Does anybody have any concrete info on how Belk is doing now, after a good month of stores being open? Better, just as bad as they were before, or worse? Does their dismal credit rating still stand? There seems to be no news out there about this.
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The Kennesaw, GA store is in a mall owned by Simon Properties, the biggest mall owner in US. While Belk owns many of their mall anchor store properties, could be they rent this location and are in arrears due to closing for COVID19, (like many other tenants). Simon Properties is taking a hard stance and making it difficult for already struggling retailers to re-open and start rebuilding business. A rediculous corporate game of “chicken.” Hopefully Simon Properties will see the light of day and realize the only losers in a proposition like this are the employees who could be back to work; the impact on county revenue and the the lost traffic to mall that Belk brings. Good will goes a long way. Hang in there and hopefully your store will open soon!
Just look online. Hardly any new merchandise.
Lisa Harper has been a recluse, very little outside contact.
belk corporate reads the comments off this websight, and they have no idea how to address these direct, point-blank statements that they know are 100% correct.
No new merchandise coming in, fulfillment slowing down, minimal staff and customers are getting wise to what is going on. The silence from corporate is the giveaway that there is major problems. You cannot operate without the merchandise being replenished so there is the answer
I would venture to say that Lisa Harper and her crew could be up to something nefarious. Look at what happened to the executives at Toys’s R Us, the same thing is happening at Belk. private equity companies are very crooked.
We're told that business is great! No one believes it though . We just listen. Just holding on because there is no where to get a job here.
Not full staff at our store
Belk also has no transparency with employees, they are very hush hush about finances, layoffs, company credit ratings, ect.. now forcing associates to do the jobs of housekeeping, operations, loss prevention, visual and the list goes on under the new "team belk" slogan, which is the ultimate bait and switch, all the good managers have left, some lackluster managers remain, but the great ones are long gone. Soon the company will be void of all long term employees, and it will become a beacon of cheap clothing, clueless sales people, bad management, and unsanitary stores. This won't last long because the customers are now realizing something is wrong, and they are jumping ship (along with staff) one by one.
The Belk store at my local mall (Kennesaw GA) never bothered to re-open. As of Sunday the 31st. Not sure if it will be closing or if they couldn't find enough staff to reopen.
Same status and credit rating. Stores are operating with minimal staffing.