As the joke (or at least one variation of it) goes, there are three great lies:
I do believe I have found a fourth one: "We know this program doesn't work and are trying to fix it."
I ranted in this thead about the new "hot buys" program corporate is doing to try and "generate excitement" over buying the same shit we have on sale week after week. One of the big problems we have been having with the hot buys is that the signs are not included with our pre-printed ad packs; they get downloaded from corporate at the end of the week after the suits decide which items to feature as hot buys. As a result, these signs can not be prepped properly.
On Sunday, all the hot buy items, or almost all of them, from what I heard, failed to scan at the featured prices! For example, candles that were on hot buy for 60% off scanned at 30% instead. This resulted in a lot of righteously pissed-off customers. And I guess we had the same thing going on the previous week, when we had about 3 ads running simultaneously, only not so many items were affected.
Corporate's response to our complaints is "we're working on it, and we won't download the signs so late in the week." Of course that's what they told us last week.
Ooh, if the state pricing auditors got wind of this, they'd take a shit right on our heads.
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I do believe I have found a fourth one: "We know this program doesn't work and are trying to fix it."
I ranted in this thead about the new "hot buys" program corporate is doing to try and "generate excitement" over buying the same shit we have on sale week after week. One of the big problems we have been having with the hot buys is that the signs are not included with our pre-printed ad packs; they get downloaded from corporate at the end of the week after the suits decide which items to feature as hot buys. As a result, these signs can not be prepped properly.
On Sunday, all the hot buy items, or almost all of them, from what I heard, failed to scan at the featured prices! For example, candles that were on hot buy for 60% off scanned at 30% instead. This resulted in a lot of righteously pissed-off customers. And I guess we had the same thing going on the previous week, when we had about 3 ads running simultaneously, only not so many items were affected.
Corporate's response to our complaints is "we're working on it, and we won't download the signs so late in the week." Of course that's what they told us last week.
Ooh, if the state pricing auditors got wind of this, they'd take a shit right on our heads.

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