Our store has still not received anything for Halloween thanksgiving or Christmas yet. We had already got a ton by this time last year, are other stores the same way?
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Asbestos was used in a lot of different building materials. Do not put your safety or anyone else at risk unless you have the facts. It was also used in the 12inch tiles and in the adhesive/glue.
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Caulk
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Wow about the asbestos. Someone did post that nine inch floor tiles were the only ones made with asbestos.
You are completely right , the store I was at was built in 1978 and it had abestous floor tiles. Depending on each store there should have been an Asbestos report from SHC either in the employee break room or the office. This has gotten out of hand ALL stores need to call OSHA or the health department NOW.
Employees should not put their health in danger due to the extreme cost cutting these stores are doing.
SHC does not give a rats A$$ about employee health.
Thank you former QMT.
From everyone on the board thank you former QMT maintence tech. This extreme cost cutting had gotten out of control.
Too the poster that stated they are replacing floor tiles. YOU NEED TO STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY AND CALL OSHA OR THE HEALTH DEPT. Floor tiles and/or adhesive in a lot of these older stores contain ASBESTOS. I was a QMT for 22yrs and did building maintenance until my job was eliminated the first of May this year. QMT's across the nation were cut. There is ASBESTOS in different areas of these stores and no one should be doing any kind of construction or destruction unless you know what you are dealing with and it has been tested.
Well, if they want employees doing maintence also. Then the store use budget will be through the roof, if you have to buy plumbing supplies,caulk, ect at Home Depot/Lowes. If you cannot get it off the shelf at the store to store use it
And have to use "petty cash" to buy things as in supplies to fix things, that is getting desperate.
I understand stripping registers for parts how can you strip an RMU for parts? I understand with a 4 high you can strip shelves off it? How do you strip your pallet jack? Does this mean all Kmarts got their copier taken away or just certain stores? How long ago did the copier get "repossed"?
Plus they want employees to be handymen/woman to fix things?
Is this effective for all Kmarts also?
We strip registers, pallet jacks, four highs, copiers, and even RMU's. Our store does not get anymore replacement equipment (I wonder if this means we are closing). We have been taking parts from other equipment for the last few years. We now have to repair small things around the store ourselves like minor plumbing, fixing doors, caulking, replacing floor tiles, replacing ceiling tiles etc/ They took our only copier away because the contract ran out and we are not getting another one. We were told not to copy anything unless absolutely neccessary and if we needed to copy to go to Staples or some other store or to do it at home. Ha, ha, like someone is going to use their own ink on this company. Oh well just waiting for the end.
Wow, my store closed in Jan of 2014, I though things were bad. Things have only gotten worse, in order to make things run jerry rigging things is what you have to do. Do you have one or two registers in your store you strip for parts by chance?
To answer this question. The only reason SHC put new pin pads at Kmart is due to the identity/credit card theft at the stores. That is the only reason.
No need to apologize. You have not been properly indoctrinated into the SHC corporate think yet. Corporate think says that if it makes sense don't do it, if it will help the customer or the employee...don't do it, if it could help the company in the long run---Don't do it.
But if you can squeeze a little more out of the employee, i.e. work a little harder, a little faster, lift a little more with less people. etc. And whatever you do keep everything you do secret, give no real answer to real questions and always say that everything is fine and dandy.
Now, if you can make something from the 1990's last with duct tape and spit, if you can get more credit card sign-ups even if the customer gets angry, if you can push one more extended warranty, if you can get one more email, one more sign-up... If you can cut just one more hour of payroll or one more lead, or run your store with new employees every six weeks because everyone gets sick of this place--- then and only then will you be truly drinking the SHC kool-aid and you will be like us. Welcome to the Crazy Train
Sorry for the dumb idea, I forgot that SHC has screwed things up so bad. I was thinking from both the customers and employee point of view.
Who will move these shelves? We barely have enough people to stock the shelves much less move and stock. And if we do that, as we did one year with some seasonal items we wanted to display, some DM will come in and scream we are not following the playbook or the POG. Managers have no say in how they run their store, even though they know their customer and their needs best. Everything is run from corporate with a written process to follow.
Instead of trying to use "filler" items for the shelves, why not if there is a whole back half of the store empty, move the shelves to cover up the empty part of the store. Does that make sense?
That is sickening, to know the store that your transferring stuff out to is going to close. Yet the employees at that store are told it is not closing is unethical on so many levels.
Sometimes they don't even tell you ahead of time. Back when the last round started in May, we had to send stuff out to 2 different closing stores but were told not to call, email or tell them anything about the merchandise coming. They had not even been notified they were closing yet ! To have a store that is closing yet is the last one to hear about it is like something right out of the Jerry Springer show. What a joke this whole company and all its executives are.
That would make sense, has your store started getting "crap" in from other stores for your possible closing sale.
RE: We have no Halloween. They are waiting for the "Store Closing" sale which should be coming soon.
We have no Halloween where in years past we would have at least 10 pallets of stuff ready to put out. Our back to school is only a few ailes in the store with a few quads when in years past it would be almost all of where our summer stuff was. we also have 60-70 patio sets with 30-40 grills and other seasonal things when in years past almost all would be gone by now. Wondering if people are used to getting 75-90 percent off and they are waiting until the last minute to buy.
Well, maybe if you could sell the remaining furniture and grills at 95% off that would clear out room for Halloween?( Yes I am being a JA and not serious.)
But, where are we going to put it?
Ours goes where we have back to school but our back to school is over. We haven't received anything yet but I hear we ain't going to get any Christmas expect what we keep from last year
nowhere to put it if it does come in. we still have most of our grills, lawnmowers, outdoor furniture etc. where would we put any halloween if it did come in
Could some vendors not ship since they do not want to extend credit to SHC.
Regarding vendors... a huge chunk of seasonal comes from one vendor. If that vendor has delays in shipments for production or other reasons, obviously everything isn't going to arrive at one time.
This is not good at all, if SHC has not sent halloween or Xmas maybe the vendors will not extend credit and make sure all shipments are paid in full before shipping is my guess?
Just have to wait. It's probably on this week. We had not received anything yet until yesterday, a few things for Halloween came in
I heard a few things look for the next post in about an hour
"TROUBLE"
Normally i think this week would be when the halloween starts to flow normally next week would be heavy loads of seasonal merchandise...Check your reset calendar