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The Amway Business Center at Citi Field

Amway (yes, that Amway) has opened up its first U.S. storefront in a rather odd place: Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The multi-billion dollar direct seller of household and consumer goods, including XS energy drinks and shots, announced that The Amway Business Center at Citi Field will be “a dynamic, one-of-a-kind facility” that will allow its sales agents, known as “Independent Business Owners”, or I.B.O.s, “to freely connect, learn new valuable insights, and share the exciting Amway opportunity with prospects.”

In other words, the company is offering its people a chance to hawk its goods and recruiting new sales agents at a gleaming new office.

It might be the first American outpost for the company, but Amway is envisioning the construction of similar storefronts around the country. An Amway spokeswoman told the Times that the center was a “pilot program for Amway North American to test how we might support our independent business owner with physical spaces to help them build their businesses.”

While I.B.O.s will be able to sell products inside the facility, in its guidelines for the storefront, Amway notes that “our lease with Citi Field states that no solicitation shall take place outside of the Business Center. Handing out samples, business cards and / or literature on Citi Field property is not allowed.”

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  • Sell drinks

    The legitamate Ponzi scheme! I have my own business selling toothpaste or a case of XS. Business is so good, that after one hundred dollars in gross revenue to friends and family, I am ready to get some people to buy soap and have their own business so I can get a piece of their hundred bucks. Now Mr Ponzi did get rich, and so do the people at the top of the company. It is legal because they sell real products, but the customers are their IBO’s and their non returnable inventory. Many years ago I thought I was a pretty successful fresh juice company with my own Citation Jet in Texas. One day at Dallas Love Field, I parked next to a Gulfstream that costs over 100 times my used 2 million dollar jet and the pilot let me look inside. Pilots do that kind of thing for pilots. It turns out it was the personal plane of an Amway founder.
    Mr Ponzi would be proud…

  • Jathan Lane

    Non Returnable Inventory? Don’t they have a 180 day “return it even if you used it all” policy? Wal-Mart can’t even touch that.

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