Kroger needs to really take a look at store markdowns and possibly eliminate some of these "constant markdown products". Of course they will not. I am sure in your store just as mine, the very moment you make or put out certain products, in the back of your mind, you already know, "manager's special". It is just ashame to keep marking down the same product(s) over and over.
Its wasteful! Especially the new milk program. Customers would love to have a special deal on milk. So many families and people are struggeling and hate to dump it and not be able to mark it down. You get rid of products to see them come back in and markdown again. And then your markdown items to be ordered again and ordered again by the computer after a hole is covered/ordered. be nice to sell more of what customers actually want and what sells and special request items customers would buy at our store and not elsewhere.
at our store in (ky.) we do have a church that comes daily to pick up our bakery and bread markdowns for a shelter to use. still we have the higher ups insisting we carry products we know won't sell...and no one believes we know what we're talking about even though WE are the ones who interact with our customers and hear feedback daily.
Our store is known as a thrift store, because people wait until the salad or bread is marked down before they buy it. Don't blame them really, however Kroger needs to examine the items that are being marked down on a regular basis and consider discontinuing the items or adjust the price...
We just started a mini-donut program that is a huge waste of time and money. We make 6 dozen mini glazed donuts every morning, put them out until 4pm when they get marked down to half price: $1.99. Every single day, we mark down those six dozen donuts. And every single evening I have to throw them out or put them in the donation cart because they don't even sell on markdown due to the regular doughnuts being "as many as you can fit in the box for 1.99" at 8pm. HUUUUUGE waste.
And pineapple cherry caramel pie sounds gross to me. Our specialty pie is apple oat raisin streusel right now and it doesn't sound good either. Raisins in pie? That's not dessert!
We just started a mini-donut program that is a huge waste of time and money. We make 6 dozen mini glazed donuts every morning, put them out until 4pm when they get marked down to half price: $1.99. Every single day, we mark down those six dozen donuts. And every single evening I have to throw them out or put them in the donation cart because they don't even sell on markdown due to the regular doughnuts being "as many as you can fit in the box for 1.99" at 8pm. HUUUUUGE waste.
And pineapple cherry caramel pie sounds gross to me. Our specialty pie is apple oat raisin streusel right now and it doesn't sound good either. Raisins in pie? That's not dessert!
THANK YOU! We're on that same stupid donut program. We do a case a day, which makes about 8 dozen. If they don't get marked down, they all get thrown away or given to the food bank. Even if they do get marked down, we still end up throwing away most of them. It's a waste of time and product. It's obviously somebody's pet project because we were told we had to do it. People aren't going to pay $3.99 for a dozen mini donuts when they can get a dozen full size donuts for 60 cents more. The donuts aren't even all that good.
I'm pretty sure our regular dozen is still 3.99 at regular price, too. And they put the display up at the front of the store in a pathetic attempt to get the customers to "convenience" buy it, but, and I mean this in more ways than one, they aren't "buying" it.
And the 4pm hot bread thing would be okay if we had hours scheduled for the extra work. My store only does this at 4pm but apparently we're supposed to be doing it at 5 and 6pm as well. That would completely throw off our bake schedule. As it is, I forget about hot bread half the time and no one ever buys it anyway because we used to put it in a basket (where it would stay warm because they'd all be in a contained area bunched up against each other) whereas now they go on the mini donut rack to immediately cool off, get hard as rocks and then get marked down. :/
We have the donut program here too, and no one's buying them at 3.99 a box. People are buying them when they go on markdown for 1.99 though. Our regular donuts are 6.99 a dozen so it is a good deal in that sense. the other thing is, our markdown donuts aren't as many as you can get in the box for 1.99... i wish! instead, I box them up every night and sell them for 3.50.
We aren't doing that hot bread thing here yet and I'm hoping we don't... I'm afraid we will eventually though since the walmart across the street is though. And I'm going to be hating that, because I work afternoons, have to do breakout, and I have never baked anything (other than cookies) I don't have time to be baking bread at 4-5pm.
We started that hot crusty French bread several years ago where you had to have it hot at 4, 5, 6, and 7 pm. It eventually fell by the wayside. We still have crusty bread but we do it just once in the morning. If we run out and somebody asks for it we ask if they want to take a loaf home and bake it themselves. Otherwise, we tell them it's going to be at least 20 minutes.
We have the donut program here too, and no one's buying them at 3.99 a box. People are buying them when they go on markdown for 1.99 though. Our regular donuts are 6.99 a dozen so it is a good deal in that sense. the other thing is, our markdown donuts aren't as many as you can get in the box for 1.99... i wish! instead, I box them up every night and sell them for 3.50.
We aren't doing that hot bread thing here yet and I'm hoping we don't... I'm afraid we will eventually though since the walmart across the street is though. And I'm going to be hating that, because I work afternoons, have to do breakout, and I have never baked anything (other than cookies) I don't have time to be baking bread at 4-5pm.
$6.99!?!?!?! Do your donuts come hot fresh from Krispy Kreme!? I would never pay that much for our frozen crap....lol.
And boxing it up at night...that's like Harris Teeter stuff!
We used to start donut markdowns at 7 but people would come in really early and fill their boxes and just walk around, or stash them places to come back for later. My GM got so angry she pushed it back to 8pm. And if she catches someone loading a box early, she will kick em out! Ha.
Yeah, what do you mean? We aren't meant to make a profit? I mean, obviously everything could come in baked and sliced (a lot of stuff does) but I would think that would be a HUGE waste just for "customer service".
