For all the lost money and belk CEO waste money it hurts the belk company! now we look at other way to go to the people who have the money! From Bangladesh to Mumbai Belk will fall and no one can see what belk will be in future. I go to belk company... — read more 

After many years and decades of constant expansion, Amazon company began laying off many corporate workers on Tuesday. Amazon is expected to cut about 10,000 workers or 3% of its corporate work force! Should Belk or Belk CEO Don Hendricks is doing... — read more 

We were told if they apply, hire them. Some don’t pass background check, so we can’t hire them Some won’t show up after first day Some are late on first day What is belk doing?

It blows my mind that a CEO can run a company from his house and not go into stores or interact with employees on a daily or atleast weekly basis. How on gods green earth can Hendricks run belk from Martha’s Vineyard? Does anyone else think this is... — read more 

We are told focus strictly is app downloads and credit? Focus is not sales? Can belk pay the bills with app downloads?

The FTX Crypto company was filing Chapter 11 bankcruptcy proceedings last Friday and its CEO has resigned. About $1 billion dollars of FTX clients money has disappeared! The rise and fall of FTX Crypto Exchange is about similar of Belk company don’t... — read more 

How the layoff.com moderators remove the actual post and topic that their website was found upon. I’m sure this will be removed by end of day. Good luck Belk folks. Commiserate amongst yourselves.

Perhaps we should give Belk corporate, six months to improve things from top to bottom at Belk. Lets give 'em six months. We will take a break from posting any topics whatsoever on this board. If in six months, things do not improve, we will be back... — read more 

Typically before Black Friday RetailCEO’s visit stores, it happens everywhere Target, Home Depot, Macy’s, Dillard’s, is Donnie Hendricks planning on visiting any stores this month or next month?

The biggest indicator that belk is using attrition to cut employees is hiring new employees but cutting hours of existing employees replacing salaried managers with hourly “key holders” Paying new hires more than long term employees .. — read more 

I work at a belk store in NC. Been there 11 years. I’m on the STH team so I’m sure I’ll be working at some point on thanksgiving day but does anyone have any word on when the company is opening their stores? I can’t even remember when we opened last... — read more 

Belk must decide to consumers what kind of retail clothing store it is trying to be now. Be Classy or be Trashy! This is so very important. I don't know why Belk has so much trouble making a decision on this. Obviously, the leadership does not... — read more 

Comparing our hours to others I have never missed all day with my family until now after almost 10 years !

don really wants the open ceo job at kohls and would do anything to get it. go don go

A former Belk executive says Belk corporate wants to fool current employees into thinking they are easily replaceable by always hiring, playing hiring announcements in stores, even if they are cutting hours, or hiring people then giving them no... — read more 

I understand that a lot of things are needed in order for us to see some improvement in the company. But why has everyone already lost hope that it will actually happen? Is it too naive to still hope for some improvement? None of my... — read more 

Managers have been told to practice this Suddenly everything you do is scrutinized Along with attrition this is a way to get rid of expensive workers.

Is your store is sad shape? Is your store looking well maintained and beautifully merchandised? Hiring 6,000 people for holidays? Just remember it’s all smoke and mirrors, just a show that sycamore has put on, it’s not real and everything about... — read more 

How many people will Belk manage to attract to work here during the holiday season?

I've had enough of this and I'm leaving. But regardless of all the bad things I experienced here, I would like the company to get back on track. Unfortunately, I don't think there is anyone who still believes that it could happen. What miracle... — read more 

to anyone who is considering the HR position at Belk, beware. basically my job is schedule maker, over and over and over again, why so many drafts? The store manager is trying to bonus out at the end of the year. How about... — read more 

Seasonal hiring is in full swing at Belk. The retailer is looking to fill more than 6,000 positions across the country ahead of the holidays as Belk just advertised on news today. Again this is another dog and pony show Belk is doing and faking every... — read more 

C-suite turmoil, some of the lowest employee satisfaction scores in the retail industry, poor vendor relations, disgruntled employees by the bus load, extremely poor customer satisfaction, zero transparency, high employee turnover even at the... — read more 

Belk has hired MaryAnne Morin today as president and CMO to start on Oct 26th, she comes from Republic Brand Clothing and prior to that Stein Mart, over the past three decades she has also worked for Lord & Taylor and Macy's.

Conn's CEO, Chandra Holt, just stepped down days ago after only one year as sales for the company drastically decline. This is just two months after Conn's partners with Belk.

Could Belk’s name now be poison in the retail industry? belk is struggling significantly trying to find help from the top level down to the lowest level jobs. Perhaps Sycamores aggressive approach to cost cutting has finally caught up with... — read more 

Cutting hours of $15 /hr workers and having just two or three registers open in the whole store is not helping one bit. Let’s say you have 12 full timers in your store making $15 working 39 hours, that is $7,000 per week for all 12 workers and... — read more 

They have 291 stores when they filled for bankruptcy and only closed 1 store. The only reason it was closed is because the shopping center was bought out. You have to close under performing stores, adjust hours to when you have shoppers in the... — read more 

Everyone who works below Don Hendricks has quit in the last six months, the only one left is some guy named will Langley and he was only hired last year. Why is everyone in the C-Suite leaving? Literally everyone! Something is going on, now Amy... — read more 

Rant here.......I picked BOPIS all day by by myself, dealt with several unhappy customers and resolved their issues, spent time on the registers to help get the line down and did Go Backs......had a wonderful customer compliment ......and what did I... — read more 

Amy announced she’s leaving the after so years. Something is up for sure that’s not one is telling us. Patel gone earlier this year and now Amy?????

Belk leadership did a great job serving small towns and unserved markets with small store concept...now those are dead malls. think Texas and South Carolina...An strip centers with empty storefronts.. 10 years ago those store where profit centers ... — read more 

What a retail store starts replacing managers with “key holders” RUN FOR THE HILLS. toys r us and Sears started doing that two years before total liquidation.

some of these shill response are hilarious. Belk is cutting costs on the floor so executives and sycamore can line their own pockets, that’s all, sycamore also exaggerates how bad sales are to create the illusion stores are down, but notice their is... — read more 

I'm not defending our leadership, but judging by the posts here, everyone thinks it's easy to manage a company. Perhaps someone knows a strategy that would help fix this place? I don't want to sound provocative, I'm really interested in what you... — read more 

Does anyone have any hopes left that Belk can be fixed or is the disappointment with the company so big that almost no one cares about its future anymore?

How can the company survive with this massive debt load?

Is favoritism happening in your store? RVP’S have instructed store managers to “play favorites” Hiring of family members going unnoticed? Store managers giving raises to their favorites along with better schedules?

This place is a constant state of stress. I know that people will say that the grass is greener on the other side, but I don't really think so, because I came here after experience in some other retail companies where it wasn't significantly... — read more