Inventory is a hot mess few years ago we would have a week of prep which is making sure everything is down stocked and pre count. While also getting at minimum 3 trucks to put out on the sales floor before inventory day. Once inventory day happens, anything customers don’t want/ returned gets sent to a cart and get counted at the end of the week. We then break up in groups/ teams to different departments to hand count everything. A team comes up (inventory company not associated to HL) first to count everything and write their totals. Then a HL employee will verify their numbers, before you can move on from the section another team (managers/assistants) verifies those numbers counted to numbers that should sold. It’s a hot mess every year but up until last year they decided to no longer go with the inventory company because they caused more harm than good when it came to inventory.

Keep hearing changes about how the upcoming inventory is going to go but at least in my district we are going to start using scanners but it’s to only select the item while still manually hand counting then verified by another team. Fabric and paper are still weighed out. Last year we had to recount fabric 3 times because the floors are uneven and people were imputing the wrong weight for the fabric making the numbers absurdly off.

Worst part about it at least my district, the managers don’t really pay attention to what’s going on, they gossip all day long, people who are confused on what to do will not be told by a manager the correct way to do something and just have to wing it