Anyone have an honest answer to what is happening with our ad sets? I have been with this company a long time, and our signing has always been a bit of a mess. But in the last month or so, it's become an unworkable nightmare. No signs, wrong signs, signs that have nonsense descriptions or none at all...To fix everything and have everything signed correctly takes 2 days, not the four hours we're actually allotted.
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Wow. I'm surprised there hasn't been any instances of a failed weights & measures price audit. Has there been any store that has been recently fined from such a visit? I'm curious to know.
Our signing program is ridiculous!! They just cause the company to lose money, because no one can seem to put them up in the right place or take them down on time.
I would just love to know how much we spend on that signing paper. It's so wasteful in every sense. The wrong signs print. Or we get triple copies. Or we have to put up a new sign with the exact same sale price. It would be interesting to know, with all the signs we throw away as useless, how much money is going down the drain.
Trivia Question what does RES stand for? Ridiculous Executive Signing Program
@1wxt I hate those when you have a set up and than the same damn signs appear with the same exact date its just plain retarded. I remember a manager said we are trying to save paper so much for trying to save paper lol. Honestly if they are cutting to the bone save on paper and ink make the dates last a month on certain products all they are doing is make a mess on the set ups.
@avv - them "working" on a signing issue is them emailing the assistant/associate buyer and asking why the signs aren't in the system or weren't requested. when i was there, it was usually a request that was overlooked by the signing team. mind you, a signing request from an AB is done manually on an excel spreadsheet. not very regulated or systematic in any sense. it is honestly a pain in the a-- process and not good for anyone, especially the store teams. i worked in the stores before coming a buyer, so i knew what a pain it was. imagine the other buyers who never worked retail, they could care less on the pressure points that the stores experience...it's terrible.
@ahu- I figured this was a big part of the current mess. What's funny is that the hundreds of Pebble posts referring to all these signing issues get an immediate response from the signing team. Basically that it's a known issue that they're working on a fix for. I won't hold my breath.
i worked as a buyer in the apparel division up until a few months ago. i can tell you that the signs are generated by the assistant and associate buyers. since i left there has been 4-5 buyers that left the company and an additional 4+ assistants/associates that left. they are running on skeleton crews and on top of it, any new people haven't been trained. there is not one person there who knows what they're doing anymore.
Good luck if a vendor that Sears has hired comes in randomly to do a "price audit".
Despite working with what you have and giving it your best shot, you will fail the audit and it will be YOUR fault, not the corporate signing team.
I'm surprised adset hasn't yet been the cause for someone to be committed to a rubber room.
What really gets me are signs that must come down only to be replaced with a sign that has exactly the same price, week in and week out. What a waste of time and paper.
What a waste of paper.
Same here 😩Patio is the worst since you have to manually key in every item number then page 4 times to get to the r-6 or r-5. It didn't dawn on me that the massive layoff last week was probably the reason I was missing soooo many signs. Was not enough time to get it done yesterday hopefully I can request those today. Div 8 & 96 were missing a lot too and I cdnt get in sugnwriter. The first of the month signing should be terrific fun!
You're better off walking the floor and requesting all the signs. That take 3 hours tops rather than scanning signs then putting them up
I feel your pain
Its always a mess you put not needed and still pops up. You get 0 cent signs like really what the hell is up with that lol. I am glad that Sears did one of the few good moves not needed to scan the take down found that to stupid. But to answer your question most likely fired a lot of the workers limited everything.
I think it is because they rolled out a new pricing system for Sears. Imagining that is making things more difficult.
In my store we pretty much gave up. If we do get a correct sign, we put it up. If we don't, we just don't put a sign up at all.
Most of the tech team laid off means no correct ads we all deal with it, I guess no one care anymore.