Only three nights a week, plus I get the employee discount.

And although its employee discount offers spurred sales, the effect on profits could be mixed, at best.

"You guys will have to pay, but I can use my mom's employee discount, so it'll be cheaper."

With the employee discount, that price would drop to about $26,000.

"If the job was great and I got an employee discount on furniture, all the better," he said.

They also can buy computers for the school with an employee discount.

At the cashier, he uses his employee discount, 30 percent.

The employee discounts will be in addition to price cuts already made on some of the models earlier this month.

But even with the employee discount, sales lagged in the second quarter, down 8 percent from a year ago.

Sales tumbled after it stopped giving employee discounts to anyone with a pulse.