I guess they are not advertising this like they did with the Holiday Blowout back in November
I wish the regular red sale signs would be eliminated though as it is double work to snc up red signs and then hand write Blowout signs!
in lawn and garden the red sale sign count is down but today it looked like rtw was overwhelmed with both
Just seems like a waste of resources to double sign everything!
2rqd ...
Really makes you wonder who the dipsh_t is who decided to pile on more responsibilities to the people who push freight ( leads and mcas)
Right in the middle of pushing freight you have to stop and put your cashier hat on..put your mca hat back on, then your POG hat, then your signing hat, then your help a customer hat
So many hats to wear it’s mind blowing, then management fusses if the original thing you were in the middle of doing wasn’t done
I remember when everyone had their roles ... the pricing team, mcas,and cashiers and everything seemed to flow really good
Now it’s like a clusterf__k and nothing is getting done
We have one person in the morning to try to put the store back together and that’s just impossible in a 2 story store
It’s really disheartening when you want your store to look great and management (above store manager) keeps setting us up for failure deliberately!
We cannot put a bakers rack of men’s Levi’s out in 15 minutes!
They are heavy, they need to be sized in with ones already out and neatly folded so it looks nice
Even just straightening rad/ran is tedious as again you have to size, fold and make the bins look neat plus all the variations! all over the store in rtw also
Maybe they should just hang EVERYTHING up.. no tables, no jean wall, just hang everything on a quad !! Oh I forgot there isn’t enough of them 🙄
Wish these upper management knuckleheads were made to do a honest days work and walk in the workers shoes for at least a month!
Should be a requirement and then they might sing a different tune
End of rant!
Good luck to all the great workers!
We are a great group of people who are so not appreciated for what we do for this dysfunctional company.
@1npn; Tell me about it. I've got freight backed up from September, if not earlier, that I just can never put out because if I dare to try to put it out (my assigned job) the SM will inevitably demand that I take on some other project completely unrelated to any of my departments. I would guess that I only ever get maybe 30% of my hours to work out my stock. When they're not there and I actually can devote most of a day to pulling freight, I have to navigate a maze of pallets and haphazardly stacked boxes that would get us shut down instantly if seen by an OSHA inspector just to get to my stuff. Thanks to having lost our backroom lead long ago, those who are left to prepare us for our trucks just shove everything anywhere they can, leading to any given department's freight ending up scattered between at least half a dozen different areas of the backroom.
@icfq. I’ll help you smack them up side the head when you find out whose idea this was
It’s crazy just plain crazy then they fuss when stock isn’t getting put out from back room
Wish Corp would cut the bulls__it out and return to res signing at least it mad sense
What a way to waste limited payroll dollars with this nonsense!
Can we complain to anyone ?
@1jnv - "The apparel pricing is completely idiotic. One week certain things are grouped by certain percentages, then the next week everything arbitrarily changes, so you not only have to resign things, you have to move whole clusters of apparel around within the department to ensure that stuff isn't under the wrong sign."
Oh lord, tell me about it. Been pissing me off the past number of months now. I deal with Kids (and everything else upstairs) and it used to be that, for example (but hardly the only example), when Carters was on sale, it was all the same percentage. Easy. Now with the lack of consistency and congruencey I keep having to move crap around and lose so much time having to price check every damn thing because of it. Whoever has done this to the prices I want to smack them upside the head.
I found with the first handwritten fiasco in lawn and garden, people were exchanging signs getting higher priced stuff for lower price because there was no description or item number in sign so now all signs have at minimum the item number
Not that easy in rtw though!
What I don’t get, why is the res sign in the left and handwritten Blowout in the right in rtw
Why can’t they just do one or the other. Such a waste of limited hours with this nonsense
And yes, the math at Corp is horrible! How is 50% off 16.99 =7.99?
The apparel pricing is completely idiotic. One week certain things are grouped by certain percentages, then the next week everything arbitrarily changes, so you not only have to resign things, you have to move whole clusters of apparel around within the department to ensure that stuff isn't under the wrong sign. For example, let's say that there was an entire group of some sort of kids' apparel that was $16.99 and was all 70% off ($5.09) the one week. Hell's bells, somebody at corporate decided that now part of that group was going to stay 70% off, another part was going to go to 80% off, and still another part was going to go back up to $6.00 or $7.99. Given the absurd overstock they'd been sending us all winter, it was a hassle just organizing things to fit neatly within defined price points, but now they decide we have to just tear it all apart for no reason. A lot of things that are obvious winter apparel that weren't having an easy time selling at X discount just went back up to a lower discount, because that'll make them sell faster.
Also annoying, if just for aesthetic reasons, is that there are so many RES signs that we can print that nobody bothered actually doing the math for. I'll have a sign that says 50% off of $16.99 thing, but the actual price it rings up at is 7.99, or $14.99 at $6.99. Trivial, but still looks stupid when the sign has a huge 50% off on it.
I love this hand signed stuff. In our store we had to hand sign a almost the whole store. Looks like s**t. The people who hand wrote the signs have the worst handwriting. Most of the signs are not even legible. Our DM told us to conserve the signs so now when the price changes we just X out the old price and write the new price.
We also had an employee who was on his last week and he would sign items lower than the price. Example-- if the price was 29.99 he would make the price 9.99 so that people who bought the item would complain and get the reduced price. He did this with a least half of the store. When management finally figured it out we had to go reprice everything. I wonder how much money we lost with people getting a good deal
My store ditched that and moved on to the Red Tag Event signs... (Though our sales are skewed now since we're closing and sales have increased...of course.)