Case Study: Aéropostale achieves 61% payroll error reduction and six-figure cost savings with Dayforce

Aeropostale - Customer Case Study

Aéropostale, a mall-based specialty retailer with over 1,000 stores and 22,500 employees, needed a better way to manage a largely tech‑savvy, mostly student workforce across multiple states. Manual, spreadsheet-based time & attendance and scheduling processes made compliance with varying state and minor‑labor laws difficult, wasted manager time, and drove costly overtime and errors.

Aéropostale deployed Ceridian Dayforce HCM — a single, cloud-based real-time system for payroll, benefits, workforce management, time & attendance and HR — first in a 150-store pilot and then companywide. The solution automated processes, ensured compliance, cut payroll processing time by about half a day, eliminated legacy interfaces, integrated pay cards, and enabled mobile self‑service; outcomes included six‑figure reductions in management expenses, a ~61% drop in payroll errors (to 0.6256), and an on-time, under‑budget implementation with stronger-than-expected ROI.

Aeropostale

Julie Sedlock

Group VP of Store Operations