closing our sears store and we are entire district is only at 67% to last year , I score that as a failure , even with the huge BLOW OUT sale we s---ed as a company... let the liquidation push on and just file the BK and get it over with EDDIE.
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@hwg No not at all. It just drives me crazy when part of the facts are left out of things. I wish everyone had more details, so they would know what was going on in general.
@QlHyKKv-hwg You are just one of those sad folks that really wants to believe this company has a long term future.
Okay so the sales were tough....what if the drop in sales for the night was offset by the money saved by not running an ad? Just saying.....you really have to look at all the variables to understand.
Many stores were actually down 50 percent to last year or more. Don't look at plan...look at last year. What a joke.
Our sears store plan was $49k
Actual sales $24k
Credit app goal 38
Actual apps 18
I bet it cost more in payroll and electric to run escalator than what we sold
It was indeed a failure on my store we were down $21k to last year and $20k to plan. I have to say I love it because in our department its a joke the coverage we had. It was one associate in our department per shift. I had a line of customers and they were asking me is their anyone else here that can help I was no mam I am sorry I am just the only one.
This event was stupid they put this bigass event with limited coverage whats the point when customers truly need help and they can't find it....
Whats funnier is how our SM spend money in stupid things to advertise our store, but they don't give us the incentive instead they give it to other stupid expenses.
It was not a complete failure, I won a door prize, a nice waring waffle maker!
@xqi, that's what I do too. Even though it makes me feel silly sometimes because everyone else is sitting around, I feel like it's good to keep my work ethic up & in practice for my next job.
I like these so called member events because the store is dead after a certain time and I can get stuff done once and for all. I got a lot of stuff accomplished tonight. I got about three weeks worth of stuff done in one night, so I'm glad I was on the closing shift.
It's a great time to get RAD/RAN, PCNs, 991, freight and so on all caught up. Unfortunately, few others will want to pitch in and help and would rather sit on the mattresses and play on their phones or talk, or complain about being bored.
@OP - Tut, tut...you are looking at this situation all wrong. The problem is that you are not applying Eddie's new Transformation Common Core Mathematics to evaluate the outcome. Here, let me snow...um...show you.
First, your district is not down. 100% - 67% = 33% Your district closed a number of nonperforming stores, so that is why your district is not at 100%. By closing those stores, 100% + 33% = 133% increase in district sales!
Now, since those closed stores are no longer a drain on district profits, 133% x 2 = 266% increase in profits!
Since sales and profits are both skyrocketing, Eddie will now be able to charge SHLD 16% interest on his loans to the company, instead of his usual paltry 11%. However, that will preclude any raises for associates or any capital improvement expenditures.
Of course, investors will be so envious of SHLD's transformation to profitability that they will retaliate by pushing SHLD's stock price down to $2, maybe $1, per share.
See, it all adds up and makes perfect sense when you do it Eddie's way!
Yeah, a 33% drop from a previously record low year is failure alright, on an epic scale. But dont tell some Sears employees that, they think Sears is gonna pull a rabbit out of the hat and survive,
Delusion has no boundaries with people who got themselves into 6 year car payments and racked up Visa cards.