Taking Merchandise from Vendors

Salespeople or anyone is not to take items directly from Michel or other vendors who are in the store. If you need something from Michel, for example, ask him if he has it, and if he does, then he needs to give it to us with an invoice.

Michel’s and other vendors’ merchandise needs to go through the inventory process, meaning properly entered and routed to repair to get checked, to ensure it is in good enough condition to sell.

If you need something from Michel when he’s here, have him write up an invoice and give the merchandise and invoice to Inventory.

Do not take something from him and run it out to the floor “real quickly” to show a customer. It may seem harmless to take it momentarily with the intent to “eventually” route it to inventory but strange things can happen, and Michel is not going to remember what he gave to whom, and when, and with what invoice all the time.

When you take something directly from Michel, there is a higher chance of it getting lost, separated from its invoice, not returned to Michel, handed from one person to another person to another person who eventually has no idea where it came from or where it belongs, or put somewhere like in a showroom case with no tag and not entered into the computer!

Inventory personnel are held accountable for missing merchandise, regardless of who is actually involved. Don’t put them in danger by bypassing them and taking merchandise.