Apple’s 10-Q form filed with the SEC noted that the company had 14,000 full-time retail employees as of the end of the past quarter. That number stands in sharp contrast to the 15,600 employees the company reported in the same document filed at the end of the December 2008 quarter.
Most full-time employees at Apple Stores are Trainers or Geniuses – the core services of the retail stores. Cutting back in these departments will not be good for Apple’s growing number of customers.