Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

[salesfloor10]

Thank you for clearing that up for me @droid123 and @Hidethebodies
I appreciate it!

To my pfresh team...I hope Sunday's truck goes okay. I really hope it's small like the last two!

 

[pfreshdude]

My fellow pa's this Saturdays truck is huge biggest to date and very few team members. Here is the breakdown only 3 flow team members to push the 1780 piece truck that is a little more than 18 pallets. Frozen around 450 and produce about 480 .. Wait for it fresh is a little over 900. So whatever is left on Monday we will have to smart huddle. Do your best I'm off and wish I could be there to help out.

1780 piece truck..oh..my...god..that is close to our Flow push somedays

 

[Meli4Target]

todays pfresh truck was 1550...& it came at 3pm..when there was no flow team or pfresh team for that matter.. it was a hot mess.

 

[qmosqueen]

@InStocksQueen your 1550 truck that about our normal Tuesday, Thursday truck we get anywhere around 1200 - 1500 and we get the whole store to smart huddle from about 8:15 to 9:15 and get freezers and dairy done. That just leaves produce for 3 flow team members to work out, while 2 others STO in the dairy cooler.

they reset, the cheese/eggs/creamer and yogurt/juice aisles on Friday and they plan to reset freezers on Monday. Not sure when the lunch meat is gonning to be reset.

As for our 1700+ pfresh truck, I assume it will be a lot of the new yogurt (Simply balanced) and new lunch meats and some new lunchables. Still not sure how they are goning to squeeze all the pallets in the coolers, I guess by now that has been done and lets hope a least 1/3 of the truck has been pushed, sine it should have arrive around 4 AM today, Saturday. I just hope the Logitistics ETL is working and does his job, which has been getting better so I hope he is on the ball on this huge truck or else I'll have a lot to recover on Monday.

 

[commiecorvus]

Question to everyone, for the past 2 lunchables resets, the plano team did not put in the new label strips. They printed labels themselves, put the new labels up and covered the old ones. It looks like crap. What can I do to prevent this for this reset?

In case anyone is wondering, my plano team have YET to do the ice cream wall reset from mid February. I have been told quote "not enough hours" and it was due to a snow storm we had when they were suppose to do it.

Not to defend the Plano team, I don't know they might be screw-ups, but:
all too often if something doesn't get done when the hours are available, they're right there are no hours to go back and fix it later.
This is known as The Spot Situation.
If you get lucky the PTL will try and fit some time into their schedule to fix it themselves.
That's if you have a good PTL.

As to the strips, they might not have received the strips so they had to print out the individual labels.
I can't tell you how much that sucks.
Also in the coolers changing those strips sucks in a big way.

My only suggestion is the next time there is a revision to ride herd on them and make sure it looks good.
You won't be all that popular but at least your section will be taken care of and if you do it a couple of times they will get the message.

 

[Meli4Target]

Question to everyone, for the past 2 lunchables resets, the plano team did not put in the new label strips. They printed labels themselves, put the new labels up and covered the old ones. It looks like crap. What can I do to prevent this for this reset?

In case anyone is wondering, my plano team have YET to do the ice cream wall reset from mid February. I have been told quote "not enough hours" and it was due to a snow storm we had when they were suppose to do it.

Not to defend the Plano team, I don't know they might be screw-ups, but:
all too often if something doesn't get done when the hours are available, they're right there are no hours to go back and fix it later.
This is known as The Spot Situation.
If you get lucky the PTL will try and fit some time into their schedule to fix it themselves.
That's if you have a good PTL.

As to the strips, they might not have received the strips so they had to prints out the individual labels.
I can't tell you how much that sucks.
Also in the coolers changing those strips sucks in a big way.

My only suggestion is the next time there is a revision to ride herd on them and make sure it looks good.
You won't be all that popular but at least your section will be taken care of and if you do it a couple of times they will get the message.

I will be on them when I am scheduled in the AM.

Does anyone know how mytime affects how perishables assistants's schedules and responsibilities?

With mytime, Perishable Assistants will NO LONGER have set schedules, they have no guaranteed 40 hours.
However, you will still have someone come in at 6. my HR Team Lead tries to schedule the PA's to open to ensure PA routines are done, but that doesn't always happen. My advice to you is to cross train ALL your team members to ensure they know how to do the morning routines (cull, tpc's, etc) and the same with evening routines (filling milk, cull, vendor bread, etc) because based at my store, the PA's are working mostly morning and mid shifts and they schedule just anybody else to close in market.
We have been about 2 months in with mytime now..maybe 1 month. but mytime gives hours based on where guest traffic is, 40% of our sales comes from market. so with mytime we have been getting around 400 hours!

hope that helps you

 

[Meli4Target]

todays pfresh truck was 1550...& it came at 3pm..when there was no flow team or pfresh team for that matter.. it was a hot mess.

ouch baby very ouch

What is your normal size truck?


Also, has any store started their p fresh transition?

1500-1700 piece truck is are normal size truck for Friday's delivery. our food truck that comes in on Monday is usually between 1000-1200 pieces & Wednesdays truck is usually between 800-950.
40% of our sales are in market YTD comp sales in produce were up 5.2% and were up 4.1% in meat/frzn/dairy. Our biggest struggle is bakery, we are down in sales by like 2%. Bakery items hardly come out in our pulls, and it usually sits empty (one of our opps is ensuring bake table is full at all times)

 

[mrknownothing]

Bakery items hardly come out in our pulls, and it usually sits empty (one of our opps is ensuring bake table is full at all times)

Does your team research bakery on a regular basis?

 

[Meli4Target]

Research day is on Tuesday for pfresh.. The rest of the days we scan it under stand alone outs. However, It seems like they're burning batches because some stuff won't come out in pulls and well go under item search and it'll still have a br location

 

[BRguy]

Research day is on Tuesday for pfresh.. The rest of the days we scan it under stand alone outs. However, It seems like they're burning batches because some stuff won't come out in pulls and well go under item search and it'll still have a br location

I bet the backroom team members don't like the cold.

 

[doxie71]

So of our 18 pallet truck from Saturday we still have about 3 freezer left. And we get another truck tomorrow. Gonna be a blast.

 

[mrknownothing]

Research day is on Tuesday for pfresh.. The rest of the days we scan it under stand alone outs. However, It seems like they're burning batches because some stuff won't come out in pulls and well go under item search and it'll still have a br location

Maybe it's time to have a little chat with your backroom TL. Burning batches is unacceptable.

 

[qmosqueen]

Burning batches is unacceptable.

then why do the tomatoes, for example there are also cantalopes and several other produce itmes, that always come out on the dam auto cafs when it is alreay full and the accumilator has been set back ?? I have sto'd and subt 9999, how many left ... 68 and they still come out on the next auto caf, why oh why?

 

[Meli4Target]

So of our 18 pallet truck from Saturday we still have about 3 freezer left. And we get another truck tomorrow. Gonna be a blast.

I hear you on that one, we still got a pallet of juice in the dairy cooler that needs to be pushed out before our next truck comes in. I tried to push as much as i can on monday when the truck came in at 6am -_- its bettter than 3pm though haha! do any of you all have a designated pfresh team?? Because when the truck comes they just have flow team members break away from the "wave" and start pushing in the p-flat.

 

[Meli4Target]

Research day is on Tuesday for pfresh.. The rest of the days we scan it under stand alone outs. However, It seems like they're burning batches because some stuff won't come out in pulls and well go under item search and it'll still have a br location

Maybe it's time to have a little chat with your backroom TL. Burning batches is unacceptable.

I know that, can't burning batches put you on a final?? when i first started working in the backroom i use to hit m-delete and i got put on a CA for it. little did i know, you had to exit out the batch and LOCU the location to correct the ghost location! that was 4 years ago though

 

[Meli4Target]

Research day is on Tuesday for pfresh.. The rest of the days we scan it under stand alone outs. However, It seems like they're burning batches because some stuff won't come out in pulls and well go under item search and it'll still have a br location

I bet the backroom team members don't like the cold.

Best time to be in the freezer is when that auto-defrost thingy is on haha which is around 2:15pm

 

[mrknownothing]

then why do the tomatoes, for example there are also cantalopes and several other produce itmes, that always come out on the dam auto cafs when it is alreay full and the accumilator has been set back ?? I have sto'd and subt 9999, how many left ... 68 and they still come out on the next auto caf, why oh why?

Try using SUBT9999 without STOing first, then STO. If you STO first, the items will still come out in the next CAFs.

when i first started working in the backroom i use to hit m-delete and i got put on a CA for it. little did i know, you had to exit out the batch and LOCU the location to correct the ghost location! that was 4 years ago though

I've always found this ridiculous. You shouldn't be penalized because someone else didn't backstock properly. It's not your fault that someone else screwed up, and you shouldn't have to cover up their mistake. But then again, that would make sense, and this is Target we're talking about.

 

[Meli4Target]

whats subt9999? is there a difference between regular SUBT?? i always wondered how to backstock without it coming out of the cafs...

 

[BigEyedPhish]

So I closed market tonight. I helped the back room pull 7 flats of Market Price Changes.. Sooo happy I do not work tomorrow.

 

[doxie71]

I hear you on that one, we still got a pallet of juice in the dairy cooler that needs to be pushed out before our next truck comes in. I tried to push as much as i can on monday when the truck came in at 6am -_- its bettter than 3pm though haha! do any of you all have a designated pfresh team?? Because when the truck comes they just have flow team members break away from the "wave" and start pushing in the p-flat.

We have a small team that comes in before the store opens to start working on truck & autofills. Then once the store opens, the whole store comes over after huddle and pushes frozen & dairy. After that's all done, the pfresh team splits in 2. Half goes & backstocks, half goes and pushes produce. If I am there on truck day as opening PA, I take care of ambient, meat & produce pulls. Then the ambient pallet, bananas, and then the meat pallet. I do this in place of joining the mob pushing the truck. We also get milk deliveries the same day, so I'll usually go push milk before I go to lunch.

 

[Meli4Target]

then why do the tomatoes, for example there are also cantalopes and several other produce itmes, that always come out on the dam auto cafs when it is alreay full and the accumilator has been set back ?? I have sto'd and subt 9999, how many left ... 68 and they still come out on the next auto caf, why oh why?

Try using SUBT9999 without STOing first, then STO. If you STO first, the items will still come out in the next CAFs.

when i first started working in the backroom i use to hit m-delete and i got put on a CA for it. little did i know, you had to exit out the batch and LOCU the location to correct the ghost location! that was 4 years ago though

I've always found this ridiculous. You shouldn't be penalized because someone else didn't backstock properly. It's not your fault that someone else screwed up, and you shouldn't have to cover up their mistake. But then again, that would make sense, and this is Target we're talking about.

Thats so true! haha not to mention the time you lose when your pulling the cAFS to do all of that..

 

[Meli4Target]

i cant tell you how much i dislike pushing milk hahaha & my closers in market don't like to fill milk by the end of the night so when I come in its usually completely empty.

 

[mrknownothing]

whats subt9999? is there a difference between regular SUBT?? i always wondered how to backstock without it coming out of the cafs...

It's a little trick backroom uses to reset the accumulator. Use standalone SUBT to "pull" 9,999 of the item. This clears any residual accumulator "need." Then STO your product. Do NOT do this when pulling a batch, or else you will create thousands of baffles and kill your location accuracy score.

 

[Meli4Target]

whats subt9999? is there a difference between regular SUBT?? i always wondered how to backstock without it coming out of the cafs...

It's a little trick backroom uses to reset the accumulator. Use standalone SUBT to "pull" 9,999 of the item. This clears any residual accumulator "need." Then STO your product. Do NOT do this when pulling a batch, or else you will create thousands of baffles and kill your location accuracy score.

Stand alone subt.. is that the one thats in the color apps?? can you do subt9999 when the cafs dropped into the gun but your not pulling a batch?

 

[doxie71]

Random question time. What does everyone use to scrub the floors of the coolers? We have been told to only use hot water, but I was reading through the cleaning guide tonight and it said to use degreaser. Anyone use it?