Rhschamps04 15 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 I work at Walmart and i was just wondering if anyone else on here worked retail its almost the shopping season and buisness is already picking up atleast for us it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaverbaseball 10 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 4+ years and counting.....Only 8 months left in my retail career, hopefully... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Interesting. I've heard from a few that work at Wally that the WallyWorlds in Bluefield and Princeton are already starting to cut hours for employees because business is down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Interesting. I've heard from a few that work at Wally that the WallyWorlds in Bluefield and Princeton are already starting to cut hours for employees because business is down... False Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 False Just passing along what I was told last week by some WalMart employees... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefieldRocks 14 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Just passing along what I was told last week by some WalMart employees... Well now that I think about it, they probably work day shift, so that might be completely possible. I work nights and nights puts up all the freight, so we pretty much have to be there. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhschamps04 15 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Walley does this every year that ive been with them they take the hours for the month of september and october and overwork the people that are there you have to cover like 3 different depts and then you get them back the last week of october all the way through feb. they always say the same thing buisness is down but in all reality they are just saving money before they have to pay everyone to be there november and december. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwave17 13 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 yep work at wally world in grundy business probably won't hit us to hard hopefully lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueinbama 259 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 I run a retail store in Southpark Mall in Charlotte, and business is GREAT...if you work at the Apple Store. I don't. Our business has recovered from the downward spiral, but it is nowhere near what it was in 2006 and 2007. The crunch hit my business, upscale retail, really hard. The very high end Bob Ellis Shoe Store that was close to where I work closed two years ago (approx...may have been a little longer). Several other stores have come and gone in that time frame. The upscale stores seem to be the ones that have had the most trouble recovering, which is understandable. People with money are more guarded in tough economic times as well as everyone else, maybe even more so. Our fiscal year begins in Feb., and we have had slight increases in 4 out of 7 months, and almost made the other 3, only missing LY's figures by less than 3%. So, to answer the question, I'm seeing improvement, but not as rapidly as I would have hoped. I'm praying for a strong 4th quarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhschamps04 15 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Mon-Thurs. the Sporting Goods area i work in is busy but you can tend to it with just one person doing all the cleanup in the dept and running the register and stocking all at the same time. Fri-Sat its almost impossible to keep up with and there is always someone yelling at you for help or my personal fav "HEY YOU!!!". Sunday nothing you can do the people that come in after a ceartin thing ends about 11:30 or 12 are some of the rudest most impossible people to please and they destroy everything in there path from about 11:45 to 5:30 and it makes the dept unreconizeable but after they go back to the service things go back to were you can attempt to fix it a little before monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebel1 35 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I worked at Hibbett Sports for nearly a year before I left this past July, last Christmas was HECTIC. Not long after that maybe mid Feb, business went from $2000+ a day (which is pretty good for a Hibbetts in this area) to never more than a measly $500. Hope things pick up for them during the holiday season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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