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Our BRTMs are not allowed to burn batches unless specifically told to by a TL. (I.e. Someone retied something that doesn't need fill, capacity is off, etc).
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I wonder how this new CAF system is going to work out during the peak BTS weeks... Our closer is on his own after 2:30 (or 12:30 when we move to 4am unload), and pulling CAFs for all of hardlines after the store has been open for seven hours is hard enough without a million tiny little things to pull in OFCE.
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Burning batches is off-limits in my backroom. We find out, we will correct that problem. We've spent too much time trying to fix Ghosts and Baffles. If it's a safety concern, that's understandable.
If something is too high that a ladder can't bring down, we use the Wave. There's always an optimal solution to a problem. Not "laziness."
Our plan is to drop Manuals and EXFs to try to keep popular items in-stock. We have at least 2 people in the morning, 1 for the mid and 3 for the closing shifts. We will have 2 Instocks to help us out. As mentioned before, my Day BR team pulls and pushes regular merchandise.
If something is too high that a ladder can't bring down, we use the Wave. There's always an optimal solution to a problem. Not "laziness."
Our plan is to drop Manuals and EXFs to try to keep popular items in-stock. We have at least 2 people in the morning, 1 for the mid and 3 for the closing shifts. We will have 2 Instocks to help us out. As mentioned before, my Day BR team pulls and pushes regular merchandise.
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From a friend at another store(they are a tl)
I had a tm burned my 1 item research batch & so it dropped in the cafs. I went looking for it to pull it, & the tm told me what they did. Because they did not want to pull it & leaving early after the cafs. They were coached & I am on the shit list with them. I pulled my own stuff & br don't touch it. The other folks know this fact & only help me when a team lift is needed. My batches are quick pulls, because I need to be on floor. My stl likes my ideas, because I go into neglected sections & get them filled up.
I had a tm burned my 1 item research batch & so it dropped in the cafs. I went looking for it to pull it, & the tm told me what they did. Because they did not want to pull it & leaving early after the cafs. They were coached & I am on the shit list with them. I pulled my own stuff & br don't touch it. The other folks know this fact & only help me when a team lift is needed. My batches are quick pulls, because I need to be on floor. My stl likes my ideas, because I go into neglected sections & get them filled up.
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Yeah don't burn shit.. I will call back and say "Hey I know it calls for 12 or 40lb boxes of cat litter, but just pull 6." This was in the days before we could pull exact amounts of stuff. Or yeah burn the stupid swimming pool, I noticed the capacity was wrong after I keyed it Sorry. And yes I fixed it.
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I've heard from our DTL that we have the smallest backroom in the company....rarely do we let anyone use the crown lift to get pallets unless myself, TL or our veteran is there. Our receiving side was originally built to only hold one section of pallets, was re-engineered some years ago that added one extra steel shelf for pallets. All together we have maybe 20 spots for pallets. We're literally professional organizers with how much stuff we have to condense and manage to create space.
We had inventory last night. It was terrible. They started at 6 pm yesterday and didn't get done until 9 am today because RGIS had 12 call outs and a small fight among them ensued. This forced the flow team to do push all with the GM truck we had to take, which created a huge mess in our clean backroom.
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Why did your store take a truck on inventory night? Wouldn't that screw up the numbers?
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We took a truck the morning after inventory because they were supposed to be done well before we started at 6am.
It shouldn't affect anything as long as they only push areas that have been counted and don't acknowledge the truck.
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Ok, that makes sense.
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I spy with my little eye........a mobile aisle. I have them at my store too, but not for BEDS.
We have a few shelf locations in our BEDS aisle that are profiled as openstock, and we usually stand the pillows up on the long edges (with the barcode ends facing out, of course) so they don't slip off the shelf as easily. One or two TMs have been known to STO partial casepacks in the steel in order to avoid having to backstock pillows in openstock, but that practice is frowned upon outside of P-Fresh.
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Just thought I'd give my two cents as a Backroom team member who certainly burns batches. I very rarely burn items from exf's or pog's, but we're given such little time to pull so much and quite often the system is wrong. We learn to burn what needs to be burned and sometimes mistakes are made. If I'm pulling the 3oclocks and it asks for 30 kitty litters I'm not pulling them. Not because I'm lazy but because I know we didn't sell 30 kitty litters and the system most likely is reacting to them having been back stocked recently. We're expected to do 3 people's jobs in half the time quite often. At least at my store. They have me work pulls, unload the night truck alone and check for online orders all at once and all alone. They also expect the gun to be empty by the end of the day, so yeah sometimes things get burned, but we're not given much of a choice. It's either burn or be disciplined for something we can't help. Keep in mind I've worked for Target for years, so this isn't just a lazy kid talking =P That's just the way it is.
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Burning something like a pallet of PIPO that we obviously don't need is understandable (though I'll go check after to see how many will actually fit), but burning batches because you don't have time should not be happening.
Pulling batches is kinda your job, and if you can't do it you need to ask for help. I guarantee "they" would rather you leave a batch until someone has time to pull it instead of burning it so the pull screen looks pretty when you leave.
Pulling batches is kinda your job, and if you can't do it you need to ask for help. I guarantee "they" would rather you leave a batch until someone has time to pull it instead of burning it so the pull screen looks pretty when you leave.
Mobile asles are the bane of our backrooms existence. I don't know anyone that likes them. We had the stationary aisles before the backroom remodel (before we had Pfresh) Our backroom is super small (it was a failed pilot for a small backroom). Busiest store in the district, smallest backroom in the district.
An instocks TM (who I'm still trying to figure out who) has a knack for dropping an EXF and research batch for the same item. I usually pull the research batch but burn the exf since it'll come back as backstock.
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They must burn them here too because kitty litter is frequently empty 
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They must butn them here too because kitty litter is frequently empty
Cause Flow won't push them like paper towels and toilet paper.. Saves time to not bother..
asidius you can get a researIch and EXF for the same item when you scan the home and its blown then notice the endcap or check lane is also blown out.. I do that a lot when I scan checklanes and chem. I don't have anything in the home to fill the checklane with then I need more of it to fill the home to steal later when the checklane sells down. Or I need more of something to fill the home and I am going to flex more of it out to flex say cause the space next to it is clearance and empty.
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Only the true pros know when it's ok to burn a batch. Maybe some of you will get on my level.
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I've worked at several stores across the country and so far in my experience that's not been the case. I've been told by management to burn batches. They want the gun empty at night and they want the pulls out of the gun within an hour. They don't care for excuses and at my current store no one else knows how to do pulls. So if I get an hour of pulls an the projected time for them is 3 hours, they don't care, they just want it done. I work at a high volume store and we have 1-2 backroom team members on the clock after 11am daily. I wish I could say It's not common, but everyone at every store I've worked at knows how to burn and does it.
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I'm a burning pro! I rarely mess up!
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Like do you people actually load up a tub with 18 cases of water right when it asks? If so I wish I had the time/coverage you do.
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Hello so I have question about backroom and assumed this might be the thread to post it. So today is my first closing backroom shift and I was wondering what are the things I have to have done before the end of the night. I know set the line, push any left over cafs, backstock any stuff left there, and make sure the cardboard is dealt with. Is there anything else i'm supposed to do?
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