Personal Narrative: An Interview With Apryl Patterson
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I interviewed Apryl Patterson from Payless Shoe Stores. She is the Manager of the 11th Street location in Beaumont, Texas. She has been with the company for four years and Manager for 3 years. She supervises five associates at this location. Each associate performance is evaluated every month. The ranking is from one to five within the store and one to 60 in the district. The evaluations are on how well each associateâs conversion, sales, dollars per transaction, and units per transaction are for the month. If an associate is in the bottom two for two consecutive months they will be terminated. There is also an evaluation of the associate after they have been with the company for 12 months. This decides if they receive a pay raise or not.
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been raining almost nonstop in the northeast. all of this mess is going to head up into new england where we have flooding risks. the life threatening weather is this afternoon and evening. let s hope it goes okay for the people in south and georgia and south carolina. let s turn to business where u.s. retail continues to struggle. payless shoe stores is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and ralph lauren says it will cut an undisclosed number of jobs and close the flagship new york city store. when you see stores like ralph lauren and payless making these kinds of cuts, it signals a shift in the retail industry and kind of how difficult the retail market is for regular companies that rely on brick and mortar stores. we re seeing with the way payless shoe store is going to file for chapter 11. they re going to try to restructure their debts by 50%
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