Great Company until..... - Director Level Christmas Tree Shops Employee Review

CTS was a great model for how retail should be done. Then it was sold to Bed Bath & Beyond. That was the end of that. Payroll and associated hours and people were slashed to below bare bones levels. To the detriment of Shrink, Service, Safety and the sanity of the great people who I worked with. Both Regional and Corporate Management could care less about any of that. Bed Bath is all about limiting expenses at all costs. Even at the cost of driving a once thriving sales environment into the ground at high speed. As often happens in Retail mergers, promises were made to "not mess with success". So much for that as well. They have not comped sales basically since the merger. All the real CTS Leaders, at every level, have jumped ship. Shrink and Damages are at all time highs. Morale is at an all time low. If you are not a core or original Bed Bath associate who transferred over to CTS, you are a second class citizen. It is sad to see what has become of the Bilizekians once beloved New England Retail Treasure. Dispite what this site says, the Bilizekians left long ago. The HQ is now in Union, NJ and was never in Falmouth, MA. It was in South Yarmouth, MA.