Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

Club pickup

At our club, it's a constant stream of complaints. Their orders aren't right, they wait in the car for 15/20 minutes and have to go inside to get their order. Problem with that is at our club, there is no way for anyone inside to be notified that someone is outside waiting! So app away, there's nothing telling us you are here.

With one person at the desk now, it's a long wait in line to let anyone know that the member is standing there. I know the T70 beeps/rings/whatever, but the one desk associate would have to stop helping the member in front of him/her to pick up the T70 and see the club pick up name.

With so many people pulling the items for club pick up, stuff that belong in a cooler is being stuffed into the freezer and vice versa. Orders are never straight. Items are always missing.

Half the time orders after 3pm are never done. Then when the member shows up, it's a scramble to get the order. When there was a Club Pickup associate or two or three then orders were always filled on time and done correctly. Those associates were responsible for signs too. Now signs are so messed up we are always having to override at the cash registers.

Mostly this happens because all the associates who use to work the desk moved to someplace else in the club. (They hated the new desk that much.)

I don't understand why home office won't at least allow the club pick up carts to be put along the wall beside the new desk. It's so time consuming to have to leave the desk and the long line of people to go get a club pick up, and then down to the freezer/cooler to get the rest of the stuff and then to the printer to get the receipt and then back to the desk to give it all to the member. It takes up so much time. Believe me when I say it take way more than 5 minutes to fetch an order.

Don't tell me that a cashier or merchandizing can do it. The cashiers can't shut down their lines - which are always long because they are shorthanded. And merchandising won't answer us and sometimes they don't have radios anyway.

It's so bad. Why won't you at homeoffice listen when we tell you this? Why do you insist it is working? It isn't working here. Don't you read our mx voices? You can't possibly be this deaf.
Yes, we use layoffs.com to say what we want to say, because if don't, we are singled out and our lives are made a living h-e-doublehockysticks. This may be a useless post, but I thought I'd try. Guess I still have hope.

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Our club doesn't know how to do anything right. They don't want to do things the right way we have so many wants things done there way they don't care what home office wants. That is what causes all the conflicts among employees and all the members getting mad. Nothing is consistent so when u have done doing things right and some doing things there way this is what u get.

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Post ID: @myo+13ejGYjX

Our member assist people pull all the orders. Merchandisers don't pull at my club. I know its not the way it should be but that's how our CM wants it done.

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Post ID: @qew+13ejGYjX

Our club kept the three associates that were doing club pick up, in club pick up. Their titles changed to merchandisers but they are solely for club pickup.
On their days off we have merchandise associates who have been cross trained to assist.

As to checking in, do your club pickup associates not have TC70's? They get alerts when a member checks in and if a member shows up before checking in they always come to the area and someone on the front end (self check/MSL) either takes care of them or calls for the club pick up associate. Only time there is a mix up is if it's a new user and they are uncertain on where to go. Normally our door greeter directs them to where they need to be.

Like most things with this company Home Office is clueless on how a business needs to be run. Your GM needs to make decisions at the club level to take care of our members not just blindly follow what some person sitting in an office has decided is the right thing to do.

Obviously some things you cannot fight no matter how id–tic they are because they send in a planner crew and remodel. I'm looking at you membership desk, the first id–tic idea of 2020.

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Post ID: @iqp+13ejGYjX

Ours works smoothly. If you have a TC, skyfall alerts you that they are there. Member assist is carts and pickup. They are all cross-trained to do both. Why is your desk (member support) doing it. If for some reason an assist is not available, a MSS takes care of the member. Sounds as if your club is not following company direction.

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Post ID: @rnz+13ejGYjX

You club must really s—. We still have associates that still do nothing but click n pull there job codes just changed to merchandisers. If your club is that bad then your CM may need to go.

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Post ID: @llg+13ejGYjX

Stop being an arse. You don't even work here.

The other problem is the new desk associates act like the member returning an item is the enemy. They actively search for a reason to not help the member. A few years ago, there was a program called, "The Member Must Win." It was a good program. It would help if someone would send it out again. Our assistant managers are new, for the most part, and have never heard of the program.

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Post ID: @uyy+13ejGYjX

It is not going to change so quit complaining and go pull that order

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