Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

RetailWorld said:
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.
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We are having issues with stuff not getting pulled in cafs and/or in the morning autofills with meats and produce. It seems every Sunday and Monday (Tuesday is a delivery day), I am always having to make a list of stuff to pull from the back. When I see the caf pulls in the produce and meat coolers, they are always light.

I would like to know what my store can do to make sure product is being pulled from the back?

Also, how does one check if a backroom location is set to open stock, upper casestock, lower casestock, or bulk?
 
Print the Backroom detail report on the signing and label pc. Alternatively, you can see if a location is open stock by scanning an item that's located there in sto. If it has an o, then it's open stock. I think the backroom tab in item search has the grouping listed next to the location of a back stocked item.
 
Brewhaha said:
We are having issues with stuff not getting pulled in cafs and/or in the morning autofills with meats and produce. It seems every Sunday and Monday (Tuesday is a delivery day), I am always having to make a list of stuff to pull from the back. When I see the caf pulls in the produce and meat coolers, they are always light.

I would like to know what my store can do to make sure product is being pulled from the back?

Also, how does one check if a backroom location is set to open stock, upper casestock, lower casestock, or bulk?
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What happens if you drop Manual batches? Does that fill it up?
 
Produce Queen said:
What happens if you drop Manual batches? Does that fill it up?
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I have never thought about doing that. I will do that next time I get a chance. My only hope is that my backroom team and or flow team (whomever backstocks) will backstock and pull the product correctly. Twice this past week, I discovered that product that was on our 1/2 pallet location in produce cooler was not located. The 1st time, I backstocked the product again, 2 days later, they were unlocated.
 
Did you pull all fom this location?? And back room TM answers yes while there is clearly 3 more cases of said item. Wtf
 
I don't understand why it's so difficult for backroom to remember/just read the signs about proper meat placement on the metro rack. >_>
 
coolerqueen said:
For the same reason I have hummus in meat and dairy. When it's produce.
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I believe at my store, hummas is now considered "deli" instead of "produce". Since deli is stored in the dairy cooler, that could be why it is there.

indigo25 said:
I don't understand why it's so difficult for backroom to remember/just read the signs about proper meat placement on the metro rack. >_>
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What my store did (since our last steritech visit) is our logistics leaders (dont know who) created signs both in English and Spanish telling everyone what type of product goes were and why it goes where it goes.


qmosqueen said:
Did you pull all fom this location?? And back room TM answers yes while there is clearly 3 more cases of said item. Wtf
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They are lazy, in a hurry or the coolers are too packed to pull the cafs (there would be no room for any carts nor any time to backstock). But this wouldnt happen if they backstock on the days the trucks arrive.
 
Yeah, well, we have every level of our metro rack labeled. We figured out it was someone from price change covering for someone that knows the market rules. Our hummus is always in produce.

Tonight we had flowers in the dairy cooler which was surprising when I opened the boxes.
 
So it looks to be another great start of the week for me

Came in after being off from the weekend and nobody pushed milk since I left Friday afternoon. MP 2% was completely empty even though there was a pallet with some of it and a flat full of it in front of the pallet from Friday...SMH....Had a C+S pallet in front of the flat so I had to get another flat and load it up with the 2% on the flat plus the other milks on the pallet. It was 4 stacks high and completely full.

Did SDA + QMOS+ Morning pulls. Huddle + Break went from 8 to 8:40

Had to backstock the morning pulls so our C+S team would have racks to place backstock.

Had backroom bring me like 15 cases of expired mac and cheese from dry market that I had to QMOS and mark out with a marker to donate so that was fun.

Got back from lunch a little past 11, pushed C+S for two hours, backstocked a couple things, did the vendor survey then headed out at 1:30

I dont know how Im supposed to get cleaning ever done or a bunch of other tasks if I keep having to do backrooms work or C+S push 3 out of my 5 days I work


I bet tommorow the plano TL will tell me to set the 3 alcohol pogs which in conjunction with filling milk+ eggs, sda, culling, QMOS, doing the moring pulls, doing the order and receiving the truck will take my whole day again

And I swear if the backroom TL or ETL LOG tells me to pull the morning pfresh pulls again......
 
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One of our brilliant PAs forgot to do the order that came today and my STL has a big meeting with other STLs tomorrow. My ETL was so overworked (I felt sorry for her, she's real nice; she also thinks I don't like her; last week I overheard her say to my TL "Can you ask him to get the reshop; he won't do it if I ask him") Anyway she asks me to flex heavily. Gave more than double the facings for the organic salads on sale and expanded all the regular salads. Because we had no apples, clementines, or bananas at all, I LOCU'd the dry produce and filled the banana gondola with kiwis and the single serve kiwi pack on top, tomatoes in the middle, and onions on the bottom two shelves. For where the clementines should be I filled with four kinds of AF bagged nuts in the middle shelves and the jars on the bottom. I couldn't find the stupid flip clips so I just printed out new labels and put them in.. Hopefully they'll accept it.
 
Monday was a great day in pfresh thanks to my newest PA who closed Sunday night. Milk was filled empty milk crates out of dairy cooler and in the backroom blocking the pets location as always. Fruits berries apples bananas were full and fresh salads full

The only thing left from the weekend I was off was 2 pallets of dairy from the FDC truck we smart huddled 1 pallet leaving 1 pallet to push with Tuesday's truck.

I am so glad we hired this guy. Thanks again new PA you did circles around the other PAs who worked this past weekend.
 
qmosqueen said:
Monday was a great day in pfresh thanks to my newest PA who closed Sunday night. Milk was filled empty milk crates out of dairy cooler and in the backroom blocking the pets location as always. Fruits berries apples bananas were full and fresh salads full

The only thing left from the weekend I was off was 2 pallets of dairy from the FDC truck we smart huddled 1 pallet leaving 1 pallet to push with Tuesday's truck.

I am so glad we hired this guy. Thanks again new PA you did circles around the other PAs who worked this past weekend.
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No fair, I want a new useful pa. Rawr.

Currently one if many in our district with broken freezer/cooler sections. I've got push coming out my ears and pallets and racks in the wrong cooler just to keep it cold.
 
Been a while since I posted. I just learned that starting March 1st, I won't have to depackage items sent to compost any more! That will save loads of time.

Now time to rant.

Friday's C + S was finished before I clocked out that day (around 2:30pm). We (CTL and I, plus help from flow) had our shelves fully stocked, and we had everything backstocked (we had inventory to cover weekend sales). We even got our pallet of ice, and I filled our ice to maximum capacity on the sales floor. And I had a three day weekend (Saturday through Monday) and my paycheck, so I was feeling terrific as I left the store.

Come Friday night around 8pm, when I was planning my weekend, I get a call from my store. "Hey, we had a power outage right after you left (around 2:40pm), and the power is still out. Can you come in on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to do compost? We need to dump everything in the coolers/freezers on the sales floor AND backroom." I begrudgingly agree to come on in Saturday and Monday (I would have said yes to Sunday to, but, you know, working 7 days in a week is a no-no). FML

When I clocked in on Saturday morning, I go ask my CTL what happened, as he and I were all happy about our work Friday before I left. He told me that the construction company working next door accidentally cut the power to our store, and it wasn't restored until about 10pm. So all of our work to fill the U was being taken down. I was more upset with that then losing my three-day weekend! SMH

The upside was I got overtime for my work. I ended up staying 12 hours (and HR provided everyone who worked with pizza), but we got everything off the shelves, and we even got to do the dreaded cleaning that we would never have time otherwise. Can we call for a sales walk now? Or how about a visit from the DTL so we could show off how clean market looks now? 😛

So I'll be going to work tomorrow (Monday) at 5:30am to push all of what C + S delivers us that morning. I'm not sure when our emergency delivery will come in, but I'll certainly be helping push that.
 
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compostguy said:
Been a while since I posted. I just learned that starting March 1st, I won't have to depackage items sent to compost any more! That will save loads of time.

Now time to rant.

Friday's C + S was finished before I clocked out that day (around 2:30pm). We (CTL and I, plus help from flow) had our shelves fully stocked, and we had everything backstocked (we had inventory to cover weekend sales). We even got our pallet of ice, and I filled our ice to maximum capacity on the sales floor. And I had a three day weekend (Saturday through Monday) and my paycheck, so I was feeling terrific as I left the store.

Come Friday night around 8pm, when I was planning my weekend, I get a call from my store. "Hey, we had a power outage right after you left (around 2:40pm), and the power is still out. Can you come in on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to do compost? We need to dump everything in the coolers/freezers on the sales floor AND backroom." I begrudgingly agree to come on in Saturday and Monday (I would have said yes to Sunday to, but, you know, working 7 days in a week is a no-no). FML

When I clocked in on Saturday morning, I go ask my CTL what happened, as he and I were all happy about our work Friday before I left. He told me that the construction company working next door accidentally cut the power to our store, and it wasn't restored until about 10pm. So all of our work to fill the U was being taken down. I was more upset with that then losing my three-day weekend! SMH

The upside was I got overtime for my work. I ended up staying 12 hours (and HR provided everyone who worked with pizza), but we got everything off the shelves, and we even got to do the dreaded cleaning that we would never have time otherwise. Can we call for a sales walk now? Or how about a visit from the DTL so we could show off how clean market looks now? 😛

So I'll be going to work tomorrow (Monday) at 5:30am to push all of what C + S delivers us that morning. I'm not sure when our emergency delivery will come in, but I'll certainly be helping push that.
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And I thought we were having power issues. I've lost various coolers and freezers with the snow on the roof lately. Managed to save all but one so far.

Glad to hear compost won't have to de-package anymore, that sounded like a total pain.

I'm still waiting on a meat replenishment. I feel like every other time we refuse a delivery or special qmos from power loud/temp issues it never gets re-sent. So my on-hands are off a pallet worth of food, but they never send the product.
 
compostguy said:
Been a while since I posted. I just learned that starting March 1st, I won't have to depackage items sent to compost any more! That will save loads of time.

Now time to rant.

Friday's C + S was finished before I clocked out that day (around 2:30pm). We (CTL and I, plus help from flow) had our shelves fully stocked, and we had everything backstocked (we had inventory to cover weekend sales). We even got our pallet of ice, and I filled our ice to maximum capacity on the sales floor. And I had a three day weekend (Saturday through Monday) and my paycheck, so I was feeling terrific as I left the store.

Come Friday night around 8pm, when I was planning my weekend, I get a call from my store. "Hey, we had a power outage right after you left (around 2:40pm), and the power is still out. Can you come in on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to do compost? We need to dump everything in the coolers/freezers on the sales floor AND backroom." I begrudgingly agree to come on in Saturday and Monday (I would have said yes to Sunday to, but, you know, working 7 days in a week is a no-no). FML

When I clocked in on Saturday morning, I go ask my CTL what happened, as he and I were all happy about our work Friday before I left. He told me that the construction company working next door accidentally cut the power to our store, and it wasn't restored until about 10pm. So all of our work to fill the U was being taken down. I was more upset with that then losing my three-day weekend! SMH

The upside was I got overtime for my work. I ended up staying 12 hours (and HR provided everyone who worked with pizza), but we got everything off the shelves, and we even got to do the dreaded cleaning that we would never have time otherwise. Can we call for a sales walk now? Or how about a visit from the DTL so we could show off how clean market looks now? 😛

So I'll be going to work tomorrow (Monday) at 5:30am to push all of what C + S delivers us that morning. I'm not sure when our emergency delivery will come in, but I'll certainly be helping push that.
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That sounds like a big nightmare...

I came in today to find all of the C+S backstock untouched just sitting in my coolers...a week or two ago it was there from Friday til I came in monday morning. Thankfully BR TL was there and he backstocked it all...GTC to him
 
I forgot to mention -- the construction company's insurance company will be covering our store's losses in market due to their negligence with cutting our power lines. While taking down all of our product, we processed everything in RF Apps using something in reverse logistics to tabulate what we threw away.

I can't complain about getting more hours (as hours were light for everyone, so most flow and market TMs stuck around). We'll have more hours this week for tomorrow's C+S truck and whenever our emergency shipment is delivered. Although it would have been nice to have a three day weekend (I haven't had one of those in a looooooong time).

Also, inventory next week is going to be a whole lot easier. 😉
 
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You did a transfer to T-1099. It's fake store used for insurance claim losses. Good thing you didn't QMOS it all out first. We lost power about a year ago on one of my aisles. It happened on my weekend off and the LOD didn't know that losses of more than $2500 due to power failure can be written off on insurance, so of course took it upon themselves to QMOS and defect everything. So I had the pleasure of having to do investigating and research to determine what the actual OHs were so that HQ could reverse the QMOS. There is a QMOS reversal form they send you if you messed up like my store did. It was just funny to me that I ended up having to be the one to clean up my ETL team's mess.
 
sigma7 said:
You did a transfer to T-1099. It's fake store used for insurance claim losses. Good thing you didn't QMOS it all out first. We lost power about a year ago on one of my aisles. It happened on my weekend off and the LOD didn't know that losses of more than $2500 due to power failure can be written off on insurance, so of course took it upon themselves to QMOS and defect everything. So I had the pleasure of having to do investigating and research to determine what the actual OHs were so that HQ could reverse the QMOS. There is a QMOS reversal form they send you if you messed up like my store did. It was just funny to me that I ended up having to be the one to clean up my ETL team's mess.
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I feel like I spend one shift worth of time a week doing this in one form or another. Somebody really should tell the incoming ctl/etl/stl it's really not their department, it's mine. There's not a title you can bestow on somebody to supplant me either.
 

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