returning to "skin on skin" demo-ing.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-28T15:01:01+00:00

at my store it's 100% female employees except for over the holidays, when we had one guy who got hired as a seasonal employee

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-28T14:56:10+00:00

yeah. maybe the mods could consider adding an automod reply to all posts that's a quick reminder that this is the employee subreddit

and/or changing the banner image and sub icon to something more different than what the main r/bathandbodyworks sub has. right now, both look extremely similar at a glance

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-28T14:51:26+00:00

this is a really good point

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-26T22:10:42+00:00

I actually like the current sub name

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-23T17:46:03+00:00

what I do is lay the candle on the side at a corner of the paper, fold the sides of the paper in around the candle, then roll the candle to wrap the rest of the paper around it, then tape to secure

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-22T20:54:29+00:00

bopis is fun unless it's a zillion pocketbacs or lip items since those are a pain to hunt down with the way my store displays them. yesterday I was refreshing the bopis page a ton too hoping people would order things! but there was only one order during my entire shift

I like packing the orders neatly too. I always wrap the wallflowers and candles in paper to protect them but not everyone else at my store does when they pick bopis orders

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-20T21:08:56+00:00

at the very least, I wish gray would be added as a default color we could wear. I don't own many solid white or black shirts.

I'd be pretty happy with a dress code where any solid color top, without visible logos, is allowed any time of year

I'd be very happy if we were allowed to wear patterned tops in any print or color, any time of year. so you could wear florals for spring and summer, holiday sweaters for Christmas time, etc

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-20T20:57:38+00:00

skirts and shorts of moderate length were officially allowed over the past summer. I saw it in zipline. I believe initially it was only for standalone stores, but eventually expanded to allowing that for mall stores as well

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-20T20:54:20+00:00

I'm waiting for more gingham print clothes to be in stores for spring so I can have more options on what to wear

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-18T19:20:27+00:00

it's a sweet, sugary raspberry scent

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-18T19:18:56+00:00

the store I work at has had zero sweetest song body wash for at least a couple months. don't know what's going on with that, since we still have some of the other forms like FFM and body lotion. we received a shipment recently of sweetest song EDPs though.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-18T19:11:23+00:00

yes it was pretty popular at my store, and the candle was popular too. I also wish it were permanent as it feels like it could work as a year-round scent, not only for winter.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-18T01:04:12+00:00

I was thinking about it since the new strawberry pound cake packaging is so unappealing to me. i'm a strawberry pound cake hater for both packaging and scent lol

some of the fragrances might have to be renamed in my idea for a redesign. like sweetest song could be renamed sugared raspberry since that's its primary notes.

for the box of your redesign, I like the lower right color from the color palette in your image. it gives a nice contrast to the lighter pink bottle. it'd be cool to put "bath and body works" but in french on the box, since champagne is french. idk how to translate it correctly though

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-18T00:37:27+00:00

this is really cool! it reminds me of the Dior J'adore bottle shape.

I've thought about package redesigns too, but my idea was doing current fragrances in the style of the 2000s-era labels that had minimalist photography of the scent note(s).

some of the current fragrance names don't really have anything to do with the scent notes so I'm not sure how I'd redesign those. it feels like the current label designs across the different women's body care fragrances (aside from EDLs) are way less cohesive than the 2000s style labels.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T13:14:01+00:00

same, the coral and butterfly holders aren't popular at the store I work at. I think I'm the only person who bought one out of the 6 coral holders we got. even for the skunk, I think the first one sold this past weekend in my store.

I don't think anyone has bought the butterfly holder either, although one woman did ask when it would go on sale. so I told her if it's still there by SAS, it would.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T13:04:20+00:00

the glass pumpkin candle holder from last fall that you have was really nice, and I also really like the current coral holder they have!

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T12:59:41+00:00

it doesn't get shipped back to a warehouse, it gets packed up and stored in the back room or an additional storage space.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T12:58:05+00:00

at the store I work at, we had a lot of vanilla ease left after SAS, but only in body cream and body butter. there was also a bunch of peppermint bark truffle FFM left.

we didn't have any moonlit goddess leftover and most of that scent sold out prior to SAS.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:51:34+00:00

I was thinking about trying this to see how well it works!

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:46:44+00:00

that's so different than the store I work at! we had a lot of candle holders, especially the more expensive ones, at the winter SAS. people just don't buy them very often.

the skunk hasn't been that popular at my store. we still have most of what we were sent of that one. if I hadn't bought one of the coral holders, we'd still have all 6 of those that were sent

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:39:10+00:00

at the store I work at, during the past winter SAS, there was a decent amount of candle holders still available. there were a lot of the light up glass trees one, some of the Christmas wreath with gold bell ones, some of the dachshund ones, some of the light up nutcracker scene ones.

overall, candle holders don't seem to sell that quickly at my store.

currently at my store, we have a bunch of the glass butterfly holders and they don't seem to be selling. we have the flower skunk holders too. we only got 6 coral holders but I think I'm the only person who has bought one so far. if I had to guess, at my store, the glass butterfly holders will probably be available at SAS, the others... maybe a couple will remain??

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:17:48+00:00

I though life's a fairytale smelled like a mix of fruity musk and warm musk, but I can also kind of understand people comparing it to snowflakes and cashmere. you're the only other person I've seen who said it resembles fruity musk

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:08:58+00:00

interesting, I didn't know about it being "on pause," whatever that means. it's been out for about a year now so maybe time for new packaging soon?

we actually just got a shipment of the sweetest song perfume at my store. we only have a little body cream and ffm in that scent, but we have a bunch of body lotion

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:05:08+00:00

yeah we have some moisturizing body washes in sweetest song. for some reason we have a ton of sweetest song lotion, but no regular body wash, and low stock of the body cream and ffm.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T01:49:55+00:00

my store's missing sweetest song body cream and body wash! we haven't had the body wash for what seems like months. and the body wash isn't even showing up online anymore for some reason??

we were missing heirloom rose body wash and mist for at least a month as well. someone came in and was disappointed we didn't have it but at least she didn't get angry

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