Sales Floor How to get repacks done faster in home and decor?

[Guest104]

I’ve been at the store for 3 months and I’m wondering how can get my repacks done faster. I’m in home and decor and I had 24 repacks and one thee tier. I brought half at a time on a uboat and separated by ailes and took it out from box and plastics. My three tier is filled all the way after 9-12 boxes on average for top half of the store with bedding, bath and I come back so the second half of the store with health had and home improvement. Then I go back stock and grab the second half of repacks. It took me 3 and half hours to do all repacks. I’m thinking should me and my coworker break it down at the line and split into two uboats and do it together?

 

[MrT]

Honestly that doesn't seem like that unreasonable an amount of time to do repacks, does this include bedding repacks because those are fairly easy because they only fit so much. Either way id say keep doing what your doing and the speed will probably get faster with time as you develop your own strategy. Id say if you want to try it another way a few times then go for it, sometimes you end up doing something a little different and can implement some parts and make it easier on yourself. Id say just keep all the same repacks together and when you break apart do you just do one area at a time and less walking back and forth.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

I push OTC and PC repacks now, but used to do the ones for domestics. @MrT offers good advice about trying different things to find what works for you.
As much as possible, try to keep like with like - keep window treatments all together and do as much of them at the same time as you can. Same for sheets, towels, decor, etc. That'll help you push faster and make your back stocking more efficient too.
Work clean and keep your u-boat organized. The less you're shuffling stuff around, picking up trash you've dropped, and back-tracking will all help you work quickly.
I like to say that I'm basically lazy - I'm a hard worker but I'm always looking for ways to help me do more without putting out more effort. I'm not the fastest, but I'm really, really efficient.

 

[Guest104]

I push OTC and PC repacks now, but used to do the ones for domestics. @MrT offers good advice about trying different things to find what works for you.
As much as possible, try to keep like with like - keep window treatments all together and do as much of them at the same time as you can. Same for sheets, towels, decor, etc. That'll help you push faster and make your back stocking more efficient too.
Work clean and keep your u-boat organized. The less you're shuffling stuff around, picking up trash you've dropped, and back-tracking will all help you work quickly.
I like to say that I'm basically lazy - I'm a hard worker but I'm always looking for ways to help me do more without putting out more effort. I'm not the fastest, but I'm really, really eff

 

[Guest104]

Oh yes when I seperate my three tiers it’s by ailes, so I don’t have to return back to the same aisle. I honestly don't feel bad today because the person who trained me had 27 repacks today and it took her 4 hours. my store is an older but really big store, the home decor and bedding are on opposite sides of the store. I never have seen any other target like this and I don't know why they won't fix it.

 

[Guest104]

Honestly that doesn't seem like that unreasonable an amount of time to do repacks, does this include bedding repacks because those are fairly easy because they only fit so much. Either way id say keep doing what your doing and the speed will probably get faster with time as you develop your own strategy. Id say if you want to try it another way a few times then go for it, sometimes you end up doing something a little different and can implement some parts and make it easier on yourself. Id say just keep all the same repacks together and when you break apart do you just do one area at a time and less walking back and forth.

I honestly wanna try the mothership method with flat and three tier where you park in-between aisles with 12 repacks and open the top 6 and take out what you need into 3 tiers. I don't like pulling all the repacks in one area sorting them, because I feel like I'm wasting time by touching them twice. I just want to touch em once and put em on the shelf.

 

[MrT]

I honestly wanna try the mothership method with flat and three tier where you park in-between aisles with 12 repacks and open the top 6 and take out what you need into 3 tiers. I don't like pulling all the repacks in one area sorting them, because I feel like I'm wasting time by touching them twice. I just want to touch em once and put em on the shelf.

Sorting your repacks is definitely faster then having to go back and forth the more you can sort the better if you have multiple 3 tiers to use i would do it

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Long time ago, I sorted the hard lines repacks. (Think they included Pets, Kitchen, Seasonal, Domestics, Toys, and Sporting Goods. Soft Lines - now called Style - Electronics, and HBA were in different ones.)

My "sorting station" moved a couple times, but my process stayed the same: sort like things together - so, sheets in one cart, towels in another, decor in another, etc. We didn't have 3-tiers then, so I used shopping carts and these big tub bins on wheels. Sometimes, I was assigned to pushing them as well, but more often, I parked them in those departments. I didn't always sort the repacks and some TMs said they could tell the difference when someone else did it - less organized, took longer to push.

I think it's okay to touch things twice, if you're gaining efficiency for the push. I could sort very quickly because I did it the same way every time (once I figured out the setup that worked best for me). So I didn't have to think about it, just do. When your hands just know what to do and you're not having to make decisions, you can get a lot done very quickly.

 

[BKop16]

I was always a fan of detrashing domestics in the backroom. It kept the trash/silica packs from getting on the salesfloor and you could do it near the baler. I'd usually do a u-boat for bedding and one for bath and then throw the smaller items like bath decor and storage/dec home in repacks. If you have some of those rubber bands that come on some RDC/FDC pallets, putting them on a u-boat for support between the shelves also helps. 3-tiers also work but I liked u-boats.