I don't know who the idiots are who come up with these stupid ideas but this one takes the cake, so to speak. For those of you who aren't familiar with cake sizes, a full sheet cake is roughly 24"x16", a half sheet is 16"x12", a 1/4 sheet is 12"x8", and a 1/8 sheet is 8"x6". Basically if you want to reduce a cake down to the next size you simply cut it in half. What could be more simple than that? Today I noticed a cake in the case that at first glance looked like a 1/4 sheet cake but it had been cut in half DIAGONALLY so it looked like a right triangle. How in the heck is a customer suppose to cut something like that so all the pieces come out to be the same size?
This wasn't a customer's idea. This came from the higher-ups in deli merchandising. These are the same people who decided they wanted us to put the labels on the back of the product rather than the front. They said it showcases the product more. I say bull. The first thing a customer wants to see is the name and the price of an item. The labels aren't so big that you can't see what the product looks like. I think the real reason is they're embarrassed to show the prices.
They started doing that right before I left saying it was "artsy". We all agreed it was just a money grab and looked like crap. If they had a better package maybe, but they just put it in the container for a 1/4 sheet cake.
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hahaaa.... artsy! just like taking a shopping cart with an artsy design on the sides to the morning huddles. who thinks up this crap
Do what now? Morning huddles were bad enough, but that takes the cake. All I ever did with morning huddles was repeat the same things: Key Retailing, store conditions, be ready for company. Hell, I could have put it on a tape and just pressed play every morning at 9am.
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hahaaa.... artsy! just like taking a shopping cart with an artsy design on the sides to the morning huddles. who thinks up this crap
Do what now? Morning huddles were bad enough, but that takes the cake. All I ever did with morning huddles was repeat the same things: Key Retailing, store conditions, be ready for company. Hell, I could have put it on a tape and just pressed play every morning at 9am.
Why didn't you?
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hahaaa.... artsy! just like taking a shopping cart with an artsy design on the sides to the morning huddles. who thinks up this crap
Do what now? Morning huddles were bad enough, but that takes the cake. All I ever did with morning huddles was repeat the same things: Key Retailing, store conditions, be ready for company. Hell, I could have put it on a tape and just pressed play every morning at 9am.
Why didn't you?
Because soon all that would be there would be a recorder from the employees, to record what I had taped, like in whatever movie that scene was in.
That, and if I didn't give my union stewards there daily chance to have a soapbox moment, they'd have had a coronary from not having it. They always were going on about this or that when I gave them their chance to say something.
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My views don't reflect those of anyone, not even me. I may not have even made this statement. It's all lies, all of it!
hahaaa.... artsy! just like taking a shopping cart with an artsy design on the sides to the morning huddles. who thinks up this crap
Do what now? Morning huddles were bad enough, but that takes the cake. All I ever did with morning huddles was repeat the same things: Key Retailing, store conditions, be ready for company. Hell, I could have put it on a tape and just pressed play every morning at 9am.
Why didn't you?
Because soon all that would be there would be a recorder from the employees, to record what I had taped, like in whatever movie that scene was in.
That, and if I didn't give my union stewards there daily chance to have a soapbox moment, they'd have had a coronary from not having it. They always were going on about this or that when I gave them their chance to say something.
I'd record it and sit there while i played it. afterwords I would just ask "any questions?" Then they can do/say whatever they would like.
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