Securing and Developing Specialized Talent

「高度専門人材や即戦力の中途採用を強化し、事業成⾧を牽引する組織基盤を構築」

「We also aim to establish a system that can better address the company's management issues while implementing a career-path system for all employees. The system focuses on enabling new hires to become productive at an early stage and is also used to appoint part-time and other employees to permanent positions.」

「GUTs (Grow Up Together System) establishes employee development stages according to grades and job functions and promotes the mutual development of knowledge, skills, and personal growth through workplace relationships. We will continue to implement and embed the system while developing personnel capable of managing stores. We also aim to establish a system that can better address the company's management issues while implementing a career-path system for all employees.」

「We have established GUTs (Grow Up Together System), our proprietary personnel development program, meaning a system in which employees learn and grow together.」

「Although signs of a recovery in personal consumption have emerged in the retail industry, difficult conditions continue due to rising prices, higher labor costs, and labor shortages.」

「Accordingly, we recognize that securing and developing personnel with specialist knowledge of each product is an important management issue for the company. If the recruitment and development of store staff do not progress as planned, our store-opening plans will be constrained. In addition, the departure of experienced store staff represents the loss of an important management resource, and if a large number of store staff leave within a short period, this could affect our business performance.」

「Accordingly, we recognize that securing and developing personnel with specialist knowledge of each product is an important management issue for the company. If the recruitment and development of store staff do not progress as planned, our store-opening plans will be constrained.」

「Accordingly, we recognize that securing and developing personnel with specialist knowledge of each product is an important management issue for the company. If the recruitment and development of store staff do not progress as planned, our store-opening plans will be constrained.」

「The retail industry continues to face a difficult operating environment due to sluggish personal consumption, difficult recruitment conditions caused by labor shortages, and rising labor costs.」

「In terms of profit, selling, general and administrative expenses increased due to higher labor costs and expenses associated with new store openings. As a result, operating income, ordinary income, and net income for the quarter were lower than in the same period of the previous year.」

「The retail industry continues to face a difficult operating environment due to increasingly diverse consumer purchasing behavior, difficult recruitment conditions caused by labor shortages, and rising labor costs.」

「The retail industry continues to face a difficult operating environment due to increasingly diverse consumer purchasing behavior, difficult recruitment conditions caused by labor shortages, and rising labor costs.」

「Although personal consumption has shown signs of recovery in the retail industry, difficult conditions continue because labor shortages are making recruitment difficult and driving up labor costs.」

「In addition, labor shortages have become more pronounced among companies, particularly in the retail and food-service industries.」

「Except where market prices exist for items such as precious metals, purchase prices for used goods are not predetermined because distribution prices have not been established in advance. …Accordingly, we recognize that securing and developing personnel with specialist knowledge of each product is an important management issue for the company.」

「Under our human resources policy, we have worked to develop buyers for fashion and hobby products, our core merchandise and the lifeblood of the company. The introduction of a new personnel system and performance evaluations based on job-behavior standards have made evaluations more transparent, clarified the development paths for younger employees, and helped improve morale across the workforce.」

「Under our human resources policy, we have worked to develop buyers for fashion and hobby products, our core merchandise and the lifeblood of the company. We introduced a new personnel system at the end of the previous fiscal year and sought to improve morale among employees in their 20s and 30s, who make up a large proportion of the workforce, by changing the composition of mid-level managers and above.」

「Under our human resources policy, we have worked to develop buyers for fashion and hobby products, our core merchandise and the lifeblood of the company. Under the new personnel system introduced at the end of the previous fiscal year, we significantly lowered the grades of employees who lacked buying capabilities, while appointing promising young employees with strong buying capabilities, thereby changing the composition of mid-level managers and above. This helped improve morale among employees in their 20s and 30s, who make up a large proportion of the workforce.」