How can we have a 1,200 piece truck full of junk ? They keep sending in clothes that either nobody wants or they just steal them. Each truck is full of totes. These cheap Polaroid TV's that came out of nowhere. So far we had 6 delivered to our store. 2 have already been returned. While the other 4 just sit. We ship out microwaves to another store just to get more back on the following truck. Back to school items are already on the salesfloor. Last week they were regular price,today I noticed majority of the stuff was marked down to 50 cents. Next week is the beginning of the end. I mean the beginning of this inventory blowout sale. Layoffs coming Friday (presumably) everyday is a guessing game with these people. They want to act like they have this fortune 500 company when half the people at the top don't know $#!+. Store managers want to try and threaten people about a job. I just laugh and say what I have to say. Damage control is out of control. They waste the most resources on the absolute dumbest things. Simple store process is the most laughable gig they have going. You want to make something simple ? Here is the easiest solution palletize items by department and shrink wrap them. Double stack the pallets on top of each other and that's how you can load a truck. Make sure your stores have the working equipment for you to pull double pallets at a time. Take them straight to floor and work from there. Simple enough for you Sears Holdings ?
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1pwu, speaking as a 62 year old woman, I sure as heck am not buying clothes at Sears except maybe some Land's End stuff. Don't have any idea who their target market is
We are packed here atleast in my department we have to stock locate and their is not much room for product people arent buying. I love when you get a big truck with little hours and managers are on you to finish the truck and do all this impossible task.
Also to add the majority of the stuff we sell is junk its trash. I had a coworker not long ago buy a shirt one wash and it was already faded and ugly. To add it wasn't cheap so how do you expect people to buy dated lo quality cloths when its overpriced...
I just looked at what our wed truck had on it and the same here nothing but clothing the L&G shelves are getting bare .. but we sure have received a ton of clothing
The process your describing is being implemented in our sears store so we are being told. Have been told they will be stream lining the warehouse process buy taking the pallets straight to the floor, so be ready to have your job cut if your a backroom lead and or backroom worker
No one wants to buy clothing from sears except the 60+ year old ladys, the buyers for sears are horrible, who buys these ugly outdated crap anyways, if you want apparel to sell get some new nicer stuff to bring in the younger generation.... hey sears take your right hand reach over your head grab your left ear , then the left hand to your right ear and pull your head out of you A*S
Same thing here, except at a Sears store. Tons of junk that doesn't sell (lots of apparel) or, they actually ship things that sell but ship us way more than we can actually sell (grills, treadmills and a lot of Division 9 stuff come to mind).
We just had our DDC truck recently. Our store did not have a single dishwasher in stock. On that truck, we received a ton of freezers (which people aren't really buying now) but only three dishwashers.
Apparel is a waste...they ship tons of crap that never sells well. We still have tons of clearance from last year that has not budged, despite sidewalk sales and aggressive markdowns. If Sears wants to save a few bucks, I think it would be best to cut apparel, as sad as it is to say, and focus on hardlines. Sure, there are some people buying Sears apparel, but when our store just shipped out two full 7' pallets of nothing but VOM apparel, there is a problem. We don't make any money on things we don't sell.
Our store can get away with a truck once every two weeks. There's no need for a truck every week. I'm sure that plenty of other stores are in a similar position.
Haha the Polaroid TVs. We were told by our store manager that TVs can't be returned unless they do not work at all... as in you turn it on and nothing happens... store credit will be given in that case. Go buy a Polaroid TV at another cheap store, say Ocean State Job Lot, and the same policy applies.
Gotta love pallets that have six large bags of dog food and nothing else on them. Shrink wrapped with like five bucks of plastic too.