Thread regarding Bed Bath & Beyond layoffs

the conversion rate is a joke, and you're spot on; no matter how well you do, no matter what kind of increases you make or how well you perform over other stores, if it's not that one specific number that someone working from their home in new jersey came up with, it's garbage

on the plus side, if measuring conversion numbers goes like all their other bright ideas over the years, they'll completely abandon it within the next year or so, lol

The store managers and DMs literally do not know enough to make sales goals and targets. They just choose arbitrary numbers that sound good and scream and yell to push towards a goal.
E.G. conversion. My DM at the time kept pushing for 50% conversion. We never came close at at the time that would have been a 16% increase from 42%. Not a realistic number.
we managed to increase to 48% 12.5% increase. thats huge! bigger increase % then any other store he had. well why werent we at 50. 48 was unacceptable.
from a consistent 40-42 to a consistent 48 is a huge increase but because the DM didn’t understand conversion or 8th grade algebra he was blind to what was going on. and neither did any of his SMs.

I guess instead of telling others what their goals should be, how about we talk about what ours should be?

Don’t forget about putting the most expensive item on the top shelf in every section and a week later put the value item on top instead. Oh yeah cut our hours more because the sales aren’t there but we move everything all of the time.

H For Happy!

Don’t forget having to do resets like every other month just cuz they change the name on a box or flipping pillows around to make sure they touch the aisle for 2 months. And my all time favorite all this stupid training that takes what few people we have off the floor so even more doesn’t get done.