Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

We have inventory this week and I have to prep the cooler and freezer. The cooler is done...the freezer is more of an issue because we have a green rack in there with vendor items. Ie, icecream, red baron pizza etc etc. I have asked and asked and get the run around on why its even in there to begin with. My store isn't a p fresh....so out walk in cooler and freezer our not that big. So,do I precount the green rack in there or how do I handle it ? The ets were no help.
 
I've always been under the impression that vendor items are left alone. It's up to the vendor to maintain inventories. I could be wrong, but as far as I know, that's how it is.
 
tgtguy said:
We have inventory this week and I have to prep the cooler and freezer. The cooler is done...the freezer is more of an issue because we have a green rack in there with vendor items. Ie, icecream, red baron pizza etc etc. I have asked and asked and get the run around on why its even in there to begin with. My store isn't a p fresh....so out walk in cooler and freezer our not that big. So,do I precount the green rack in there or how do I handle it ? The ets were no help.
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If it's regular inventory, not TINV, then yes, even vendor stuff has to be precounted. But they need to pre-count that product themselves.
 
RetailWorld said:
If it's regular inventory, not TINV, then yes, even vendor stuff has to be precounted. But they need to pre-count that product themselves.
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If it is tinv, then just stick a section tag on anything that's not backstocked before it's time to count the coolers.

We had our food inventory tonight. Clocked out at twenty past eleven. Ugh.
 
tgtguy said:
We have inventory this week and I have to prep the cooler and freezer. The cooler is done...the freezer is more of an issue because we have a green rack in there with vendor items. Ie, icecream, red baron pizza etc etc. I have asked and asked and get the run around on why its even in there to begin with. My store isn't a p fresh....so out walk in cooler and freezer our not that big. So,do I precount the green rack in there or how do I handle it ? The ets were no help.
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This answers my question. There is some good news. As of last night, my dairy, produce, meat and dry room are clear of backstock. The freezer is still full, but there is enough room to move around and bring in an additional vehicle if needed. If I had to guess, this was in preparation for our inventory which is in 2 weeks or so.

What will make our inventory tough is that there is a p fresh transition during the week of inventory.
 
RetailWorld said:
If it's regular inventory, not TINV, then yes, even vendor stuff has to be precounted. But they need to pre-count that product themselves.
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After going to my etl/log, srtl. log, srt sl, they all acted like they didn't know what to do. Some of the product in our walk in had been in there ( vendor items on green rack ) for I know a year....it just sits there...no vendor does anything to it. So, I finally had to tell the etl log that if I was going to prep the freezer I need to know what to do with it...so she says well you will have to pre count it. I spent two hours going through that rack...there were all kinds of crap on there....then to my surprise 90 percent of it was out of date. So, I asked the etl log...what do I do with the out of date product..( cause we cant qmos vendor product) she said well its too late for the vendors to come pick it up...you have to pre count it as well. So, all that time I spent pre counting when most of it is out of date to being with. So, damn frustrating .
 
Yea, you're going to have to count it if the vendors won't be there in time to credit you. But what you should do after inventory is rip off the UPC label from each case and separate the labels by vendor. Toss the product. Leave labels with your receiving TM, and they'll get the sales rep to issue a credit back for each item.
 
tgtguy said:
After going to my etl/log, srtl. log, srt sl, they all acted like they didn't know what to do. Some of the product in our walk in had been in there ( vendor items on green rack ) for I know a year....it just sits there...no vendor does anything to it. So, I finally had to tell the etl log that if I was going to prep the freezer I need to know what to do with it...so she says well you will have to pre count it. I spent two hours going through that rack...there were all kinds of crap on there....then to my surprise 90 percent of it was out of date. So, I asked the etl log...what do I do with the out of date product..( cause we cant qmos vendor product) she said well its too late for the vendors to come pick it up...you have to pre count it as well. So, all that time I spent pre counting when most of it is out of date to being with. So, damn frustrating .
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I would have just wheeled it to the compactor and tossed its vendor and they would loose sales.
 
DoWork said:
It is a CTL.
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coolerqueen said:
If it is tinv, then just stick a section tag on anything that's not backstocked before it's time to count the coolers.

We had our food inventory tonight. Clocked out at twenty past eleven. Ugh.
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For TINV? When I do that we are usually done with everything by 10:25 to 10:30 and then I have to do whatever audit is there
 
pfreshdude said:
For TINV? When I do that we are usually done with everything by 10:25 to 10:30 and then I have to do whatever audit is there
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What. For tinv we do backroom coolers at 8pm then cannot do sales floor until the store is closed 11 pm so last month we did it and was completly finished around 12 :50 am and on our way home.
 
pfreshdude said:
For TINV? When I do that we are usually done with everything by 10:25 to 10:30 and then I have to do whatever audit is there
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Our etl is new, second time she had to run this, and our other Monday tl is on vacation so she was alone. Audits didn't drop till after 10:30pm.
qmosqueen said:
What. For tinv we do backroom coolers at 8pm then cannot do sales floor until the store is closed 11 pm so last month we did it and was completly finished around 12 :50 am and on our way home.
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We close at ten, but I've rarely been there past eleven, except when I'm short people.
 
qmosqueen said:
What. For tinv we do backroom coolers at 8pm then cannot do sales floor until the store is closed 11 pm so last month we did it and was completly finished around 12 :50 am and on our way home.
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Oh..ya we close at 10...It says you can do it after 10 even if we are open if guest traffic is low I believe in the actual TINV inventory guide thing
 
coolerqueen said:
Our etl is new, second time she had to run this, and our other Monday tl is on vacation so she was alone. Audits didn't drop till after 10:30pm.

We close at ten, but I've rarely been there past eleven, except when I'm short people.
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Ya I dont think ive ever been there past 11...I actually came back aftering working a 6-2:30 to make sure inventory was done correctly this last time. The upcoming one I will be out of town though so they will just have to figure it out without me for once...Even when we had a CTL I would always actually run inventory
 
pfreshdude said:
Ya I dont think ive ever been there past 11...I actually came back aftering working a 6-2:30 to make sure inventory was done correctly this last time. The upcoming one I will be out of town though so they will just have to figure it out without me for once...Even when we had a CTL I would always actually run inventory
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I've run the majority of the recent tinv. Past ctl changed schedules to drive his bff to and from work, scheduled school stuff to Skype, etc. Other ones have been on vacation. I don't know the audit/drastic report side on the computer though.
 
sigma7 said:
No matter how well you know how to use the program, you will fight with the TINV application on the computer. It has a mind of its own.
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Which is fine till you have pulled down the section tags from the floor and have to check them against the audit sections and the backroom sections. I've never had the previous etl jump the gun.
 
Market at my store is a sinking ship... most of the people in it left about 6 months ago, most of the new people they moved there are leaving or actively searching for other jobs, and the CTL we just got a little bit ago is leaving, too. When I found out the CTL was leaving I laughed my ass off, because I had just been saying the other day how glad I was to have them around to help advocate for Market when we are so often ignored.
 
Anybody have the number to order the yellow deli one-line labels for dating ground sausage and brats? My old guy threw out the last roll before we ordered more...
 

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