Mine are horrid, packed and totally unorganized….I’m scared to walk in some days. I clean the mess and two weeks later it’s worse than how I left it…so frustrating!
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Mostly a mess same as everybody else. We do somehow still have room in receiving. Though I can't wait as inventory is one month away and we're prob sitting on 2-3K boxes of backstage since the dept has no more room to backstock or put out on the floor. To say nothing about everyone assigned there having to ring.
Stockrooms are awful in my Macys store , as are the freight elevator wells and receiving dock. This is esp true if you have to climb over fixtures, boxes or merchandise looking for items on your fufillment list.
Whoa, Jeff wasn't kidding on the Q3 update when he spoke to slowing trend and increasing inventory levels. Our store is jammed and our dock and stockrooms are so full that we have seven trucks we had to send back to the DC. We can't even come close to filling our hours and Thanksgiving is this week. We can't afford to offer extra weekend pay since we increased pay to $15 an hour and stores don't have the staff to keep up with the workload.
Here's a thought, the next time senior leaders come out for a visit, you should go to one of the neighboring stores without notice. Come join us in the hot mess that is working at Macy's for the holiday season. Just a suggestion, bring comfortable shoes and plan on spend less time trolling for compliments and more time doing something useful like putting merchandise out.
The company is planning on adding more mid level market positions for operations next year. RDOS are already promising these jobs to their favorite store managers who can't stand being in their current roles. We are a company where the biggest brown nosers and hacks keeping getting put into roles they are not remotely qualified not because of the results they produce in their current role, but because of their success in being the best toady possible. If you want to get ahead, just be sure to tell your boss, their boss, and everyone you can how great they are and how much you love working for them.
Be glad you don't have to sit through Monday region calls where the stores and divisions have to relate how much they enjoyed the prior weeks visit and share everything they learned. We all just sit there and laugh since we were all called in to help get the stores ready for these visits.
This inventory is going to be a disaster in our store. We have three stockrooms full of toys and there's no more space to put the rest of the merchandise. Also only 20 employees sign up for this inventory.
Our stockrooms are awful too!
We barely have any stockroom space left after giving them all away to lease departments, backstage and fulfillment expansions. The ones we have left you can't even walk in they are filled floor to ceiling and no organization. These generalists don't give a cr-p about putting things away organized they just want to throw it in the stockroom so they don't have to deal with it and then wander off and disappear. Then add on getting slammed with toys it's crazy!
I don’t work there, but last time I was at Macys (a few weeks ago), the storage room was overflowing with boxes that spilled out into the hall (I was trying to get to the bathroom) and there were unopened boxes all over the store. I was overwhelmed and went to Nordstrom.
Yeah, I’ve seen some pretty ugly things in stores getting 4-5 trucks weekly. I feel so awful for everyone working their rear ends off and it’s still not enough. We can’t continue to manage this type of massive workload with clueless seasonals that have never folded a t-shirt in their lives. I think if anyone should get fired, it’s the ISM Architects and anyone in corporate Ops and Merchandising not getting their act together and who were not proactive in their decision making during Q3 to set the stores up for success this already stressful Holiday season. At this point, I think it’s not many Store Managers have been able to get a grip on their stores and morale is in the toilet.
It’s a death trap! We got 4 to 5 trucks a week and for the past 2 months. My store manager are in the dock unloading the trucks 3 days a week because we couldn’t hire anyone. We just toss everything in stock room as fast as we can so we have room to unload more truck.
I’ve heard he is going to get fired because “he couldn’t handle it” I’m like we couldn’t hire anyone and he is down here unloading truck with us what else do they want from him