I think different stores are handling the situation differently when it comes to the receiving end at least. I am the store shelver and so far this week, we've had 1 MM, 1 ASM, myself and 1 other part timer basically taking on the role of receiving with none of us being able to devote more than a few hours to it each day. Although that works in terms of at least getting things processed and out the door, the long term problem with that situation is that, well, basically nobody is in charge of the back room anymore and so inevitably it will become a mess. Part of the problem is that when this happened, schedules for the next few weeks had already been done and thus it's hard to change on the fly so to speak.
Pretty much the same situation at my store. It's sort of working right now, but even a child can see that soon back room will be a complete mess. Really not sure how it will work from there, to be honest. Why would they do something like this? Has none of them ever even visited store level to see how things work here?