We just started "Operation Sandbox" so there's another new program coming to a Cincy store near you!
What's Operation Sandbox?
It's a program starting in select stores, mostly either "small town" stores or "neighborhood" stores. I'm not sure which stores were picked in your district, but in d1, it was stores like St. Mary's, Sidney, Greenville, and Troy, the "outliers" that are farther away from Dayton or Cincy, mostly.
Basically, the two main points of the program are community outreach and going after sales in a way local customers want. We're going to be allowed to alter display compliancy if we know a display won't sell in our store, and market the items that will, like a bigger focus on the 10 for 10 sales, etc.
What it really means is that we'll be lucky () enough to get weekly visits from our district management...yay.
It's a program starting in select stores, mostly either "small town" stores or "neighborhood" stores. I'm not sure which stores were picked in your district, but in d1, it was stores like St. Mary's, Sidney, Greenville, and Troy, the "outliers" that are farther away from Dayton or Cincy, mostly.
Basically, the two main points of the program are community outreach and going after sales in a way local customers want. We're going to be allowed to alter display compliancy if we know a display won't sell in our store, and market the items that will, like a bigger focus on the 10 for 10 sales, etc.
What it really means is that we'll be lucky () enough to get weekly visits from our district management...yay.
they should have given stores the option to change displays as they please forever. I understand wanting to have the ad items on sale, but I see required displays at my store and wonder what moron decided that was a good idea. Not only that, but they tend to want the displays full...not hollow and faced up. We'll bring in (or be sent what the warehouse thinks we'll sell...ha) product, make the required displays knowing full and well that 90% of it will be taking up space in the back hall in a week or two. NEWS FLASH FOR IDIOT CORPORATE ****S, WHAT SELLS IN LOUISVILLE OR CINCINATTI DOESN'T SELL IN PODUNK! DUMB ****S
) enough to get weekly visits from our district management...yay.
