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Bike shop employees convince owner to cancel PD contract.
Posted on: August 5, 2020 at 08:26:35 CT
Tigrrrr! MU
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For the past eight years I have had the good fortune of buying and purchase equipment for the Down Town Area Command (DTAC) Bike Patrol and our Bicycle Public Order Team. We have 158 bike officers in DTAC and have been purchasing our bikes from Mellow Johnny’s Bike store in downtown Austin, a local business.
Today I received a call the sales manager I have worked with for years at MJ’S, he informed me that they have three employees who work for them that are complaining about providing bikes to the police department in this time of social unrest in protest and disturbances. They stated to ownership that they did not like the fact that we use bicycles to help us manage crowds and crowd movement.
The ownership of MJ’S has decided to listen to three employees and is sending APD an email canceling the four years left on the contract because three employees do not like police officers and did not like us in the store.
I am not going to put the dollar amount out there of the contract but we at APD we’re a great customer and bought 50 TREK police bikes a year from them, you can do the math on the bike at TREK.com but you will be short of the actuate dollar amount because of add ons.
So now a owner of a business choose to use loose one of his biggest contracts and listens to three hourly employees, they were not management. The employees I always talked too at MJ’S were great and we never had a problem so I don’t know why MJ’S choose this path to go down.
If anyone knows of a bike store that would like to serve the police I would love to talk to them about doing our next APD contract.
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Fifty bikes a year. That's an average of a bike a week. And Trek bikes aren't cheap. So these 3 employees want to cut out that kind of business when a customer makes it a point to spend that money locally so it benefits the local economy instead of sending dollars elsewhere.
Today I received a call the sales manager I have worked with for years at MJ’S, he informed me that they have three employees who work for them that are complaining about providing bikes to the police department in this time of social unrest in protest and disturbances. They stated to ownership that they did not like the fact that we use bicycles to help us manage crowds and crowd movement.
The ownership of MJ’S has decided to listen to three employees and is sending APD an email canceling the four years left on the contract because three employees do not like police officers and did not like us in the store.
I am not going to put the dollar amount out there of the contract but we at APD we’re a great customer and bought 50 TREK police bikes a year from them, you can do the math on the bike at TREK.com but you will be short of the actuate dollar amount because of add ons.
So now a owner of a business choose to use loose one of his biggest contracts and listens to three hourly employees, they were not management. The employees I always talked too at MJ’S were great and we never had a problem so I don’t know why MJ’S choose this path to go down.
If anyone knows of a bike store that would like to serve the police I would love to talk to them about doing our next APD contract.
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Fifty bikes a year. That's an average of a bike a week. And Trek bikes aren't cheap. So these 3 employees want to cut out that kind of business when a customer makes it a point to spend that money locally so it benefits the local economy instead of sending dollars elsewhere.
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Bike shop employees convince owner to cancel PD contract. - Tigrrrr! MU - 8/5 08:26:35