Sales, Sales.......

Hi hi! Good evening everyone. I made it! It feels like a miracle. I felt myself getting better late last night so I contacted Corey to let him know that I would try my best to come in. However, I actually got in late because when I got home last night I crashed and didn't remember that I had changed my alarm from its usual time. I got in minutes before 8 but I got to work right away. I filled the sale scarves I didn't get to yesterday and while Jasmyne was reorganizing sale I price checked and furthered mark downs for women's and WACC. I also filled the promo boots in sale. Please note that the bdg chelsea like boot that comes in the olivey and black colors are included in the $39 promo. I realized this late in the day when I was looking at the slant and forgot to do it myself. So those should find their way to the shoe lounge as early as possible tomorrow morning. In addition, we have a couple promos ending on January 3rd, so look out for these as well. Between 11 am and 1 pm I worked on the jewelry peg wall in the office. There is sale and full priced jewelry on the wall and I made a small sale jewelry presentation on the jewelry cluster upstairs. After my break I rang for an hour.

So aside from getting the bdg booties out into the shoe lounge, I think it is a good idea to get some of our sale tights into sale. I pulled a box from the second men's fitting room this morning but didn't get to planning how we'd get them onto the floor. We can put them in bins for the remainder of the sale, but to be safe collaborate with tomorrow's opening manager on this question. Anni if you read this please leave any suggestions in relation to this issue please.

Alrighty chidlen,

Good Night! Have a great weekend and if I don't see you before Tuesday


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

:(

hey guys! it felt like the longest day ever! On my way in I started to feel a slight headache and by 10 my whole body was aching. You know what they call that? the FLU!!!! I take sickness pretty badly, so I am so sorry to all those I bugged and complained to today. You guys are champs ;). Anywho, in relation to business. We are up 95 for the week! We didnt get too much shipment just a new faux suspender tight, replen in the red opaque tights, two new colors in the seamless bra, replen in those single 6 dollar studs, new ear cuffs, and replen in the fleece lined footless tights. The 30% off sale started today on all sale merchandise so i filled sale shoes and was about to fill scarves but didnt get to it, so continue filling tomorrow and through the weekend. for the most part Mario and I worked on finding skus in between customers today. I think we made a good dent in the piles, but there are still many more. It is healthy to assume that we will all be participating in this project for the next couple days. And that's that.


I called just now and spoke to Cedric. Based on how I feel now I dont know if i'll make it tomorrow,  but ill try and stay in touch. Alrighy i'm going to take some meds and call it a night. love y'all. Lets hope I will see you guys tomorrow :)

30% off sale!

Today starts 30% off sale! It lasts until New Years. I came in for a closing shift today and spent a good hour and half cleaning up WACC sale. I was also able to fill and re-organize the bags and scarves a  bit. Hopefully our sale bags sell for us. Hopefully we see an increase with bags over this week. People haven't been shopping the sale bags very much, but maybe with 30% off that $39.99 price point doesn't sound too bad.

Shipment I'm told was light today. We could really use some replen in some of our velocity items so I hope we get more fun stuff tomorrow or next week.

Something I wanted touch on briefly is the ca$h wrap. We have got to make a better attempt at keeping the back of the warp tidy and clean! If you have a crazy line, or it's super messy, call for support. For example, don't pile hangers behind you on the back of the wrap, hang them on the pull out where the tissue paper goes. Organize the runs up there by dept, fold them down, keep it cleannnn!

>>>> INVENTORY IS AROUND THE CORNER ;) <<<<<<<

Anni

Day after Christmas

Hey guys. I'm sad I couldn't be with you guys the day before Christmas. But I hope you all had an enjoyable day and got all you'd hoped for. Based upon how light merchandise was when I came in it would seem that perhaps a couple people out there got everything and more. WACC was insanely light, which is great. So far this week we are up 400+ percent, so Sunday and Monday must have been crazy. Even today customers continued to shop. I was expecting the great return rush to begin today, but I rang up a couple exchanges and a lot of purchases, so people are still at it. We opened at 8 this morning, but our first customers didn't start strolling in till around 9:30. We only got two boxes today and when I came in Julia had already started cleaning. She moved all the mats behind the cash wrap and swept for us. So thank you Julia! Besides ringing in the 10 o'clock hour and for the 2 o'clock hour, I filled the floor. I filled scarves, bags, beauty, hats, tights and towards the end of the day I started reorganizing and filling gloves. It was busy at 2 so I back stocked the bins of gloves I was working on and let Anni know where I had left off.

So until tomorrow!
Have a good night guys!

Saturday

FILL LIST

-Animal hats (top shelf in b/s in baskets)
-Jewelry: please start with the jewelry at the cash wrap tucked away with the tissue paper. There's also a basket in the office that can be processed and put out.
-Nail polish
-Hats, please walk over the hats near the stairs in the middle of the 4x4 and the hats in the middle of the flannel table.
Thank you! Walk the floor for any spot fills.
Anni

Jus one of those days...

So today wasn't a bad day, it was just very exhausting... Came in for my 4-cl and began to handle business. The store wasn't busy, there was simply a consistent flux of customers at the wrap. The counter got very crowded with returns and runs. With Anni and C-Stacks help, we together got it under control. Before we knew it, bammmm!! Its 9pm. So I'm working to get the DRs sku-ed and the business just keeps coming to me.. I think it was my cologne :) PS I LOVE the TAGGING MACHINE oh and we made goal, so thats a plus. Go Team! There were several damages found after the registers were closed, that's what the pile is behind the wrap is... sorry I'm not usually one to leave anything.. Comiin in tmrw to close again so ill ttyl lemme know how it was..

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY

Good morning lady.

I know we talked about the tights earlier this week. I would spend your morning starting by seperating the tights in the FR. It should be easy to fill/re-organize the tights frame downstairs while you're going through the tights in the boxes. I feel like this will take a good portion of your morning.

Please please please make sure to fill as soon we open/you have time. I made a fill list for beauty, this has been a pretty big seller for us recently as well. Particuarly the elf pallettes need to be filled along with, dry shampoos, the little beauty book, nail polish, hair combs, and most importantly HAIR CHALK. Which I didn't put on the frame. We have a bunch on the very top shelf in the office to the right.. near the nail polish. But please make sure to fill beauty. Also, I found some unprocessed jewelry at the cash wrap near register 1's tissue paper. Please process these or have the WACC mid process them/work on jewelry. There is also a basket of jewelry in the office that could be worked onto the jewelry frame. If there is a mid please task them with the beauty and jewelry fills so you can work on the floor in other places. Other then that please spot fill per usual. I will be in at 12 to help out with more fills.

Thanks!! :D
Anni

Supposedly, the day before the end of the world....

Hi dearies! We had a visit today. Sara, Cara and Heidi came by this afternoon as I was leaving. So I have no report or anything, but they were hear today. I'm assuming there will be some report on their visit soon. Shipment was very light today. In total we got 8 boxes, two of which were WACC. We got in smaller sizes of the JC's we started receiving yesterday, replen in footless fleece lined tights, a new coin purse in two colors; black and orange, more nail polish, replen in the red lace panties and three new bras. We didn't have a mid today so I worked the cash wrap all day. But it was a relatively good day. Customers seemed to be spending a lot on housewares, so hopefully we will see the numbers for that department increase. Speaking of numbers as of yesterday we are down on the week by 50%!!! They are pretty ugly figures, but it seems that company wide we are struggling this week across the board. I know we all want to see our department rebound so simple things like keeping the floor filled, closing WACC out correctly, providing customer service and reminding customers of our promos; WACC, men's and women's, will help us out. Yesterday I referred to Morgin's plan to turn the voop wall downstairs into a back pack wall for us, however, it seems she has changed her mind. As I was leaving I saw that she started bringing some of our hidden bags back onto the floor, so tomorrow I will inquire into her new plans for back packs. Other than that I hope everyone is doing well. Those of you who are still taking exams I hope all goes well. And for those of you already back home, please enjoy yourselves and take care. I will see you when I see you!

Good Night.

Smooth Sailing

HI team!!! We got a healthy number of boxes today. We got two new pairs of shoes; deena and ozzy peep toed lace up wedges in black and metallic silver and jeffrey campbell black and white woven night walkers, new hairbands, three new bags, new wallets, three new pairs of socks, new jewelry, replen in tights and two new colors in the seamless bra.

Everything is processed and out on the floor or packed away in back stock. Nandi was our mid and she helped me process all of the jewelry, the socks and most of the smaller items that didn't need to be hard tagged. For the most part that's it. Nothing too interesting happened today.


Ooohhhh...... Morgin wants to turn the voop wall downstairs into a wall for backpacks. So the backpacks that are in back stock are those that have been displaced. We are just waiting for further instruction.

Chrsitmas is Nigh!!!

Hey guys. Shipment was a tad heavier this morning. We got about 6 or 7 boxes. We got a new pair of deena and ozzy wedged sneakers in two colors, a new pair of creepers, some new out stock oxfords in two colors, replen in earrings and a new earring & earcuff set, a pink color in the tights we got yesterday and replen in the suede Ecote moto boot. Once I was finished with shipment I moved to the shoe lounge. I cleared out some of the sale flats and put them on the sale a-frame and I replaced them with the new oxfords we got in today. Anni and I removed the 19 dollar sign off the back a-frame and moved all the 19 dollar skimmers to the front frame. All that should be on the back frame are the two colors in the oxfords and on the backside, the remainder of the sale animal skimmers. Liz was our mid today but because she wasn't feeling well I worked at the cash wrap from 11-3. I tried to get some skuless items done and I got to a few but the consistency of customers at the wrap limited what could have been done. Like most Tuesdays, today was a slant day, so please take a look at it. We have new pending holiday housewares promos coming up and a reminder that ONLY skimmers are included in the $19 promo. This means not the oxfords on the a-frame upstairs and not the new oxfords in the shoe lounge. If a customer asks 1. oxfords are not skimmers and 2. since there is no $19 sign on the a-frames with shoes that are not included, these 'flats' are not apart of the promo.


Any who.........See you guys tomorrow.
Get better Liz!!!!!! Take care of yourself. Please!!!!!!



Abby

What's a team to do...........

Hi team. I'm sorry to say, but last week was a rough one. Our department was down 18 percent. Of our many classes we were only up in 4 classes; slippers up 57, necklaces up 9, earrings up 2, and panties up 228. From last week we have continued to fall behind in boots which we were down 1,255%. Sunglasses were down 80 percent, hats 31 percent, gloves 64, athletic 2,646 %. Disappointingly, classes we managed to gain back last week took a dive this week for example hair accessories which was down 4 percent. We were up 2,000+ two weeks ago in athletics and our numbers for last week flip flopped into the negative. In Anni's most recent post she discussed possible reasons for last week's numbers, placement and displacement being two of them. So, while I didn't have a chance to place the two bags she was referring to I worked on filling and making sure everything we have in bs is also on the floor. Since we only got a quarter of a box in WACC (some new head bands, replen in earrings and a new style in tights), once I back stocked the head bands, placed the tights and separated the earrings for placement I worked on the panties wall. I filled the popular styles and got some new and displaced styles out. I condensed the Dolce lace up boot on promo and added the Ecote Moto to the other end of the shelf. I then walked the floor and replenished scarves, hats, and bags. Earlier in the morning Leslie replenished gloves and socks so between the two of us we hit up all but beauty. Around 11:30 I worked on mark downs. The motel cropped top is 14.99 as is the pleather bustier that has been in bs forever and the velvet burnout bustier. Three styles of the promo tights went on sale and I got to everything but some of back stock. The last hour and a half of my shift was spent at the cashwrap.


COOL THINGS: We got the label maker!!!! Its really simple. There is a label app on our MPO's, tap that and follow the instructions!!! Leslie got to a lot of skuless items today. Thank You Leslie.

today, yesterday, and the day before

heya! i opened. quite a bit.
basically worked in backstock getting rid of bins and making room for whatever.  i also cleaned up the shoe boxes and random things just on the floor of the bays. got rid of 2-3 full bins and combined whatever i could. sale wacc got replened, brought out more gloves, more tights. we're selling down on the fleece lined tights so i was putting opaque black ones out and filling the rest with some sweater tights. NAIL POLISH DISPLAY IS FILLED!! woo! its quite pretty. and i guess its not too hard to maintain since there arent too many of each color up there. did some minor fills on the floor. ugh. i cant remember. im just rambling now. in 6-12 today, abby is 7-4, hopefully thatll help wacc out a bit.

also, YEAH gloves are just nowhere. shoved all the way back to the bathroom, where there are weird smells. not prime positioning. from what i remember, cedric said we were down in gloves and hats, so i tried to bulk up in those.
alright thats all my geriatric mind will allow me to remember.
kbye,
leslie
ps see you guys in january!!! happy holidays!

Misplaced, Overlooked, and Forgotten. NOT ANYMORE.

Hey guys. So we ended the week -18%. I haven't looked over specific successful and opportunity classes yet. I'm disappointed.

I think it has largely to do with a few things: lack of filling, me not being here during the day/morning/weekdays, our product got shoved around A LOT this week (yes, womens department I am looking at you), we have a bunch of misplaced product now as a result, which is one of the many reasons why handbags are probably down is because we have two styles not on the floor, each style comes in 3 colors. I found random full quantities of bags that had been taken off the floor this week. None of those bags have made it back out to the floor. Abbys shifts are now shorter too, which isn't a huge deal but also takes away from free time in our department, my only 7-4 this week was impacted with operational training and the store meeting, and we also had a big beauty move on Friday so my one 10-7 during the week was mostly dedicated to that, as opposed to any other department fills/maintence. Our gloves frame was also pushed pretty far back, which has been a big class for us.. I hope people find them back there... Needless to say I'm interested to see our numbers.


Long story short: this week I'm working on re-claiming our real estate on the womens floor. I'm tired of finding random piles of misplaced WACC in the fitting room. Do NOT go shoving product in weird places, and ditching it.. If you see ANYONE displacing any product ask them what's up. It doesn't seem like a huge deal but it really does reflect through business. Not to mention when a pile of misplaced WACC is found in the FR and when a bag is not on the floor when we have a million in backstock, who will get the blame (so to speak)? We will! Not the person who decided to take it off the floor. And when all my shifts are mostly closings it's not the easiest thing to come in and place product when theres already a bunch of customers in the store.

In other news, we got a new beauty frame this week thanks to Casey. We will eventually lose the beauty stanchion to HW. I also noticed socks could use a good fill. Also the cute wedge booties on promo are selling down. Maybe we can get a different promo boot out? Or at least combine them? Just an idea.

I'm off on Monday so have a good day guys. I will see you all Tuesday morning.
Anni

SUNDAY MORNING DIRECTIVES

-Please fill WACC. Check the socks/glove frames. The nail polish has got to get filled, even if we can't find the other colors missing just double rep a like color. Please make sure this gets filled! Spot fill hats, gloves, and scarves.
-Finish working on any WACC bins in back stock.

Saturday

-work in back stock on wacc bins
-place netted fringe scarf (which is misplaced in the FR) on the found table near the cash wrap.. The table with the... Blue velvety ecote dress laid out and the holiday promo sign.
-****fill nail polish in on frame !! I looked through all the colors in the office and there is a few I couldn't fill In. The top of the stanchion can be filled with nail polish.

20% Flash Sale! (NO! Not that kind of flash! ; ) )

I like, I like! Good job Anni.I The blog looks great! So Anni already knows but I had some difficulty getting into my house yesterday. I didn't get in till after 11 and blogging was the last thing on my mind. So I'm going to try and recap what happened yesterday but I'm struggling just to remember today, so bear with me. Yesterday we got the most shipment I've seen in a while. We got about 8 boxes of boxed shoes, the double zip Ecote boot and the BDG platform sneakers. To be honest that's all I can remember, SORRY. But, I got you guys on today. We got replen in the printed cotton panties, some random onesie lace bras and panties, a new color in TOMS, an e.l.f. eyeshadow kit that comes in two color palettes, replen in some knee high socks and a couple more of the acid wash back packs we got in on Monday. As usual the first couple hours were spent processing, back stocking and placing shipment. Yesterday Cedric introduced me to the proclarity report. It is a report that compares the sales for each department and their classes from day to day each week in comparison to the year before. This morning he printed it out for me so that I could see which classes were contributing to us being down 9% so far. The numbers indicated that we were drastically down in gloves, scarves, socks, sunglasses and boots. So I committed my day to filling and placement in the hopes of improving numbers. I began with socks. I went back to last weeks numbers and the velocity report and pulled all the velocity socks to the a frame and filled them as much as possible. Once that was done I moved on to integrating scarves back into the noticeable spots on the floor. For the most part our scarves were on the backs of vignettes. So I got some onto tables and those that were on velocity that we didn't sell much of last week I pulled from hiding in back stock and on the floor into accessible places. In the process I also pulled small sale items like socks and hair accessories into sale in preparation for the 20% flash sale. Tomorrow I am going to focus on gloves. They need to be reorganized and though we originally turned the a frame around to showcase the most popular gloves, Andy suggested that we make sure the side with the '2 for 20" texting gloves is facing the front of the store. So I have to fill but also move the gloves so that the gloves with the buttons and the striped ones like them are on the same side as the texting gloves. This is the plan for tomorrow. I hope the sale goes well tonight. Good luck to those of you working tonight. Till tomorrow.

P.S. Nandi and I were talking about sunglasses being down and we're pretty sure it has to do with the fact that we have a limited number hidden downstairs on the men's a-frame. I will talk to Anni and/or Morgin about this tomorrow.


Good Night

Gold all in chain... (Sorry I just watched a Trinidad James video)

Its been a while since I posted but I wanted to get one in here... I've been busy with school and such attempting to finish off somewhat strong. its difficult but hopefully I do good and don't have to move.

On to other stuff though, work has been pretty good for me these last two days. I closed Monday and Tuesday I felt like both were pretty strong closes. I'm open to criticism, just let me know how I'm doing. Let me know if there's anything I can improve on. Help me to help you. Nothing was out of the ordinary yesterday just a bunch of returns and things.. was kind of slow because of crappy weather.

That sku-less bin has like multiplied into two like overnight from when I was there Monday to last night. We really should find a way as a COMPLETE STORE TEAM to minimize and also get rid of it. No reason we should have it. Like it was stated at the meeting we should be getting a printer very soon so hopefully that changes things. Although the sku-less been is at the cashwrap its technically not our sole responsibility and we as a STORE can get rid of it. that being said though since we are at the cashwrap we should at least be keeping it clean, keeping bags filled, etc.

TAKE PRIDE IN OUR HOME

 "What if the sky and stars are for show, And the aliens are watching live from the purple matter."  Shoutout to Anni on the revamped page.

NEW LOOK.

Totally just gave this blog a groovy face lift. Let me know what you guys think ;D

Moonday

Hey guys and gals. Happy Monday. We started last week a bit rocky but I'm happy to announce that we ended on a great note, up 24 percent! Yay! Some 'lost cause' classes jumped back after a while in the underworld and others that have really been carrying our department for the last month or so failed us this week. So in a speedy recap of our weeks numbers.....drum roll please...... On the winning team; athletic up 2,941%, casual up 113%, handbags and wallets up 113%, necklaces up 108% and earrings up 61%. Unfortunately every winner is accompanied by a 'loser' and we had a disappointing week with some other classes. Ghastly, boots were down 949%, travel was down 92%, belts were down 60%, GLOVES were down 22% and scarves were down 12%. And while intimates were on the whole down 29 we did very well in bras and panties; panties were up 349 and bras were up 25. So that's last week's break down.

This morning we got replen in the oversized envelope bag that we got back in last week, smaller sixes of the Nike wedged sneaker that only came in 8's, 9's, and a ten last week, and lace scalloped bras in four colors. Everything got put away and out onto the floor except for the bras. I will have to figure out how to get more bras onto the floor tomorrow. I filled scarves and some hats this morning and started filling socks. I  began the process of ridding back stock of the mess. There were some TOMS in a random bin, I placed those on the pegs. I filled sale with the sale TOMS because sale had been wiped clean from this weekend's shopping. I was able to find room to bs the Nike wedges that came in last week along with the ones that came in today and Janine reorganized the shoe bays to make room for the KB wedged Mary Janes that came in last week as well. My last two hours were spent at the cash wrap.

REMINDER: So we spoke about closing out WACC at the store meeting on Sunday, and Leslie I did read your post, but let me say again that WACC is our responsibility. The shoe lounge a-frames needed to get more attention last night and the holds should be pulled EVERY night. This way, they don't get overwhelming and daunting. I pulled holds from December 3rd! Not cool, that's 7 days worth of holds! Shipment has been light for the past few weeks and our department's organization is coming together so for the next 3 weeks we will be heavily focusing on 1. customer service 2. keeping our floor filled and 3. customer service. Lets pull in the reigns team!

kk. that's all for tonight.

Duces!

Sale Madness

Hey guys! Let me first say that we need to do a better job when closing out WACC. The shoe lounge and the intimates display downstairs have been gravely neglected this week, so please, even if you are not responsible for closing out a specific section, walk the floors and make sure that WACC is completely and correctly closed out. Okay! So, shipment was heavier than it has been but not as crazy as it was earlier last month. We got in new patterns of the lace bandeau, a new color of the padded seamless bra, new necklaces and a new pave post earring. We got replen in the cream knitted scarf that's folded along the wall in the shoe lounge, and  we also got two new pairs of boxed shoes, a pair of wedged black suede nikes and a black suede wedged mary jane and a skull embellished d+o loafer. Project wise, I cleaned up the opaque tights display near the bathroom. We now have a row of fleece lined footless tights and a row of fleece lined tights along with the opaque tights. Downstairs I reworked the bra display and added the new bras that we got in today, please maintain the neatness of these. Anni set up all the sale and WACC promo signs and cleaned up the look of sale. With everything that got done today including processing and back stocking shipment there are a couple things left for tomorrow.

FRIDAY MORNING: Anni would like tomorrow's opener to COMPLETELY rework tights. This means taking ALL the tights off the a-frame and pulling the boxes of tights from the men's fitting room unto the floor and filling the newer and most popular pairs unto the frame. Secondly, please make sure we get the best sweater tights out. There is a box in bs directly in front of the staging bay with the newest tights that came in today, begin filling with these. That should be it for WACC. Other than that, depending on how the sale goes today, fill sale and the floor.

Have a good night

Abby

50% OFF SALE!

This Thursday to Sunday we are having 50% off sale! It's for customers and employees. The big sellers for us will be our sale TOMS, and our sale scarves. I work 6am-3pm tomorrow and I'm going to spend time re-vamping our WACC sale. That bottom shelf of scarves is getting nuts! Plus we have to figure out how to get more sale on the floor because those wood boxes got out of control.

We also have a new boot promo starting tomorrow. MOST of our boots are going to be $20 off. Please read the slant to familiarize yourself with which boots will and won't be on there. Abby and I swithced out the boots on the wall in the shoe lounge today to prepare for the promo tomorrow so now all we have to do is add signage.

Shipment wise we got in a really cute back pack that looks like the old mineral wash one we had, except it has a tribal print. It comes in white and blue which I placed on the table with the BDG chords. I then moved the envelope cluth bags to the back of vignette #3 near the stairs. They are also now displayed on the vignette forms in front of them. The moto bags that were there (red, brown, and black) are now on the back of vignette #2 near the cash wrap. I have had them up there before but they didn't seem to sell any better, but who knows. I think they're cute but our handbags are NOT selling!

I also helped out the womens team with fills. I did a vignette change. I added the all over lace dress onto the forms and kept the printed leggings. It felt good to work in womens. :)

That's all I got for now!
Anni

Ho Ho HO! Merry Tuesday!

Hey guys! Other than processing shipment I completed the directives that Anni gave yesterday. I pulled the sale toms and flats into sale and the remainder I placed on the peg wall in back stock and in a box in the sale fitting room that's marked "WACC sale toms". I flipped some of our A-frames as well. Liz and I were talking about how hidden the jewelry is so we flipped that A-frame so that it now faces the front of the store. I also, with much needed help, flipped the glove frame so that the side with our best sellers are at the front and the second shoe frame downstairs so that the promo sign can be seen as well. Most of my day was spent dotting our i's and crossing our t's. Corey didn't like the presentation of the sale WACC in those wooden boxes because they were a bit messy and unorganized so I pulled all of them. We are going to have to figure out how to represent our sale before Thursday. The one thing I wanted to do that didn't get done before I left was put up the signage for the texting gloves and for the tights downstairs. I wanted to do them during my free hours this morning but by the time Casey got a moment to make the wooden bases I was held up at the wrap. However, Andy said that he would try to get them up for me. If he didn't get to it I will make sure that it is the first thing I do tomorrow morning. See you guys tomorrow.

Night!  

DIRECTIVEZ

First, let me be the one to say the aztec TOMS went on sale, along with the chord TOMS. They are all 39.99 and with employee appreciation that is a great deal! I'm just spreading the word in case any employees wanted to get them (they'll make good gifts!). We didn't get many mark downs. I was able to complete them on the floor and in backstock. However, I did not check the bins for the printed Toms or the chord Toms, I only did what was on the pegboard in backstock.

Weekly Direction:

We ended the week -10%. Successful classes include: gloves, hats (killin' em), and boots! Opportunity classes: scarves, handbags, small goods, and casual shoes.

-Signage!! let's get that magic text glove sign up! why not, ey!?!? Also, we need to add another KB pump promo sign to the shoe lounge wall now that they house those shoes! They're all out, btw!

-I want to create a hevier bag presentation in the store. I'm going to be moving the D&O bag on the front table. I'm going to try to work it into the second entry table. Those envelope clutches will come off. I'd like to work those into the wall next to the FR. We can take out those sparkly bags which can easily get moved. Also going to move the small bags in the middle of the chambray 4x4. Where? I'm not sure yet.

-Casual shoe clean up! We need to move the sale flats off that a-frame (the shiny bow flats are on sale!) and the flats on there need to get cleaned up. The pegs are a little crazy. There needs to be on style on each row. Please group them together by styles.

-The gloves A-Frame to get cleaned up and turnd around (I did cleaned it and filled it, just needs to be flipped!)

-There are also a few things in backstock I'll be bringing to the floor that are on velocity and not out. The cross hatch floral scarf (which is NOT on sale yet!) comes in 4 colors and it's still high up on velocity, and we have a bunch. They need to make their way back out onto the floor.

-BRAAAS! Let's re-work the inside of this lingerie table and create a strapless bra presentation. The lace bandeaus and the seamless bandeaus have always done pretty well for us and haven't been on the floor in WEEKS.

Happy December!!

HEY GUYSSSS

As of now we're down -13% which is a ton better then yesterday -33%. We've been slow on business but have had a lot of payroll for the end of November, as most of you know. Due to the excess payroll we had a ton of coverage. Having Abby free the majority of the week was AMAZING. She really kicked ass in that backstock with Andy and Janine! Shout outs! It looks so great back there. Lets PLEASE keep it this way. There is NO reason any WACC associate should be leaving anything in backstock.. Ever! Let's set a good example. If we do that, imagine what the other departments do with our product!

I was able to backstock all the new Ecote shoes that came in this week. I moved some bins around, filled, and consolidated until they fit in. Yesterday Leslie and I were working on jewelry and we re-vamped the WACC cluster peg boards so now they have fun earrings on them, and it's more organized. It looks pretty! Also, as Leslie mentioned ANDY fixed our peg board problem on the cluster!! Those annoying jewelry peg boards that customers are ALWAYS knocking over now have bases on the bottom of them!! So shout out to Andy for helping out the team!! I also spent a good hour maintaining the jewelry A-Frame which is also pretty right now! We have very little jewelry in backstock and I'd like to keep it that way. I also spent time on filling beauty, and other spot fills.

I also did a few bag moves. I brought out the Kimchi Blue metal tip tote, which we had a lot of in the back but it hasn't been on the floor for a while. I put it on the voop wall near the bathroom. Before Cedrid had placed the small black spikey bag there. However, the red spikey bag was in that wall near the bathroom so I moved the black one over into that shelving so they could live together. I also re-arranged the front table bag display, and stuffed an extra bag to put on the table to bring more eyes to the bag. I moved the colors around, hoping people would be more interested in the black and greenish colors.

~~ALSO. The holidays are almost here. If ANYONE needs time off you HAVE to request it or you are responsible to get those shifts covered. I will always try to accomdate the requests as best I can. I will be hiring 1-2 additional WACC people at least until January, if not for longer. This should help relieve the team a bit.

Overall, a very successful week. Business was weak, but it was overall through the store...
Except for the mens department. I'm onto you guys. *shifty eyes*
Anni