Came on to my 20 years today and the manager asked what changes I have seen in the market during that time. One thing is Inventory. Remember when it took two people a good 8 hours each to count inventory. Now a gun does it and it takes about 3 to 4 hours to complete it. Also remember that there was no cao and everything ( including lunch meat ) had to be recorded in a order guide and then hand keyed into the computer. Even parts of Key retailing are good and helped make the job easier. Also seen them do away with all in-store cut pork and making your own in-store sausage. But one thing is the unification of codes, cutting standards and cutting tools that makes it easier to go from one market to the other and have an understanding of what sells, needs ordered and not having to relearn different codes and standards all over again. Also seen two horrific disasters in the last 6 years. Seems every time they want to try to bring in some precut meat ( every time a contract is to expire) They have seen meat and store sales drop extremely sharp.
-- Edited by grumpy1 on Saturday 5th of June 2010 09:38:25 PM
I am rapidly approaching my 20 year mark as well; I remember the old MSI pads with the scanning wand. I agree, inventory is much better than it used to be.
The days of yester-year are gone and will never come back. The worst is yet to come - I rememeber when Kroger actually cared about folks and not diversity and hitting numbers...net-net - we're going to loose, and we're going to loose big time. remeber this post and what I write.
