[Thibodeaux]

Women have taken over the retail banking business. Branch banks are all women

Women are cheap and can be programmed to follow the extensive list of rules to the letter.

Branch banks are where women are in total control

[Alberta's Child]

And yet branch banks are basically extraneous liabilities in the banking business. Hardly anyone ever uses them anymore. Heck -- the banking industry wishes it could just eliminate them entirely.

I had a senior bank executive explain to me how this works:

1. Very few bank customers use branches at all.

2. And yet most local customers -- individuals and small businesses -- will only do business with a bank that has a local branch.

3. So the banking industry opens and maintains these local branches simply to have a local presence to show that they exist, and to be there in case anyone has an unusual banking need that requires a personal visit.

That's why you can walk into a local bank and find almost no staff there even though there are plenty of desks and teller windows around.

[Katya]

That is very true, although I’ve seen quite a few gay young men thrown in there.
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