More petty work issues, as in the previous thread...
New "real" shift manager inserted, discussion in my presence by shop and regional managers.
I happened to be having my lunch break at the back office/storage room when the regional manager and store manager came in to talk. Seems like the regional manager has decided that our shop needs a "real" shift manager, who will be accepted by the employees as the store manager's second-in-command. She pushed our store manager to declare this outright, and that we should understand that there are certain power relations in place, but the store manager said that this would cause a mutiny, and that this should be eased in. All this while I was sitting there, eating my bagels and reading the newspaper. I obviously leaked this to the other workers once I'd gotten out. I don't know what to make of the fact that they acted like I either wasn't there or wasn't really one of the workers. :-/
Last month's sales target meant that we weren't getting any bonuses. This month's sales target seems to harbinger same. We're all pissed off, at least one other person has talked about trying to undershoot the sales target, and there are three of us who are in pronounced agreement about this, though one of the two others said that the rest of the old guard are probably automatically not going to put in any effort because of this sales target. I heard that the store manager defended the target in front of him, then yelled at the regional manager behind closed doors, and now the target has been somewhat decreased, though it's still too high. I was present when said worker told the store manager that a lot of us were pissed at the sales target, to which she replied that the regional manager knows this and that's why the sales target was lowered, but there wasn't much to do because the latter is being pressured by the CEO who's being pressured in turn by some fund which has bought a large share of the company, or something of that sort.
If people here have advice about how to undersell inconspicuously, let me know. We're underselling by a bit anyway due to how crazy the target is, but we should aim much lower if we want to be noticed, and we obviously have to get most if not all of the old guard (about six workers including me, now) on our side. The new people will be less of a problem because they're new and therefore inefficient anyway.
Our former shift manager has become some kind of recruiting manager under direct patronage of the CEO, and this has brought five new workers over, not counting the proposed "real" shift manager. One of them found this mall store to be ill-suited to her proclivities, but the rest may well stay. This will make undershooting easier because of said inefficiency, but harder because they might just be used to displace the old guard. Oh, and one of the new folk is a bossy bastard, and I haven't told him off yet, but I will.
Finally, one of the people who tentatively agrees to undershooting is on his way out looking for a better job, and I'll be honest that I'm thinking of trying to get transfered to a store closer to home (as it is it's about a 50-min. bus ride over and an hour+ ride back, and it's in the middle of nowhere as far as my extra-curricular activities are concerned). This may influence things.
Anyway, that's the ld. Any suggestions?
), and went about everything very slowly and thoroughly. I also made sure to use every chance to talk to the coworkers instead of working, but that happens anyway. 
Well if you run stock low then you can make people less likely to buy but that's fairly noticeable. You could always try recommending books that you don't have (or claim not to ). Otherwise try and clog up the tills, that will slow people down and if you can get the tills backed up then that will lower sales too.
You'd probably need for barcodes to be damaged ( easy to do, but probably not on a large enough scale) or for machinery to not work (again hard to do)
Do you need a supervisor to key in an override on the tills if there is an error? You could repeatedly make errors. Wastes the manager's time going backwards and forwards and keeps him/her from watching over the rest of the staff. If he then parks up by the tills you can use that as an excuse, say he's stressing you out by staring at you or something.
OTher thing you can do is really good customer service. ie spend ten minutes helping someone choose a book, chat to people at the tills. Stuff you can reasonably claim is an attempt at good customer service.