Staples, the office supplies retail giant, made a similar error in classifying its assistant store managers.
The problem, Kellogg determined, was that store managers weren't giving these items prominent enough display.
The chain also encourages store managers to work all the charitable and marketing angles.
Talk to distributors and store managers: Are they willing to carry your product?
The books soon sold out, much to the consternation of store managers .
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Their store managers are responsible for making sure that the store is profitable.
We have store managers who stay on 10 to 15 years, which is very difficult, particularly in the retail business.
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The North Carolina-based price-point retail chain is looking for store managers, customer service representatives, and human resources coordinators, among others.
Stock has no salespeople schmoozing with store managers and local restaurant owners.
We then offered to stage the equipment and provide on-site installation including file porting and final turn over to the store managers.
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Store managers from around the world are all flown to Tokyo to receive several months of indoctrination at Uniqlo's global training academy.
The pair give an unusual amount of autonomy to their store managers.
Company executives began holding conference calls last week with store managers in Sandy's path, said Brooks O'Hara, vice president of human resources.
Now the main issue here is the fact that the store managers and employees are already because of this fact natural adversaries.
Store managers are already responsible for organizing in-store events while community relations managers work with local schools to promote literacy and the arts.
Many employees such as insurance adjusters, assistant store managers and call-center workers whom we typically consider white-collar, and thus exempt, are actually non-exempt.
One assumes the decision-makers were ready to lose Muslim customers (bad news for store managers in Detroit) in exchange for Christian goodwill.
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Store managers set prices on locally competitive items and have the discretion to stock 10% of each store with whatever items strike their fancy.
Late on hot afternoons he would pull up and invite tired store managers to sit in the van and relax with a cold soda.
Yaoko, a supermarket chain, has had rising profits for the past ten years by freeing store managers to select goods to match local tastes.
Some store managers obviously fear they will lose sales to rivals.
Wawa, a regional chain of six hundred convenience stores known for its near cult-like customer following, screens potential store managers fiercely against two values: Delight Customers and Value People.
The program's public face consisted mainly of local employees, store managers and truck drivers, whom Wal-Mart made available to the media for interviews, an unusual but very effective move.
The store managers feel that the ungrateful, lazy employees are endangering their jobs, while the employees feel, everyday, that their jobs are being threatened by the draconian store managers.
Our store managers know we keep the front of the store pristine out of respect for our customers, and we keep the back rooms pristine out of respect for our employees.
For instance, what if many of the women allegedly denied promotions were secondary household breadwinners who didn't have the flexibility to work longer hours or switch stores, tasks that are routine for retail store managers?
On top of that, every evening store managers consult a personal digital assistant to check what new designs are available and to place their orders according to what they think will sell best to their customers.
Lawyers have seized upon the fuzzy definitions to win millions of dollars in settlements and fees by forming suits on behalf of white-collar employees most would traditionally consider exempt from overtime, such as stockbrokers and store managers.
Cantalupo also sent 900 operations missionaries into the field, each visiting stores multiple times to fine-tune operations while also conducting daylong seminars where store managers could share tips from corporate kitchen gurus--such as where to place staff--that might shave precious seconds off average service times.
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