Originally Posted by nellebelles
I'm sure Sam and his wife are rolling over in their graves. I was at WM day before yesterday for groceries; many of the shelves were thinly stocked (could it be they got hit hard for Super Bowl parties??).
It seems that our WalMart is almost always "thinly" stocked. We have 3 WalMarts within 20 minutes of our house and they all are like that. I wonder what is wrong there. :x
Ok, here's the deal about Wal-Mart. One of the reasons they are getting rid of the fabric dept. is because most stores take a loss in that dept. The mark-up is so little on the fabric and they also sell alot of it below cost. They do this to get you into the store and hopefully get you to buy other things. That is why they move items around in the store alot so you have to walk by other items you might not normally buy and hopefully buy them. As far as the empty shelves go they have started a new program where everything that comes in on the trucks goes straight to the sales floor. They do not want any back stock in the backroom. Problem with that is POS (point of sales at the registers) can't keep up. The system orders as the items goes through the registers. But if the average sales of 1 item a day is lets say 4 per day but the next customer buys 10, now that is 14 in one day it just threw the average daily sale out the window because according to their past sales they should have only sold 4. Great new system huh! As far as Wal-Mart becoming self service that is true. They want the service depts. to go away. Just think when you go in to buy paint. They will be getting in already mixed paint. The only choice of colors you will have will be what they stock. No more custom colors. The whole reason to do this is less employees. It's all about the money. I know too much huh :shock: