We now receive large amounts of apparel via UPS.
That being said, they don't have to give us hours to process or to stock the sales floor because it doesn't show as new receipts coming in on a truck.
Good job boys, learning some down and dirty tricks from EL!
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Another company destroying directive by Eddie. Set everyone against each other to destroy from within instead of working on overall profitability and what's best for all. Someone posted last month about game theory, and if Eddie understood that win-win cooperation is superior to lose-lose, Sears would still be kicking a–.
There's always been a boatload of things you can do to prop up store EBITDA that will absolutely destroy the company's bottom line. As mid-level managers, you can only do what your superiors tell you, because you will absolutely shot down if you try to argue otherwise against the all important metrics. You don't lose $2B a year by accident. Eddie deliberately and forcibly put a system in place that would optimize for and guarantee maximization of operational losses, destruction of supplier and consumer goodwill, while laying out an investment plan that would ensure a massive loss of revenue and act as a case study in anti-marketing. It's like Eddie's role-playing a character "How to be the worst CEO imaginable" to prove a point.
I wonder if this mad rush to mark down everything to $1.97 to sell at a loss and shipping goods with no margin that no one will buy at profit to and fro multiple times across several hundreds or even a thousand miles from store to store for inexplicable reasons is because someone came up with an id–t metric about inventory turnover somewhere and shipping a pallet out that just came in without unpacking it counts.
You all are obviously store level or desk pushers. UPS deliveries are generally RUSH orders dropped to Supply Chain to send out. And getting all one size is called a "uniformed" carton as opposed to an assortment, pick to order, genius!
This kind of scheduling/UPS issue is typical of save a penny to lose a dollar thinking from corporate.
And what's up with getting the same size like Large instead of S,M,L,XL for the same product.
@12rjLqcY-ywk
We have no problem with UPS.
You must work or worked at HE and never worked in a store at ground level?
UPS great but a soft lines business is only as good as the scheduling. And as you know hours in a store is the biggest profit drainer, not that the company has made any profit in years, but it is the biggest controllable.
That being said we, at store level DO NOT have the luxury of having associates waiting around to see what the UPS driver is going to drop off.
Do you SEE the dilemma here?
@12rjLqcY-nfl
Yes we still get regular trucks but like you very little product.
So no more inventory trucks, just UPS. We still get a truck but with hardly anything inside.
Sears doesnt pay retail rates to UPS for this stuff. If you knew how little they were paying you would ask yourself why they didnt start doing this years ago. At HE we suggested it 5 years ago to cut costs. UPS prefers going business to business rather than to homes and we have a ridiculously low negotiated rate for shipping.
Just another broken process forced on the company without any contingency or planning because Eddie's broke and relying on high interest emergency loans as his empire crumbles.