The Dark Lord ([info]darklord) wrote in [info]walmart_employe,
@ 2008-05-13 01:05:00
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Remodel time
So it's finally coming that our store 1202 is going to undergo remodel in late July. Has anyone else been through a remodel? Do associates get stuck with the heavy work or do the remodellers do it all? Has your store gotten it's departments rearranged? I think Toys is going to be brought back by Electronics (my department) I kind of dread Christmases getting stuck finding stupid toys for people.


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[info]pandorathewise
2008-05-13 10:58 am UTC (link)
My husband's store went through the remodel a few years ago. And at his store they hired on "temporary" employees to do the remodel, though I know they asked for help sometimes from the permanent employees. A lot of the temporary employees were kept on at his store, and it cause a huge hiring freeze and some employees were let go for usually small reasons. At one point, they had so many people working electronics there were more employees than customers. And the employees were all just standing around talking to eachother, blocking customers, and being just a general pain in the ass.

My husband's store was a mess for months after the remodel, as most everything got moved into Garden at one point or another, so that they could setup the section's new areas. It was ridiculous.

And from the remodel that my husband's store went through, toys didn't go by electronics. Sports did. Toys was after Automotive, and just before Garden (which causes a lot of customer "pile-ups," so we aren't sure where the logic went into that placement). The big changes were where crafts/fabrics went (spread out, where as they had been in one place in the store before), jewelry, and electronics. Pretty much everything else stayed the same. They also got rid of the snackbar at my husband's store during the remodel.

Good luck, and try to be patient. It was pretty screwy for my husband, but everyone tried to keep their sense of humor and it really seemed to help.

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[info]jacfu
2008-05-13 12:12 pm UTC (link)
Others did the remodel as well in our store. We were supposed to get a lot done, but that didn't happen. For instance, they were supposed to rearrange our departments to look more like the newer supercenters, but they never did. They also were supposed to replace our entire roof, but instead replaced the sidewalk three times because it was the wrong color.

The most worthless thing I thought they did was rip up tile on the floor just to put down tile that looked exactly like it. It honestly looked like no change at all. Completely worthless.

When your department was doing remodel you couldn't even step in it, which made customers mad and you have an exciting few days.

They also were supposed to replace all of our bad shelves, but at the end they started running out of money (cuz when you replace the sidewalk 3 times that happens) and instead used regular paint to paint the rust on the shelves. Now it looks really bad cuz they used craft paint or whatever and it holds dirt. You can't clean it right. There's no gloss on it at all. You can also tell where it was painted because the color doesn't exactly match.

Our remodel was so ghetto.

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[info]mikadosok
2008-05-13 12:17 pm UTC (link)
Our remodel was...fun. Each department got taken out, except grocery and put someplace else. Tile was put down over the same old uneven cement floor, so we have burn marks from the buffer, no matter how careful we are. I did like that they took up the carpet from the entry ways, but they took forever and a week on the bathroom. The floors are almost impossible to keep clean, and the auto flush seems to stop working a lot. The walls around the stools are supposed to stop people from writing, but you know that doesn't work.

The real fun came when we got the new cash registers in.

Of course, even a year later, no one can find a darn thing.

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[info]outlaw393
2008-05-13 06:25 pm UTC (link)
new cash registers? I'm curious what those are like!

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[info]aisforapathy
2008-05-14 01:42 am UTC (link)
Maybe like the touch-screen ones at the courtesy desks in most stores? It'd be cool to see everyone use those.

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[info]ahzuri
2008-05-13 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Ours hasn't started happening yet but I know our Department manager said it was going to soon. In the bakery I know we are loosing a wall between the front and the back and that our proofer is getting ripped out. Our Ovens are out right now so they have to replace parts on them. I don't see how the Bakery could be moved since we need the oven to bake anything :/

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[info]outlaw393
2008-05-13 06:24 pm UTC (link)
If I'm lucky I should have a new job by the time remod comes around. :)

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[info]darklord
2008-05-13 08:21 pm UTC (link)
go apply at gamestop or that bookstore downtown

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[info]offspringfan919
2008-05-14 02:25 am UTC (link)
They start tearing us up on Sunday night.....I've helped open a supercenter very recently....this will be fun watching a div-1 undergo a re-mod.

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[info]hollipoo
2008-05-14 04:04 am UTC (link)
I wish I could be saying about how excited I am for my store's remod. However, my excitement was killed dead. Another store, about a half hour drive down the road stole it. We were all set to recieve our remod this summer. But at last minute they switched it to the other store because they apparently get more business. Ya know...every other business in our area would love to make sales that ONE of our registers do a day. Ya know...say 10k...if not a little more. They'd LOVE IT! So for our actual area we get a hell of a lot of business. We really only have one college within distance that we get the students from. The other store has 2+ colleges that have students that shop there.

It just upsets me that we lost our remod. I went into the other store and drooled over the new registers. Not the scanning part. The belt and turn tables. Oh so sweet. I'd love to have the touch screen on the registers. I love playing with them when I'm on the csd.

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[info]spermy05
2008-05-14 07:16 am UTC (link)
my store went through remodeling last year. within months the new tile was cracking but the new bathrooms looks cool. really there was no order and it seemed like it was rushed. they hired all new people at my store for it. they even kept a lot of the people after the remodel was over. toys got moved from the front of the store to the back by electronics and the jewelry counter got moved, sporting goods and automotives got swapped around. other than that everything was the same. they did arrange the regsiters in a weird way..i'll have to take a picture and post it here one day.

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[info]darklord
2008-05-15 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Seems like a big waste of money. Aside from the new equipment and maybe roof repairs, we don't really need our departments rearranged.

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[info]harry_knutts
2008-05-17 01:51 pm UTC (link)
We had a remodel a few years ago and they used temporary workers that were supervised by a group that travels from store to store doing remodels. They stupidly replaced all the tile in the store instead of doing what the new store across town they built a couple years ago did. They have no tile floor, just cement. It looks much better because you can't see all the cracks and dirt from the crappy tiles they use. And most importantly it doesn't have to be waxed every month!

They remodeled the bathrooms and put those automatic flushers on the toilets, sinks, and urinals. They lasted about six months. They then replaced them all with the manual flushers, faucets. I wonder how much money that cost?! We were so hoping that they were going to replace the GM air-conditioner because in the spring and summer it gets hotter than an Iraqi whorehouse on that side of the store. They left the blueprints for the remodel on the back counter of layaway and I kept putting post-it notes on it that said, "While you're at it go ahead and replace the GM A/C. Love, the Store Manager". I walked back there one day and there was a post-it note on the blue-print that said, "Don't know who told you to replace the A/C but it doesn't make sense to spend a few thousand to replace a twenty-year-old non-working A/C while we're already spending a few million on a remodel. If I want my associates to work in a cool, comfortable, and enjoyable environment I'll stop beating them with a stick everyday. Love, the Store Manager". So after the remodel was completed and the first hot days of summer arrived, all of us on the night shift left our sweat-soaked underwear on the store managers desk in his newly remodeled office before we went home one morning.

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