Anyone else have someone who is useless in this role?
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Here are Sam's tenants modified to reflect our new era
- Commit to business (above all else including family). Work every weekend due to needs of the business.
- Structure the sharing of profits in such a way as to minimize the impact on company profits, but do toss a carrot out there for them to strive for.
- Intimidate your partners. Motivation shows weakness. Intimidation is real strength.
- Communicate nothing. Hide information in some obscure corner of the WIRE when necessary.
- Depreciate everything your underlings do. Lock up their accumulated sick time and make it as inaccessible as legally possible.
- Don't celebrate success, just keep on improving. Celebration only interferes with improvement.
- Speak down to everyone. Best ideas flow from the top down. Don't encourage them to merchandise or do anything original. Just follow our instructions.
- Exceed shareholders' expectations. Shareholders are what truly matters.
- Control expenses better than the competition. This can be accomplished by running off longer termed higher waged associates.
- If all else fails, copy Costco unless that interferes with any of the other 9 tenants.
: @6sre+13m5X9zW, Hey, I really hate to hear that about any Club. Favoritism should not go on in this company in any fashion. As far as the managers, it is really sad, this company has great managers that care about their associates and this company, just as Mr. Sam intended, but that ideology is no longer a priority just like the ten rules Sam Walton had for running a successful business.
- Commit to your business
- Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners.
- Motivate your partners
- Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners.
- Appreciate everything your associates do for this business.
- Celebrate your success.
- Listen to everyone in your company.
- Exceed your customers' expectations.
- Control your expenses better than your competition.
- Swin upstream.
I only pray the our new CEO, Kathryn McLay, embraces the core beliefs, has wisdom and the courage to stand up and make a difference.
I do not know the AP's, EPM's, or whatever they are being called today that you are referring to, but some of us took our jobs very seriously. Taking a high shrink club in major metropolitan areas to low shrink clubs, going from overall ranking of 400 plus to in the top twenty in the company. That takes dedication, work, training of our associates. My associates are top of the line and I would rather have my worst associate that cares about this company and tries rather than you with a bad attitude. Bad attitudes are contagious and go through a club like wild fires. What you don't know is that AP had to learn every role in the Club to keep the Club in compliance with company and government rules and regulations. Would you know what to do if OSHA walked in for a tour? What do you do when sewer backs up through your fresh area floor drains? What happens when you have a gas spill or a car on fire at the gas station? What about when TBA associate does not tighten lug nuts on a vehicle and the members tire passes them going down the road? Wrong medicine dispensed at pharmacy? Missing child, which door do you stand in front of? Can you spot a fake receipt? Are you going to turn your buddies in for taking tv's out the back door? Can you process hazmat?
It is not if, but when Walmart/Sam's Club gets hit with another billion dollar plus fine for contamination of the environment or another infraction that they will realize that AP Managers played an important part of their billion dollar enterprise.
Yeah, ive been a merch manager for two clubs now and I feel pretty useless. Not going to lie.
3 managers from every club unless you have only one in a department.
Funny you should ask.. Ours hasn’t had a clue what’s going on since being put in this role. It’s okay though, BFF’s with the club manager.
This position is being eliminated
It's a wasted role. The AP and compliance side of the business have been trying to justify their jobs for over a decade. Shrink had gotten worse. Accidents have gotten worse. Get rid the MAPMs.
Hours spent sitting in offices "doing admin". Wasteful.
This management role, no. Others? Yes.