To keep the floor full, in my opinion, instocks should be getting an eight hour shift during the week. During the weekend it's not as big of a deal, just because it's a lot harder to get things done because it's so much busier. During those eight hours, the first three hours should be dedicated to rigs and straight up research. The last half of the day should be dedicated to dropping manuals, and pogs in problem areas. The areas you dropped the manuals and pogs make sure if you have backstock your changing the counts and checking capacity, that'll make sure your counts are correct around the store. Whatever area you drop manuals in, scan the next day when you do your research. Within five days, the whole store should be scanned, the whole store should have manuals dropped for every section. The manuals will get smaller the more you do them, caf pulls will get smaller, autofills will get smaller, the floor will be fuller, backroom emptier. In theory if you have great people pulling and backstocking, then your backroom accuracy should go up. The biggest areas for manual drops are usually groc2, hbo1-2. Everything else is usually fairly easy. Now doing this probably isn't going to help out the out of stock score, just because there comes a point where that is kind of out of our hands, and goes on whether or not we are able to get the product. Set up a scanning schedule for certain sections, set up a manual drop for certain sections. Follow that every week. It's possible, because we have done it at my store around Christmas time and it worked great. But since hours dropped off we struggle sometimes to get the whole store scanned.
