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"Let's Get Profit Started"
Who are the Black-Eyed Peas
Profit-"Profit Protection was formed in 2023 within Loss Prevention to address areas of opportunity within operational loss directly with stores"
"Hold The Line"
Who is Toto
T&E-"We utilize automation to notify stores when their High Five activations go significantly over budget for the month. This way we can inform stores in the moment, allowing them to take quicker action."
"Money In The Bank"
Who is John Anderson
Profit-"In 2024 Profit Protection was able to have a positive impact of $26.5 Million in savings across the categories of Discounts, Travel & Expense, and Marked out of Stock"
"Air Force Ones"
Who is Nelly ft. St. Mismates
MOS-"Stores have entered 29K in Mismates YTD ($1.4M). Mismates represented 37% of all Mark Out of Stock entered."
"22 (Profit's Version)"
Who is Taylor Swift
Discounts-"Through the first two quarters of FY25 the DSG Chain (excluding specialty) saw $22M in manual markdowns taken at the registers."
"Money, Money, Money"
Who is ABBA
MOS-"Sideline Swap Process. Taking in bat trade ins drives 2.8 times the trade in value in sales for about $350K YTD"
"I Like Profit, I Love Profit"
Who is Tim McGraw
"The Profit Protection team is made of Emi Luedtke Sr. Manager-LaRoy Carff-MOS, Jennifer Nunez/Simon White- T&E, Tiffany Varner/Ryan Wade- Discounts"
"Profit Like It's Hot"
Who is SnooPP Dogg
Discounts-"The top department through Q2 for manual markdowns is Diamond Sports with $2.5M "
"What Profit Sounds Like"
Who is HUNTR/X of KPop Demon Hunters
MOS-"Mismates not only result in the loss at cost, but YTD accounts for $2.6M in lost sales."
"Profit Ain't Me Babe"
Who is Bob Dylan
Profit-"The Profit Protection team is aimed at ensuring all stores understand they have the ability and responsibility to the store's contribution by controlling what we can control."
"When Profit Rains It Pours"
Who is Luke Combs
Discounts-"Total Profit Protection-Discount impact through Q2 this year is $1.36M"
"C.R.E.A.M."
Who is The Wu Tang Clan
MOS-"Cash Over/Short is currently -$491K YTD."
"I Want Profit That Way"
Who are the Backstreet Boys
T&E-"Did you know? Corporate Card spend on food, pantry orders through Ariba, and High Five Activations all post to the Personnel Relations account."
"Wouldn't Profit Be Nice"
Who are the Beach Boys
"Discounts-Reason Codes used to manually markdown merchandise are Customer Service, Manager Override, Incorrect Sign, Incorrect Ticket, As Is, Blemished, Website Price Match, and Competitor Price Match"
"Profit Goes Like This"
Who is Thomas Rhett
MOS-"A process change in July 2024 changed how stores remove unsellable merchandise from stock. In FY25 YTD we have seen $680K in merchandise marked out through incorrectly through the old process."
"Save Dat Money"
Who is Lil Dickey
Profit-"As a group Profit Protection has $2.58M in savings through Q2 in FY25."
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Who are The Proclaimers
T&E- "Our teammates have driven 3,457,586 miles YTD in FY25, which is enough miles to drive 138 times around the Earth."
"California Dreamin"
Who is The Mama's and the Papas
T&E-"We've worked with stores in California to reduce Penalty Pay by 50% compared to FY23 spend. An annual savings of $500K!"
"Right on the Money"
Who is Alan Jackson
Discount-"Some larger projects that have been worked on with CSC Business Partners are creating a POS Discount Process Document, piloting a Military Discount, updating store facing discount data, ..."
"It Takes 2"
Who is Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
T&E-"We're partnering with stores to increase awareness of the Travel & Corporate Card policy, especially with expense submission. All expenses are to be submitted within 14 days of the transaction. Timeliness matters!"