Who does audits in your club? I am a merch lead- day shift. We have to try to get all these audits done plus all the other things they dump on us. Some of these audits take more than 1 day.. and who ever was the brilliant person from home office who got rid of the audit team and told our floor partners not to put counts on their tags just have never worked in a club . Dropping almost every pallet for every audit is too time consuming . Doing a Candy audit today and I have to drop probably 10-15 mixed pallets . Bring back the audit team … or make us stop doing audits altogether
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I'm retired and this is my third stint with Sam's. Yep, they're run by eff'g id--ts, but you have to realize that if you were an id--t associate, promoted by an id--t and then promoted again by an id--t, you're now the id--t promoting id--ts. The most dangerous thing an ambitious individual at Sam's can do is have an original thought.
I think the majority of clubs have their previous audit team members do all audits...
At my club one is in fresh, softlines and floor. They are responsible for all audits, which also includes complete cycle 30 days before club annual inventory. Oh, and all at a cut pay when they eliminated audit team. We are all at their mercy, we have too much time invested in this company to leave so we do our best and look toward retirement.
There are only 4 clothing audits.
22, 23, 33, and 95. If you count the few items in 34 you could call it 5 categories.
I’m an AM lead and personally responsible for all the audits because I used to be Audit team. Anyone else does them and they are a gigantic disaster they don’t even research. Missing 180 shirts? Oh well write them out. Long 2 pallets of toilet paper? Oh well free positive CO on OYI. No need to look at what you may be short or if you are splitting a paper truck with another club.
Our Market manager requires every club to have 180 picks a night no exceptions. So we aren’t allowed to not have a night with no picks to do audits. I’m just expected to be the only forklift driver to put all the partials we created by unnecessary picks, deal with vendors, drop fresh area pallets in freezer cooler and dairy, stock the cart rail, do audits, and run freight.
This company is a joke.
The one with 15 pallets of candy is because home office does not know how to order probably or people in that city don't like cavities.
Answer to that: if you are a team lead create a audit team from your merchandisers , cut down on stocking and pick day with most people there at work.
Merchandisers help with audits. We know a week or so in advance to plan accordingly. No stocking that day. After the audit we zone and maybe stock some mixed pallets. No area has 15 mixed pallets what is that about?
Team leads do all the work and yet managers make well over twice our salary to do nothing but yell at us
Three positions they should have never eliminated was PTC, Audit Team, and overnight crew. Key positions and trying to dole out their duties is ridiculous.
I'm a merch TL PM, you should complain to the person stocking your candy. They aren't doing their job. I don't like the audits either, but shouldn't have anywhere near that many mix pallets of candy. In our club the a.m. side does the audits that they stock out and us the same. We flex to help the other out when needed. Like last week we did about 20 clothing audits.
Why on Earth would any club have 15 mixed pallets of candy?
I agree