The big grocery transition project

[rd123]

Our store people seems to be having very less knowledge or updates about the upcoming grocery transitions. Please post whatever you have heard from your end here .

 

[Puckpsyd]

Isn't it all on workbench under Transitions?

 

[Captain Orca]

Curious, new items, more ethnic specialties, rotisserie chickens? Bulk Chinese entrees such as stir fry's, fried rice etc would be nice.

 

[BKop16]

Expand the categories that need more space (e.g. coffee, bread, and Asian) and shrink the categories that need less space (cereal, condiments, soup, etc.).

And if you're a store that still has our own bakery items in p-fresh still, they get moved to a end cap focal near the bread aisle to allow produce to expand. That's basically the summary.

 

[Captain Orca]

The new ice cream line is good. Some of the 1.5L flavors are priced differently. That's a turn off.

 

[rd123]

We started our transition this week with the easy ones . A couple of endcaps and side caps needs to be torn down to add focals. The structure changes might get delayed due to some other maintenance works which has more priority. In coming weeks we have some changes in the bakery section with addition of new tables and stuff . Only got a high level knowledge about that yet. Whatever got done looked like some of them are shrinking product facings to add more trending/new products , others they did just for giving more work to Plano. Doesn’t look like it was a needed change .

 

[BKop16]

I knew it would be a dumpster fire. When I was back at Walmart we did a pretty large grocery reset comparable to this one and it took us five to eight people overnight for two weeks.

 

[rd123]

Overnight makes sense . But we don’t do that at my store and guests are so angry with aisles blocked and stuff everywhere . I try to atleast make rest of the aisles neat and guest ready . We have only 2-3 people in our Plano and they are not getting any extra help this time . Our OTC transitions got more help compared to this .