This board has been a nightmare for Belk executives. Belk’s shady corporate secrets have all been exposed.

What’s the magic 8 ball prediction for Belk today?

Belk is a lifeboat for corporate rejects from other retailers…. Macys, tj maxx, Dillard’s, and khols’s and now bed/bath. Always has been. You can (almost) guarantee if someone is hired at Belk from one of the above retailers it’s because they... — read more 

Belk passed away at her home in Charlotte at age 135. She had been fighting illness for the past 7 years, but was keeping her terminal diagnosis quiet. One a booming retailer, she was sold out from under herself when the family decided to retire in... — read more 

Belk is $2 billion in debt, with VERY VERY few assets, certinely not in the multi-billions, mostly real estate in dying outdated malls, and low income rural areas, and the corporate office complex in Charlotte.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/23/business/bed-bath-beyond-bankruptcy

How frequently are your schedules posted? In my store we usually get them on Saturday. Its making planning and appointments impossible🙄🙄

No performance reviews are a sign of significant trouble. If a company does not give their employees any feedback, RUN FOR THE EXIT, it’s not going to last much longer.

were now adding in the lux shop it will feature limited luxury brands ralph Lauren, Kate spade, tommy Bahama, summer themed items mostly towels, purses, and baskets anyone else adding these small 20 by 20 square lux shops really nothing to new but... — read more 

Do we get holiday pay for Easter?

tj maxx manager came into our store Went for interview and offered $15.50, try tj maxx much more than the 2% raise Belk is giving

A store HR lead has filed a grievance on behalf of a 73 year old store associate, stating the store manager wanted to burn her out with an overworked, undesirable schedule to get her to quit. The HR lead says they were told to work this associate... — read more 

Our store has lost lots of good people None are being replaced and we are left to do the work of 4 people. Why is Belk not hiring

we did not recieve an employee pay raise this year, normally the last week of March. no mention of merit increase this year.

At our store it seems the last two years have been a secret best of belk. Is this the new norm in the company? Is it so management does not have to answer questions why one associate got it over someone else. Just wondering.

Went to the Laurens outlet that opened today. Around 7pm the store was dead to have just opened today. Noticed there are no more fitting rooms and with no returns, that’s not very ideal. Saw a manager, an employee on the sales floor and an cashier at... — read more 

Belk fosters the worst kind of culture. No matter how short staffed the store might be the associates are on their own . When they lose associates in one area the one person left is expected to do everything. And the worse part about it is the HR... — read more 

Lisa Harper’s lavish lakefront 10,000 square foot mansion in Cornelius North Carolina (where she filmed the infamous pandemic video playing with her dogs while managers were working with a pay decrease during Covid shutdown) has sold for a whopping... — read more 

Belk Outlet concept has been a flop Customers hate final sale policy merchandise is lackluster (for the most part), a few good things here and there Stores have not utilized all space, some are still partially empty Customers shocked when the... — read more 

Has anyone heard wether we are getting a raise or not and how much??? No one has mentioned anything and we knew in February of last year we were all getting the same raise.

“I haven’t heard anything like that” did your RVP tell you to say this if questioned about the company finances. SMH

When you treat your employees as bad as belk does. This is what happens. It’s as simple as that. Unethical owners and upper management =Employees unhappy = customers unhappy =declining sales It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this... — read more 

Just a heads up for those who are staying for the package - getting severance pay is not a sure thing. It's totally up to the company whether or not they wanna give you severance after they lay you off. So don't bank on that money and then end up... — read more 

A longtime GVP has stepped down. It’s the curly shuffle again.

Sales are down exponentially. App downloads, credit, email are a way to take the focus away from that. Most stores are down double digits in sales and foot traffic

Conns is a decent store, but renting space inside an existing Belk store is not a good sign. That is in face a significant reduction in selling space, it’s no different then if Belk rented that space to a fast food restaurant, hair salon, nail salon... — read more 

I just heard that Conn's is leaving my store and another store close to mine. Are they leaving all stores?

Don was scheduled to visit stores in Mississippi next week, that has been canceled.

When you see reduction in selling space in any retail store that is a sign of serious financial trouble, sections, rows and entire floors closed off? You better start looking elsewhere for a new job, it won’t be long before it shuts down for... — read more 

I was at Belk in Flowood and there was very little to almost nothing of vineyard vines merchandise is this an vendor issue or is it just Belk being Belk ?

At our store meeting, associates were told that credit and email goals must be met or corrective action will be taken. I am shocked. Can Belk write us up for not meeting these goals even if we are trying our best to get them? Is this happening at... — read more 

In fact, our regional came in the store and pretty much told the managers anytime we say anything negative about the job to turn it into a positive. If you want to know why Belk is failing so spectacularly, here's your answer. No company can... — read more 

One would think that an outlet “grand opening” (as Belk corporate calls it) would be a big deal for belk because it’s a new business model. well at the Feb 12th grand opening of the Greeneville outlet, CEO Don Hendricks was conspicuously absent from... — read more 

So, since we got a new store manager last year we have had a lot of policy changes. I’m just curious if the stuff they are saying is in fact true. Recently we were told that we can’t go in the shoe stockroom to get shoes because we need to do save... — read more 

the 30 day return policy was short lived all belk stores will change to a 7 day return limit on 5/1/23, and designer merchanidse, fine jewlery, cosmetics, evening dresses, and shoes will be final sale.

With the return policy now being 30 days, I have an item I want to return from January when it was 90 days as stated on the receipt. I bought the item with my Belk CC. Am I out the money or will the return be honored due to the policy at time of sale... — read more 

Eleven more clearance/liquidation centers have been announced. WT* is going on?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/947517179957827/?s=1x1

Outlet stores being used as liquidation centers? Are these new “outlets” located in dying malls and dying strip malls a covert way for belk to liquidate?, no refunds or exchanges allowed, all sales final, staffing at a bare minimum with one or two... — read more