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