OK,coming down from the main office the past 8 months we've had to put all backstock on green grocery carts. Looks good on paper, but the c#cksucker that cameup with this idea forgot to think about "what happens when the stockcarts run out?"duh...Didn't think that one through did they Mr. Smart guy. Now we have to dig for freakin' stock carts everynight.
If Kroger is one thing, They are dependable about being non-dependable and are consistent. The same sh#t everynight. Can't find a cart to break down trucks on. Then they want to use all the newer green carts with end rails for dead stock, then want you to use outdated,discontinued brown carts to break down the truck. Do these idiots have any idea how many carts it takes to break down a truck? NO apparently. Do they know how many cases fit on a $hitty brown cart? NO?
Hey execs, order some carts you freakin' idiots. Before loading down the one main tool used for getting product to the shelf,maybe, just maybe you should have replacement carts on hand before doing such a stupid act. Didn't think it all the way through. The brown carts have no end rails to keep the stuff from falling after overloading it. 35cases on a brown without causing damage/shrink from falling, 50 on green carts. More stock means less trips to the floor from the backroom,that equals saving time and overhead in labor costs. Ever think Why they quit using these brown turds years ago?
Is there somebody, somewhere employed by Kroger to make a simple job much more difficult?
Oh boy! I know how you feel. The green carts are more effective because I can get my entire chicken order on one of those verses 2 or 3 of the other ones. We can accuse the higher ups of ever thinking at all letting alone thinking through anything to begin with
We have cart issues as well at our store. Sometimes in the frozen department (regular frozen & meat/seafood) order they order monster trucks and they like to use all the good carts leaving the other departments with the older or no carts to run their stock. It even goes as far as the employees putting their excess skids in the dairy cooler (our store sells alot of milk) and they load the freezers with full and then they tried to "hide" empty carts for themselves for tommrow. I swear they worry more about having carts than running their product. They get pissed off when I/ other take all the empty carts out and cram their freezers with their skids. Kroger fun.
Let em' come up with a pencil that helps them sit and do paperwork more easily and they'll place it on the Priority List and order a Million dollars worth, then send out emails to each store notifying them of the new change over. Fire off loads to each management team at every store.
But when it come to those who have to do real labor work and fill the shelves with product that helps make their juicy bonus's, then they don't care if its the hard way or not. Anything to make it harder on the guy at the bottom of the food chain. How many more things can they change to make a simple job more difficult? Geez, your only putting crap on a shelf, not building a rocket.
Well...the purpose of putting overstock on carts rather than pallets is for it to be worked on a regular basis rather than sit there, and sounds like you folks have a overstock problem. Sorry your team didn't communicate this one to you - the long term plan is to have no overstock other than fast movers(sale product). I doubt you have the time to work overstock regulary and that is not part of the plan. Sounds like you and yours need some CAO training to make it happen. When you become proficient in your job, you all will be ordering truck-to-truck, have less than 8-10 cases of overstock for each aisle, and at our store, half our aisles have no overstock,and you will have more " L-carts" and U-Boats (Green carts) than your store can possibly use to process( you'll be tempted to sell carts on ebay). Here's the great news ! Become proficient in the RF Gun and you'll be working smarter rather than a whole lot harder. Stop guessing and building inventory in your backroom...last I heard, we're not letting customers shop backrooms and recieving docks. You'll have less O.O.S. with no overstock (yes, Key Retailing works in this arena). Why on earth would you have all that overstock??? Get with the program for all of our futures- Hey ! For the record...when ya'all get proficient with ordering, dedicate the U Boats to be aisle specific -even the empty ones- no one uses but nightcrew- and pull them out and use them when you sort. You'll always have carts
we use brown dolly's to break down the truck and it works just fine. green u boats are used for back stock and we have no problem. u must not know how to break down a load efficiently ya idiot
Been doing this $hit for more than 22 years and even with a 10 year break in another profession with several different chains. Longer than some snotnosed asst and co, groc mgrs, and a few mgrs even.I know more about breaking down a truck than you can't count asshat. I know what works and what makes it harder on the crew. Brown buggies don't hold as much and is prone to overloading, when all the green stock carts are in coolers in frozen and dairy and gm, just where are yo gonna put this crap to move to the floor. All green carts are in racks(designed for pallets). why do you think they put those big ass racks back there,not for frickin looks. YOu go stack tissue and cereal,dog food on buggies and see how many it takes.
Its a g#ddamn Easter Egg Hunt every night because of this stupid ass idea. Then add to the fact the fu#ked up store gets 9(yes 9!) frickin trucks in a 7 day week. With 5 ft and 5 pt(usually working 5-6 hours just to have aheartbeat in there) you can't have a sufficient crew each night. I've seen less trucks, in less nights with more Ft men in other Kroger stores, I can take you by the hand and walk you in there and show you. Thats a f#cking fact. And when you get 9 trucks aweek, tell me asshat,when you gonna work all that over-ordered stuff. On a truck night thats when.
Stop all that Projective sales sh#t. Especially when a truck comes in every night. If they could precisely predict how many boxes of Vienna Sausage will sale, then I want them to pick the next Lottery number s for me. But wait, they can',t so I'll just play the Lottery myself since they can't get it right. They know they're getting too many trucks, tried to get 2 cut out. But wait, they can't handle that little task. They can get another 2 added but its above their ability to cut out 2.
And yes your right, you can't keep a spare store in the back room. No register at those doors. I've preached this a million times, but I guess they don't know what i'm talking about when over-ordering with a computer. I've seen the BOH corrected so many times and that dam# computer still send a case in a week later. The computer system is F#CKED. I hate backstock, its old ground traveled over twice,cuts into profits by triple handling. CO's and Asst's need to keep that hand off that gun. There was a reason the wands were taken off the old scanning machines when barcodes came out many years ago was it made the one using to happy and over ordered. Loved to hear that beep.
dedicate the U Boats to be aisle specific -even the empty ones- no one uses but nightcrew- and pull them out and use them when you sort. You'll always have cart
Word has come down all frozen will be now stacked on green buggies and left in the cooler, frozen uses 3 each night to break down then we have to hunt down some. GM has a ton under the racks, youd need another 30 carts brought in, know how much these carts cost? About $300 a piece, I was told by a gro.mgr in anotehr store. muliply that by how amny Kroger stores?
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tsk...tsk ! Your not that sharp! I have you beat in service so let's debunk your 22 years and let's go with my 30 CONTINUOUS- want to? Nah-let's go to the level playing field since your so smart. Did you know that Smith's is sorting groceries by store specific aisles for each of their stores? I didn't think so...did you know this technology is coming your way? I didn't think so...did you know you will be able to take a skid out of the truck, and essentially the pallet will be for that aisle only? I didn't think so...lottery ticket? I think I'll take my chances on CAO vs. your guesswork on what you think your going to sell with all those carts of overstock you self proclaim to have, that's for sure. Wise up now while you have a chance and get with the program. If you were that good as you claim to be, you wouldn't have that kind of overstock and be looking for carts with 22 years on and off service. Oh, and by the way with your comments about the Co's...you were new once, wern't you? I do wish they were as perfect as you claim to be. Time for you to evaluate you - it's time for a change and the change needs to start with you. Are you going to be the problem or are you going to be about the solution? God love you with your fact of "more Ft than you have". That's great...I think it's safe to say there selling more than your store is? ELMS is based on tonnage - not your self created overstock problems and percieved cart problems. So with your " *** fact" about the hours, who's doing more in sales? That's what I thought...don't even go there and say your store is because any of us who are with the program know you are spewing bunk- come here educated for the debate and not your self proclaimed expertise.
tsk...tsk ! Your not that sharp! I have you beat in service so let's debunk your 22 years and let's go with my 30 CONTINUOUS- want to? Nah-let's go to the level playing field since your so smart. Did you know that Smith's is sorting groceries by store specific aisles for each of their stores? I didn't think so...did you know this technology is coming your way? I didn't think so...did you know you will be able to take a skid out of the truck, and essentially the pallet will be for that aisle only? I didn't think so...lottery ticket? I think I'll take my chances on CAO vs. your guesswork on what you think your going to sell with all those carts of overstock you self proclaim to have, that's for sure. Wise up now while you have a chance and get with the program. If you were that good as you claim to be, you wouldn't have that kind of overstock and be looking for carts with 22 years on and off service. Oh, and by the way with your comments about the Co's...you were new once, wern't you? I do wish they were as perfect as you claim to be. Time for you to evaluate you - it's time for a change and the change needs to start with you. Are you going to be the problem or are you going to be about the solution? God love you with your fact of "more Ft than you have". That's great...I think it's safe to say there selling more than your store is? ELMS is based on tonnage - not your self created overstock problems and percieved cart problems. So with your " *** fact" about the hours, who's doing more in sales? That's what I thought...don't even go there and say your store is because any of us who are with the program know you are spewing bunk- come here educated for the debate and not your self proclaimed expertise.
Oh boy! That by the aisle stacking sure is making its way here.
Nope, sorry, still ****ing convicts and Mexicans stacking retarded pallets for us here in GA.
As for the guy you're arguing with, actually, yes... It's entirely possible to be superior to CAO. I regularly scan my backstock, ALWAYS having to change the numbers because somehow they magically get reverted or otherwise ****ed up. But even still, I completely ignore everything but the Mv7 when I order for my aisle.
I have practically zero OOS on the aisle and only a single Uboat of backstock. This is Aisle2(cans) and 700k/week without fuel.
CAO can get ****ed for all I care.
I pretty much got fired from asst. grocery manager because I bucked up and spoke out about the move to U-Boats. I was 100% correct about my reasons why it was a failure of an idea. Why else would we be moving to back pallets for dead stock? Exactly.
