Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

I had 5 banana boxes full of expired yogurts tonight. Since the reset all the new yogurts came in at the same time and are expiring now. I sure wish we had more team members to notice this sooner so we could of TPC'd them. Oh well at least I can donate them to a good cause.
 
I had 5 banana boxes full of expired yogurts tonight. Since the reset all the new yogurts came in at the same time and are expiring now. I sure wish we had more team members to notice this sooner so we could of TPC'd them. Oh well at least I can donate them to a good cause.

I was told we can't TPC dairy
 
I had 5 banana boxes full of expired yogurts tonight. Since the reset all the new yogurts came in at the same time and are expiring now. I sure wish we had more team members to notice this sooner so we could of TPC'd them. Oh well at least I can donate them to a good cause.
I walked by my dairy QMOS bin and saw that it was full (Chobani has a vendor that comes in every Friday and pulls his own stuff) and I got kind of furious. Since my FDC guys don't care about dates, I often don't notice dates until they drop in the SDA or a guest points the expired product out to me. I guess I'll have to be on the lookout next time I have a reset.
 
I would like to thank Hr for only scheduling 4 TMs on Saturdays FDC truck and still only scheduling 4 TMs on Sunday's FDC truck. Yes we get back to back FDC trucks every weekend. Both trucks were 1,000 piece trucks about 10 pallets each day. As of Monday morning we have 4 pallets left all freezer. And no one did any back stocking. So 6 metros in dairy and 6 metros in the freezer and 1 metro of lunch meat lunchables all need back stock. We get the next FDC truck tomorrow Tuesday. I need more help.
 
As per the new meat coupon process, were supposed to coupon sausage and bacon. While I was off, evidently a cashier couldn't get the coupon to scan for a pack of the SB sausages. It wouldn't apply to it. Anyone have this, or similar problems?
 
As per the new meat coupon process, were supposed to coupon sausage and bacon. While I was off, evidently a cashier couldn't get the coupon to scan for a pack of the SB sausages. It wouldn't apply to it. Anyone have this, or similar problems?
I don't think sausage was included on the list. Just the bacon.

Edit: I re-read the instructions and I was incorrect, sausage is on there so I don't know why the coupon didn't work. You could MySupport it.
 
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Hello, I've almost been with Target for a year. I stocked dry goods for a while and later on worked on food trucks. I got addicted, so I then wanted to try out Market which I don't regret. I'd just like to thank you guys for the heads up on the yogurt.
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The empty space was all of the new yogurt I took off. I also took off some exolution that came in expired, then qmosed an entire box that was on my pulls.
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This is all of it, not much, but still worth the time.
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Due to this happening, and me checking out the SDA's to find more expired yogurt I was all like, "Okay, I'll have to fix this." So, I deep culled the entire yogurt section to fill up half of a three tier. It kind of sucks because that means hardly anyone was rotating, and out dated merchandise was going out. I guess now I have to communicate it more to make sure that it doesn't happen again. It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it.
 
Hello, I've almost been with Target for a year. I stocked dry goods for a while and later on worked on food trucks. I got addicted, so I then wanted to try out Market which I don't regret. I'd just like to thank you guys for the heads up on the yogurt.
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The empty space was all of the new yogurt I took off. I also took off some exolution that came in expired, then qmosed an entire box that was on my pulls.
jOF7p.jpg

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jOFb0.jpg

This is all of it, not much, but still worth the time.
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Due to this happening, and me checking out the SDA's to find more expired yogurt I was all like, "Okay, I'll have to fix this." So, I deep culled the entire yogurt section to fill up half of a three tier. It kind of sucks because that means hardly anyone was rotating, and out dated merchandise was going out. I guess now I have to communicate it more to make sure that it doesn't happen again. It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it.
When I'm bored I short date a four foot section. Or a shelf. If you've got just enough time before break/heading home to get work done but not enough to start a project or push a caf short date a section. Or if the opener pissed me off I short dated checks candy.

Even now that I'm not in market even we 4x4 or do freshness Friday I short date. In four years I was probably the only one to add dates at our store.
 
Hello, I've almost been with Target for a year. I stocked dry goods for a while and later on worked on food trucks. I got addicted, so I then wanted to try out Market which I don't regret. I'd just like to thank you guys for the heads up on the yogurt.
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The empty space was all of the new yogurt I took off. I also took off some exolution that came in expired, then qmosed an entire box that was on my pulls.
jOF7p.jpg

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jOFb0.jpg

This is all of it, not much, but still worth the time.
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Due to this happening, and me checking out the SDA's to find more expired yogurt I was all like, "Okay, I'll have to fix this." So, I deep culled the entire yogurt section to fill up half of a three tier. It kind of sucks because that means hardly anyone was rotating, and out dated merchandise was going out. I guess now I have to communicate it more to make sure that it doesn't happen again. It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it.

I feel bad, because everyone of us felt like you in market at one time, until we realized no one else really cares, and they won't give you the time/help to get these problems solved.

Good job though, I would like to have someone like you in my market.
 
Hey Team!

Since we're talking yogurt, a lot of Simply Balanced stuff went this week too! The next two weeks are going to be rough over there so I'm planning on making time on the next two mondays to deep cull the new stuff (Noticed a bunch of Aug 31 and Sep 05).

May your eye be keen and your 'MOS be empty.
 
I just went through and short dated every single yogurt DPCI recently. Gave me some piece of mind. Still so many areas I wish I could get to. Lately I've been finding tons of outdates on the beverage wall for Simply Balanced. Sure wish there was a way that all food items were automatically put into the SDA.
 
I just went through and short dated every single yogurt DPCI recently. Gave me some piece of mind. Still so many areas I wish I could get to. Lately I've been finding tons of outdates on the beverage wall for Simply Balanced. Sure wish there was a way that all food items were automatically put into the SDA.
Corporate can add entire sections. Checklane candy....every day for two weeks.
 
Corporate adds it in when a large quantity of something is QMOS'd and that is helpful, but always after the stuff has expired already generally. Better than nothing, but it just seems like the expiration dates are likely imbedded somewhere in the UPC codes (?) and could be picked up electronically and imput into the SDA. I don't know exactly but it just seems like we are under-utilizing technology for this issue somehow.
 
I just went through and short dated every single yogurt DPCI recently.
OMG I wish I had this kind of time! Between keeping my encaps full, dealing with vendors and 3 smart huddles a day and running up to the lanes every 20 minutes (It doesn't even sound like a lot but it was enough to keep me busy ALL DAY) , I can't focus this much time on a task. If I could have a half way decent truck team, I could be miles ahead of where I am now :v
 
OMG I wish I had this kind of time! Between keeping my encaps full, dealing with vendors and 3 smart huddles a day and running up to the lanes every 20 minutes (It doesn't even sound like a lot but it was enough to keep me busy ALL DAY) , I can't focus this much time on a task. If I could have a half way decent truck team, I could be miles ahead of where I am now :v
I didn't really have time, but it had just been reset and FIfo'd and there wasn't going to be a better chance.
 
Yeah, I think a few of my team don't care, or do care but get fed up with management because they take them away from their duties to get carts, go to the check lanes and such for a long period of time. That then leaves closing market full CAF's because morning didn't get time to work them out. A bit stressful to try to complete everything on time then because we still have to complete our zone. I do enjoy it though, but could get to me at times because I'm not sure if the zone is up to par.

Other than that, I did come across a lot of August 20th-31 dates on the yogurt. So, I just went along and short dated everything within 30 days while pulling off the expired just to make it accurate.
 
Corporate adds it in when a large quantity of something is QMOS'd and that is helpful, but always after the stuff has expired already generally. Better than nothing, but it just seems like the expiration dates are likely imbeded somewhere in the UPC codes (?) and could be picked up electronically and imput into the SDA. I don't know exactly but it just seems like we are under-utilizing technology for this issue somehow.
It seems like we should have the technology by now but considering all of our equipment can read 2D barcodes, it would be cool if they could use them on products and incorporate expiration dates on everything. I could definitely see this technology coming in the future but the problem is that every company uses a different code for their products date! In order for this to work, there would have to be some kind of standardization across the board (which is something that needs to happen already). I was looking at monster 4 packs today and their code is something like MYYDD but it's the manufacture date. How is someone from Target supposed to know how long Monster can be on the shelf beyond bottling?
 
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