It seems every day, Macys hires or announces a new SVP of something. What happened to “de-layering” the organization? Our jobs have gotten cumbersome with all of the layoffs, consolidations and function eliminations. Our engagement scores keep... — read more
wonder why?
I wonder why macys employees form little clicks to survived and throw others under the bus.. they gossip about everyone else and act like their sh$t doesn't stink. then they run back to store managers like little girls being tattle tales.. talk... — read more
Support positions
Can anyone in a pilot store give any insight on how signing will play out since it’s now back of house with receiving captain overseeing it? Do merchandisers not have to sign now? Do receiving associates have to sign and do markdowns?
Bloomingdales…
I heard someone in my store say that some high volume Macy’s stores will have a small Bloomingdales store within a store (kind of like backstage, but smaller). The department would feature some of Bloomingdales luxury brands and would be stocked... — read more
What's ki----g Macys
things that i notice that are ki----g macys rapidly and it will only get worse. 1:Postmark is selling used clothing for a fraction of what it was new 2: thred up is also doing it 3: Macys sells junk now and no name brands and is lacking... — read more
Crazy experiment
It would be good for the leadership to think carefully about the moves before making any final decisions, because working at Macy's seems more and more like being part of a crazy experiment. They cut hours, lay off, try to implement new programs... — read more
What are they waiting for?
Given the whole situation, that people are leaving, that most new hires are leaving very fast, that people aren't really interested in working here unless they have no other choice, I expected Macy's to start paying more. What is Macy's waiting for... — read more
Rising Gas Prices = Less Disposable Income
Anybody else already seeing a decline in store traffic as gas prices have almost hit $7 a gallon here in CA? We had people returning so much stuff this weekend and several people said that gas prices were really having an impact. We are affordable... — read more
Quarterly incentive will we still get one?
Just wondering if Macys will still be giving out the quarterly incentive to all clocking associates if a store makes their numbers? Even though they are giving out huge bonuses to top selling performers?
New strategy for all associates to do everything.
I’ve heard between now and June Macys will implement a program where all front of house associates do everything…..ring register, recovery, put out new stock. Associates who formally just put out stock and did markdowns….now have to sell and ring... — read more
Merchandise Captain
What is a merchandise captain? In my store no one mention about this position to any members of the merchandise team. So they put a sales captain in that position. Why didn’t they ask the the old leads if they wanted this position.
Aid to Ukraine?
IDK. But perhaps Macy's could donate some portion of Backstage clothing to an organization that could get it to the borders where refugees are crossing with only the clothes on their backs. Write off the donations at full value and get positive PR. — read more
I love it!
I love when the tables turn. My location went from having a store manager whose favorite line was "if you’re not happy here, you should just leave" to tiptoeing around us and begging us not to leave because he's got nobody to replace us. I won't lie... — read more
Start sign team.
How many stores are still getting prep time to set sell?
Coming in late and going home early
Mostly I don't care much what others do here. I want to finish my job as well as possible because I'm paid for it and I'm not paid to play the role of a supervisor. However, it is impossible not to notice how some come to work late and then go... — read more
Customer complaints
The only thing that surprises me is that there aren't even more complaints from customers, given the lack of people. Probably customers understand what this is about and already know that we are doing double workloads here. However, there are still... — read more
$5 Billion Investment
I don't know what it's like in other stores is, but ours is very dirty, disorganized and chaotic. I'm not against the company investing "to create positive social change", but can't $5 billion be distributed a little differently? It is sad how this... — read more
$5000 incentive
Will they still have the $5000 incentive if you sell $700,000 in a year. It seems impossible if you have to be merchandising half of the day,plus there will be less registers. Will it be replaced by something else?
masks?
Any direction about when we can go to mask optional, as Target, Walmart and other major retailers have?
Online fulfillment…
Anyone else have a psycho manger making you work over nights to do online order fulfillments? I wonder what these wonderful customers of ours think when they get their BOPS email telling them it’s ready for pick up at 2 am in the morning! Also... — read more
Support schedules
With all the changes does anyone know how support schedules will change ? Front of house and back of house?
Beware of fake customer complaints by disgruntled managers
a manager in florida has been fired for making fake customer complaints against several employees, when asked why she did it, she admitted "i just didn;t like them", she used the same name on several complaints which raised a red flag. this has... — read more
Pay for Salaried Executives in 2022
Does anyone know anything about new pay structure for Salaried Executives? I know they are planning on taking all hourly colleagues to $15.00 by May, but I'm unclear on any incentives for non-hourly employees. I think they rolled something out during... — read more
Operations gone
so if you was head of security and then they put you in a AP/Ops role and now Ops/Vs and now your back to "Captain " of security you just have been promoted and demoted within 2 years My thought is the next step is either a set up to get you gone or... — read more
This company just uses us
Some say it's just a job - so do the job - get paid - no hard feelings. Yes, but I feel more and more that this company is just using us, that is, that we are giving much more than this company is giving us back. It's an ugly feeling. How many... — read more
Maybe better days are coming?
Macy’s shares jumped over 6% in pre-market trading on Tuesday after the fashion retailer generated higher earnings than expected in the holiday quarter and forecast better sales for this... — read more
Disappointed and frustrated
Do we have go to online forums to find out if anyone has a little more detail about the Innovation Selling Program to share, or should Macy’s be little more transparent? If nothing else, I think we deserve a little more transparency. Why do we have... — read more
Fulfillment all day long??
We were told that Fulfiment not just BOPS will be filled “all day long”? Is this accurate since this was not communicated to me directly(as usual)….was wondering how this will work with UPS pickups and storage after UPS has picked up for the day?... — read more
Workload
How are any of you dealing with backlog in your stores? We are still dealing with cages of goods since inventory. We don’t even have the equipment to take in new goods. Is anybody in the same situation. I’d really like to know how your dealing with... — read more
Partial PTO Days
How are Partial PTO days “supposed” to work as far as time off??
Every store?
Is every store going to the new innovative selling? No managers have said anything to our support or sales team yet. We have lots of associates on the sales and support side with small children and other obligations. Seems like they would tell us to... — read more
Better salaries
With all that work load,will they increase the salaries with the new program. Will they also alternate the associates that get chosen to be cashier to alleviate all that work that the merchandisers do. I'm not clear how it's going to be.
Will AST survive ISP unscathed?
AST's been left alone awhile (on paper). Does ISP have any surprises for the lowly administrative servant?
There is no happy medium
Stores are either understaffed or overstaffed. Why's that? Why is it that my store can't offer good service to customers because there are too few of us (and this has been going on for a long time), while others here write that their stores are... — read more
Dress code
Does anyone know about the new dress code?
Are these hiring events legit?
I'm in New York and I swear the last time I went to a Macy's store for their hiring event, they had no idea what I was talking about. I was seasonal a few years back before the pandemic. I applied for every full time position they posted but I get no... — read more
Is that true?
A new wave of store closures? OMG. It's not my intention to cause panic, I'm just checking to see if anyone knows anything about it, because my colleague's heard that a new wave of closures (just a rumor) is coming very soon.
Vancouver, WA Mall Announcement?
My supervisor told me that he heard the Vancouver mall store in Washington is going to be announced for closure in the next week. Apparently he overheard the store manager mentioning it. I work at a macys in Portland, Oregon (across the river from... — read more
Innovation selling program
Can anyone tell me when the new Enovation Selling Program takes affect, will the “ Style Merchandise Execution Manager “ have to sell too?