Thread regarding Kmart layoffs

Any employee can work 605 now and the 605 person does anything.....

Have any soft lines lead positions been eliminated?

all assistant managers have been let go, effective immediately. Per SMIT Luz Arias of store 3990.

My Store had that Meeting on Thursday saying it was about the Blow Out Sale Event . Yeah rite it was a Blow Out Cut employees event Next day I was let go after 17 years of being their with other 2 full time employees. Simple Store is a Ghost store . feel bad for the one staying.

There was a big meeting Thursday. We won't know what was discussed until tomorrow unfortunately.

Just whats been going around... some stores losing a lead or 2 based on sales. That's all. Its store specific.

Chill out dude...nothing major.

Writing is still on the wall

Southwest region store wide cuts... store specific though... no ONE position cut all together though.

Writing is still on the wall.

any news on the meeting?

Yes their is a meeting today and I do not know what it's about. Hopefully it be good, I hate coming back to the store with Bad news

I'm in Ohio, and there has been discussion of a manager conference call. The store manager thinks it will just be about the blowout sale that's starting on June 9.

My store is down to one ASM, and three key-carrying supervisors who can close the store. The only lead we have left is data.

I was playing around on OWB and the Kmart Retail Services website. Seems strange that the monthly planner is blank past June, and the only brochures available are for BTS

We've been without most of those positions for the better part of a year now. They were mostly replaced with people being paid only slightly above minimum wage and whose competence reflects their compensation. Vendor invoices and DSD paperwork are routinely lost. The 605 area is inundated with broken merchandise that could probably fill at least a hundred K-4 repack boxes, much of it having sat there since the previous 605 associate was canned. We are so hard up for service desk associates that brand new associates who haven't even done any computer-based training are just thrown up there with someone showing them what to do for an hour and then being left on their own. The turnover is understandably high.

Perhaps just the north east region at this point in time.

Many stores have been operating without BRL, nine does, and it is safe to say if your store currently has that position it will eventually be eliminated. Simple store means everything to salesfloor, what is the point of a BRL.

No word on resets, data, claims or 605.

I personally feel that BK is being avoided at any risk possible. Eliminating positions, cutting payroll, blowout sales, even down to the " don't solicite syw point redemption" ( takes away from gross margain) etc... these are all things in my opinion that our company is doing to make as much profit or save until we close.

So why the northeast but not south? I haven't been told to attend a meeting yet

Any word/idea regarding the data/reset leads and backroom locators/claims/605?