Yeah, getting a store presentation ready is bad even when it's just the President or VP of our division coming to visit. A few years back though, six stores in my district got visited by the national VP from corporate headquarters, and for a week and a half before hand they pulled spare employees and managers from all over the district, and backstage operations people from the division main offices to get the stores ready.

Talking with friends who did the scheduling in a couple of those stores we estimated that getting those five stores ready for the two day visit cost the company close to $100,000 in wages and OT. (and in the end they only visited five of the stores).