keithp
Fishaholic
In my local pet shop I always visit the bettas even though i'm not buying any, and I always put the one's who look the most sick/underfed/dirty water in the front of the display (most of them are in the back and forgotten about). That way buyers or people who may actually be knowledgeable on betta care may decide to help one, and then the workers have to give them attention if there in the front. Well, this gave me an idea.
My idea is, every betta that gets shipped to them, a sticker should be placed on the cup cover with the arrival date, so workers/buyers know how long they have been in the store. Common sense would be put the "older" bettas in the front and newer stock in back.
Another idea is to also have barcodes on the cover, this way during feeding time, each cup must be scanned (if you cant reach the fish to scan the code then you are obviously neglecting the fish.) The scan would be to show when the last date the betta had "care" done (feeding,water change) They have wireless scanners in Petco so scanning is easy. They would make a rule such as every 3 days a betta MUST be fed/water change by a worker, so, when they scan they see the date it was last fed/cleaned, and they would put all the bettas that need attention to the side and have another person feed them, and have another person put the ones who are full/clean back on the shelf. This way no fish left are left in the back for an extended period of time and forgotten about to starve to death or die of bad water.
I assume they would have make some sort of online database first so when they scan is automatically brings up info on that betta instead of reading a hand written chart matching barcodes.
They already do that for there products, so for mabye 50 bettas it wouldnt take that long to "register" them, and with about 5 people doing various things, the whole scan,feed, and clean routine would be easy. If I was boss that is what I would make them do.
My idea is, every betta that gets shipped to them, a sticker should be placed on the cup cover with the arrival date, so workers/buyers know how long they have been in the store. Common sense would be put the "older" bettas in the front and newer stock in back.
Another idea is to also have barcodes on the cover, this way during feeding time, each cup must be scanned (if you cant reach the fish to scan the code then you are obviously neglecting the fish.) The scan would be to show when the last date the betta had "care" done (feeding,water change) They have wireless scanners in Petco so scanning is easy. They would make a rule such as every 3 days a betta MUST be fed/water change by a worker, so, when they scan they see the date it was last fed/cleaned, and they would put all the bettas that need attention to the side and have another person feed them, and have another person put the ones who are full/clean back on the shelf. This way no fish left are left in the back for an extended period of time and forgotten about to starve to death or die of bad water.
I assume they would have make some sort of online database first so when they scan is automatically brings up info on that betta instead of reading a hand written chart matching barcodes.
They already do that for there products, so for mabye 50 bettas it wouldnt take that long to "register" them, and with about 5 people doing various things, the whole scan,feed, and clean routine would be easy. If I was boss that is what I would make them do.
Its all to do with profit margin, so they aren't going to implement ideas that cut the profit.
