Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

oath2order said:
Produce and lunch meat is easy. Those are in the coolers and I have no trouble with those.

I just mean the freezy freezer. Bakery and all that. I have no trouble with bakery stuff, they put it in the wacos near the door, I just need advice on how to actually work on a system with the backroom TL that would help minimize all the backstock being left over.
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Bitch, bitch, then bitch some more.

I managed the hassle by getting with the CTL, ETL-ge, ETL-log, Instocks TL, and Flow TL. CTL, ETL-ge and ETL-Log and I decided on a plan for who was responsible for each type of push and backstock. Then we communicated it to the other TLs and followed up behind the crews working to remind them what part of the cycle was their job. This is how we split the responsibility (I have one PA/market TM assigned the C&S push/backstock and a flow c&S crew for the rest):
flow c&s pushes frozen and dairy autofill daily (except bakery) and backstocks it, backroom backstocks from CAFs
market tm pushes frozen bakery auto as well as meat/deli and produce, backroom backstocks it
the market c&S tm pushes and backstocks the frozen bakery, fresh meat and produce, they also backstock the deli

What usually happens is I remind whatever tl opened to push the autos on non-C&S days. We push ours, and backstock anything in the meat and produce coolers. If that doesn't help I offer the STL a tour of the freezer along with how many days its been in there, and suddenly its gone by the next morning.
 
Interesting. For us, we have one guy who does the autos, the opener and closer of market takes care of any cafs. Closing backroom does cooler backstock if they get the chance/if they work hard enough and feel like it.

Coolers always get done at some point.
 
Open case is easy to back stock our location labels are on the wacos. We take the empty wacos out on 1 metro about 8 then take out a back stock metro and sto sto sto outside the freezer. Go back in and put the full wacos in the correct spot.
 
We got our 3 freezer pallets in our freezer and we also have 2 pallets of ice in there too.
 
Does anyone's store have the old 3-way navigation signs.. The huge green triangle with 6 inserts? I'm desperately trying to find numbers for new inserts but I'm beginning to think they're phasing them out. I can only find the part number for the blank inserts. I know for a fact all of our canoes are no longer made so I'm kind of hoping I can fight for new overheads. The new metal boxes look pretty cool.
 
LogisticsFox said:
Does anyone's store have the old 3-way navigation signs.. The huge green triangle with 6 inserts? I'm desperately trying to find numbers for new inserts but I'm beginning to think they're phasing them out. I can only find the part number for the blank inserts. I know for a fact all of our canoes are no longer made so I'm kind of hoping I can fight for new overheads. The new metal boxes look pretty cool.
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The market triangle signs?
 
yup. There's a few that I really need (like splitting olive oil and vinegar into two signs) and some that I'd like for commonly asked about things.
 
Anyone have advice on dealing with vendor product on cartwheel? (Right now my biggest problems are soda and oreos). This last week the vendors didn't know until after their orders were put in that their products would be heavily couponed on cartwheel and were pretty bummed about missed sales. Is the earliest we can find out when the new deals pop up in the app? I'd like to help my vendors stay green. :)
 
Actually, I think HQ has been dropping the ball on some of these cartwheel deals. I didn't get the signs for Frito Lay until Tuesday after the deal started. My DPS rep received a little info on his deal so soda wasn't a total surprise. Oreos on the other hand, I nor my Nabisco guy got any info before hand and he's had a heck of a time getting Oreos in the door (especially Thins) so I felt really bad for him.

Very rarely, I've seen a news blip on workbench about a few deals but definitely nothing about the vendor stuff.

Corporate guys! If you're reading this, tell us about these things! PLEASE!
 
HQ will have to product in stores to support cartwheel. Last year we didn't have toys or electronic items that could support the demand. With the 12 packs and 2 liters district Stl was wanting to give the vendors additional displays. I was told on a Thursday . I had gotten 2 of 3 deliveries already and the 3rd had issues at their warehouse.
 
On ehr the page where ypu request a day off, it says "primary job". If Im PA itll say that right?
 
As most of you who work in p fresh know, we had to change how we display the top shelf of our meat section so the product will face up instead of on the products back (aka how they were designed to be) so they can be reflected on those mirrors.

For whatever reason, my STL wants ALL meat to face up. That means pork chops, chicken, steaks and ground beef will all slide down to the bottom of the package with all the "juices" of the product. This of course will make people not because it doesnt look right and it damages the product (over time). What is funnier, people are pushing over capacity as well.

How do I approach my stl about just facing up the top shelf only and not the rest of the shelves?
Or am I overrating?
 

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"Best Practice" sometimes needs to be overlooked.
And sometimes we need to follow our own judgement.
Just politely tell her next time she is in her local grocery store, see how they stack their meats.

You will be qmosing more meat cause of damages.
 
It was only ever supposed to be the top shelf. I told my STL the blood draining down was going to be problematic and after a couple of days and faced with the evidence, we stopped.

See if you can look up the original pictures of what it was supposed to look like.
 
Brewhaha said:
As most of you who work in p fresh know, we had to change how we display the top shelf of our meat section so the product will face up instead of on the products back (aka how they were designed to be) so they can be reflected on those mirrors.

For whatever reason, my STL wants ALL meat to face up. That means pork chops, chicken, steaks and ground beef will all slide down to the bottom of the package with all the "juices" of the product. This of course will make people not because it doesnt look right and it damages the product (over time). What is funnier, people are pushing over capacity as well.

How do I approach my stl about just facing up the top shelf only and not the rest of the shelves?
Or am I overrating?
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People are also putting things in upside down. Why, I don't know. It irks me.

You're right, though. The product does look bad. We only put one kind of hamburger meat facing up like that, and guests always reach over it. I would understand on the top shelf, but the lower shelves are perfectly visible to most people from a distance.
 
Produce Queen said:
It was only ever supposed to be the top shelf. I told my STL the blood draining down was going to be problematic and after a couple of days and faced with the evidence, we stopped.

See if you can look up the original pictures of what it was supposed to look like.
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POG shows ONLY the top shelf faced standing up. Comments for the packet on zoning pfresh said only the top shelf should be stood up, all other should be flat with pictures of "yes" versus "no".

I haven't been over there in a bit, but I doubt its changed much. We have new packs of ground beef that are vacuum packed though, so its not an issue for us anymore on the beef.
 
It was so empty in produce thougb. Morning cull was basically looking at the 4 or 5 of each fruit and moving on
 

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