I'm an hourly AP Associate at a Sears store and my days are spent monitoring a completely dead store. The hours have been holding steady but it's obvious the end is near. I stay because Sears is one of the last places where it's hands on LP, but at the same time i want to avoid being unemployed... so if anyone has any advice or signs to look out for it would be greatly appreciated!
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Just do like we used to do. Close the door and sleep or take classes and do homework. You can't really stop anyone anyway so why try. Most criminals know which cameras work (not many) and which dont. The criminals also know that SHC is cutting LP so there are gangs of people who come in and steal all at once and walk out. We had about 10 people one day fill cart and walk out the gardenshop.
One store in my district got rid of their entire LP team.
Didn't make sense to me. Why would you get rid of loss prevention? They said it would save the company money?
How? Money walks out the door.
The writing is in the wall. If you lose more than you gain it is a write off.
A shame.
I am a pastime APA. I make $8 per hr. I was told when I was hired if I got my numbers up they would push to get me $8.50 per hr. I was told that I had to get certified but then when everyone in my dept quit to go to a higher paying job somewhere else they told me they would just certify me anyway without making stops. Now I have no APM and I get 15 hrs per week. I dont really know how to do my job so I just come in and work on homework every night. This is a complete joke of a job. I am so ready to finish school and get my degree, then leave this horrible,awful place in the rear view mirror.
If your days are spent monitoring a completely dead store, the end is already in sight. Many times on this board and others employees have noted the cutting of LP hours before a store closes. If you want to avoid a forced period of unemployment it would be a good idea to be job hunting now. It seems unlikely the SHC stores overall have more than a year or two left at most.
The problem for you is the suppliers could just panic at any time . That could end it quickly without warning. You could get warnings from articles about the company but suddenly it is over. Eddie defending Kmart survival is common just before the end too. I would look for work now before 100,000 Sears coworkers do the same at once
Our LP at Sears was let go earlier this year,right now we have no loss prevention in the building at all,we are "monitored" from some remote corporate location. How that is suppose to halt thief is beyond me,it seems that are only watching the associates not any shoplifting.