Funny you ask.....I SPENT MOST OF TODAY STOCKING DRY GROCERY, AND man YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE OUT OF DATES i WAS FINDING!! There was a salad dressing went back to last December.....OOPS~
LOL, just a couple weeks ago we found about 10 butterscotch puddings dated 2009. Grocery head always gets on the dairy guy for things only a day off.
I guarentee you can go into any grocery store and find at least a few, none of those third shift monkeys can even comprehend what the word "rotate" means.
There are two cases why grocery things go outdated. 1) It just doesn't sell and sits on the shelf forever. 2) The grocery manager orders an item when it doesn't need to be ordered and only a little bit goes on the shelf right in front of all the other dates, because really who wants to remove all the product to put 3 things in the back and then put it all back on.
I think certain items should just sell to a little bit left where you can get it in just before the last few are sold. I mean we get four grocery trucks per week (that includes 2 peyton). Some people around this store are dummies. I wish sometimes I wasn't just a clerk and I could run things for a month. Boy how things would improve.
maybe if kroger quit calling hard working employees to the front to bag grocerys/get carts/run a registar i belive there would be less of this. also kroger does not teach employees the importance of rotating and checking dates. Kroger just wants you to stock and condition. you just gotta look at dates before you buy, sure its anoying but its kroger.
One practice I HATE-----and this goes on at all grocers---is the business with returns. You know how customers will decide they don't want something, so it ends up at customer service, or where ever? The policy is, perishables are supposed to be claimsed out and PITCHED. But certain managers will quietly tell stockers to "just put it back in the cooler...it'll be ok."
NO, IT IS NOT OK......That's how people get sick as hell!
One practice I HATE-----and this goes on at all grocers---is the business with returns. You know how customers will decide they don't want something, so it ends up at customer service, or where ever? The policy is, perishables are supposed to be claimsed out and PITCHED. But certain managers will quietly tell stockers to "just put it back in the cooler...it'll be ok."
NO, IT IS NOT OK......That's how people get sick as hell!
Someone needs to tell those managers that even if the product hasn't been opened it's still not safe to put it back on the shelf because you don't know if it's been left unrefrigerated or not.
Dairy clerks and Frozen Clerks are expected to do 35 cases an hour because they are supposed to rotate. Dry Grocery are expected to do 55 cases an hour because they are not supposed to rotate. I never trained my guys to rotate when I was groc backup. We simply didnt have time.
Its a simple math problem. 4 guys to run a 1000 to 1200 case truck. One guy to condition (face up) shelves and fill gallon water. 3 guys to run the truck, one of them (gro head or backup) has to stop stocking and write gro and peyton orders when they go off. Then go back to running truck. Head or backup was last to leave so he could pickup and scan backstock then do a shelf review. No time whatsoever to rotate.
You're right and wrong. We are expected to rotate, the idiots just arent smart enough to allow us enough time to actually do the job right. I'm a nightstock manager (at a Jay C's). We have 3 people, on an average 1000-1200 piece truck. It's a load of bs that they expect us to finish the truck, and have rotated everything. I try to rotate everything, but sometimes it's just not possible.
I train them to rotate everything, but I know they'll eventually stop when they get comfortable there.
Oh yeah and the TSG, fun stuff!
The oldedst OOD that I've found was a 2004 when I started working there in 2009. lol
