Munday

First day back in about two weeks, took me 5minutes to remember my password... But I got it.

Was slow most of my shift (4-cl). Put out a pair of glasses that Anni asked me to, rang some people up the good ole cash wrap way. Pulled pins+hardtags got rid of those pesky old runs. Straighten up the cluster n fixed the sandals in the bins. Helped close out the floor. And that's all folks.

Hope you all had a great day. im bout to get off the train so i can post this.

Yay time for me to make this 15block walk home.

Peace Love & Knicks Basketball

-Goodnight
Psycho Sinatra

Weekly Directives

We ended last week -2%.. Overall I was pretty dissapointed at how the department operated without  me over the course of the last 4 days. I know for a fact that had ANYONE taken the initiative to fill the floor (or complete directives) we would have comp'd. This concerns me for next week as well because I will be gone five days.. There should be no reason that WACC falls apart completely because one person is absent.

Overall we comp'd in MOST classes but we lost monetary value, which I think is a direct result of having a light floor. Moving on..

• We have mark downs this week (firsts) and we have dime outs which will be continously worked on through out Tuesday-Thursday.
• The TOMS in backstock need to come up to the handicapped fitting room in the back. We will be re-organizing the bins by color before they go back there. This will make them easy to fill AND easier to check sizes. I will work on this Tuesday.
• The a-frames downstairs are super light. The crochet KB flats ill go with the linen skimmers on the front of the a-frame. The peeptoe skimmer will go where the platform sneakers are. The platform sneakers will go on the front of the second a-frame. The socks are going to be moved over to the back of the second a-frame. BELTS will go where the socks were near back stock. I will be working on this Wednesday.
• The sandals in the SL STILL need to get moved to the runway. The canvas skippies and mary janes are coming out of back stock into baskets in the SL. I will dedicated my Friday morning to this. Christine, who is our Friday opener will help prep the new baskets to go on the floor.
• The floral scarf in the wall near the stairs that comes in 3 colors needs to get worked into the SL shelving when we re-do the wall on Friday.
• The blossom lip gloss will come out of the beauty a-frame and go into a bowl on the hair accessories rack. Please work on this Thursday. We can take the skull bracelets and work them onto the spindles to create a bowl for the lip glosses.
• The Aloha ring will make it's way to the cash wrap boxes. Please work on this Thursday.
• The around the world watches will get lanyard tagged. Please work on this Thursday.
• The seamless bras still have to get hard tagged. We are also going to get out the other bandeaus that are not on the floor, the two lace styles. Please work on this on Thursday. There are lingerie bottom hangers in abox in the break room. The voop wall should be seamless bras, then a row going across of one style, and the third row on the bottom should house the third color.
• Saturday, Christine is our opener again. Please walk your floor and FILL for the love of god. Make sure to peep the TOMS in the back FR too..

Please leave communication on what you guys could and could not finish.

And while we're at it.. EVERYONE WELCOME CHRISTINE TO WACC.!!!!! I hope you guys are as excited as I am to bring her on!!

Needless to say, FILL FILL FILL.

Anni

Weekend Directives

Friday: The baskets of sandals in the shoe lounge need to get moved upstairs to the runway shelving. The shoe lounge will turn into new baskets full of Mary Janes and canvas skippies.

Saturday: please fill full priced TOMs, also please pull the sale TOMs from the floor and back stock them with the other sale toms. They are near the shoe bay in back stock.

Please also lanyard tag the watches on the frame. Ask your floor sup if you can't find enough lanyard tags.

The seamless bandeaus are going to Elbe getting hard tagged from now on so we can start on that as well.. Ask your floor sup to grab them from the wall a handful or so at a time.

Remember to blog guys!!
Have a great weekend team!!
Hold it down for me while I'm gone!
Anni

Store info

Hey guys! When I came in today most of the shipment had been processed. I spent most of my shift trying to get everything out and organized. We got some new $6 pouches in some new colors and prints, replen in panties and two new colors in the zig zag thong. We also got a new metallic color in the kb  wooden platform sandals and a cute beaded thong sandal in three colors.

Update: So yesterday I told you guys about this weeks cycle count items. The TMD graphic actually has an image of an elephant on it and as of early this morning we are perfect expect for one or two missing koto pocket tees. When I get the numerical result I will let you all know again. I also mentioned that Sandra came yesterday. During her visit she conducted and Op's assessment. We got a 75. We missed cashwrap cleanliness, obviously my fault since I was processing shipment all day, and our floor supervision. So, for us, and mostly for me, we have to try and make sure our projects are always contained. Unfortunately, just getting things done isn't enough, I have to figure how to get things done without it being obvious. The only suggestion I can make is for there to only be one project at the wrap at a time. I will try this approach next week.

Have a good night!

Things to Know

Hey guys! Sorry about not posting last night. There wasn't anything big to report, and I would say the same for today. We are doing very well this week however, as a department and store wise. Double digit comps are always great. Sandra and Cara stopped in this morning, and Sandra was with us even as I was leaving after 5 today. We all know that when we get visits we have to be especially well behaved and well informed. However, I know that before I was a lead, neither I or any manager ever prioritized store knowledge, unless we were about to have a visit. I don't think that's completely fair or successful so whenever I can/remember I will post all of the important info that tends to come up in opening meetings and through out my day. These are fact that we are all expected to know, so cheers to a well informed team.

Important Info I can Recall Today:
1. Cycle counts- Cycle counts are 'mini inventories" we conduct (twice a month? I'll be sure to double check this statement) to help us determine what items we may be losing, where our hot spots are, and through further analysis, what types of loss we are suffering from, which brings us to LOSS, internal, external and paper work
2. What items did we count last cycle? What was our result?- So last cycle we counted the P&N patterned mesh crop top, the men's destroyed Standard Cloth denim and the studded iphone 4 and 4s cases. Our result was -3.59, I believe we counted two extra cases.
3. What items are we counting this week?- This week we are counting the blue TMD muscle tank with the buddah like image on the front. I'm not sure what the actual name is, but I will repost these items again tomorrow with their proper names. We are also counting the men's koto pocket tees and the SAS knit maxi tank dress, which comes in three colors.
4. What was our shrink result from last year?  2.48 %, embarrasing fact, I know what the results from last year are, and I was able to answer Corey without hesitiation when he asked me today, but as I was writing this I forgot. I had to actually call Charley just now and ask. Ooops! Ah well! We'll help each other remember them.


I hope you guys are all having a great week.



Abby

wiggity wiggity WACC

hey dudes
closed tonight. didnt get to processing the jewelry. we were all kind of focusing on power closing so the box of jewelry got left at cash wrap. sorry! thats all. just wanted to leave a note for that. im in at 1p. see you then!
leslie

Sunday Funday

Leslie please fill TOMs this morning and check on the sale TOMs if those can be filled please do so. Remember to attach them together. You can use the restock app to spot fill. I'll see you at 2!

Anni

Caturday

Hope You All Have A Purrfect Day :D

Weekly Directives!!

Ended last week +2% vs company -9% (and the only wacc in our district to comp!) Lets keep it up!! Our biggest focus now should be 1) filling and 2) maintence.

Thursday: Abby, please begin with re-doing the tights. I know you wanted to spend your morning filling, but fill after you fix the tights! Leave direction to what you couoldn't fill so Leslie can pick up on it tomorrow. She doesn't come in till 9 on Friday so she won't have time to re-do them.They need to get re-pegged, filled, and signed.

Please fill the casual shoes, ask your opening manager to open 'dashboard' for you in the office to look over what classes are down. I also urge you to use the restock app report on the mobile. I found out today it re-sets every Wednesday, so we have a fresh slate. This will also let us know more color specific items people are buying. Corey, would really like us to get on board with the re-stocking app.

Also, remember the jewelry is in the office to be processed. Begin working on it and pass off to your 2-7.

Friday: Leslie, fill, fill, fill. Use the restocking app and walk your floor. MAJOR FILL DAY. Please see Abbys soon to be blog post about what she didnt get to (and read above) After this, please work on directives below (or processing jewelry.. if it's still unprocessed by Friday)

Saturday: CLEAN UP! Maintence day. Please work on any direction below that has not been completed yet, which will probaby be most of the moves. :)

• The patterned back pack on the face outs downstairs needs to come upstairs to the front shop.
• Soft slouchy beanie on the wall near the FR needs to get worked into the picnic table.
• Force mark all piecey full priced velocity hats.
• The open weave eternity scarf on the top shelf in the shoe lounge is coming to the runway upstairs where the floral scarf is.
• Pull velocity necklaces towards the front of the WACC cluster.
• BOWLSSSS! Morgin and Corey gave me permission to thrift us some beautiful bowls for our cluster so this weekend I will be searching some thrift stores for these bowls! So hopefully within the next week we'll have some new additions to the cluster.
• CLEAN up of casual shoes/MAJOR fill.
• Mary janes and canvas skippies will go into baskets in the SL and the sandals will go into the shelving where the back packs are on the run way.
• MAX out hair accessories maxi rack... and move ugly blue unicorns

FILL, FILL, FILL.

CLEAN, MAINTENCE.

LETS SELL SOME ACCESSORIES YA'LL.

PUSH THAT JEWELRY AND THOSE RINGS.

Anni

Those thieves are getting lazy

Hola mi amor!!

so WACC may have been a bit of a weak close last night, thats on me. we had a call out last night so i stayed til about 10:30 to help the team out. yesterday was a long day. anywho as abby said, all sale housewares marked $19.99 and less are now $1.99. HOLY BANANAS YALL. thats awesome. make sure you spread the word! some customers really have no idea its even happening til you say something...even though there are signs...they tend to ignore those, i guess.
anyway, last night was alright anni, nick, and ally totally had the close under control. dont have anything to say  EXCEPT!!!
LADIES AND DUDE! lets all make sure we are paying close attention to the money being handed to us. last night two girls, possibly teens to early 20's, tried to pay with two VERY fake hundo bills.  first off, they felt like toilet paper. big indicator.  the security strip was hard to read, the coloring was weird AND THEN the water mark was not of our boy benny franklin, but of abraham lincoln. not even abraham lincoln, but what appeared to be bill murray as abraham lincoln.  she gave me this story of receiving it from someone after selling them an xbox on craigslist. she said she even marked it....ummmm kbye i dont care take. your fake money and get outta herrrre.
just be aware. these thieves think theyre smart, but we are so much better than that, my loves! stay professional, but basically let them know we know exactly what theyre trying to pull and it aint working.

also ABBY, i bought stuff. ughhhhhh.

love you guys. off till friday so ill see you all then!
leslie

New Server aka No Mo' Paper Receipts!

Hey guys! We got a new server today!!!! YAY! When I was heading out there seemed to be some problems with the new server, but hopefully it was quickly resolved. Shipment was pretty light today, we got two new pairs of toms, and two new colors in two styles of sandals we've had for a while. Spanking new, just in today, these cool bun makers that also create other hair styles and twirled bobbie pins. Everything is out, everything is back stocked. I started working on our mark downs and furthers today, and I was unable to work on panties as I had planned. Truthfully, the panties probably wont get touched until Thursday, and I will try to complete mark downs tomorrow.

We have a new promo sale! All sale housewares $19.99 or less will be force marked to $1.99 for EVERYONE until the 20 somethingth. I'm sorry, I think it is either the 26th or 29th. Take a look at the slant, as I will tomorrow, and if I remember I will post the exact date in tomorrow's post.

"Flinstone Receipts" (Cedric voice)

HI team! Okay, so, today was definitely a less than normal day. The morning started off well; shipment went smoothly, the normal. However, it seems our server was giving some trouble this weekend and it continued to do so today. Thus, for those of you who were here about 2 summers ago, you know that when the server goes down the registers stop working and we revert back to paper receipts . YES, paper! Management was on the phone with home office and IT most of my shift, and though we were able to reconnect, the server crashed again before I left. So, for the most part we went old school.

WACC did fairly well last week. We were up 5. Some of the classes that helped us get there were other jewelry up 48, beauty up 27, handbags and wallets up 22, necklaces up 43, hair accessories up 41, hats up 4 and earrings up 15. Our biggest money makers were other jewelry, handbags and wallets, casual shoes and athletic shoes, even though the last two classes did not comp. Our most dissapointing classes were sunglasses down 41, tights down 79, boots down 553, sandals down 67, and PANTIES down 2337.

Anni made sure that all the shipment went out this morning. I am not sure if she had time to place the socks that came in today, but if she didn't they are still in a WACC box in bs. I actually left two boxes in back stock, but besides the socks they all need to go into the bays.

NOTICE: Back stock cleanliness continues to be a priority, and it seems, a struggle for us, Garrett has worked long and hard getting bs neat and organized, so we simply need to put things where they belong. I noticed that over the weekend we worked on reorganizing the bags and the hats at the very top of our bay, so keep it that way.

This week I would like us to fill panties. There are new styles that should go out and sale should be pulled. I will try my best to get it done myself and I'll update everyone along the way.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. Till tomorrow.

Good Night!

HOLY CRAPPOLA

this weekend has been CUHRAYZAY. its getting busy again. YAY! and the weather was lovely. WACC comp'd this week, so woohoo. i came in and filled toms as requested. i didnt get to fill much else because i spent the morning doing runs and cleaning the sales floor. many of our items sold down so plenty of replen for monday morning. both abby and i will be here at 7, though, ill most likely be in womens.

CLOSER: please make sure to pull the umbrellas and put them back in backstock. and also pull the bin of bras in the sale section. please dont forget!

anyway with all the shoppers in here, its been busy and getting a little messy. can we all just make sure we keep the closes tight and run ALL the baskets? this includes the dimeouts and damages basket.
love love love you all. see you in the morning.

Saturday/Sunday

Saturday: Leslie went through and rf'd the belts, filled sale belts, filled sale bags, and cleaned up sale this morning. We also pulled out all the hand bags out of the bag bay and re-organized them. I also pulled all the weird bags on top of the bay (where the hats should be) and added those into the bag wall in the stock room.. Anytime they can't fit take a look at what can be filled. If not much can be filled, it can often be worked in if you just re-do a shelf or two.

Sunday: Please find time to fill TOMS sometime in the morning. The tights will have to wait till I or Abby have some free time on Monday. If time allows in the morning, work on single shoes first. I would like to continue keeping these under control, and I'd like to encorporate it into our weekly Sunday opening procedures.

We're up +11 on the week so lets end Saturday strong!! Watch that sale section!!
:) have a great Sunday.
Don't miss me too much ya'll.
Anni

and into the weekend we go

hey dudes,
so today i opened.  abby pretty much took care of that fill list yesterday so i came in and just spot filled.  I also went through the sock bins and audited them... quite a few dimeouts and mark downs. but now ive seperated sale from full price and labelled them.  I also borrowed abby's panty bunching idea and grouped samesie socks together with the help of jasmyne.  thats kinda it. i was in the fitting room for part of my shift so that jasmyne could stay at the wrap, cuz you know, the foot :)  also, dont forget that the baskets for runs are in the cabinets and now the dimeouts and damages are going in baskets in the other cabinets. make sure these are empty at the end of the night! <3
leslie

OH AND EXTRA 30% OFF ALL SALE THROUGH MONDAY!!!!!

THURSDAY

Fill list:

• The festival back pack in the shoe lounge (the one on the shelfing.. please make sure one of each color is stuffed)
• The Ecote patterned back pack in the SL (in blue)
• The No Wifey hat in both colors (very important, we've been selling through these pretty quickly)
• Socks (not much filling needed, but 1-3 light pegs, 1 is almost empty!)
• BRAS! Please put out any full quantity we have of bras.
• SALE!! Please put out some 9.99 scarves, pleeeeease there are barely any out. Lets sell down on our sale over the weekend. It's going to be really important we keep a close eye on our sale being filled.
• Jewelry scale back--- Please work on scaling back some of our necklace quantite that are out. Walk the cluster and frame and make sure no peg is over stuffed or has a significant amount more then the other pegs... Total jewelry lost last year: $10,000. With that being said, if there is any sale jewelry you'd like to pull out for the weekend, i'm totally ok with that... (after the visit, of course, haha)

I'll be in from 7-10 to help walk the floor and look over numbers. After that I'll be free to help with directives.

Anni

Sonday

Today was Sunday, a beautiful day once again... Closing shift for me. Work was cool the store was busy had a nice constant flux of customers managed to keep the wrap under control with back up from Jael. Thanks :) rang people up, ordered things, returned things, the usual. We made the day. Tried to make sure it was a good sucessful close I guess ill find out when I come in later to close. I filled some of the TOMS, when it was slow. There are still a few pegs that were light I believe.

Well it's 4:32am n I have work again so I'm going to bed ill see you all when I see you...

Peace Love & Knicks Basketball

Sunnies

Hey peeps and peepers! So a couple weeks ago we got news via the slant that we would be switching over to new sunglasses tags. Today was d-day. So sporadically through out my shift, I worked on transferring the sunglasses that are out from the hard horizontal cards to the new softer vertical tags. Nandi assisted when she came in at 2 as well. That was it. Last night the men's floor got hit again, so we really need to work on our overall store awareness and communication. I'm sure you guys will hear more about it soon. Our closes have been a bit lack luster lately. The shoe lounge and the sandals in the baskets need to be closed out; and we've noted this before, even when the WACC closer doesn't actually close all of WACC, he/she needs to walk WACC to make sure everything is up to par. I'm gonna start calling people out, to their faces and on the blog.

Love Ya'll

By the way tomorrow, 4/5, is Cedric's birthday! Happy birthday Cedi!!!!

Somehow it feels like the week's over.........

Hi loves! Happy Tuesday. I hope you all took advantage of yesterday's beautiful weather, because in comparison its an ice box out there today. April is  b****! But she's like this every year, so deal, layer and make sure you have a bag big enough if you need to strip down. Ok, no more assault on the weather. We only got one box today. They were sandals and some mary janes. The sandals are in a basket with their extended family downstairs in the shoe lounge and I backstocked the marys. We have markdowns this week; all except some bags upstairs and a sandal I didn't recognize have been marked, and that includes back stock. So I started this organization project with panties last week, and I have continued. I am not finished yet, but each day I try to complete a bin. I separated the full priced ones from sale and I have been stacking them like I'm going to put them out and then neatly folding them and rubberbanding them together. Of 3 or 4 bins I have completed 2. I will like to do the same with bras and socks, but I'm taking it one day at a time. CLOSERS! Hey! When you are closing walk your product and make sure everything is in its place! TOMS looked crazy this morning and there were WACC runs in the closet. Let's do better. I think that's all for today. It's a new month so be on your look out and your best behavior for this month's secret shop.

You all have a good night.

Abby

Monday

It was a vey nice day out... I stayed inside though. A crime I know, but I came in for a 7-cl. Closed out it wasn't terribly busy. Finished processing some jewelry for my homie Leslie. Took down dime outs/damages, pulled pins n tags, pulled holds, did runs, helped close out the rest of the floor. We made the day. The day did not make us.

Peace. Love. & Knicks basketball

Yayyy Team!!!

Hey guys! Good week last week! We ended up 15 percent. We had some really strong classes; hair accessories were up 358 percent, bras were up 204 percent, boots were up 245, sandals were up 182, sunglasses were up 141, other jewelry was up and though athletics were only up 9, we made $2900 in athletic shoes. So we ended very well. Some of our usually strong classes, however sort of tanked. Panties were down 100 percent; travel, tights, scarves and casual shoes have been suffering a bit for the past couple weeks and they too are down a bit. We didn't get much shipment today, and I am patting myself on the back a bit here when I say that I got all of the gillion packaged jewelry unpackaged, out and back stocked (well ok, all but the small earring cards, Leslie has to take credit for that). I didn't get any time in backstock today, so there's a box of toms, bras and undies that need to be back stocked. Depending on how much shipment we get tomorrow I will work on back stocking those things first thing.

You all have a great night!