The Executive Directors of the Huntington Mall Macy’s decided Saturday to have another hiring fair, new sales promotion ideas and donate more merchandise to secondhand stores around the tri-state area.
Each month, Macy’s donates half of their unsold merchandise to stores like Goodwill and the other half is sold to secondhand stores like Marshall’s. The executive directors determine the percentage of merchandise sold and donated.
“I think since it is near the Christmas season we should donate 70 percent of penny (unsold merchandise) to Goodwill and the other 30 percent to Marshall’s,” Ginny Ferguson, sales director said.
John Thompson, Human Resources Coordinator, agreed with Ferguson and said due to the store averaging 30 thousand dollars an hour on black Friday, the budget could certainly handle donating more unsold merchandise during the month of December.
“Since sales were beyond what we projected them to be and have been steadily higher than years past, I would like to have another hiring fair to add at least four more seasonal members to my team,” said Betty Lucas, Merchandising and Support Manager.
Lucas currently has seven full-time merchandisers, four part-time members and five seasonal members, she said.
Sales improvement was the main reason the directors were supposed to meet, said Beth Walker, Store Manager.
“On black Friday alone Macy’s sold more than 500 thousand dollars and our sales associates opened 30 new credit customers and 14 thanks-for-sharing customers,” Walker said. Macy’s thanks-for-sharing program is part of their credit card program but it requires a sign-up fee of 25 dollars. Walker said after paying the fee, Macy’s donates three percent of that customers’ purchases to charity.
The Executive Directors voted unanimously to have another hiring fair and five to two on Ferguson’s motion to donate 70 percent of unsold merchandise and sell 30 percent to Marshall’s.
