Divisional VP’s visiting stores and walking the sales floor with leadership team. What happened to social distancing, no travel etc? Love walking the floor as a large group talking about black box when we are getting 20% of the goods... really smart and productive
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To the poster who asked "what are they looking for?" I smiled because it's going on in our store too. It is so crazy stressful. Losing our God given minds with all the craziness. They expect us to create what's not real. The management structure and strategies are ineffective. We need realness!!!
The visits are inhumane. Major volume opportunities coming up! Instead of maximizing on those we’re focused on visit prep. We are expected to explain and defend our lack of sales duh! Create and defend fall action plans! Explain what we’ve done lately to achieve sales! We’re not allowed to discuss stock issues. Upper management is clueless of what’s happening at the store level. Our teams are stressed, overworked, frightened to be in the store, they have elderly at home, are homeschooling, some are forced to leave children at home alone! They come in every day and do their best! We don’t need visits! We need morale boosting opportunities! District leaders do a virtual town hall. Let them tell their stories. Regional teams, do the same, introduce yourselves, let us know we’re in this together! We participate in every charity! Let’s start this one, at home! #America‘sFavoriteDepartment store but to us #MacyFamily.
You’ll never see my manager on the floor more than when there’s a visit.
We just had a visit yesterday but it was all virtual. Our people leaders pushed a cart with laptops all around the store.
What visit? This is a funny thing to do. They don't know what to do cause there is no sales and every week they tons of markdowns. Despite the fact they struggle with lot of call outs during the weekend (wasn't something called weekend compliance). They should visit behind the stock rooms where they all hide the tons of RODS they have. They look the store and they think everything is fine.
No, nobody is happy and all the millenials don't know what to do and the employees there are scare to say something cause they might loose their jobs.
People wake up; this is not going to better.
Good luck to all of you.
After a visit, my store manager used to take the MTM and Visual team out to dinner and drinks. Guess it'll be cheaper now with less staffing. Better for him and his wallet.
I've been back since July 6 and we already had one visit, and we have another one next week!
What are they looking for ?
Are they shopping for the Emperor’s new clothes?
That is the usual. When visit over they all leave. Store Mgr usually takes the next day off too.
I found it amusing how after the 'walk thru' the managers and leads left for the day.
the t–d is way beyond a shine job! who gives a rip what they think. Defund their pay now!!!
For years I said that visits should be unannounced as there is a huge push to clean up the store when a visit is scheduled. It was amazing to see how the manager would push the employee to get the store in perfect condition when the daily condition looked worse than a second hand store. I actually challenged the manager once to let them see the true condition with the support that the store was given but that was not an option.
I guess these people must justify their huge salaries in some way. Seems a little silly when all there is in stores right now is last act. Maybe they are looking at what to do with all the empty floor space when Lucky, Levi’s and many other brands exit these buildings.
Well, biggest waste is walking thru stores. Cause truely it’s not how the stores are run. They only shine the t–d for the big walk thru and stress everyone out getting ready for it. Meanwhile this how the store should be all the time.