02-28-2013, 08:00 PM
How much do you want to bet that the managers bonus is tied to the store budget and the less he spends on essentials like cleaning, the more he bags at the end of the year?
(02-28-2013, 11:09 AM)FloorCareMD Wrote: The two stores that have not stripped or even top coated in two years have 4 day floor maintenance. We provide an annual strip and recoat at no additional cost to the store, provided they allow us to bring in our chemicals, and with the year contract. Been doing them this way for over a decade. Now here is where the store cheapness comes in. They claimed for the past two years that to move the displays, items, etc. etc. off of the sales floor would cost them too much labor, so they chose to skip the annual strips and also the deep scrub and recoats. Most of their employees are students making less than minimum wage.
Even with 4 day maint. of autoscrubbing and buffing, you can imagine what a store looks like with no floor finish applied in two years. We service a competitor store of theirs not too far away that keeps up with an annual strip and two recoats per year and that floor looks awesome with only 3 day per week maint.
What puzzles me is this manager knows how great his store looked for years up until he chose to skip scheduled maintenance for two years and all of a sudden it is our floor finish's fault.
I know that there is not any brand of finish out there that would hold up for that long in this store with only four day maint. and absolutely no attention given to the floor on off days, not even dust mopping.