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Mother ****ers.  We have limited space as it is and we keep getting pallets of kroger 12 pack toilet paper.  I swear at one point we had 7 of those things in house!  It's not just **** paper, it's all kinds of other crap that we don't really need.  If there's a sale, we'll order for it!   Another problem is that we'll see that we should be expecting a distro on something, but we'll wait and wait (annoying).  

Now at least those items are usually on sale or will be part of a display, but another aspect of Distro is when we get random **** from the warehouse.  Not on sale, not in the ad, but here's 10 ****ing cases of some italian olive oil that can take up space in your back rack!  Cool story bro!  



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I know. It's especially annoying in dairy. Why the **** do we need 5 cases of cage-free eggs that never sell?! Are these people not aware that these items have dates on them? If we don't catch the extra backstock in time and mark it all down, it will all go to waste, leading to unnecessary shrink



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Perishable items has a distro if there is a large amount in the warehouse and its shelf life is getting close, better sell it for something or let it sit in the warehouse?  I can understand why Disro's happen, think about how much product your store gets and then X by 100, then think how big the warehouse has to be to carry all the different items.  Most likely the warehouse is ordering truck loads of TP, because of pricing, just think about the shippers you get because of pricing!  



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Mother ****ers.  We have limited space as it is and we keep getting pallets of kroger 12 pack toilet paper.  I swear at one point we had 7 of those things in house!  It's not just **** paper, it's all kinds of other crap that we don't really need.  If there's a sale, we'll order for it!   Another problem is that we'll see that we should be expecting a distro on something, but we'll wait and wait (annoying).  

Now at least those items are usually on sale or will be part of a display, but another aspect of Distro is when we get random **** from the warehouse.  Not on sale, not in the ad, but here's 10 ****ing cases of some italian olive oil that can take up space in your back rack!  Cool story bro!  


 Random stuff happens all the time. We're a "value store" and I think the Warehouse just likes to send us crap they need to get rid of. Which is fine with me. If we don't have room for it on the shelf and it's a slow moving type item, I just mark it down slightly above cost so that we make money. Still sells quickly enough. With the Italian oil, that might be for the "very exciting" Taste of Italy event. Work with your management; if you have too much remaining after a sale or event or just a warehouse giving you the middle finger, let them know and they have the ability to do a storewide sale price change on that item until stock goes down. We've had to do it before when we've received way too many distributions. Now, of course, jack your BOH up before doing this because otherwise CAO will see you've sold a slew of items and it'll want to order a ton. The only thing that annoys me is when the warehouse sends us unauthorized items, though half the time it's a mispick and we might not get charged for it, but at other times they give us the UA instead of the right item so you gotta try to figure out what you didn't get to get a credit, and half the time it isn't worth doing that for an inexpensive item. That's why the $75 reports come in handy.



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Are the stores charged for distributions of slow-moving or near-dated product?  "it's better to try to sell than to sit at the warehouse"  --true, but if we receive product we didn't ask for (oil) and it goes bad, are we at loss for the product?  (not that oil would have a short shelf life LOL)



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Are the stores charged for distributions of slow-moving or near-dated product?  "it's better to try to sell than to sit at the warehouse"  --true, but if we receive product we didn't ask for (oil) and it goes bad, are we at loss for the product?  (not that oil would have a short shelf life LOL)


 Generally, yes. You can pull up all of that information through ESI with cost and retail, though we get things weekly that aren't listed which means we didn't pay for them. Certain items are eligible for return credits. Just depends on what it is. Other times there might be another store in your district that needs the item and you can send it to them. This happens more around holiday season but can occur throughout the year. This is why it's important to print out your reports, identify said items, and quickly move them out if you need to move them out.



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Mother ****ers.  We have limited space as it is and we keep getting pallets of kroger 12 pack toilet paper.  I swear at one point we had 7 of those things in house!  It's not just **** paper, it's all kinds of other crap that we don't really need.  If there's a sale, we'll order for it!   Another problem is that we'll see that we should be expecting a distro on something, but we'll wait and wait (annoying).  

Now at least those items are usually on sale or will be part of a display, but another aspect of Distro is when we get random **** from the warehouse.  Not on sale, not in the ad, but here's 10 ****ing cases of some italian olive oil that can take up space in your back rack!  Cool story bro!  


lol,  You must be in a different state than me.  The kro toilet paper 12 packs have been getting scratched for the last week here. 



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The new buyers have no idea what they are doing nor do they care.  If they over order they just add it out to you.  They are more worried about when they are going to get from chipotle to eat. 



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Mother ****ers.  We have limited space as it is and we keep getting pallets of kroger 12 pack toilet paper.  I swear at one point we had 7 of those things in house!  It's not just **** paper, it's all kinds of other crap that we don't really need.  If there's a sale, we'll order for it!   Another problem is that we'll see that we should be expecting a distro on something, but we'll wait and wait (annoying).  

Now at least those items are usually on sale or will be part of a display, but another aspect of Distro is when we get random **** from the warehouse.  Not on sale, not in the ad, but here's 10 ****ing cases of some italian olive oil that can take up space in your back rack!  Cool story bro!  


No no no no no.  Don't you realize that Kroger store employees with years of experience are too stupid to know what sells and in their departments.  For example, we ordered 40 cases of King's 12 ct. Hawaiian rolls for Thanksgiving.  Apparently that wasn't enough because we got twice that many and every day they would add out 15 more cases.  The extra cases were added out after the order had already been transmitted.  We finally got them to stop sending them but we ended up with over 200 cases.  We've gotten it down to about half of that.  We probably have enought to last to Easter.



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The new buyers have no idea what they are doing nor do they care.  If they over order they just add it out to you.  They are more worried about when they are going to get from chipotle to eat. 


 what are these "buyers"?  I'll see that when I CTRL+O an item.  It'll show "Buyer add out" or something like that.  Is the buyer some kind of middle man between the stores and the warehouse?



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The new buyers have no idea what they are doing nor do they care.  If they over order they just add it out to you.  They are more worried about when they are going to get from chipotle to eat. 


 what are these "buyers"?  I'll see that when I CTRL+O an item.  It'll show "Buyer add out" or something like that.  Is the buyer some kind of middle man between the stores and the warehouse?


The buyers are the ones who decide how much product to order from the manufacturers so they can have it in the warehouse for the individual stores to order.  If they buy too much, the warehouse can't store it and they pass it along to the individual stores who then have to figure out what to do with it.  If they buy too little, the warehouse won't have enough to go around and you lose potential sales.



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Isn't it also about volume buys in order to get a lower price?  Say, "If we buy 100,000 cases of the ****tiest Chianti in Italy, will you wholesale it to us for $1.98 a bottle?"

"Si, signore!"

Isn't that how your little store gets buried under 1728 blue bottles of swill?



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You should see my freezer. Got hasbrowns, veggies, meatballs and halo top that got distro'd out the a**



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You should see my freezer. Got hasbrowns, veggies, meatballs and halo top that got distro'd out the a**


 Meatballs are B1G1, at least here. Halo Top is always a big Nutrition Promo item and we had ours in a promo endcap for a long time. Right now we're stuck with an entire Uboat and a half of Halo Top's Simple Truth comparable, and that's not including a full entire half endcap and another few dozen we marked down to 99 cents with no luck at selling. All of this was distro.



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The buyers are the ones who decide how much product to order from the manufacturers so they can have it in the warehouse for the individual stores to order.  If they buy too much, the warehouse can't store it and they pass it along to the individual stores who then have to figure out what to do with it.  If they buy too little, the warehouse won't have enough to go around and you lose potential sales.


 so when it says "buyer add out" that means that some dumb **** in corporate ordered too much for the warehouse?  And on the other side, when something is scratched, they didn't order enough?  They really need to get their **** together, especially with free friday downloads.  It's FREE, order more so we don't have to tell the customers "the warehouse is out" 



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