Yetive
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High store and Starbucks?
Yetive
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I'm getting there, but there isn't enough year left to get to green. 🙄
redeye58
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Yup, Starbucks at an A vol store.
Question for everyone: how important is QMOSing for store ordered items (as opposed to headquarters ordered items)? We do it every night and it just seems like such a complete waste of time. It literally makes zero effect on us whether it says we have 500 vanilla bean scones or 50 because I just order however many I need. The only possible question is when inventory rolls around, but no one ever seems to be able to answer me. The inventory score that everyone worries about is the yearly one by RGIS. The only score for the quarterly inventory is whether you completed it or not, as far as I can tell.
Yetive
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We keep a tally and qmos once per week. If the counts are off on quarterly inventory, you have to recount and resubmit that item. Other than that, I'm not sure what impact the quarterly inventory has. I honestly never thought about it.
But even the quarterly inventory is worthless. I gave up on it about 2 years ago lol. Cuts my time down to like 1 hour for all of Starbucks and Food Ave. It doesn't matter if I say I have 500 bags of Pike or 10 bags as long as I have enough to support the business, so I just print off the TINV guide, take it home, and estimate everything a couple days before, so it's all written out. The only thing I can't get a good idea of off the top of my head is the retail merchandise.
That's a good idea about the once per week QMOSing. I'd like to eliminate that task altogether, but this is a nice compromise.
That's a good idea about the once per week QMOSing. I'd like to eliminate that task altogether, but this is a nice compromise.
So that tells me that the quarterly inventory is at least allowed to be off by some. Now the question is whether or not there is any reason to keep an accurate count for the rest of the quarter. Lately I've been trying to figure out any way we can be more efficient. QMOSing doesn't take that long, but even just a minute or two per day adds up over time. Also, it's an annoying task, especially when the myDevice doesn't scan and you have to go get another.
Based on a quick search on workbench, it seems like our quarterly inventory does affect shortage, so it is important to QMOS before inventory. Now I'm wondering if I can just QMOS a shit ton of pastries once per quarter or if that would look suspicious... It would definitely be less work and would actually end up reducing shortage because I would just QMOS down to however many I have left.
Yetive
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Our only freezer is in our sbux back area.
I make a trip to the back on any day that the order comes in, assuming it hasn't already been brought up to me. And I take a look around to make sure they didn't miss anything (food ave smoothie concentrates and Starbucks smoothie concentrates and evolution juices are the three things they usually miss).
As for the clean safe and ready stuff, all I've seen about it were a few daily update messages on workbench saying it's postponed, but nothing about what it actually is. There was also a message saying stores that didn't get the barista basics update will get them in mid to late August. Good job target, only two months later than you originally said.
As for the clean safe and ready stuff, all I've seen about it were a few daily update messages on workbench saying it's postponed, but nothing about what it actually is. There was also a message saying stores that didn't get the barista basics update will get them in mid to late August. Good job target, only two months later than you originally said.
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we've been so understaffed that we just leave our order in the back until we're ready to deal with it, unless we desperately need something in it. today my morning crew left me a note that they'd put away 'almost all of the order,' and yet the entire back was still covered in unopened boxes (mainly retail coffee, which oh for the love of god I hate unpacking) to the point that my LOD reacted with surprise when she saw the amount of it. wasn't a thing I could do about it though since I was by myself for my entire five and a half hour shift. having a backup partner scheduled on lanes doesn't help when the lanes are underscheduled too and I never get to utilize them.
in other news, we got our second Steritech visit (we've only been open since November), and it was green. I'm not sure how, as we currently have a HUGE fruit fly infestation that we've been battling for weeks (although it does lead to us cleaning everything like obsessive maniacs, not that that's unusual for us) and my TL and I kept finding expired product the day after his visit. but... I won't complain. he said that our store is the cleanest in his area, which our DM also said. so we've got that going for us, which is nice.
in other news, we got our second Steritech visit (we've only been open since November), and it was green. I'm not sure how, as we currently have a HUGE fruit fly infestation that we've been battling for weeks (although it does lead to us cleaning everything like obsessive maniacs, not that that's unusual for us) and my TL and I kept finding expired product the day after his visit. but... I won't complain. he said that our store is the cleanest in his area, which our DM also said. so we've got that going for us, which is nice.
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My ETL that just got moved to another store and wants to take me as her Plano TL. I don't know how I feel about that. Yeah it's more opportunity to grow but I don't feel ready to leave Starbucks. There's so much that I've been accomplishing and many projects that I have yet to complete that I don't want to just leave. Granted it won't happen until after 4th quarter but still. I'm developing two TMs to move up and I refuse to leave until I get them promoted and plus I don't know shit about Plano lol
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