Hiiii

So I opened yesterday and got the directives done and out of the way. Filled tights, tried to put out prettier and lighter looking tights and neatened them up a bit. Filled platform sneakers, sandals and scarves. I filled the nail polish wall and hair accessories. I think those big hair buns could use a light filling. I finished putting out the rest of the jewelry from friday and finished pegging out and filling the back of the cluster. I transferred the "ciao Bella" earrings to the pretty cardstock so that they can hang back there. I moved the lighter necklace from the front of that necklace display wall and switched it out w a heavier, newer chain necklace. There were little random pieces of skuless jewelry floating around the wrap, so i was tagging and putting those out. There may be a straggler or two still at reg 4. Im sorrry! There was also a little baggie of the initial charm bracelets that I left for jael to fill if she got a chance. I think that might be it....oh! Except I just wanna say our bs looks incredible!! Our shoes are in alphabetical order!!! Let's please please please try our best to maintain it! It's just so easy to navigate back there now!! So yeah, we need to keep it clean and remind anyone else that pops in there to keep it nice and tidy.
Love yousss,
Leslie

Saturday direction

Please fill tights and the platform sneakers. Also, continue filling in the back of the jewelry pegs. There's more earrings in the office that's on new card stock. Walk handbags and small goods and make sure both are filled as well.

Thank you!!
Have a great Saturday guys!
Anni

Sunday Opener

Hey! I have a scheduling conflict with UO and one of my other jobs. I've been trying to find someone to cover my shift. I have to be at my other job by 1pm. Wondering if I could leave early or just need help finding someone else to cover me. I guess because it's Easter? Everyone's busy.

I would text you Anni, but I don't have your number.

- Jen

Thursday/Friday

Yesterday I moved the sale ecote back packs into sale and moved the acidy wash looking back packs to the face outs the sale back packs were at.. I filled sale, intimates, and the full priced floor.

Today Leslie and are going to finish processing the rest of the jewelry from this week. Morgin would like us to peg out the back of the peg stands on the wacc cluster so we're going to work on that. Leslie filled sandals and scarves this morning. I helped out with womens shipment this morning (shared fate yall or shared faith as I like to call it.) I also plan on getting out these cute oxfords that have been sitting in backstock for a week now. I plan on putting them on the a-frames down in the shoe lounge. I think the kimchi blue crochet flats can be condensed. Hopefully this will help our casual shoe business because they are closed toe and it's still a bit chilly out. I will leave direction for Saturday sometime tonight, before I leave.

As of right now we're up +9%!!! Woooo, lets keep it up!!
:D
Anni

Thursday

Came in at 7 normal closing shift.. Nothing major. I think I may have left a bag of jewelry to go bacc in to the office in the shoe lounge by accident while I was doing runs... Sorry :/ hope you all get to enjoy a bit of the good weather this weekend

Such a B-E-A-U-tiful Day!

Howdy team! Happy almost Friday! Today was a good day. We are up 8 as of yesterday's numbers, so, that's awesome. Our head bands are really selling which is great. The ladies have been excited about these. We didn't have any left over shipment from this week but we did have mark downs. So this morning I started by auditing the undies bins and separated full price panties from sale. Plastic bagging the undies isn't very effective because they break so easily, so I started laying them out, in no particular size order, stacking them and then folding them and rubber banding them. It takes up less space in the bins and it looks so much much neater. However, we were pretty busy today and the stacking and marking down took a while so I only got through one of the two sale bins. I'll continue working on them till the system is complete. During my last hour I rf'd the tights and socks and completed the markdowns. That's all. I close tomorrow.

See you guys!

Many (happy) Returns

YALLLLLLLLL
 we had a lot of returns today. that being said, as of 7:30pm, we still seem to be making money, so thats good. dont have much to report.  I was a mid today so abby got most of the shipment out and away from the wrap when i got in.  We were quite busy, definitely has to do with this nice weather we're having. everyone just focus on customer service and push the sales! make sure to offer promos.  If someone has one nail polish make sure you bring up that its 2 for 8 and so on and so forth.  keep the cash wrap clean! das it i think. oh and ABBY! good placement on those smoking animal coin purses! a lot of lil tweens kept saying they were cute and i actually sold one! i mean its only one, but for it being its first day out and it being what it is....thats pretty good. hahaha
loverly yours,
leslie

ps just bought a harem pant suit. yall, this spring/summer season is gonna be cuhrayzay.

Wednesday aka Visit day!

Hey team! I hope everyone is doing well. We didn't fare to badly today in regards to shipment. For the most part we got a ton of TOMS, a new grey on white ikat printed pair, a small number of replen in the solid grey, red and navy pairs and a lot of the black burlap number. We also got a new bag in two printed colors a blue and a cream and tons of jewelry, mostly new styles. Before I left I made sure to bin up all the Toms and back stock the remaining bags. So when I left there was no residual WACC from this morning lying around bs. We got print outs of the color markdowns that I started yesterday. I am most concerned with completing markdowns in the bays because for the most part, aside from socks and undies, I've completed the markdowns on the floor. For the rest of the week my goal will be to finish mark downs. I may bring intimate bins up to the cash wrap for some auditing during the day as well.

See you guys tomorrow!

P.S. Of course, I have no idea what the outcome of today's visit was, but I'm sure we'll de informed. Till next time,





Abby

Tuesday 3/26

Hey guys! Im sorry that this post is so late. So, today I started working on the new color first markdowns. There are a couple pages of belts, shoes, nail polish, hair accessories, wallets, random beauty and socks and tights. I got to all the markdowns on the floor, the boxed shoes in back stock, and some of the out stock shoes in back stock as well. What I didn't get to today I will try and complete tomorrow, especially the socks and tights, since these are two opportunity classes for us. We have a visit tomorrow; Cara and Sandra will be in.

I've noticed that some of our cash wrap "freshman" have been closing lately, please, when passing off to a member of our team or any other team at the cash wrap, please help them out and remind them of cash wrap procedures. Point them to Anni's handy dandy Cash Wrap Closing Checklist. If there is room for hangers in the break room they need to go down, dimeouts and damages need to go to back stock, all the run bins need to be emptied, holds need to be checked etc. As corny as it may sound, help one, help all. Example1: Holds MUST be signed by a manager, if its not we fail our daily ops assessment. Example 2: When we leave things undone at night, we take time away from the openers that they should be using to prepare the store for open. So let's keep these things in mind.

I hope everyone is doing well. Hopefully I'll see each of you soon : ) Yesterday was Nandi's birthday. Happy belated !!!!!!

HAPPY CATURDAY.

WEEKEND DIRECTIVES

Thursday:
Today I worked on getting the shoes in the shoe lounge back into back stock. The wall in the SL became all sandals in baskets. Some scarves will probably be added, and some sandals taken away to go upstairs.

Friday:
-The socks are going to the back of the bra frame.
-The belts are mostly going into sale beause the majority of them are on sale. RF as we go.
-The TOMS are moving upstairs onto the two a-frames.
-The TOMS wall is going to become tights.
-The frames downstairs are becoming all casual shoes.

Saturday: Please work on jewelry in the morning. We got three new peg stands for the wacc cluster. Morgin began filling them out. If you could continue to peg the boards, and place new jewely on them. I would like to see JUST the pink hanger tags on the front of the peg stands on the cluster. Please do not put anything on there with the old card stock. Make sure to really take a step back and visually look at the placement of the jewelry you choose, and how you peg it because this is what people will initally see when looking at the cluster. The old peg stands can go into the break room with the other fixtures in the back. Please work on maintaining and cleaning up jewelry once that is finished. If you need more jewelry call your floor sup and ask to get some from the office, where we keep our back stocked jewelry. We have more in the baskets above the desk as well. See you at 2!
Sunday: Please conduct a shoe lounge audit. Grab a MPOS. Make sure each boxed shoe is represented, stickered, and both feet hard tagged. Please also make sure all the mannequins are wearing full priced shoes (that part you can do at 10am).

Weekly Directives

Oveall, we ended last week -39%. The store in general was slow and all around we all lacked in business. I'm really hoping with the weather improving people will start to come out of hiding to shop. Not to mention the new spring product that's been coming in is super cute!! :)

Successful classes: 154 small goods +24%, 164 beauty 1%, 143 socks +105%, 140 bras +3

Opportunity classes: 151 handbags -18%, 152 hats -32%, 157 scarves -23%, 311 casual shoes -64%, 315 athletic -72%

Directives:

1. Complete markdowns. We have firsts this week.
2. Switching out the wallets on the back of the second vignette with the chain link kimchi blue bags that are on the wallet frame.
3. Sale clean up/a good fillin'. The pegs are looking wonky and the stuff on the back of the z-racks has been selling so we need to make sure to keep our sale looking clean and full.
4. Start prepping sandals into wire baskets. We got a ton of cute wire baskets to display shoes in so they can be placed into tables! I'm excited to get some of these sandals out soon. 
5. Friday morning TOMS overhaul. Leslie and I will seperate all the toms by color in the bins in backstock as well as organizing the toms on the wall downstairs. This way they'll  be more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Not to mention we mostly fill from the new toms, not from the bins. We'll be able to get more styles out as well. 
6. ALL our frames need to get filled, shoes upstairs, SOCKS, bras. 
7. Wrapping up shipment before the weekend and cleaning up any remaining WACC in backstock. We also need to make sure we're labeling the bins we put back there because it's really helping everyone find our product easier.
8. Coming up with a game plan for our casual shoes. I need to speak with Morgin about this before the plans have been finalized. 
9. Our hair accessories are finally going onto the floor!!! YAY!!! wooooo! Ok. /end excitement. We got a new fixture just for hair accessories. 
10. Shoe lounge audit. Making sure all shoes are out , have stickers, and are tagged on both feet. More then likely this will be for Saturday morning.

WHEW. Ok, sorry this was posted so late in the week. !!

See you guys tomorrow. 

Anni

Wednesday 3/19

Hey ya'll. It wasn't a very busy day, thanks to the weather. We got markdowns yesterday and I started the jewelry mark downs and Leslie continued. I wanted to keep working on them today but I couldn't find the manifest, and say what you want, but i didn't want to reprint so many pages because it's a huge waste and I didn't know where Leslie left off. So Anni, since Leslie said she left it with you, can you comment below  about where it might be? Cara came in today. She and Morgin built a beauuuutiful shelf and peg board display for our gillion head bands. And while Cara worked on displaying them I worked on shipment as usual. During my last hour, I worked on back stocking today's shipment, getting shipment onto the floor and worked on pulling some sale panties to sale and replacing them with new styles and colors. I'm hoping to finish mark downs between today and tomorrow. However, we're getting in 11 boxes of shoes tomorrow, so I'll update you on my progress. Oh! I also left the rest of yesterday's shipment of jewelry with Leslie.

Have a good night guys!

Tuesday !!

Please finish processing the jewelry !! I left it with a note in back stock. We got in a lot of cute stuff. Lets get it on the floor. Bag and back stock what need be. !!!

Anni

Yuck-day

Today as pretty simple. Had a 7-close shift on a Monday so didn't expect anything too crazy. I rang up some people closed out the floor it was slow but not as slow as I thought it would be cause of the weather. That's all have a good week everyone.


"Cause they gon want they money rain,sleet,hail,snow."

Shout out to the late great Mr. Christopher Wallace.

Happy Caturday!

FRIDAY

Helloooooooo

Today Leslie and I filled TOMS, cleaned up and filled bras/undies, cleaned up/filled sunnies, and Leslie worked on organizing the sunnies. Morgin just told me tht next week we are getting our hair accessories out! Yay!! I also got all our sunglasses into the bays so they're no longer floating around back stock! Sale transfers are done and helped clear out a bunch of room for us! Hooray for transfers and dime outs!

Everyone say hello to Kathy our new addition to WACC! :)

Saturday: please spot fill upstairs (bags, scarves, hats). !!

BIG boxes, small boxes, dimeouts in them all

Hey guys! So, lovely Leslie detagged all the dimeouts for us. YAY! So Andy was able to tape them up and prep them for shipment. We also have sale transfers this week, so I pulled the majority of our sale back packs and the sale hand bags that aren't selling and, unfortunately, stacked them high, but neatly, in back stock. The plan is to get them boxed up tomorrow morning. Aside from shipment, I tried to do a hundred things at once this morning. I moved some boxed shoes around and pulled sale shoes to sale to make room for more bdg platform sneakers and converse sneakers. I moved new sale scarves to sale and rearranged the shoes, bags and scarves to make it a bit more organized. I also rearranged the bag bay in back stock and back stocked some of the left over boxes of shipment from Monday and Tuesday. While at cash wrap I spent the majority of my time processing shipment that was left over from the morning and placement, although of course Nico did all the planning and I just followed orders. I think that sums it all up.

. We got through dimeouts and prepped for transfers
. worked and reworked sale
. backstocked
. processed, placed and backstocked
. gave the bag bay a face lift and sucked some of the fat out of it ; )
. filled sale shoes and .........
. oh! completed jewelry dimeouts, i.e. operation DT (destroy and trash)

I spoke to Anni about this today, but we need to check our floor for sale, especially intimates, tights and socks because we (I) didn't get too far with the color markdowns and I've been ringing up unmarked sale for the past couple days. So, Friday morning, depending on what directive Anni leaves, the opener can run through the women's area downstairs and rf all our product.

Lastly, we need to get to the furthers in bs at some point this week/weekend


That's all folks. Have a good night!

Out They Go! : )

Hey guys. Aside from shipment, we have furthers and dimeouts this week. With the help of those who came in before me all of our shipment, including the two boxes of platform sneakers that I left yesterday, are processed and for the most part, back stocked. There are two boxes of sunglasses and head bands and some more of those platform sneakers stacked in the back. I'll try and get them all into the bays tomorrow. I started the dimeouts, beginning with the sale jewelry upstairs and then ending with the scarves and gloves in sale. I also pulled dimeout scarves and gloves from bs. Lastly, I furthered the majority of the boxed sale shoes and the back packs in sale. There are about 8 or so boxes at the cash wrap filled with today's dimeouts. Because we need to take the hard tags off, which Leslie started working on, Andy is going to make the stickers for them tomorrow.

See you guys early tomorrow!

Two day recap

hey guys. I didn't do much today. yesterday I did the markdowns on the sales floor and then during my last hours I pulled the sale shoes from the shoe lounge, marked them down and then filled the empty shelving in the shoe lounge with the BDG platform sneakers. I also filled sale back packs (the velocity ones). Today, I R'fd jewelry for missed mark downs and worked on moving the make up on the stantions to the a-frame. Morgin wants us to put nail polish, only, in the boxes on the stantion. She also asked that we not sell anything on the window forms because she needs to take pictures tomorrow. So, don't say I didn't tell you. I'm off. I have a date with my mom and sis.


See you guys tomorrow.

WACC SHRINK BREAKDOWN

$10,481 worth of jewelry has been lost in the past year....
678 units lost....
9.62% of our total shrink was jewelry which is the highest percent in the store....

As we continue to grow more aware of our customers and our shrink we have to keep these numbers in the back of our head. Think of the amount of jewelry stolen, damaged out incorrectly, lost behind/underneath/within the cash wrap.

TOP 2 LOSS ITEMS (IN ENTIRE STORE!)

WHAT IF...

We get online jewelry returned?

Piecey jewelry returned that has no home?

$200 necklace return?

>>>>>>PUT IT IN THE OFFICE ! We have a peg board in there for a reason. This isn't a 'where should i put it!?'. This is mandatory at this point. <<<<<<<

ALL SHOES THAT COME IN A BOX NOW MUST HAVE LANYARD TAGS ON BOTH FEET. I NEED 100% COMPLIANCE WITH THIS GUYS..

Anni

Hey Hey!

We have markdowns that I haven't started. For the last couple days I've just been trying to process all of our shipment so that I can reduce the amount of our boxes that go into back stock. Yesterday and today I spent my last hour in back trying to clear things up and get all of our things into bays. The trouble is, that right now we have an overflow of out stock shoes, specifically sandals and TOMS. Anni recently filled TOMS and they aren't especially light, so filling won't remedy the problem, there aren't any empty bins and there definitely isn't any room for them where the TOMS are stacked. I have a strong feeling that many of the bins of shoes, men's and women's may contain dime outs, but we have a visit tomorrow, so it was more important to find a short term solution and one that wasn't too time consuming. So I pegged out the cork wall that was previously a TOMS wall and I filled it out. Of course I couldn't find enough shoe hangers, so I didn't finish putting them all out (though they would not have all fit). Yesterday I piled the platform sneakers into an open space in the shoe bay. It is certainly a temporary fix, but it works for now to get rid of some boxes. I looked at the calender and we have another set of jobouts on the 11th, so I hope this helps us make some space. Sandals need to get out. The fact that we keep getting them but haven't put most of them out is contributing to the box build up to a great degree. But I know Anni and Morgin have been thinking about solutions, so things will get back to order soon.

I've had a crazy two days, so we'll chat tomorrow.

Good Night!

I'm woody. Howdy howdy howdy.

Hey! So I finished the sunglasses today and tagging shoes. Didn't get to the shoes that were out on the floor, but they're the ones that got moved over from bs so they're mostly already tagged. Got through some of the directives. Filled and such. On the nail polish, I filled the wall, but didn't get to redoing the stanchions. this morning was a little rough. GUYS cashwrap needs to get closed down every SINGLE night! there is no reason for excuses anymore. A good portion of my opening shift was spent closing the cashwrap. There were runs, holds, pins, damages/dimeouts, hangers etc still at the wrap this morning. Having to catch up in the morning sets everything else back. Please keep this in mind! Once more, theres a closing check list at the wrap!
Some tips:
-don't hold off on closing tasks til the very end. If it's slow, ask your floor sup to cover the wrap and take the dimeouts and damages down. Or do some runs. Utilize your down time! There is always something to do!
-separate the holds that expire that night from the other holds. Come close, rip those hold slips off. BOOM. You've got a handful of runs.
-make tags for items as soon as you can. That way a giant pile of skuless items dont start to form.
Have a good open!!
Ps pay attn to the candles at night.

Uh OH

oooops! I didn't get to any of the WACC directives today, granted it was a bit busy, but since I worked in women's for the majority of my morning and the 'WACC opener' didn't come in till later I don't think any of Anni's directives got completed. So if it's not too much Leslie can you look over them and try to get them done. I'm so sorry! Refer to Anni's "Saturday" post/

Call Me a Double Agent

Hi Dolls! Janine and I played a game of shift shifting this week, so she closed for me last night and I opened for her this morning. Thus, I was the acting Women's sale chief this morning. I RF'd sale, 'completed' furthers and pulled dime outs. I say 'completed' because I never got to the top left hand rack of sweaters. There were no dime outs, but I didn't get to mark that railing down. The dime outs, however, are complete and I even hit up the onesy rail in back stock and pulled dime outs from there. There are three boxes of dime outs at the cash wrap, two of which were made today, the other of which was there when I got in this morning. While at the wrap, I worked on Rf'ing sunglasses for dimeouts, those that I found are already included in the dime out boxes; however, there is a small amount of sunglasses left in a box on the table in BS that has a note for Leslie. This box contains the remaining sunglasses that need to be rf'd. Leslie, please use the RF when going through these because I noticed that some of the sunglasses that are coming up as full price on the computers and on the mpos are ringing as dime outs on the RF. So in order to follow one system, I've been abiding by the information presented by the RF.

That's all for tonight. I hope everyone has a great weekend. WACC ended up %8 yesterday, so YAY!!!!!!

saturday!

Please fill sale shoes (in the bins underneath the boxed shoes), sale intimate, sale shoes, sale bags, full priced socks, bras/panties..

Morgin wants the top of the beauty stanchion to be all nail polish. the beauty in there now can be worked into the beauty frame. the sale beauty can be back stocked. the rosebuds we can put in a glass bowl on the jewelry table.

remember no merch moves over the weekend!

That's really all I have for right now. I'll post more direction for sunday.
have a good weekend guys.