Spring Sales Meeting

[NXT]

Does anyone know anything that was discussed at the Spring Sales Meeting (DSDs and above go)?

 

[gsa4lyfe]

Theme of the year was nothing new*. Small asterisks there because there is a new payroll system rolling out in June but no operational changes, best practice changes or store structure changes. The whole meeting was a lot on how to improve and things we essentially just need to be better at.

New payroll system is called workforce management and in an extremely simple way of explaining it is stores will earn payroll based off workload not sales. For the most part this won’t affect the baseline of hours and most stores will see a slight increase while high volume will see a slight decrease. Biggest difference is earning flex payroll throughout the month based on added or increased workload like fulfillment or even things like trucks above average size or number of transactions completed on a belted lane etc.

Also starting mid April the schedule will be posted 3 weeks out vs 2 weeks out.

 

[Jayunderscore]

Also starting mid April the schedule will be posted 3 weeks out vs 2 weeks out.

Oh, does this mean that stores who are in special municipalities (Chicago, Kansas City) can actually write a schedule without having to guess how much payroll they’re getting?

 

[gsa4lyfe]

Oh, does this mean that stores who are in special municipalities (Chicago, Kansas City) can actually write a schedule without having to guess how much payroll they’re getting?

We were told that store attributes were taken into account and DSDs had to manually input unique attributes like remote drive up, multi store backroom, remote stockrooms, dual entrances, mall stores and such to allow a more accurate payroll plan per store.