I've worked in my store for less than a year. Was promoted to Grocery backup last week. I'm the 5th one since I've started there. Our problem is we can get enough help. We have 4 to 5 people stocking. KMP nights are the worst. Absolute hell. And our backstock is out of control. Hard to do the job without the proper amount of people.
The fact that there were four others before you in less than a year should have told you to stay away from the job. But like everybody else, you probably thought you could do better.
Our store overnight grocery is something like this:
Four or five people expected to work 1200-2000 case trucks four days each week (Our KMP and Grocery come in at the same time)
Only about half of the trucks are worked at best, leaving day grocery to finish the rest
Store management forcing anyone they can possibly get away with to work overnights to make up for the slack (Even our receiver!)
Said people leaving because they do not want to make up for overnight's slack, resulting in even less grocery people overall
Meanwhile the backroom just keeps filling up with more and more product, eventually getting to the point where customers are massively upset we have no product out
This makes the Division management force the Union to allow managers to stock, something they are not legally able to do according to our contract
The overnight grocery allow this, obviously, because they don't want to work harder - why would they? They never get written up at all!
After all of this, the backroom is still a disaster, so store management once again pulls whoever they want to stock...
The cycle just repeats over and over again, even with new store managers.