Christmas display sale special terms?

[pogfrog]

The other day out of the blue a shout out to the “team” muffle muffle displays”.
About half a dozen floor tm s come racing up to register with multiple cart loads and some with flats of Xmas display items and tell cashiers it’s all 90 percent off. One TL heads out the back with a display tree, wheel out to their cars or stash it in TL offices… then go back on the floor.
The section was stripped in 20 minutes.,
What the heck?

 

[jackandcat]

I wonder who in leadership made that decision? Does your store's SD know about this? Were these items put out on the sales floor for guests at the same 90 percent off before your TLs and TMs bought up all the stuff? Ethics concerns anyone?

 

[buliSBI]

I remember my stores donating the Christmas tree displays to various charities for families.

But the general rule is that clearanced items must hit the floor for the public to have the chance to purchase such items.

Going to be some yelling by the SD or district.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

The boxed trees were 70% off on Wednesday and our receiver was asked to contact our donation partners to see if they wanted any of the display trees that hadn't sold. Seems like there were a couple decorated trees left up and the small ones, like for porch decor, were kept. Not sure if the ones still in boxes were also donated.

But it wasn't 90% and I don't think it was anything more than the trees. Haven't walked through that part of Seasonal to see if the decorations are still there. And there wasn't a special call-out for TMs to take advantage.

 

[SigningLady]

Tree displays needed to be removed in order for Christmas Morning Magic to set in it's place in Rear Seasonal. Every store figures out it's own way of removing them each year- donate, salvage/CRC, sell them to TM/guests for super cheap (or not super cheap depending on leadership).

Despite the set date not being until next week, most stores have been directed to finish the set this week so that is why it's a free-for-all to get the area cleared for the next set. Late made plans leave TMs and leadership scrambling to complete on new timelines.

None of these items are actually on clearance yet. Trees have been on sale at 50% to clear inventory (and ideally the displays too) but if it's not moving stores can give deeper discounts to entice guests, especially when there is pressure on to execute the next transition ASAP.

 

[jackandcat]

Tree displays needed to be removed in order for Christmas Morning Magic to set in it's place in Rear Seasonal. Every store figures out it's own way of removing them each year- donate, salvage/CRC, sell them to TM/guests for super cheap (or not super cheap depending on leadership).

Despite the set date not being until next week, most stores have been directed to finish the set this week so that is why it's a free-for-all to get the area cleared for the next set. Late made plans leave TMs and leadership scrambling to complete on new timelines.

None of these items are actually on clearance yet. Trees have been on sale at 50% to clear inventory (and ideally the displays too) but if it's not moving stores can give deeper discounts to entice guests, especially when there is pressure on to execute the next transition ASAP.

Interesting points. Maybe Corporate didn't give much thought to the time deadlines imposed on stores for the Christmas Morning Magic transition. So in this case it seems that one store's fire sale on Christmas stuff occurred on Tuesday December 2nd, which seems really odd. What's really strange is that none of this stuff was offered to guests at the deep markdown pricing before TLs and TMs were allowed to buy massive quantities at 90% off. The employee handbook explicitly describes this requirement. Three weeks before Christmas Day, this doesn't pass my ethical smell test.