25 years ago at CW
After reading about David Garvin’s tragic death, I was recollecting about our first time in a Camping World. It was 1989 and we were heading toward L.A. and home, when we stopped at a CW in Oregon. We remember it being in the Wilsonville area. My first impression was, WOW, these folks are really nice and most of the employee’s appeared to be older than the DW or I. Talked to a few of the employees and they were almost all retirees and most were camping nearby. Spending the summer up north and having fun. We were obviously newbies and we were asking a lot of questions from these old timers. There was a wealth of information working there and they all seemed to be having fun.
It’s not like that now and there must be a problem or Marcus wouldn’t have started his “Ask Marcus” campaign. Maybe the stores were running under a different purpose statement then or maybe things have really changed and professional, high pressure and indifferent sales clerks who are not RVers are selling more that the jolly old folks who really knew RV’s inside and out and weren’t trying to BS you from the time you walked in the door.
Just a random thought or two.
It’s not like that now and there must be a problem or Marcus wouldn’t have started his “Ask Marcus” campaign. Maybe the stores were running under a different purpose statement then or maybe things have really changed and professional, high pressure and indifferent sales clerks who are not RVers are selling more that the jolly old folks who really knew RV’s inside and out and weren’t trying to BS you from the time you walked in the door.
Just a random thought or two.
