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So last night was Saturday, and therefore ad night, which offered up quite a slate of frustrations:
1. Signs were missing everywhere. Corporate standard on signing is two shelf signs per 4-foot section in a gondola. If we do not have enough signs to do this, we have to request them. I used up about half a sign request pad writing down signs I needed. But yet somehow I can have a stack of 20 signs for a certain brand of toy where we only have one or two sections for that toy.
2. Signs were about as organized as a sack of marbles dumped on the floor. The department specialist are supposed to organize their signs by aisle. Last week the department specialists did not organize their signs however. That job went to somebody who got booted from price management and didn't want to be stuck organizing signs, so she just dumped them in whatever folder to get the job over with.
3. We had to put up the signs for electronics so that our electronics specialist, who is about as useless as boobs on a wall, could spend his morning walking around looking important. Previously he was responsible for putting them up, but for some reason he's not going to anymore. Instead he's going to come in at 5 am every Sunday morning to "check the ad"--which is basically doing the same thing we do except for putting up signs.
4. We are running a two-day sale concurrent with our normal weekly sale. One of the items on the two-day sale is a computer chair. During the two day sale it will be priced at 64 dollars. After that sale ends, it will be 50 dollars. Normally it's the other way around--the two day sale price is lower than the weekly sale price. I scanned the price of the chair and it came up at 64 dollars. I guess corporate wants people to rush right in and snap them up before they realize they could've gotten a better deal had they waited.
5. Often we will have signs for an item both on a weekly sale and a one, two or three day sale. Sometimes the one, two or three day sale price will be the same as the weekly sale price.
Guess what? Corporate standards dictate that we put both signs up! The reasoning for this is that one, two and three day sales "create excitement", and that supposedly people will be willing to buy an item sooner if they know it will only be at that price for a few days.
I
at the thought of all the trees that gave their lives to print up all those redundant signs.
1. Signs were missing everywhere. Corporate standard on signing is two shelf signs per 4-foot section in a gondola. If we do not have enough signs to do this, we have to request them. I used up about half a sign request pad writing down signs I needed. But yet somehow I can have a stack of 20 signs for a certain brand of toy where we only have one or two sections for that toy.
2. Signs were about as organized as a sack of marbles dumped on the floor. The department specialist are supposed to organize their signs by aisle. Last week the department specialists did not organize their signs however. That job went to somebody who got booted from price management and didn't want to be stuck organizing signs, so she just dumped them in whatever folder to get the job over with.
3. We had to put up the signs for electronics so that our electronics specialist, who is about as useless as boobs on a wall, could spend his morning walking around looking important. Previously he was responsible for putting them up, but for some reason he's not going to anymore. Instead he's going to come in at 5 am every Sunday morning to "check the ad"--which is basically doing the same thing we do except for putting up signs.
4. We are running a two-day sale concurrent with our normal weekly sale. One of the items on the two-day sale is a computer chair. During the two day sale it will be priced at 64 dollars. After that sale ends, it will be 50 dollars. Normally it's the other way around--the two day sale price is lower than the weekly sale price. I scanned the price of the chair and it came up at 64 dollars. I guess corporate wants people to rush right in and snap them up before they realize they could've gotten a better deal had they waited.
5. Often we will have signs for an item both on a weekly sale and a one, two or three day sale. Sometimes the one, two or three day sale price will be the same as the weekly sale price.
Guess what? Corporate standards dictate that we put both signs up! The reasoning for this is that one, two and three day sales "create excitement", and that supposedly people will be willing to buy an item sooner if they know it will only be at that price for a few days.
I
at the thought of all the trees that gave their lives to print up all those redundant signs.
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