District and regional teams are hearing more of the changes as we speak. There will Be announcements at 3 or 4 Eastern today. From what I’ve heard big ticket is getting chopped up. Store managers being eliminated and a nearby vpsm will now cover the gallery. I’m assuming there is more to it too
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“R4b5o4G-1xdk”, I too worked during that time when we (SMs) did it all. Those were better times for me. It does feel like we’re headed towards that model for the examples you cited (JBM, Beauty SM). With an Operator (SSO) now in every store they could be supervising the merchandising process allowing SMs to have a hand with their direction. Interesting thought... could go back to how we ran in the early nineties.
Anyone have a list of the top 50 doors?
I recall a time when SMs put their own stock away set their ZOG's, marked down their product and rotated merchandise. Could we be going back to this model?
Cosmetics does this, FJC does this and Women's Shoes/Men's Shoes.Why not the rest of the store.
Merchandise is sold through timely markdowns, effective fill-in strategy, accurate signing, AND great presentation. The MTMs may not always follow ZOGs, but they do get the product onto the sales floor, signed, marked down, and filled-in. The prettiness is important, but the Macy’s customer our cumpany is courting is not as discerning as in the past. Look at the love Gennette has for BACKSTAGE and LAST ACT (far from rom pretty, but drives foot traffic and margin). The company is moving away from great visual presentation with the elimination of VMs in small volume doors and cookie-cutter execution directives (I constantly am being told to JUST COPY THE PICTURES by my MVP). MTMs (especially single-store MTMs) have a tough job, especially in smaller doors. They have almost the same storewide responsibility as the VPSM with no role power.
Are you kidding? Do you know how much worse stores would look if Visual reported to MTMs? MTMs only want to get stock out. Most dont even look at a ZOG.
Making it look ”pretty” as you say, sells the merchandise.
BTW , that is not what is happening
Visual being supervised by the MTM is actually a good thing. There’s always a battle between Visual making it look pretty (but impossible to sign and shop) and the MTM trying to get every piece onto the floor (also making it tough to shop). In these stores with eliminated VM, the responsibility of balancing presentation and merchandising will fall solely on the MTM, and they’ll be held accountable. I think this is a good thing. Did they increase the amount of stores making this change? Before it was doors <$15M annual.
what does the the growth50 stores mean?
Yes. Typo. MTM. Read a general paragraph about it in a company email. And my OPs manager told me exactly what that meant.
No mention of AST in today’s announcements/call/email. HRM positions elimination has not officially been announced and will be on Monday-all current HRMs had the opportunity to apply for the new positions and were being notified yesterday and today. All will be in place by Monday and then the announcement will come with who is who, would be my guess.
No official mention of SM’s, MTM’s, Visual Managers at a store level. All people announcements it sound like will be official by day end the 5th.
Visual Leads report to MYMs? Im assuming the is MTM... where did you get that info... that would be bad.... mtms would have them doinf everything BUT visual!
Any word on DMs? RMDs? Seems if we cut store line, the distrct and regional need to adjust as well.
Top 50 doors aka Growth50 stores are unaffected by the changes. LA Central & LA East districts just got consolidated to LA South. North Florida and West Florida is now called Northwest Florida.
Managers will be fewer. Stores with 2 MTM’s will go to 1. Manager positions will be turned into leads, supervisors, and captains.
Actually, while it’s sad to lose the APM, having an Operations Manager in your building FT is a huge win. My OPs Mgr was always in her other location, and I was always fighting for more support. I constantly had to go to her boss and mine to get more attention. APM and OPM always work together for safety and shortage meetings, inventory execution, and fixture installations. This makes sense. One in every building means there should be positions for approximately 50% of the APMs (minus any interest from displaced HRMs). This cgame Ludwig turn out to be a positive.
Email states the APM is no more. They may apply for open positions. It will now be OPs/AP Manager. “Will enable Us to have Operations presence in every store”
They are redistricting again.
Intergrating Facilities into the SPACE team (architects, construction...)
Jan 8th more will be announced with regard to stores and how HR support is provided to associates. Well we all know HRM’s are gone so must be AST related.
And some stores will have changes to Visual. It will now be MYM’s leading the Visial LEADS in some stores.
So are all sales managers gone? What’s going to happen to big ticket?
Does the Fine Jewelry Complex still continue with a JBM or a--?
an email came out earlier about the changes but i can't open it in my remote access.
Manager's are gone from the sounds of it.
Need more information on BT. What’s the word.
You mentioned Big Ticket being chopped up. Any details on that?
Any changes to the cosmetics/fragrance Dept?