Logistics The Flow/Inbound thread: Until We Yeet Again edition 🤙

[can't touch this]

There were easily 600 people crowded at the front end all the way past the jewelry boat and into boy's. 3 cashiers and 3 SCOs (we have 4, one is bricked) so...praise the Lawd I'm not a cashier I guess

truck status: rolled

 

[Endlessbackstock]

When a store starts trying to run itself on repacks you can tell there is something wrong.

 

[can't touch this]

Well peeps, what's the latest since I blew?

 

[unknown]

Well peeps, what's the latest since I blew?

We roll about 30 repacks of Rx every truck. It got backed up and no time to chip away at it. No leader wants to step in to help since they are awful to do since nothing is sorted.

Ih yeah, they say ..... it's super sorted!!! That means they come off the truck and get put on a uboat. Rx is mixed with HBA which is mixed with who knows what.

Between opu's Sunday night, I pushed about 10 repacks.

I've inf'ed loads of Rx stuff in the last month since the shelves are half bare.

A poor guy came in the other day looking for Plan B. Of course, the system says we have 12 on hand. I told him who knows where they are. The look on his face was pretty sad.

 

[Caliwest]

The next time I hear "X isn't brand" I'm gonna choke a bitch. You know what else isn't brand? 10 pallets of truck push staged on the salesfloor when the store is open so guests have to parkour over it to get down the fuckin aisle

Seriously tho it looks ghetto af, like Big Lots.

Oh my I hear you! Back in the day you never saw shelf stocking during business hours...it still makes me nervous to pull a u boat stacked 6 ft past a mom and a coupla toddlers. My BTS area is just off receiving double doors and all those pallet overloads get placed right in front of lunchboxes !! My area there is called " the back wall" like its part of receiving or something!!!

 

[can't touch this]

I will for sure not miss the shitloads of Halloween/Fall/Xmas crap but I will sort of miss being able to load up on Terry's chocolate oranges and clearance peppermint coffee right after my shift

 

[can't touch this]

Hahaha oh wow I cannot wait to see how trashed my stores seasonal block gets this Q4, I'm guessing they'll have 2-3 literally who's pushing 40 uboats with looks on their faces that say "where's a cliff so I can yeet myself off"

 

[seasonaldude]

Hahaha oh wow I cannot wait to see how trashed my stores seasonal block gets this Q4, I'm guessing they'll have 2-3 literally who's pushing 40 uboats with looks on their faces that say "where's a cliff so I can yeet myself off"

2-3? You've been gone too long. The DBO of seasonal should be able to push it all by himself!!!!!

Oh wait? He really can't? Well, let's wait two weeks, let all that shit accumulate in the back, and then panic give out hours to anyone in the store to help out regardless of whether or not they know how to do the job right.

 

[can't touch this]

Any amount of time since last seeing Trim A Tree is not long enough famalam

 

[Dead and Khaki]

Today I averaged four guest interruptions per box.

 

[unknown]

Today I averaged four guest interruptions per box.

You know that doesn't matter right? 4 seconds a boxxxxxx!!!!!!!!

 

[PackAndCry]

Oh my I hear you! Back in the day you never saw shelf stocking during business hours...it still makes me nervous to pull a u boat stacked 6 ft past a mom and a coupla toddlers. My BTS area is just off receiving double doors and all those pallet overloads get placed right in front of lunchboxes !! My area there is called " the back wall" like its part of receiving or something!!!

Hey, don't worry, if you slow down or stop because a guest is near your poorly-stacked u-boat you're trying to push-don't-pull, you'll get screamed at for being too slow.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

Hey, don't worry, if you slow down or stop because a guest is near your poorly-stacked u-boat you're trying to push-don't-pull, you'll get screamed at for being too slow.

I just try to ignore it. Short shift, loads of shit from the truck that no one got to--you need to put someone else in my department if you want shit to get done.

 

[PackAndCry]

I wonder how many incidents there have been of TMs hitting guests with u-boats. You're not supposed to pull them (and we've had TMs mess up their shoulders from pulling them too much) but then you can't see over it. Sucks.

 

[dannyy315]

You know that doesn't matter right? 4 seconds a boxxxxxx!!!!!!!!

Yeah, throw that rule the fuck out the window during bts season and 4th quarter.

 

[dannyy315]

Today I averaged four guest interruptions per box.

The issue I run into a lot is I bring a box to its location to push it, but there’s a herd of guests standing in front of where it goes. So I either have to awkwardly ask them to move, or wait for them to get out of the way and move to a different box.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

I wonder how many incidents there have been of TMs hitting guests with u-boats. You're not supposed to pull them (and we've had TMs mess up their shoulders from pulling them too much) but then you can't see over it. Sucks.

This is why I pull from the front. Sometimes I walk backwards with the thing too if I don't have far to go, so as not to fuck up my arm. It sounds weird but I can glance over my shoulder fairly easily and it's easier when I can see if anything's about to fall over and where the front is going.

 

[dannyy315]

This is why I pull from the front. Sometimes I walk backwards with the thing too if I don't have far to go, so as not to fuck up my arm. It sounds weird but I can glance over my shoulder fairly easily and it's easier when I can see if anything's about to fall over and where the front is going.

I know exactly what you mean and I do the walk backwards thing too sometimes.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

I know exactly what you mean and I do the walk backwards thing too sometimes.

Here I thought I was a weirdo for doing it, lol

Nice to see someone else who does it.

 

[dannyy315]

Here I thought I was a weirdo for doing it, lol

Nice to see someone else who does it.

Yeah I mostly do it if the U-boat is slightly slanted and I think there’s a risk of boxes falling over. It allows me to keep an eye on it and avert disaster, lol.

 

[can't touch this]

humpity bumpity bump

yesterday fucking sucked, holy shit I hate Saturdays

one year later and now Saturday is overtime day and zero customers ever...get looted Target! 👌

 

[inboundin']

Bumping this because I'm curious how inbound hours are at other stores. I'm gen merch now, but still talk to inbound.

A month or two ago, their shifts went from four hours to three and a half. Now this week and the next (maybe the foreseeable future) they only get three hour shifts. That's not even long enough for a break.

 

[allnew2]

Bumping this because I'm curious how inbound hours are at other stores. I'm gen merch now, but still talk to inbound.

A month or two ago, their shifts went from four hours to three and a half. Now this week and the next (maybe the foreseeable future) they only get three hour shifts. That's not even long enough for a break.

My team gets 40 hours

 

[Logo]

4 hour shifts here unless they are a dbo for a priority 2 area