Childrens Place to give back Disney Stores!!

[aurora23]

Wow...I'm just stunned at the stores that are going......Especially Mayfair!

I'm so so sorry & hope that Brad & the Cast get a major dose of pixie dust. (With any luck, maybe the powers that be will see what they're losing, keep Mayfair & lose Hot Dot)

I have a feeling that they'll keep the Dells outlet for the busy summer season & when everything is liquidated & then it'll go too......

I can't believe Mayfair is going! If any store was spared I thought it would be that one. Where will I go now?

 

[honeymom]

I just posted about Desert Ridge on another thread. I am shocked about that one, because it just opened a couple of months ago.

 

[tcarr5]

MARYLAND:
#523 St. Charles Towne Center, Waldorf



ok I'm off to go cry

 

[Disneymagic93]

Thanks for the picture I-4WDW. That's my store! We were running around all weekend taking pictures of the store and all of the cast who I must say are fantastic!!!!!! It's been my pleasure to work with them for the past 5 years. There are a few of us still left from pre-TCP and it's been very hard for us to know that we won't be working together anymore. I have come out of this with some great friends though and that is so important.

Hi Boston1029,
I'm so sorry to hear about your store closing. If it helps any I'm in the same boat with you. I'm from Willow Grove and I'm sure you have heard by now we are closeing too. I've been with the company for 14 1/2 years. While I've only been with Willow Grove for 3 years I'm sure going to miss the Pink and Green store.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

So sorry to all the cm's out there whose stores are closing. I just started working for Disney in January. Our store is not closing, and hopefully will not. We did lose our wonderful DM who we all love. I hate that she lost her job. She was wonderful. I am looking forward to being Disney owned again.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

Current CM's don't see it as being rude, but instead trying to tell more guests at one time what is going on in the store. I never once considered myself being rude when I was at the greeter position. I'll be more than happy to talk to guests, I do every single shift, but if I'm at the greeter position, I'm going to do what am I am supposed to do even if some people do consider it rude. It's my job and it doesn't make me any less of a CM. I also don't think it's going to be going anywhere since the greeter position, as I'm sure you know as a former CM, has been around for a LONG time.

We aren't to scream or yell in our store. We were never told to do that. I talk to every guest that comes in and I do tell them about our deals but as I am talking to them.

 

[dis24242]

We aren't to scream or yell in our store. We were never told to do that. I talk to every guest that comes in and I do tell them about our deals but as I am talking to them.

We are the loudest in our store. I make group announcements when lots of folks are in the SALE are.

Attention
There is no biting or gouging during the sale
However, pushing and shoving is allowed.
Move it toots I want that.

Oh, and be careful the this lady ... she's a known pusher .

Every guest has a great laugh and alot of fun

We're alway loud on the week-end. Just to have fun with our guests and they love it.

Nothing wrong with havin' fun.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

We are the loudest in our store. I make group announcements when lots of folks are in the SALE are.

Attention
There is no biting or gouging during the sale
However, pushing and shoving is allowed.
Move it toots I want that.

Oh, and be careful the this lady ... she's a known pusher .

Every guest has a great laugh and alot of fun

We're alway loud on the week-end. Just to have fun with our guests and they love it.

Nothing wrong with havin' fun.

That sounds cute...very disney -esque.

 

[dis24242]

When new babies are in the store I ask if the parents have a cell phone camera.

Well, it's picture takin' time. If the baby is in a stroller, I put mini plush all around so all you see is the baby's face. It's surrounded by plush.
Makin' memories

Sometimes if they're 1 or 2 years old, I sit them in the lower level of plush mt. surround them with bigger plush so all you see is their face and lots of Disney characters.

Takin' pictures at The Disney Store is
Makin' memories.

I've been doin' this for soo long (13 years), kids come back on Prom Night just to take a picture in front of Plush Mountian.

Makin' memories

I even had one wedding party dash in after the wedding and
You guessed it .... pictures at Plush Mountian

Makin' memories

I'm even God Father to one of our newest babies.
That's such a great honor.

Disney Memories will last me a life time.

 

[fairygodmother29577]

Oh my gosh that is wonderful! I love it, your right we have taken pictures of guest in the castle dressing room, in front of pooh and tigger. I thought there where no great places to take pictures in our new store since our animation is way up high now. But you just restored a little magic for me....Thank you for sharing.

 

[dis24242]

Godmom,
Always be on the lookout for Jiminy Cricket.
Children follow me around the story whispering "Jiminy Cricket where are you"? We alert guest to "watch where you're walkin'" ya might step on 'em.

But if you find em' ... yell out.. the kids and I will take it from there.

Of course I "Just missed him" several times. The kids have a great time - ah and so do I.

There's lots of lines I use with guests ... my normal greeting, with arms wide open, "welcome home."

Gosh I'm gonna miss our store. When it closes in a few weeks.

Try this one too. Take your biggest plush and have little girls dress 'em using anything in the store. When they're done, display it with a place card that says "Pooh (or Sulley, Eyore, etc) professionally dressed by ... the guest signs or prints her name. The best one was Sulley dressed in Little Mermaid PJ's with a Mermaid hat on his head .. too funny

 

[disneydawn6]

Oh my gosh that is wonderful! I love it, your right we have taken pictures of guest in the castle dressing room, in front of pooh and tigger. I thought there where no great places to take pictures in our new store since our animation is way up high now. But you just restored a little magic for me....Thank you for sharing.

Castle dressing rooms? We have never had a dressing room in our store. It's 19 years old. Animation? Our animation went away when we were remodeled 5 years ago. We're a castle store. We do not have any animation at all.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

I'm just checking in on all of my fellow CM's to see how everybody is doing...I hope everyone and their Cast is doing well regardless of the status of the store.

 

[mickeymark34]

Our Cast is very excited. It seems that there has be a renewed energy amongst us, and you can see it in certain people. Yesterday was my first day working since the official day that Disney took over, and I was so excited to go on stage and celebrate being part of the Company again.

 

[meljw1960]

We're trying to keep smiling and laughing at the outrageous things some guests say. We are very tired of answering the same questions over and over again. I was not too happy to have to hand out mickey ears to "spread the magic" when Disney is dumping us. But, we hand them to children and tell them it is our way of thanking them for coming to see us and being our guests.
I worked a 9 1/2 hr shift yesterday and the store was so trashed. We tried all day and night to keep up with it ,but it was horrible. I know the brunt of this will hit us when the doors are shut for good, but for now, we are trying to keep our spirits up and make the most of it.

 

[Mickey&Donald]

We're trying to keep smiling and laughing at the outrageous things some guests say. We are very tired of answering the same questions over and over again. I was not too happy to have to hand out mickey ears to "spread the magic" when Disney is dumping us. But, we hand them to children and tell them it is our way of thanking them for coming to see us and being our guests.
I worked a 9 1/2 hr shift yesterday and the store was so trashed. We tried all day and night to keep up with it ,but it was horrible. I know the brunt of this will hit us when the doors are shut for good, but for now, we are trying to keep our spirits up and make the most of it.

I could have written this exact post. I am growing weary of people asking:

"Oh, are you closing?" (no, we always have hideous signage hanging from our ceilings and it's typical to see literally EVERYTHING in the store on sale )

"Why are you closing?" (and then I get to explain the whole saga 23874875894 times a day)

"When are you closing?" (I understand this one, but it stinks that I don't have an answer for it)

"When are the sales going to be better than this? [Such-and-such neighboring Disney Store that isn't closing] is having a better sale on this item than you. That's ridiculous, your sale should be better, how lame, blah blah blah..." (these people I have to bite my tongue around )

We have people ransacking the store constantly. It looked like an army troop with muddy boots marched through today. Not to mention the gum all over the tiles, the Starbucks left on shelves, the wads of Kleenex and napkins from Auntie Anne's left everywhere... This whole experience has been so disheartening and exhausting. We've always had exceptionally messy guests (I've even had visiting managers help out in my store in the past and remark about it) but now that we're closing, they think we're a garbage bin or something.

Sigh. I'm going in for a couple of hours early tomorrow morning (on my day off no less) to change all the signage for the deepening discounts. Not pleased about it, but it needs to be done. We have tons of boxes of shipment backstage (any other liquidation stores who can relate?) that we work on every single day to process, but where am I supposed to store everything? Fourteen cases of Aladdin PVC sets? Seriously?

Sorry to unload on all of you, but I have a feeling many know where I'm coming from. I'm trying to keep the magic alive and the pixie dust flowing, but sometimes it's really hard.

 

[castmember604]

Mickey&Donald

I know our store at VCC can relate to the shipment fiasco that is going on, we recieved about 30 cases of Oswald posters this week, around the same amont of Aladdin PVC's. It honestly seems worse than Christmas this past year. We have a larger back room than most, but our stuff is stacked to the roof!

I have to agree with you about the guests tearing through the store, it is like they dont care, however we do have the guests that do care. We had one on Friday that felt bad for us so she brought us a fresh dozen of doughnuts from Krispy Kream.

 

[meljw1960]

Boy, its like we are all in the same store. Our liquidation supervisor came in today and made a full window display with all the Oswald stuff. Yes, I processed shipment and between Oswald, remy in a jar, and Giant Stuffed Giselles, we are packed backstage also. The questions you posted are the same ones we answer 100's of times a day and you forgot one... " are they selling the figures??" NO!! and I always tell the, "if they were, we'd be first in line to buy them".
We had a great one yesterday. We gave a little girl Mickey ears and she was thrilled, but told her Mom they didn't fit. She actually looked up at the Cast Member and asked "Do you have a bobby pin??" she no sooner got out the door and we laughed hysterically. A bobby pin?? really? I guess nothing surprises us anymore.

 

[Mickey&Donald]

Ahhhhhh!!! The Oswald posters! And Oswald resin figurines! And Oswald travel mugs!

I love Oswald. I think he's super cool. But honestly... how are we going to sell all of it? It's really funny that we're all getting the same insane amounts of the same stuff! I had to restack boxes yesterday just to create a path to the green room!

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

I could have written this exact post. I am growing weary of people asking:

"Oh, are you closing?" (no, we always have hideous signage hanging from our ceilings and it's typical to see literally EVERYTHING in the store on sale )

"Why are you closing?" (and then I get to explain the whole saga 23874875894 times a day)

"When are you closing?" (I understand this one, but it stinks that I don't have an answer for it)

"When are the sales going to be better than this? [Such-and-such neighboring Disney Store that isn't closing] is having a better sale on this item than you. That's ridiculous, your sale should be better, how lame, blah blah blah..." (these people I have to bite my tongue around )

We have people ransacking the store constantly. It looked like an army troop with muddy boots marched through today. Not to mention the gum all over the tiles, the Starbucks left on shelves, the wads of Kleenex and napkins from Auntie Anne's left everywhere... This whole experience has been so disheartening and exhausting. We've always had exceptionally messy guests (I've even had visiting managers help out in my store in the past and remark about it) but now that we're closing, they think we're a garbage bin or something.

Sigh. I'm going in for a couple of hours early tomorrow morning (on my day off no less) to change all the signage for the deepening discounts. Not pleased about it, but it needs to be done. We have tons of boxes of shipment backstage (any other liquidation stores who can relate?) that we work on every single day to process, but where am I supposed to store everything? Fourteen cases of Aladdin PVC sets? Seriously?

Sorry to unload on all of you, but I have a feeling many know where I'm coming from. I'm trying to keep the magic alive and the pixie dust flowing, but sometimes it's really hard.

The one CM at my store reads the Dis but doesn't post and he read your post and said how badly he feels for you guys. I can't imagine have to repeat the same thing over and over again to guest after guest and then some of them getting mad and being rude about the prices! Some 'customers;' never fail to amaze me.

I have to agree with you about the guests tearing through the store, it is like they dont care, however we do have the guests that do care. We had one on Friday that felt bad for us so she brought us a fresh dozen of doughnuts from Krispy Kream.

That was really nice! It's just a simple gesture like that that really lets you know that so many guests do care...

The questions you posted are the same ones we answer 100's of times a day and you forgot one... " are they selling the figures??" NO!! and I always tell the, "if they were, we'd be first in line to buy them".
We had a great one yesterday. We gave a little girl Mickey ears and she was thrilled, but told her Mom they didn't fit. She actually looked up at the Cast Member and asked "Do you have a bobby pin??" she no sooner got out the door and we laughed hysterically. A bobby pin?? really? I guess nothing surprises us anymore.

Yeah...you'd be the first person in line to buy the animation...the CMs who work there would be ALL of the way in the back because you know, they wouldn't want a piece of their store... People even ask that at my store and we're not closing.

As far as the bobby pins are concerned, you mean you don't stock them at the cash wrap?! I can't believe that asked you that! A good answer would have been "I'm sorry it doesn't fit your child's head, maybe her head is shaped oddly - we have dress pins back here if you would like a couple of those?" I know I would NEVER say that to a guest...but it doesn't stop me from thinking about it!

Hang in there, you guys. We're all thinking about you.