LISSA'S: Favoritism and Black Friday Revisited.

Thinking back on my notes about Favoritism, I forgot to mention a couple of items. Every month, the company celebrates anniversaries of it's associates. It doesn't matter if you have worked there one year or 25 years, your anniversary is put in the monthly newsletter from the store. Also, on your anniversary day, you are brought to the attention of everyone in the which are held three times a day. Well, that is the way it is supposed to happen. And in most stores it does happen that way. But here at the Sherman Wal-Mart, where favoritism rules, things are run differently. If you are popular, you will be in the newsletter and recognized at the meetings. But just in the past couple of months, I know for a fact that at least two people were not recognized. Again, not the popular ones. One person has only been there for a year, so it is understandable. One has worked for the company for over twenty years and was ignored.

And to hit on the Black Friday fiasco. I have talked to many people and they have all agreed that this was the most unorganized Black Friday in the history of the store. For those of you who missed out, just know that some items that they ran out of during the Blitz (such as the video game rocker), they found two more pallets later that night. And then there were the blatant lies. Yes, you got lied to. Some of Wal-Mart's competition had good prices on their items. And yes, Wal-Mart does do comparison pricing on any competitor's ad. But did you know that if Wal-Mart does not want to give that price, they will pull the item from their shelf and tell their associates to tell everyone that they are sold out. I have seen this done from groceries to Hardware. I have seen them have vendors pull items out of the store because another store has a sale on the items. It's not that Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper has run out of a certain item, because they are willing to deliver to this store at any time, any day of week, any holiday. They can get it there. No, it is because the store manager, Bryan Lambert, or some of his minions chose not to have it for the ad. So, if you noticed some things out of stock, chances are it wasn't because it wasn't in the store. They either had lost it or had pulled it off the shelves.

But for fun, ask the management if they got some of those pulled items at the other stores amount..... Yes, the managers would not give it to the public for that price, but yes, they did buy it themselves at that price. I guess they can chose what you can and can't buy, but they will make sure they get it.

If you read my first post about the Blitz Day Blunders, then prepare yourself. They are setting up the same predicament for Christmas. All the department managers are getting pulled again to work in Christmas or toys for hours a day. Funny, grocery doesn't have to come over to help after all the help they got for Thanksgiving.