October 22nd store 2580 which is in the Chicago market will no longer have department managers. Its not a store closing tactic.
This area is considered a pilot market (test market) for this new program. The 13 department managers that are affected will be recv, delivery, admin and all the sales floor department managers.
LP, Installs and PSA managers are not affected by this new program. The 13 department managers have the opportunity to apply for the new 5 "service mgr" positions. Of those 5 new positions 3 will be on the sales-floor and one for the front end (admin) and the other will be for recv/delivery combine.
They will cover more departments and have more of a ASM type of work ethic. In addition they are hiring close to 30 part time CSA to cover those departments.
Plus the HR position is going to a Hub location. HRs will no longer be at a store they will be centralized in one location. And only half of the HR positions will be kept.
Again this is a test market thing. No stores are closing because of this. It was a shock to us here when we heard the news. Some of the associates affected by this have been here for 10 years so theres a lot of friendship and great co-workers that will be missed.
I just heard that in my market area I will no longer report to the recv/delivery mgr, it will now be the admin service mgr. So we will see how that will work out.