Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

[indigo25]

This is the routine I was trying to get started as I am usually the opener...just trying to zone Pfresh/Coolers/Freezers and leave dry to the closer but it usually doesnt work out too well when I help C+S from 10-2 on openings 3 days a week, or have to help set POGs or whatever other random routines there is to do, especially this week when I only work 6-1

Yeah, it's the routine that has been in place since before I started in market. When I completely finish dry zone/cleaning/night QMOS I try and start on the freezers, but it's rare that I have the chance to.

 

[Produce Queen]

Red Velvet Oreos are here. Let the madness begin 😛

 

[signingminion]

Red Velvet Oreos are here. Let the madness begin 😛

I got a call about them the other day...kill me now. I bet we get the usual two cases.

 

[pfreshdude]

I got a call about them the other day...kill me now. I bet we get the usual two cases.

My nabisco rep has been super awesome about the seasonal flavors since he has been in my store. I am pretty sure I got at least 10 cases of that yesterday

 

[Produce Queen]

We got 25 cases

 

[pfreshdude]

So today was fun in my 6 hours of working

I was bestowed the great gift of doing my own morning pulls again, pushing them out and backstocking them. Also backstocked the pulls from the night that didnt get done so there was that, horray!
Did SDA + CULL
Morning Huddle + Reshop for 20-25ish minutes
Pushed out Milk + Eggs
Received C+S truck and stage in appropriate areas (first stop, always a blast!)
Backup cashier
Demerch a market endcap and work product back to home location and then stage for backstock
Pull, Push and Set that same endcap, although half of it was in seasonal and I had to hunt for the product as it is all flexed
Worked out Vendor Bread
Zoned Pfresh, coolers, and the Back wall coolers. Found a whole 3 tier of outdates, half of it liquid so I had to QMOS, dump it all out and clean the drain

 

[Produce Queen]

@pfreshdude I'm curious why you don't donate the liquid outdates. We don't donate the outdated vendor milk because they take it back, but everything else, unless it's way way outdated, goes to the Food Bank or The Mission.

 

[signingminion]

@pfreshdude I'm curious why you don't donate the liquid outdates. We don't donate the outdated vendor milk because they take it back, but everything else, unless it's way way outdated, goes to the Food Bank or The Mission.

Not all food banks are equal. It's against best practice to donate anything actually expired and sometimes food banks are picky about dates or squashed boxes. We only have two choices and one keeps bitching about crushed corners on boxes...the other often doesn't want the meat cause they get enough from grocers. I've had to put my foot down. All or nothing. And constant contact and follow up with the other.

 

[BigEyedPhish]

Not all food banks are equal. It's against best practice to donate anything actually expired and sometimes food banks are picky about dates or squashed boxes. We only have two choices and one keeps bitching about crushed corners on boxes...the other often doesn't want the meat cause they get enough from grocers. I've had to put my foot down. All or nothing. And constant contact and follow up with the other.

This is how it is with us too, so picky that we have just given up and throw it out, even our meat we could freeze because the guy from donation who would pick it up would very rarely randomly come.

 

[BigEyedPhish]

So today was fun in my 6 hours of working

I was bestowed the great gift of doing my own morning pulls again, pushing them out and backstocking them. Also backstocked the pulls from the night that didnt get done so there was that, horray!
Did SDA + CULL
Morning Huddle + Reshop for 20-25ish minutes
Pushed out Milk + Eggs
Received C+S truck and stage in appropriate areas (first stop, always a blast!)
Backup cashier
Demerch a market endcap and work product back to home location and then stage for backstock
Pull, Push and Set that same endcap, although half of it was in seasonal and I had to hunt for the product as it is all flexed
Worked out Vendor Bread
Zoned Pfresh, coolers, and the Back wall coolers. Found a whole 3 tier of outdates, half of it liquid so I had to QMOS, dump it all out and clean the drain

let me guess, a valentines day candy endcap...

I set the same one, and had to go hunting also.

 

[qmosqueen]

Our donation guy comes every day. Takes it all no questions asked he wants more and the mission he works at is about 8 miles away on the other side of town. So we give him about 5 banana boxes of expired/soon 1 day out food and about 10 gallons of milk almost every day The milk we pull 2 to 3 days out per our vendor. He says if he cannot use it he will gladly get rid of it for us. The only thing I don't give him is things that may be too far expired or contain mayonnaise

 

[Brewhaha]

So today was fun in my 6 hours of working

I was bestowed the great gift of doing my own morning pulls again, pushing them out and backstocking them. Also backstocked the pulls from the night that didnt get done so there was that, horray!
Did SDA + CULL
Morning Huddle + Reshop for 20-25ish minutes
Pushed out Milk + Eggs
Received C+S truck and stage in appropriate areas (first stop, always a blast!)
Backup cashier
Demerch a market endcap and work product back to home location and then stage for backstock
Pull, Push and Set that same endcap, although half of it was in seasonal and I had to hunt for the product as it is all flexed
Worked out Vendor Bread
Zoned Pfresh, coolers, and the Back wall coolers. Found a whole 3 tier of outdates, half of it liquid so I had to QMOS, dump it all out and clean the drain

Assuming this is an opening shift, were do you fit the required cleaning, TPCing, backroom audit, POG audit or weekly ad audit that is on our daily routines sheet?

Also, those using the p fresh daily routines sheet, what year is on the sheet? I ask because the only one we can find on workbench is from October 2012. If they havent updated/edited pfresh routines since October 2012, well, that is sad.

 

[qmosqueen]

Routine sheets. We haven't used those in about 1 year. And I am the only PA who even knows what they look like. Our CTL has a check list of required duties for us to check off each hour so as we try to follow a set schedule and get things done in a timely manner. There is cleaning in this check list. But all of dry grocery is on the hardlines TM as we sell way too much dairy freezer meat produce to even attempt to set foot into dry grocery. I make it as far as G23 bread aisle and turn back to the pfresh valley.

 

[signingminion]

Assuming this is an opening shift, were do you fit the required cleaning, TPCing, backroom audit, POG audit or weekly ad audit that is on our daily routines sheet?

Also, those using the p fresh daily routines sheet, what year is on the sheet? I ask because the only one we can find on workbench is from October 2012. If they havent updated/edited pfresh routines since October 2012, well, that is sad.

I think it still says 2012 but now has check redwire on it.

I audit the ad Sunday. I'm the only one who tpcs anything, usually on c&s days. Pog audit is done by our ctl/etl. Backroom audit is done by either etl-log, flow tl or instocks tl. Cleaning is a joke, and has been since we opened. Our scores reflect it. But I try to get some done on c&s days as well.

 

[pfreshdude]

let me guess, a valentines day candy endcap...

I set the same one, and had to go hunting also.

Yep haha

 

[pfreshdude]

I think it still says 2012 but now has check redwire on it.

I audit the ad Sunday. I'm the only one who tpcs anything, usually on c&s days. Pog audit is done by our ctl/etl. Backroom audit is done by either etl-log, flow tl or instocks tl. Cleaning is a joke, and has been since we opened. Our scores reflect it. But I try to get some done on c&s days as well.

We dont have a CTL, or any leadership that even cares about Market. I got talked to that we need to clean by the Plano TL when they did the dairy revision, but where is the time when I have to do C+S push 3 days out of the week or set pogs or have to pull and backstock my own pulls.

I know last night my closer had to push out hardlines CAFS for some unknown reason and then got asked when market stuff wasnt done..you cant make this stuff up 🙄

Amazingly we are like 5th in the group I think and we arent even a green score...that shows you how bad Target is with Market...that only 4 or so stores maybe have a green score in an entire group..that is just sad

 

[signingminion]

We dont have a CTL, or any leadership that even cares about Market. I got talked to that we need to clean by the Plano TL when they did the dairy revision, but where is the time when I have to do C+S push 3 days out of the week or set pogs or have to pull and backstock my own pulls.

I know last night my closer had to push out hardlines CAFS for some unknown reason and then got asked when market stuff wasnt done..you cant make this stuff up 🙄

Amazingly we are like 5th in the group I think and we arent even a green score...that shows you how bad Target is with Market...that only 4 or so stores maybe have a green score in an entire group..that is just sad

Plano knows better than to tell me to clean for their reset. My dairy cooler is another story. The floor needs sand blasted.

We often get drug all over in a shift as well. Electronics/guest service for my one pa, electronics/guest service/carts for my closer, electronics/backroom/instocks/fitting room for myself. Only my third pa never gets taken out of market ever.

 

[qmosqueen]

can anyone tell me why soooooo much stuff is not coming out on cafs ???

most "express" baged salads, celery, most of the baged veggies, single apples hardly every come out.
a lot of the 1/2 gallon specialty milks, some yogurt, some juices.
all most all fresh meat, ground, beef, chicken.

in the pro1 cooler, alomsost anything we STO on any of the very TOP shelfs do not come out on pulls.

and on the flip side every caf has the single tomatoes and a box of lettace --- which I do not need... I re - STO it and SUBT9999 to reset the accumilator.


we have done research and the counts are accurate.

any suggestions ??? (we are just keeping an eye out and either SUBT the items or scanning an EXP and pulling that batch. I don't have time for this extra work.)

 

[signingminion]

can anyone tell me why soooooo much stuff is not coming out on cafs ???

most "express" baged salads, celery, most of the baged veggies, single apples hardly every come out.
a lot of the 1/2 gallon specialty milks, some yogurt, some juices.
all most all fresh meat, ground, beef, chicken.

in the pro1 cooler, alomsost anything we STO on any of the very TOP shelfs do not come out on pulls.

and on the flip side every caf has the single tomatoes and a box of lettace --- which I do not need... I re - STO it and SUBT9999 to reset the accumilator.


we have done research and the counts are accurate.

any suggestions ??? (we are just keeping an eye out and either SUBT the items or scanning an EXP and pulling that batch. I don't have time for this extra work.)

Are you checking the last pull time? I usually have that happen when the brtm is burning items on me.

 

[qmosqueen]

Are you checking the last pull time? I usually have that happen when the brtm is burning items on me.

Pretty sure we checked that

 

[Produce Queen]

Are the POGs tied? I'd suggest checking capacities too but you've listed so many different items, that doesn't sound like it would be the problem tho individual apple capacities are often too high.

I had this happen with all the meat a couple months ago for 2 days. Never could figure it out, and it rectified itself. Had to do constant manuals.

Hope you figure it out!

 

[Produce Queen]

It just hit me that if the POGs weren't tied you wouldn't be able to drop research batches 🙄

 

[signingminion]

Not an answer to your question, but I'm having count issues. I'm the last person that backstocked an item and that was last week. It's now empty, it was pulled last today on a caf but the count is the same as the day I backstocked it. I've been using an lpda to monarch and a mydevice to sto. Anyone else see this? Not sure if I should mysupport it or try using a pda alone for a week.

 

[RetailWorld]

can anyone tell me why soooooo much stuff is not coming out on cafs ???

most "express" baged salads, celery, most of the baged veggies, single apples hardly every come out.
a lot of the 1/2 gallon specialty milks, some yogurt, some juices.
all most all fresh meat, ground, beef, chicken.

in the pro1 cooler, alomsost anything we STO on any of the very TOP shelfs do not come out on pulls.

and on the flip side every caf has the single tomatoes and a box of lettace --- which I do not need... I re - STO it and SUBT9999 to reset the accumilator.


we have done research and the counts are accurate.

any suggestions ??? (we are just keeping an eye out and either SUBT the items or scanning an EXP and pulling that batch. I don't have time for this extra work.)

Have your BR-TL check what the locations are set as in the coolers(Open Stock, Upper Casestock, Lower casestock, Bulk). You want your veggies/raw meat that you keep in boxes stored in Open Stock locations. Otherwise the system will not pull the product out of location until it needs the entire case pack(Which isn't until it's fully out of stock).

This will also prevent a lot of over stock. Example, if a location is set as Lower Casestock and you have a 30ct box of celery stored there, it won't pull it until it needs all 30 to hit the floor. But 30 won't FIT on the floor. But the system will have the BR-TM pull all 30, because the system knows that you don't keep open stock in that location, so the entire box needs to go to the floor. Putting everything as open stock will let the system pull singles out of casepacks.

 

[sigma7]

That's not entirely true. Grouping locations as open stock will allow you to pull singles from casepacks; but, no matter how the location is grouped, the system should be sending you there to pull when the item hits it trigger. If your accumulator is correct and you've sold out of celery in the floor, then the system should lead you to pull from the back in the next round of cafs. You'll end up pulling an entire casepack (or sometimes a breakpack) if the item is sto'd in a casepack location and have overstock, or you'll pull just the amount the accumulator needs (or less depending on your OHs) if you pull from an open stock location.