wrap up day

Today was wrap up day. We got a few more boxes of shipment which have been processed but not completely back stocked and I spent the majority of my day in bs. My goal was to go through all the bins and find sale and possible dime outs and pull them out of the bays in order to find room to bs more boxed shoes. However, the amount of sale I found wasn't enough to get rid of bins never mind store two boxes of boxed shoes. So that effort was a disappointing flop. We (Anni and I) were however able to get some sale representation out in the sale section and Anni reorganized the bag bay. Things moved pretty slowly today because there were so many competing projects in bs, but it was important for Nico to be in the bays on Men's behalf.

So for tomorrow's opener: Please bs what is left of today's shipment which are boxed and stacked together against the furnace and finish sorting through the bin of headbands, mark those that need to be marked down and find a way to neatly display them in sale

That's all!


Abby

visit day

Hey guys, so as you should understand from the post title Cara and Sandra visited us today. However they came in the late afternoon so I'm not sure what the verdict was. We got in about 5 boxes of shipment this morning. We got some replen gloves, replen kb suede heels, replen jewelry, replen studded envelope bags, new key chain coin purses in three different colors/patterns, new belt sets in four or five color combinations, and two new slouchy paper boy caps. I used my morning processing shipment and then spot cleaning the store windows. Once we opened I separated shipment that had to get unto the floor and those that needed to be back stocked. I gave the floor samples to Nandi to place and back stocked the rest. I also did a bit of filling. I filled scarves, hats and some gloves. For the rest of the day I was in BS polishing up what Janine had done so well Tuesday night. Before I left I completed sorting through the wacky bins of one sided and unboxed shoes. I found many pairs so now we only have one bin of one sided shoes. Tomorrow I plan on tackling the bag bay. So that should be all cleared up by the end of the day. It's been a long day, so night night!


Abby

quick two day recap

Yesterday we got in about 4 boxes of WACC. Everything got processed and placed on the floor. I filled the floor and at the beginning of my shift worked in BS helping to clear it out. Today we got no WACC boxes and I spent my entire shift in BS clearing it out. I initially wanted to work in the WACC bays only but there were so many pieces of WACC strewn about the place that I started picking through open bin and boxes to separate items by department. That led to me emptying and back stocking boxes and bins of bulk folded men's and women's in order to simply move around, which then turned into an effort to clean everything up. I found some WACC boxes, processed and unprocessed, along the way and now these are back stocked or on the floor. I also managed to fill sporadically. For WACC there are about 3 bins of 'single' shoes stacked near the WACC bays. I plan to go through them tomorrow, pair them and figure out a way to store them that doesn't take up too much room in bs. Janine was scheduled to work back there from 2-10 so I'm sure she has been great improvement where I left off. See you guys tomorrow.

yeahhhhh....

alright, so today was a super busy morning, and I am leaving at 12.

I redid the entire wacc shoe area. EVERYTHING is organized by style and color. It is pretty much perfect at the moment and I hope that everyone works to keep it that way. I know I am only here 2 days a week, but I have noticed a lot of laziness in wacc and we should all take some more pride in our work and the store

ALSOOOOO

I gutted a lot of the wac bay. I got rid of over 7 bins!!!
it's now pretty empty and we can even push some bins over the other side and use that side for more boxed shoes if we need it. We have the world's smalles backstock so it is really important that we use all space wisely.

I can't.

there were so much stuff that was on sale just chilling in the bays. Some of it had already gone down to $4.99. Since our customers are all pretty much sale shoppers it is so important that sale is fresh and all of the product that is on sale is out. IT WILL GET BOUGHT, but nothing is going to happen with it sitting in the back. 

I also started going through the sunglasses. I got through a bin and a half and there were so many dimeouts! I filled a huge trash bag half way already.

ONE MORE THING:

when I was walking the shoe lounge this morning there were some weird things on the shoe tables and the wall. I don't know why becuase I just redid all of that yesterday.

we should make sure when we close we actually make sure the shoes look nice and the tissue paper is hanging out for the world to see. Laces tied. grouped together so that it makes sense.

KiSsEs

hooooolllllllaaaa,


so today I started working in the back. I redid the outstocked shoewall and then filled the spaces in the back with some boxes of boxed shoes. I also went ahead and redid the shoe table. There were a lot of shoes that weren't represented on the floor :(

I started to work on refreshing the wacc cluster and bringing some of the newer pieces forward. 

ANNI: I tried to start fixing those neclaces that fell over last night, but when I did they all just kept breaking. cedric told me just to leave it for now and have you look at it. I could only get a few out of the mess. IT'S HOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIBBBBBLLLLLLLLEEEEEE

also, I cleaned up the drawers at the cashwap so everything is organized and pretty again SO KEEP IT THAT WAY!


I think that is mostly it. :)


love you. mean it

TGIBF

Hi team! Happy Black Friday. I really needed Thanksgiving. It was a Grrrrreat day and night. After the last couple days at work it was well needed. I haven't posted in a while so I'll give you guys a brief recap. We got a lot of shipment this week because we were closed on Thursday and I got to most of them but we are back to our original problem of more boxed shoes and not enough space in the bays. Anni left directives for moves for the week and I completed them between Tuesday and Wednesday. I started the new glove a-frame on Tuesday and ended up staying late to finish it because for the most part I was stuck at the register. On Wednesday morning I moved the sale shoes that were on the shoe a-frame upstairs to sale, and I moved the full priced shoes to the a-frames in the shoe lounge. The socks are now upstairs on one side of what was the shoe a-frame and I put the opaque and faux thigh hight tights on the other side. I also did a bit of spot filling and got shipment from Wednesday out. I moved the sunglasses to make room for the gloves but they are in a bin in BS because I though it would be better to reorganize the sunny's display downstairs before adding them to it. So that is left to be done. Today I helped tag women's shipment in BS with Savion, rang at the wrap and tried to keep things together by running when I could and cleaning up behind the wrap. From my time ringing I think today went pretty well. I'll check in tomorrow to know for sure. I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving.....

Good Night guys!

Happy closing BF team!

schedules

are now posted on the store wide blog. :)

Weekly Directives~

A few major things that need to happen this week:

1. Were doing some a frame re-working. The women sunglasses are going to be condensed with the men's sunglasses downstairs.

2. All sale shoes on the frames need to be pulled into the sale section. Any left over flats on the bathroom a frame can come downstairs to the SL a frames.

3. The upstairs frame is going to become socks and tights. The socks will no longer be downstairs. This is going to be the most time consuming of the moves.

4. The sunglasses frame is going to get maxed out with gloves.

Abby, please allow yourself time to do this Wednesday morning. Talk to the opening manager if you need extra
free time.

We probably/might be getting shipment Wednesday. We have two openers scheduled so please have Leslie work on shipment assuming its there.

****WEDNESDAY NIGHT CLOSERS****
We have two WACC closers Wedneaday night. One is going to be in charge of filling and black Friday prepping. Please max the floor out. Particularly: gloves, scarves, and hats.

Afterwards allow yourself time in back stock to search for sale items. We have a few bins of bras and I know a bunch of them are on sale. I'd start there. Scan through the bras and create a sale bin of just bras. Make sure they are all priced. Place the bin in sale. Please continue in this fashion. Do not and I repeat DO NOT NOT NOT throw random wacc sale in a bin. It should be all the same items in the bin. Also look through the socks for sale, double check to make sure all sale bags are out (we don't have too many so please pull anything you can!), and any room for sale shoes please fill in as necessary. A lot of the piecey shoe returns are probably are on sale or can get force marked.

For any further direction please talk to Corey. I will not be in until 2pm on Black Friday! Please leave communication!

Anni

3 days till turkey day

Hello dearies! Good evening. So in great news, we are currently up 1% for the week so far, and I say great because we were the only department up today. So pat yourselves on the back and let us take this as motivation to stay up and continue doing well for the rest of the week. The good news is that we got about five boxes of shipment, some new gloves, replen gloves, a new scarf, replen in the blue bdg boots that are upstairs underneath the promo sweaters, replen in panties, a new wide rimmed hat in brown, holiday patterned knee highs, a new elf blemish correcting powder kit, makeup remover towelettes, a bdg tote in brown and tan, and replen in beanies. My day was very simple. I processed everything and got all but the wide brimmed hat and the elf makeup kit out, and I backstocked everything as well. As I looked for places on the floor to place shipment I spot filled hats and scarves which helped me make room for new shipment in the bays. I also processed the box of panties that have been at the cash wrap since last week. So there are no boxes of shipment at the cash wrap and no boxes from today in back stock. Tomorrow I will work toward the same goal. Other than that, ya'll have a good night.


Abby

Directives, Backstock Clean Up, and Scorpios

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIO!!!!! :D

Moving on! Due to scheduling Abby and I could not do an overnight together right now. I did spend the majority of my shift yesterday in backstock. I was able to group all the like classes together. As of now bras, socks, slippers, casual shoes, sunglasses, and gloves are on the bay near the shoes. The other side houses all: scarves, hats, and more gloves. I re-organized the hats on the top shelf. I began looking through bins to seperate sale, pull any missed dime outs, and organize as much as possible. Unfortunately I haven't had time to finish going through the bins.

SOOOOO

What needs to be done: the jewelry, and beauty needs to be gone through in the office (filled and re-organized), the tights are currently in the first mens FR and these need to be pulled out, organized, and labeled. Box of just opaques, a box of just sweater tights, etc. That way when were filling we can go straight for what sells. It's been really hard to fill from that FR! The bins in backstock need to continue to be gone through. I also wanted to pull all the bags out and re organize them.

Saturday Directives: Please work on filling and organizing the beauty and jewelry in the office above the desk. Fill as much as you can. Make sure to scan for dime outs if you see anything weird! Condense, condense, condense! Cara will kill us if she comes and sees that it's all crazy again! When we open please continue processing the box of shipment at the register which should be just jewelry and panties. Please put everything out. Work on fills as necessary.

Sunday: FILL DAY. Fill everything you can. Pay special attention to: scarves, hats, gloves!

ALSO: 50% WOMENS SALE SHOES TILL THE 23!! Even though the apparel isn't an additional extra anymroe, the sale shoes are!! Please make sure you are discounting them at the register. I will be putting up a sign today before I leave.

schedule

hi team-

see below for next week's schedule.  the template is updated so here's some info about what you're now looking at:

The line next to your name is this week's current schedule.  The line directly below your name includes your contact number AND your current availability we have on file.

Please review your availability and if there are any errors, comment on the blog post and we will update  on our end for the following week.

Starting next week, all schedules will be posted to the store wide blog instead of in each department blog.  if you don't have an invite for the store blog, comment below and i'll send one your way.

Thanks.  If you have any questions, reach out.  See you all Black Friday!

Tuesday night ...Last day for 50% off sale

Hi guys and gals. Welcome to Tuesday night! It was a crazy morning today because we got a million boxes! Well, ok, more like 100, but it might as well have been a millon, right? Anyway, we got a lot of shipment. And while I was able to get through most of the individually wrapped scarves, hats, TOMS, socks and bags, I didn't get to them all. There are still 6 boxes of unprocessed boxed shoes, a box of unprocessed TOMS, and  two boxes of tights, unless Anni has already transferred these to the Men's fitting room. For the most part I stayed focused on my goal of no card board in BS, but we need to figure out how to get those shoes into the bays, and unfortunately there wasn't enough time in my day for that. Like always, I feel like I am forgetting to say something, but thanks to Anni for helping me wrap up that last box of panties etc from yesterday and the jewelry from today, and Diego for giving me time on the floor towards the end of my shift to complete placement. By the way we got in a new D&O wedge in black and silver, a new BDG bootie in 'taupe' and black, replen in a floral pom-pom rimmed circle scarf, new jewelry (earrings, rings and necklaces), three different patterns in TOMS, two of them replen, black opaque tights and the faux thigh high tight, and a new gold looking tight, hair chalk (in stantions in case you want to learn more about them) and I'm pretty sure, other things that I can't think of right now. Anywho, another long day tomorrow. Hope everyone is well.


Night Night!!!

3 to None

Hi Hi Team! It was a pretty easy day today. We only got 20 boxes in total and three boxes of shipment for WACC. I spent the morning processing shipment and getting it out. A few things were replen, so that made the morning even easier. I left a box of panties at the cash wrap that I want to make sure I get into the panties' wall before we open tomorrow morning. We also got mark downs today, primarily on shoes and some random, online return jewelry. I was allowed time downstairs and in BS for an hour and a half, so the mark downs are done, except of course, for the onesie items I could not find. Hopefully some time this week we can figure out how to get some of the new marked down shoes onto the floor so that we can free up space for new and regular priced shoes. Other than that we had a great week last week and have started the week off encouragingly, so lets keep up the good work. See you all tomorrow.

A FEW THINGS

1. NEW HIRES. I need at least 1-2 seasonal hires for WACC. I rather not hire anyones personal friend, however because you guys are at the cash wrap the most if you see someone who might be a good fit, let me know!! I really would like to hire someone in the next week!
2. HOLIDAY. It's that time. Holiday shopping is upon us. I really need everyones help this holiday season to really keep the department together. This means the time we have in the morning without customers is CRUCIAL. Once those doors open it's going to continue to get harder to put shipment out/fill/work on projects. As much as I wish I could be the WACC opener 7 days a week, I can't. I really need everyone on top of their game. That means if you do open on a shipment day I need you guys to process everything, place all the shipment with Morgin, and fill it in. If you're not accomplishing what needs to get done in the morning, you will not be opening.
3. BLACK FRIDAY. Everyone must work. If you have any weird requests for the day (ie not open/not close) let me know before the date Corey listed below, I will accomidate them as much as I can but I can not promise anything.

Onto my Saturday/Sunday: Yesterday I attempted to work on socks and tights. I wanted to take off the top 3 rows of tights and have one row of fleece lined tights, one row of opaque tights, and one row of sweater tights. HOWEVER I couldn't find any tights in backstock. I know Andy boxed up the 'speciality tights' so now those are in the first mens FR. I'm not sure if the opaque ones were in there or the sweater tights. I couldn't really figure it out because the boxes weren't labeled and it's incredibly hard to manuever back there. Needless to say I'm going to talk to Andy and Corey to see if we can work something else out, because I can't fill from that FR. Sunday I spent my morning filling jewelry and working on the WACC cluster. Christine and I also spot filled.

Black Friday!!!!!

hey team-

Black Friday is a little under two weeks away. your managers and I have already begun prep!

as we work in retail, all team members are expected to work at some point on 11/23. we are open from 6a-10p. shifts will fall anywhere inside those hours (openers will work at 5a).

IF you can't work Black Friday, you need to let your department manager know by 2pm, Monday 11/12. we will approve these requests on a case-by-case basis.

it's going to be fun you guys. we are going to do a potluck or something amazing because I love food. and I bet you do, too!

luuuuuuv-
Corey

Anni and Christine

We are looking for Instagram and Twitter contributors from EVERY store in the region!!!

What we are looking for is someone that has:
An already developed understanding of social media
A great voice that reflects the Urban Outfitters culture and humor
A great eye for art, outfitting, culture, trends, funny shit
A great photographer that takes clear, well composed iphone or android images
Someone that is self motivated, open to feedback and hungry for more opportunity

How do you apply????

Put together a project that shows how you would represent UO and your store’s culture through Instagram and Twitter!!!
Should include:
A short mission statement with your point of view as a social media leader for Urban Outfitters. State your intent, point of view and commitments.
10 images (minimum) (that you yourself have taken) with captions and #hashtags. Should be a mixture of art, outfitting, culture, trends, funny shit and anything else you feel is important! Create a #hashtag of #uonewyorkyourname so we can view your images on instagram all together!
10 tweets (minimum)
And anything else you want to include to show your stuff!!

This sounds intense! How much responsibility would this require????
Only as much as you are willing to give! We need more contributors and content for the uonewyork account and we also want to highlight individual store culture using a hashtag system of #uoeastvillage #uosoho #uoupperwest etc. Eventually we would like each store to run their own instagram account so this is a great way to get started and a great way for you to show us what you’ve got!!!

When is the project due?????

NOV 12th! Email project to Heidi Lee (hlee@urbanoutfitters.com) and Shelly Horst (shorst@urbanoutfitters.com)

schedule and other cool thangs~

Today / Friday Morning

Thursday

Today we got in 32 boxes. We got in these really cute new brown TOMS wedges. Except they have the Toms patch on the back, like the slip on ones. Which kind of ruins it. We also got a cute new bag similar to the double zip clutch on the table, except it has sequins all over the front. It's as if the 'double zip envelope bag' and the 'Ecote heavy studded cross body' had a child, haha. It's cute and came in two colors.

Today I worked on processing and putting out shipment. I also (attempted) to add signage to the A-Frames downstairs. Shout out to Nico for helping out the team! He's got such an eye when he cuts those signs! :D I also worked on sale transfers. It felt good to spend time going through some of the weird bins in backstock. I found a gold mind of dime outs. I prepped a box full of sale scarves, and a box full of sale hats for transfers which will be sent out tomorrow.

As most of you have heard we started 50% off sale and it lasts until the 13th! 
AND ALL BDG flats are $19!

Friday!!!

-Work on filling socks. Grab a bin of socks from back stock and just take off any weird/piecey/opened socks on the A-Frame. Replace with fresh quantity from the bin. Fill socks, and please pay attention to the length of the socks. Some are knee highs so they are longer and need to be towards the bottom. If we only have a few left of a sock just take it off and replace with a new sock. We should have plenty back there.

-Fill tights. Look for opaque tights, sweater tights, and the fleece lined tights. Take down weird/piecey tights and max out the top 3 rows with these styles. The fleece lined tights probably need a circular tag on them so they can hang. There should be circular tags at the cash wrap you can tag the top with. People love these warm tights and with the snow that just happened I think this is the perfect time to push them out!

-Please fill in the brown sequin bag on the back round table. I wasn't able to locate it yesterday. I think it is in a womens box because I went through all the WACC boxes I found. Except for one large box of Toms shoes. So perhaps check in with the womens opener to see if they have come across it. If not maybe locate any non placed womens shipment boxes? If you still can't find it, just make each department aware it's probably in one of their shipment boxes. We're gonna find yah!

Fill as necessary. I know gloves could also use a filling. That might be an easy thing to work on during the morning hour. Either way, I will see you at 7 anyways ! haha

Anni

SNOW DAY!!!!! (Tuesday Post)

Hey guys! I didn't get to post last night because when I got home from the gym my internet was down, I am assuming as a result of the snow. But not much was missed. I got all but boxed shoes processed and back stocked. We got an insane amount of panties, two bins full in fact, and I made sure those were out of plastic, a pesky but necessary job. As far as I know Andy and Corey are trying to figure out what to do with our boxed shoes. I made room for what I hoped would be the last of them on Tuesday, but we got more. In all there are about 20 misplaced boxes of boxed shoes under the stairs. So stay posted for today's (Thursday) post in the evening. I hope everyone fared well in the 'storm'. We'll chat later.

P.S. I also made 4 boxes of Wacc sale bags. It freed up a lot of space. So yay!!!
Abby

Obama Day!!!

Hellooo all! Happy Election day! This is going to be brief. We got over 100 boxes today, definitely more than the 50 we thought we were going to get. I worked in back stock organizing the shoe bays AGAIN! Something I have no interest in continuing to do, however, it was the only way to get the mountains of boxed shoes into back stock. So, I got all the WACC boxes from yesterday that were under the stairs back stocked and a few of the boxes from today as well. All the other WACC shipment from this morning are hanging out at the cash wrap. I started hard tagging some bags that we got in. But for the most part there are just more boxes of shoes back there. So, I will tackle the shoes first thing tomorrow and then move on to the other boxes. We are expecting 25 boxes tomorrow, so let's keep our fingers crossed that we will be able to catch up and get rid of all of our boxed shipment tomorrow. We also got color specific mark downs. I got to the floor but not BS and the only thing I think I missed on the sales floor are those turquoise blue cooperative loafers that will be 19.99. Oh! We started 50% off sale today and we also had 20% off for those who voted today.

See you guys tomorrow


Abby

WACC WEEKEND DIRECTIVES

Saturday morning: All the boxed sale shoes need to be taken out of boxes, and girl/boy tagged together with price stickers on the bottom. This will help give customers a visual of the shoe and will help keep it more organized (and corey asked me to have someone do it!). Please fill sale as you go with any other shoes that can be filled (including sale bags, sale casual shoes). Come 10am I would like you to be filling the floor. Please survey the floor for any fills, pay CLOSE attention to (especially table top) scarves/hats. THANK YOU!

Sunday morning: Please continue to work on WACC in backstock. Someone began organizing the shoe bay, survey that bay opposite the shoes and I would start there. I know there are dime outs still back there so please make sure you are price checking any old items/weird sale items. There is also a basket in the office of jewelry dime outs if you could combine that with the dime outs you pull from today, and process them together..I would really like to start getting the classes together in the bays (all bins of scarves together, socks, etc). Please get back there and get your hands dirty, mkay girl?! Hahaha. Please leave communication of where you left off because we will be continuing the backstock clean up.

I hope everyone has a good weekend!
Anni

'ello babes

Hope everyone is doing ok! I know it's been a crazy week for all of us! There's been a lot going on at the store so thank you to everyone for being there, helping out, and keeping focused as we try to ease our way back to normalcy.

The schedule should be posted later today.
Anni