1byt - Where did your managers and the former associate hide all that merchandise? Weeks before my store closed the stockroom, peripheral storage areas, meeting room, and offices were bare as a bone. By the last week all merchandise and fixtures were corralled in just a few select areas on the salesfloor. A "skid of stuff" stashed anywhere in our store would have stuck out like a sore thumb!
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I know who your talking about. Everyone saw her Saturday morning. I saw her working there today.
Employees in Pittsburgh did this all the time Manager and DM were aware and nothing ever happened
Besides the managers hiding their stuff and pulling it out the last three days was a girl who had quit but came back after the closing was announced. She hid her stuff til 1 day before closing and purchased skid of stuff including luggage sets and pots and pans. All kinds of household stuff.
Embezzlement is the act of withholding assets for the purpose of conversion (theft) of such assets, by one or more persons to whom the assets were entrusted, either to be held or to be used for specific purposes.
Sorry, you guys... as a former long-term APM.... the hiding of the merchandise until the prices go down to buy it is not only a violation of company policy, a code-of-conduct violation, but you are also stealing from your employer the amount they would have gotten if sold at the higher price. I would have fired you ...
Stealing is taking something and not paying anything for jt. Flat out wrong.
Hiding something until it goes down in price isn't right but I don't consider it stealing. Someone might not have bought it anyway. You should get some insider benefit with a low paying job. Is it one item you that you truly need or are you doing this for resale? There are many factors to consider.
That said, the jewelry girl at my old store would hide clearance items in the safe until they went down to rock bottom prices and then sell the items online. Since the items aren't for personal use, I didn't like it.
Good thing you weren't around back in the day when Cabbage Patch kids, Tickle me Elmo, or concert tickets were sold in the stores. You would have gone off the deep end .
Sears and K Mart merging into one company is a perfect example of two wrongs don't make a right.
Don't kid yourself, that's theft. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I’m not acting “high and mighty” it’s just not something I would do. I am not happy with the company, but I would never steal either.
I hope they're hiding that rebadged Poulan chainsaw with a $350 MSRP as a guideline! It's just a $110 Poulan Wild Thing, badged as a C-apsman, in black!
Seriously, the morale went away a long time ago. If your fellow coworkers have been stealing, just imagine your extended family. Eddie, why haven't you called? Finished and gone, just like that. Just 15 seconds...
Get over yourself. Everyone does that. Makes no difference if the store is closing or not. That's even more of a reason not to care. It's the same thing as buying and doing a sales adjustment. Stop acting all high and mighty.
If you had a good liquidator he or she would not allow that to happen. Our liquidator walked the stock rooms daily and made sure nothing was “hidden”. On the flip side, he said if there was anything an associate wanted to come to him when there were only a few left and he would give a little price break on it.
Yes it is when a store is closing!!! It is absolutely stealing. If you knew anything about how a liquidation works the percent off goes up over time. Holding the item until it becomes cheaper is stealing!
I dont think putting something aside until you can afford it is the same as stealing