Yeah it would make things easier if candy cane through the regular DCs, but they need to be climate controlled so it doesn't all melt. That was why we had McLanes in the first place.
Kellogg's is switching over to our DCs very soon. For my district, it starts the first week of July.
I was speaking to the merch and he was telling me they were no longer ordering or coming in for Kellogs brand stuff....Do we have to order that now or is it auto like most of dry market. If we have to order it, its just another thing to do in a long list of other things to do and the vendor make it seem like we were going to be ordering at the store level.
Our newest schedule on flow push days is now this
6-230- TL
6-1030-TM 1
6-1030-TM 2
12-7 Me
Leaderships claims we just need to be more efficient and compared to another store in our area (who has less to push and is less busy) we are spending more hours (duh). Our STL commented how I guess we shouldnt be doing research anymore and my TL and ETL-Salesfloor shot back saying that is what we were supposed to be doing and its best practice. I swear sometimes leadership needs to see the reality of the situation. We have to push, zone the entire aisle, research it, and then backstock and THEN put away cardboard and uboat on the other side of our backroom. It takes some time. What is ironic is that flow team constantly gets help from salesfloor in the morning and compared to our push rate is slower without even worrying about FIFO yet we are the ones who need to be more efficient and they dont even have to stay to backstock their stuff, shoot the aisle, or zone it
I know that they only allocate a certain ammount of hours and thats all we get but, and I dont know if this is at my store level or company wide....it still feels like the hours given are not enough to actually properly run grocery. They didnt really add ANY additional hours they just shifted the hours over from flow to market and that is literally it, or so it seems. Our non flow days are practically the same as they were before or even less for C&S hours now. And on truck days all the hours are just going to push the truck along with the research and zone of the aisle. In fact we might even be getting LESS hours since we now have to ALSO pull and backstock literally every fillgroup grocery related where in the past my team was just backstocking the cooler/freezer/produce stuff and not dry market.
Our max hours for a week has been 150 so far. If that is launch hours...I am deeply concerned how much they are going to cut to a new normal of hours, since we had close to that when we just launched Pfresh and this has a whole lot more workload attached to it. I dont know why we even have a cleaning tote anymore..or cleaning tasks and checklists...do you guys actually have time to clean? If so what is your secret
I like the process but I hate it at the same time. I can allready see everyone around me starting to get tired of it allready that came over to it who werent working in market allready. They were promised one thing with what it was and what hours they would get and I feel like their expectations did not meet reality but maybe thats just a misconception on my part.
One last part and a serious question because I need to gauge myself. How long does it take you all to pull the morning autofills and push it out. I seem to take about an hour to pull everything but maybe thats because in dry market each waco has a crapload of items to scan, especially candy and snacks which always seem to take forever so some of it could be do to backroom organization. Then to push it I guess just depends how much backstock there is or how much is pulled but seems to take maybe an hour to an hour and a half tops.
The days were the SDA is 40+ items, culling everything pretty thoroughly, processing that, and putting in donation bins or qmos bins, pulling autofills, working autofills, doing meat, produce, bakery coupons, backstocking autofills, doing cardboard, receiving cs, doing the order, filling milk along with helping guests all along the way.. Feels like that is so much of my day
Especially with C&S days where I now ALSO have to break down all the candy that comes on top of our banana pallets. The other day there was what ammounted to 2 1/2 Uboats of Candy on top of my banana pallet..like..are you SERIOUS with this....so much candy
