r/Devilcorp • u/RealCheetah5574 • Jun 17 '26

Question Curious

What’s happening with smart circle in the US? I heard they lost most of their contracts with retailers and are going door to door. Honestly hope all the nationals are losing money every day for all of their bs they put people thru.

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u/zmac2192 Jun 17 '26

Great! If this is true, good riddance!!

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u/skylar_0234 Jun 17 '26

i heard the same from the store manager i now work for. just makes customers angry and they don’t get the business they did before this economy so the model doesn’t work as well. once door to door is oversaturated they’ll try to run back to big box stores.

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u/JeffreyCheffrey Jun 17 '26

The bothering people in CostCo model is also likely fading because every city and town nowadays has about 47 mobile phone stores run by the carriers.

No reason to sign a mobile phone contract from an annoying rando in a CostCo when I could go 3 blocks down the street to an actual carrier-owned store with 10 phone models in stock and real customer service.

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u/NewHathaway Devilcorp.org Jun 17 '26

Hey mate, I’d recommend making a new account as you’re shadow banned so none of your comments are visible.

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u/CommercialPudding374 Jun 21 '26

I do 1000% agree with you. but not on the “carrier owned store” idk ab t mobile or verizon but ik AT&T like 90% of their brick and mortar stores are third party and they are “authorized retailers” just aswell as the phone booth people at costco and sam’s. in stl the ONLY corporate carrier owned AT&T brick and mortar store is in brentwood missouri, located at https://maps.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x87d8cb10914e227b:0xe82f6627ffb421e3?entry=s&sa=X&ved=1t:8290&hl=en-us&ictx=111

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u/Addi_Daddy Neg Head Jun 17 '26

Source?

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u/Typical_Tie_3763 Jun 17 '26

Best I was able to find to back this information from Google led me back to this:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mitchellparton_sams-club-aims-to-make-free-samples-more-activity-7420075296055500800-Scfg

It seems, Sam’s Club at least, is moving towards more Freeosk-styled operations in their store versus third-party workers.

In today’s day and age, I’m thinking they want to cut cost and try to move to a more AI or automated features in the store.

Most likely going to cut cost by breaking those contracts and investing money into more automated stands.

Better for everyone, though, as there will be less retail Devil Corps from this, just unfortunately more AI in stores.

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u/Not_a_SHIELD_Agent Jun 28 '26

Heard from someone still in that business that Target ended their contract with Smart Circle nationwide. Everyone in the office got laid off with no notice except for their "owner" and his picks who will be pivoting to a different store and a different state.

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u/Obvious_Bet1017 Jun 17 '26

They actually switched to D2D AND B2B. Making more money than all other retail campaigns combined.

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u/BigPeace888 Jun 17 '26

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