Retail: Sorta like dilbert (but different) in a shop

[halfeye]

http://retailcomic.com/

The theme of upper management being greedy, selfish and stupid seems similar to Dilbert to me, but most of the rest is different. Updates seven days a week. The name of the chain of stores is "Grumbels", Delmans is the only named competitor to Grumbels that I'm aware of, I haven't yet trawled the archive. If you hate Xmas starting in August etc., that's frequently mentioned in this comic.

Characters:

Marla is the competant store manager, promoted from under manager when Stuart became area manager.

Stuart is a twit, and lover of the corporate head office, anything "corporate" says he loves, especially if it's idiotic, which it often is.

There are five or six more main characters, and probably over a dozen fixed characters in total, with a lot of random customers who show up once and disappear after being goofy, or not being goofy, as the case may be.

http://retailcomic.com/comics/october-25-2018/

Why is Stuart so happy, this should be a demotion, how is he that blind? Corporate may have disguised a pay cut as no raise this year, but he ought to know it's not good.

[Welf]

I'll read it. I'll have to work through a few issues with my old job so this might help.
Note: They mention a "Cooper's Retail blog" which used to be a real thing, but the blog is lost to history now.

[Kornaki]

First couple comics are pretty good. And it's a huge archive! Thanks for sharing this.

[Knaight]

The main cast will actually change pretty significantly over time too - there are arc specific characters bigger than some of the listed main cast people during their arcs, character roles change, and it's very much not just a gag a day comic - other than the sunday strips, which are there to take into account the functionality of newspaper comic sections.