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by Spooky23 2702 days ago
Definitely the latter.

The CompUSA I worked in in college was like a scaled down Enron. Bonuses were paid for hitting those percentages, period. At the time (late 90s), BestBuy was better, mostly because they were more diversified.

For constrained product, it makes sense to play some games. You can 10x your margins with the right customer.