Curious what sorts of sales you're seeing. RM said to expect a 30% drop in text sales. Does that seem realistic? Really worried about how things are going to look financially after rush. Do we expect people (ASMs, PT) to be laid off again?
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This has been the worst rush ever. We have no employees, curbside pickup is b—s— because we don't have anyone to run the orders out. We have to have a person on the door counting occupancy. We are two days behind an online order fulfillment for our customers. Three days behind an online order fulfillment for orders to other stores. We have nobody to fulfill these orders. We have one salary manager and he refuses to work past 7pm. I clocked 15 hours overtime with more to come next week. Yippeee.
Text sales for our store are up by 18%. GM s—s.
Sales definitely down about 10%. But we are 3 pt less than last year,so it still is busy for us. Soda fiasco was a real treat. Register issues were icing on the cake. RM schedules and expects attendance at huddle call. Monitoring store capacity, cleaning between each transaction, receiving, filling orders and waiting on customers with 2 people is much tougher this year. Rush pretty much s—s this year.
It’s a complete sh– show. Behind in on -line orders. Got 3 whole temps from the temp agency that only wanna work part time hours. Doing the job of 4 people. Lunch break ??? WTH is that !
And a store manager who thinks reading emails is the most important task of the day.
They won’t let me hire an ASM. I only have a few temps. You cannot run a store that way. I’m looking forward to being laid off.
Text sales will be down 60-70% at our store. Students are buying on Chegg at cheaper prices. Students don’t buy community college logo. COVID spike may close our campus and no plan for online classes.
We are short staffed but it’s nowhere near as busy as normal. The managers are all out on the floor (running the text desk, cashiering, door greeter). We are running 40-50% down right now.
Agreed. 30% is nothing. I predict 70% drop.
You can be sure there will be layoffs. A thirty percent drop in textbook sales is probably a conservative estimate.