Mystery shoppers (Outside company)
2. Customers who either email, call, or write into customer relations about their experiences with a particular store.
3. Sales

My store comes mainly from Customers and second being Mystery shoppers as there could perhaps be 5-6 mystery shops in any given 1 year.

If the experience at your local CT is not up to this standard then it is because of management who are not training, MANAGING their staff as they should.

Work should be a fun experience. You should enjoy your job and if you feel it's WORK/JOB in that sense especially in retail, then you likely won't share that "fun, enthusiastic, enjoyable" experience with your customers.

My staff are always told to bring flyers with them to make it easy to help customers out, to walk customers to the aisles and to look where the yellow deal signs. This all in hopes that customers can be helped out faster and more efficiantly without having the need to search all over looking for where the product is placed.
 
It's too bad there aren't more managers with your outlook. Web sites like this wouldn't exist, and I would gladly support a business with management that have attitudes such as yours. Sadly, in my region, stores as well managed as yours seems to be (and I have no reason to believe it isn't, given your constructive, intelligent replies to sometimes unpleasant posts) few and far between...

Good job!
 

Bang on. Great post.
 
 
Hello,

Like ALL bicycles, cables MUST be stretched. That is why there is a 30 day adjustment period. The bicycles ARE adjusted before shipped to the stores however there are a lot of customers who don't realize that you can't shift gears WITHOUT spinning the wheels and chain. Literally everytime I am beside a customer looking at a bicycle, they try out the shifters on the spot without any wheel/chain movement and that right there just stretched out the cables.

But personally out of the uncommon sale of bicycles in canadian tire, it shouldn't be a surprize that there isn't usually any bicycle mechanic on scene at stores.. Selling a couple bikes a week doesn't warrant the cost to have a bicycle mechanic on scene. As a result, bicycles are usually built at the warehouse, shipped over.. and once an adjustment is required within the 30 days, the bicycle is sent to the warehouse to adjust.

That is precisely I personally would say to buy your bicycles at a BIKE SHOP where there are mechanics on scene.