Open Market / P Fresh

[qmosqueen]

Just curious how many team members per day work in your open market ??

I am the only team member in open market. On my 2 days off per week there is 1 team member for 8 hours and 1 team member for about 3 to 4 hours to help get the work done

We are an extremely busy pfresh store.
Our average produce delivery is about 250 boxes every day. Plus about 40 boxes of fresh meat.

Here is what an average truck looks like


We sell 12 boxes of bananas and 3 boxes of organic bananas every day.

I work in a state where Target only pays a minimum of 15:/hour.

I feel that I am over worked, well under payed and not appreciated. But I am a hard worker and love what I have been doing for 10 plus years.

 

[Greenandred]

I am a former PA who used to have to do everything myself. We now do a wave style team system. I come in at 6 and blitz out the produce racks with my co team member. At 7 one or two team members come in and one pushes milk and one for ones. If FDC arrives on time, we put the pallets in the right coolers and then we break down the produce and dairy pallets onto u-boats. We then push them and then break down frozen and push as much as we can. We get delivery Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday. On Fridays and Sundays we usually get mid-sized deliveries that usually are around 650. Mid-week deliveries are around 200-400. If someone calls out in dry or the delivery arrives late, then this will uproot this plan.

 

[gsa4lyfe]

What are you considering open market? All of produce meat dairy and frozen? Or just produce?

If just produce I would say that’s standard. When I was a GM ETL I would always do 3 TMs on FDC days and 2 on non FDC days. Always had 1 person just in produce everyday.

 

[rd123]

We have one tm for Produce . If he is Off , then most of the time nothing in produce gets pushed. If the shelf looks noticeably empty, then our frozen tm pushes some of the things to make it look presentable.
Dairy/meat has one TM but most of the mornings, the morning market Tms take the pallets out and pushes until they are done .
Frozen 1 TM . If he is Off , no one dares to get in the freezer !!

 

[qmosqueen]

What are you considering open market? All of produce meat dairy and frozen? Or just produce?

If just produce I would say that’s standard. When I was a GM ETL I would always do 3 TMs on FDC days and 2 on non FDC days. Always had 1 person just in produce everyday.

Just produce and fresh meat. So pushing 8 metros fast movers and doing 4 pallets of just produce about 260 boxes and then 50 boxes of meat for 1 person is normal. Also keep everything rotated by date.

We get a fdc truck 7 days week and it is always over 200 boxes just for produce 50 boxes of just salads. Plus not to mention 2 metros of salads in the back. Salads alone can take 3 hours.

 

[BKop16]

7 day delivery and that volume in a P-Fresh store is pretty crazy. Without knowing your payroll I'd assume there should be an additional mid/closer for meat/produce. Do you have multiple food TLs?

 

[qmosqueen]

7 day delivery and that volume in a P-Fresh store is pretty crazy. Without knowing your payroll I'd assume there should be an additional mid/closer for meat/produce. Do you have multiple food TLs?

2 food TLs. Both daylight. 1 for dry and 1 for fdc truck. The fdc TL is busy with dairy freezer and date gunning the crazy bakery.

 

[gsa4lyfe]

Just produce and fresh meat. So pushing 8 metros fast movers and doing 4 pallets of just produce about 260 boxes and then 50 boxes of meat for 1 person is normal. Also keep everything rotated by date.

We get a fdc truck 7 days week and it is always over 200 boxes just for produce 50 boxes of just salads. Plus not to mention 2 metros of salads in the back. Salads alone can take 3 hours.

Yeah 7x a week that’s definitely more volume than mine was. I would said 1.5 people would be reasonable per day for your situation. Sounds like you need a swing person that helps you as well as freezer/dairy depending on what each delivery looks like.

In my experience produce pushes super fast and if you’re doing it daily you know what can and can’t go out so when you break down the pallets youre backstocking right off the truck.

 

[qmosqueen]

when you break down the pallets

Yeah no room to break down the pallets. I’m breaking down pallets in the hallway outside the produce cooler with pillows STOd right across from me. opu has to go by all the time I’m in their way. They are in my way.

 

[YugTegrat]

Just produce and fresh meat. So pushing 8 metros fast movers and doing 4 pallets of just produce about 260 boxes and then 50 boxes of meat for 1 person is normal. Also keep everything rotated by date.

The produce guy at my store spends all 8 hours just doing produce and barely manages to finish our 5 metros and 2 pallets.. He doesn't even touch meat.

You're for sure a hard worker and underpaid.