Interesting question... Anyone know the real reason?
"Is that the real reason they changed signing the ad to Sunday morning.. because we will close early with rx sat night?"
by Anonymous |
Post ID: @11gyBdeY-ezdo
13 replies (most recent on top)
Margin!!!
We lost big margins in the pharmacy. Company doesn’t want to lose unnecessary margin in the front by activating the ad early.
Under 30K, is that per day or week? Because if their using under 30k per week as the standard for going to RX hours, then that seems like an awfully low number to me. Unless it's just stores in the middle of nowhere, I can't see many stores going to rx hours if 30k is the number.
Last I checked it does say “Pharmacy” on the side of our stores does it not? The front store should NEVER be open without the pharmacy. As if people don’t need their meds after 6 & 5 on weekends. And corporates idea that people will just come in earlier? Just ask the MANY people who complain that our pharmacy closes early on weekends.
Under 30K avenge.
Anyone know what the parameters are for how corporate is going to decide which stores go to RX hours and which don’t?
Nothing to do with margin or any of that. FS going to rx hours in many stores.
Lesson , margin is the difference between what u pay for an item and what u sell it for , so if u sell it at full price u make more margin, but u have to balance taking a margin reduction to sell more , hince having a sale price - lots of the sales and extra bucks are tied to vendor reimbursements -
If they are worried about margin , why let us price modify items for customer service? I’m sure an average store does about $500.+ a day in modifications just to make a couponer HAPPY!
Tomorrow, obviously, will be my first day to implement the new "sign law" from above, and I think that it will be obvious, to our customers, that they have been had. Why, because before, they would receive the best of both possible ad coupons, Sat., and Sun. ads combined, after 4pm ad activation.
It is almost stupid, to say the least, not for a retailer, CVS, or Kohls, for example, not to have signs in place, when the store doors open on Sunday, the beginning of the ad. Do you agree?
Why would you still be placing signs after 1pm, or later, when the ad was activated, at midnight on Sunday? Plus you move all of the Sunday chores back, or forward I day, such as AMM, Quick pick, and BOH, Out of Dates, etc. Just pushes the workload more on stores who have already had hours reduced, and you haven't seen anything yet, until you get a glimpse of the 2020 store budgets.
Margin? Forgive me, but what do you mean by that?
They loose 2-5 hundred dollars per store on margin sat night , not to mention service issues with being out of stock Sunday morning-
Also extra buck night mares on overlap sales , I welcome this Chang
There's no way it only takes 4 hours to set sale signs - unless your in a slow store -its 8 hours in my store
To do it right.
Margin
Seems reasonable. Watch what corporate does. Everything they do is leading up to something else.
Extracare card = collect emails = cvs app (digital scripts & savings) = Carepass (delivery, 24hr rx access) = ??????(save company hours)
Less signage = Sunday signing = Maybe all stores close with rx hrs on weekends??? (save company hours)
We either go with the flow and grow happily or find another job. I go with grow happily.