Wait, are sales goals based on the sales from the same day a year previously? No wonder meeting or beating sales goals gets harder if it means constantly having to do better that exactly a year before!
Oh that’s right. I didn’t know what Marla was referring to in her thought bubble. They compare the sales of today with 1 year ago today and if the store had to close early they lost sales which they got this year because they didn’t close. It had nothing to do with Brick-head.
yeah that metric is kinda standard for stores, most places I worked we would be told the numbers from the previous day and how they compared with the previous year in our morning scrums before opening hours. We’d also be told the year previous number for today and it would be our “goal” to meet or beat it.
If anything like what Brice or Stuart do happened, I wasn’t privy to those conversations as I was only a lowly floor worker
Yup, it’s a fairly common way to create sales goals. The idea is that, all other things being equal, it’s easier to beat the same day last year than a random day or a random target.
It’s been brought up in the strip before, but I can’t remember exactly when. I believe they sold multiple flat-screen TVs one day, and then the next year Marla thought something like “stupid flat screens” because there was no way to beat the previous year’s sales without something similar happening.
(this was a different arc than when Cooper’s uncle bought a flatscreen to help them out)
Way back in the 90’s I was an assistant manager in a very small Kitchen Supply store. Our DM sent us a book that had what we had sold the previous year every day and what percentage we were supposed to change that by for each day. One of the things I did when we were really quiet was figure out what our sales goal was for each day and write it in the book. Surprisingly enough, there were a few days where our sales goal was actually less than the previous year.
Wait, are sales goals based on the sales from the same day a year previously? No wonder meeting or beating sales goals gets harder if it means constantly having to do better that exactly a year before!
Oh that’s right. I didn’t know what Marla was referring to in her thought bubble. They compare the sales of today with 1 year ago today and if the store had to close early they lost sales which they got this year because they didn’t close. It had nothing to do with Brick-head.
yeah that metric is kinda standard for stores, most places I worked we would be told the numbers from the previous day and how they compared with the previous year in our morning scrums before opening hours. We’d also be told the year previous number for today and it would be our “goal” to meet or beat it.
If anything like what Brice or Stuart do happened, I wasn’t privy to those conversations as I was only a lowly floor worker
Yup, it’s a fairly common way to create sales goals. The idea is that, all other things being equal, it’s easier to beat the same day last year than a random day or a random target.
It’s been brought up in the strip before, but I can’t remember exactly when. I believe they sold multiple flat-screen TVs one day, and then the next year Marla thought something like “stupid flat screens” because there was no way to beat the previous year’s sales without something similar happening.
(this was a different arc than when Cooper’s uncle bought a flatscreen to help them out)
Way back in the 90’s I was an assistant manager in a very small Kitchen Supply store. Our DM sent us a book that had what we had sold the previous year every day and what percentage we were supposed to change that by for each day. One of the things I did when we were really quiet was figure out what our sales goal was for each day and write it in the book. Surprisingly enough, there were a few days where our sales goal was actually less than the previous year.