A top retail executive has left Apple, though unlike John Browett, this one wasn't fired. ifoAppleStorereported that Jerry McDougal, Vice-President of Retail, left Apple last Friday after almost 12 years.
Mr. McDougal was recruited to Apple by newly minted retail chief Ron Johnson in 2000. According to ifoAppleStore, Mr. McDougal was Mr. Johnson's right hand man and was key in the early development of Apple's stunningly successful Apple Store retail chain.
It would appear that Mr. McDougal either wasn't picked again or declined the position, considering the fact that he left Apple. ifoAppleStore's sources said that he left to more time with his family.
That is often corporate face-saving-speak for "fired," but in this case it may be true. Apple's executives work long hours, and then some, and he's been doing it for 12 years.
It makes no sense to me why it should be so, but this pattern of bizarre and potentially disastrous retail head departures has for me the strong smell of Tim Cook inexplicably pressuring Ron Johnson and his heir-apperent to get the hell out of Apple, pronto!
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A top retail executive has left Apple, though unlike John Browett, this one wasn't fired. ifoAppleStore reported that Jerry McDougal, Vice-President of Retail, left Apple last Friday after almost 12 years.
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It makes no sense to me why it should be so, but this pattern of bizarre and potentially disastrous retail head departures has for me the strong smell of Tim Cook inexplicably pressuring Ron Johnson and his heir-apperent to get the hell out of Apple, pronto!
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