Maybe it is just me, but I miss the Move app and the ability to manually drop OFO batches. Because then you didn’t have a batch sitting there waiting to be pulled making you freak out.
Having transferred to a store that is running the priority pilot, I can tell that Priority Pulls are much less of a hassle and the team isn’t struggling to meet metrics because they gained back time they’ve lost.
But at the end of the day, the focus has always been shifted, and I never understood why the company didn’t put the emphasis on “Out” batches and instead put the emphasis on “One for One.” You cannot sell what is not on the floor - period. And I have always stressed to my team that while I expect OFOs to be pulled, the more important batch is the outs. And when hours are tight and time is of the essence, they made sure that we never had “outs.” And by giving them the autonomy to decide what the priority was, fun fact, they kept the floor full while not wasting time on “one for ones.” (But even then, they did pull OFOs often because they were manageable.)
Semi-related: My biggest complaint of all is the fact that in Style, they set capacities on their POGs to numbers that are greater than 2-3, you know, the expected number of each size that should be out on the floor. So every damn time a transition or revision would drop, I would waste hours changing capacities to “2.”
Alas, I’m now a PML - so I have bigger fish to fry. (After being on the floor for 10 years with little upward movement, I wanted to try something new.) But I’m grateful to see the improvements they’re making to pulls and the overall store’s operations. I just wish we didn’t have to go through “what is old is new again” game.