Why is it that only during the store closing sales they give the store unlimited payroll? Like fulltime and part time employees can work 40+ hours a week, and they do not care about OT?
They staff the stores like they use to during a closing sale. But at a non closing sale payroll is cut to the bone?
Why is that??
I agree, the only reason I might work for a Kmart during the liquidation process. Is to make sure the idiots pack up all of the IT correctly to sent it to the right places.
That and for any free outdated IT equipment that is going to the trash and the extra $$$$$.
Hey, I have an IT background. I bet the monkeys aka part time employees cannot reboot a register or swap out a keyboard without calling the help desk.
This comment is made in general, from what I have seen when I did the closing process.
I have been through the process. It s---s but you can make some money. You can work as much as you want (keep track of your hours),it is total chaos and the customers (not members anymore because it is all about the $$$) can be a pain but I made as much in the three months of liquidation as I did in a year working part time. Get the money and get out!!
Actually our Liqudator used the RES printer hooked up to his laptop to make the signs for the hardlines. He just stuck the sign stock in the printer and printed them and we hang them.
FYI: Before he went to work for a Liqudator. The actual liquidation company name is "Abcus Advisors" He managed a Sears the great indoors before his store closed.
His name was Dave/David I think? But he understood the process and how we felt.
Well thanks for the feedback guys. I actually went through the closing process my self and was wondering why?
It is also because many people will quit as they know that the job is coming to an end. Everyone applies and the first job offer they get, they just leave. They have the perfect excuse for leaving with no notice when the store is closing. Also, labor is usually tied to sales and budgets are one of the metrics that are always tracked. In a closing store, the budget is no longer monitored.
Yes, it is a bit of a paradox! They even hire additional workers. Having gone through a store closing I can tell you there is a lot of work to do. Example, all the sale signs have to be hand written every week; hundreds upon hundreds of them. The generic percent off signs will not do, the liquidator demanded all hardline items over $9.99 have a hand written sale sign. Also, during liquidation, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are as busy as a Black Friday! Everyday you have to condense down the remaining merchandise; sort of like doing pogs everyday. The fixtures are being sold off and the liquidator wanted them cleared off and out of the store asap. As the fixtures disappear areas are roped off and you are put to work cleaning up decades of hidden debris. We found cart loads of old merchandise that had fallen behind or under fixtures. The merchandise and debris found under the fixtures was mostly glued to the floor by years of wax buildup...yuck. The fact that the vast majority of the merchandise sold during the liquidation was sold at a higher price point than regular sale price (another paradox) would also help cover the extra payroll involved.
Because they have to get all the merchandise, fixtures, and all equipment out by a certain date. If the store had no payroll, that would never happen.
Taking a guess that the store is no longer being "charged" for advertising and executive operations.