I tell ya, our buyers really need to be taken out to the back forty and shot.
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, we're going to be getting a corporatefull cavity search visit. It's being called a "bounce back" audit. Basically the visiting dignitaries are going to see how good of a job we did cleaning up after the holidays and getting back on routine processes that sometimes get forgotten about during the hustle and bustle of the holidays.
One of the things that will be checked is clearance in the backroom. So today my manager printed out a backroom clearance report--and found it to be several pages long.
PANIC
So guess who got assigned to pull all that shit out of the backroom about an hour before leaving today?
Among the many items on the list: bed sheets. Really really el-cheapo bed sheets. They're not made by any brand anybody would recognize. They're just really cheap, crappy sheet sets in demure packaging.
And the buyer must've ordered the damn things by the boxcar load. It seemed that every truck we had for a while, some of those sheets sets came in. And because the planogram only allowed space for three or four sets of each color and size, the rest of them had to sit in the backroom.
And sit. And sit. And sit. And sit some more because these sheet sets were somehow too cheap and crappy for our already cheap and crappy clientele. And then they all were put on clearance.
I filled up an entire dump bin with those sheets and still had a full section of them left to pull out of backstock. The report was showing quantities of 30, 40, even 50 sets in certain colors and sizes.
And when I finish those tomorrow, I get to start on clearance bath towels, which we also have in absurd quantities in the backroom.
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, we're going to be getting a corporate
One of the things that will be checked is clearance in the backroom. So today my manager printed out a backroom clearance report--and found it to be several pages long.
PANIC
So guess who got assigned to pull all that shit out of the backroom about an hour before leaving today?
Among the many items on the list: bed sheets. Really really el-cheapo bed sheets. They're not made by any brand anybody would recognize. They're just really cheap, crappy sheet sets in demure packaging.
And the buyer must've ordered the damn things by the boxcar load. It seemed that every truck we had for a while, some of those sheets sets came in. And because the planogram only allowed space for three or four sets of each color and size, the rest of them had to sit in the backroom.
And sit. And sit. And sit. And sit some more because these sheet sets were somehow too cheap and crappy for our already cheap and crappy clientele. And then they all were put on clearance.
I filled up an entire dump bin with those sheets and still had a full section of them left to pull out of backstock. The report was showing quantities of 30, 40, even 50 sets in certain colors and sizes.
And when I finish those tomorrow, I get to start on clearance bath towels, which we also have in absurd quantities in the backroom.
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