Thread regarding Macy's Inc. layoffs

Black Friday Merchandise?

We start the actually Black Friday sale tomorrow and just had many of the best items pulled for fulfillment in our store. You want the $14.99 toaster oven? Too bad, we just sent out every unit out in fulfillment. How about the $19.99 throws, $4.99 wireless headphones, or a bunch of other items that everyone is going to want, nope just sent them out. So much home junk sent shipped to the store just to be sent out again, there has got to be a most cost effective way to do fulfillment without exhausting employees and wasting resources, not to mention the environmental impact of shipping this stuff around the country before getting it to the customers.

Should be a real fun and NPS enhancing event with customers thrilled to be coming into the store just to find out that we don't have half the items they are looking for.

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Post ID: @OP+1dXCEsus

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On line is the future of retail. It's also the priority for stores. Fulfillment is now the priority. They could care less about people coming into the stores to shop. Brick and mortor is going away.

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Post ID: @1goc+1dXCEsus

We don't send out that much, nobody works in our store and we have temps doing fulfillment and a new store manager who's just been with the company for under a year doesn't know whats going on. If your store is messed up and can't do fulfillment they just turn down your units and you don't have to send out that much stuff.

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Post ID: @1bqo+1dXCEsus

We have merchandise but are low for the Black Friday deals. First of all, we didn’t receive all of the deals and the deals that we have are not available in all of the colors and sizes anymore. We try to order merchandise for the customers and we have occasionally substituted with similar items that we have in the store for the “special” customers.

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Post ID: @uvh+1dXCEsus

Might as well take all these specials and either leave them on the dock or take them and leave them next to our fulfillment room for easy processing and shipping. It's a huge waste of time to merchandise this stuff on the floor

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Post ID: @ipu+1dXCEsus

We will be ordering for customers to have another store fill the order because we will be sending all of our product out to customers in other communities. We are stores and warehouses.

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