what?! Anne Sullivan is leaving??!! Where is she going? I heard like 12 stores are closing

its going to be sad just like when all of the other millions of retailers close non productive stores. That my friend is sound business. We might be in a better spot had we closed stores years ago when other stores did.

anyone want a cherry outfit to wear for holiday? if so go to CR bc that is the only place that has them...I mean...where is the accountability. Even field people know it is not right

Anyone know where Anne Sullivan is going?

As a SM you should be talking about your P and L with your DM. If your not that smart business wise to know that you only do an average of $800 a day come on payroll alone cost more then you make I wouldn't need a P and L in front of me to know my... — read more 

How would we know what are rent and payroll cost we don't have access to P and L reports? I know some stores that are closing and they have no clue it's going to be sad.

You really should already have a clue if your store will close, like I don't know maybe your rent and payroll cost more then you profit. I mean come on if I owned a business and I had stores that were not profitable I'd close them too. I've been with... — read more 

Stores that are closing on 1/31/2012 will begin to here their fate next week. The " people" team decided 4-6 weeks prior was good enough! So look for scheduled DM visits or regional confrence calls to start happening to let us know everything is ok!... — read more 

The VSDs are useless!! Mannys without clothes on, walls with wide open spaces, showing one top on a table then writing in add similar tops!! What happened to putting into the same effort the field does!! How can we train or KHs and ASMs without the... — read more 

The VSDs are useless!! Mannys without clothes on, walls with wide open spaces, showing one top on a table then writing in add similar tops!! What happened to putting into the same effort the field does!! How can we train or KHs and ASMs without the... — read more 

Page 21 was my favorite! Lol I thought I was looking at an old VSD! This is our best for holiday? Help us! I love my job and the people I work with I want Charlotte to be successful, but it's hard with no HO support.

I agree with corporate go back and ask the field! At least the seasoned CR SMs who've been around when it worked. My first black Friday five years ago at Charlotte we did close to $400000 hmmm wonder why oh yeah we had oh I don't know sweaters... — read more 

does anyone know what stores are getting shut down in Jan?

If things do not turn around ASAP, major changes are needed, and fast!

Hysterical corporate call today. Everyone congratulated themselves on a job well done while saying we didn't have the right product, we didn't have the right marketing and we will get it right next year!!! It's been three black friday's already!!!... — read more 

They will point the finger at who ever they can to save their jobs for another month. But what do you expect with so many stores on low base hours, terrible buyers that don't give a F about the product but just deal with vendors that are giving them... — read more 

RMs and Jenny, Today when you sit in your calls and blame slow traffic on poor sales, remember Black Friday Sales saw a 6.6% increase, a record $11.4 Billion in sales. Way to run CR into the ground, you all should be very proud.

No, Advent is not listening. Things are getting worse. This is the worst Thanksgiving weekend I have ever had. CR is a dead duck, its time for me to move on.

Well said!!!!! Advent, are you listening? Visit a couple of stores, see what we see. Bad merchandise. Over paid part time executives (SVP People), too many executives and not enough support. Can we have a VP of operations? Help!

everyone is so passionate about CR- whether upset and bitching or positive and defending...PLEASE dear god- can we just fix the buying situation? We have no fashion pieces, we lack key items our competitors have in droves, the next vsd hurts my eyes... — read more 

Your Right People person, thanks for taking time on a Sunday to contribute! Lol!

Here's an idea... Instead of worrying about how others weren't in your store lets worry about how your negative attitude affected your store!! All this time bitching!!

No complaints about are LP partners! Have had pleasure of working with almost all of them! Always supportive not surprised they were all over on black Friday any other HO support helping field this weekend?

LP was in several of my stores and helped the teams manage the floor.

Our RLPM was in for midnight madness. We love you Roger!

My RLPM was in my store.

I heard all corporate workers were suppose to be in stores yesterday? Did anyone see them? I didn't ! What about our always " hard working" people team?

btw- Not true about F21- they didnt make their day by 3

I'm looking bc I lost all faith in management... Nothing but lies and terrible working conditions.

I made LY by 3 and goal by 7 at my new company. Aggressive LY and goal too. Trust me. It's time to save yourself the aggravation. Find a new job!

Anybody else looking at the trickle sales report? Absolute disaster (again)! What the hell is wrong with this company!

Lmao! F 21 made LY in 3 hours yeah right. They did nothing different today then any other day other then move yellow tags up front and hang some signs. Are traffic was down also but we still made LY today. I didn't have to go out and "net work" to... — read more 

Really? My sister works for F21, and they made thier day in 3 hours. Hmmm, not so much a traffic issue as the crap you corporate dumb asses sent to us.

Traffic is down in the whole mall you fool it's not just Charlotte. If you'd go out and net work you'd see. Shut up and go back to work.

Traffic is poor for Black Friday! I guess the spring attire is not what our girl is looking for. Oh well, when is the "new Chairman of the Board" taking over?

check out dead malls.com- if yours is on it...there may be a case for concern. That goes for ANY retailer

well the dm's don't and that's what it seemed like she was saying. no fancy smancy electronics here...please....so when someone acts like that's what is out there...it is not the truth. there is the basics which is what is needed to run stores.

Yes there are ipads all the regionals have one

no one is losing their job in January- only the incredibly bad malls that people know are dead malls- other retailers closed those years ago but we didn't and need to----

Corporate, that was really accurate, but you left out so much BS that has happened in other departments. I just feel really bad for all the people that are stressed out at the stores that will likely lose their job in January.