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Originally Posted by trashion
nope, it's only the specific SKUs of the fish that count for the 5. so they may only buy 5 of one kind to get the $5 price.
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actually this is false at least at my petco... one can buy 1 guppy, 1 black neon, 1 neon, 1 red eye, 1 serpae tetra. Which I find particularly annoying. Also the 5 for $5 is a gimmick and you can actually buy only 1 fish and get it for a dollar. Frankly... petco is a joke when it comes to actually caring about the animals... our dm and our rcac has made that perfectly clear.
"For instance, they will order like 100,000 neon tetras (125 per store for 900+ stores) for a single week - and ship them to every store, regardless of what else the store has ordered (and sometimes without telling the store). This bulk ordering is how they get a better price on those fish than what they normally pay, and how they can afford to sell them at $1 each (at local mom-and-pop stores these are usually ~$2.99 fish) even after heavy fish losses.
They also do this with marine fishes - we used to get "pushes" of wrasses and tangs for the holidays, from a wholesaler we always tried to avoid."
Pushes are also a HUGE problem. As well as ordering (I don't have any control over it even though I know what dies and what lives in our tanks) They'll send us stuff that would NEVER sell in my tanks such as triggers that get 2' in length like the blue lined trigger. That becomes a death sentence to them and they end up dying because eventually something such as velvet or ich comes through and wipes 90% of the stock out. I'm no longer able to medicate as this is against policy and I've been written up for it several times. I have to individually freshwater dip each fish, or do a CLOUT or Maracyn + dip, which both of these meds aren't intended to be used as dips.
Speaking of burning out... I'm about to... I feel so overwelmed every day I go to work... I try so hard to keep these fish healthy yet we have an average fish loss for the region which is over 30%...