At my store in just the past two weeks, we've had u-scan breakdown several times, a couple of the belts on the registers were tearing up, one of the front doors were out of order, a sink in the deli is still waiting for a part and the big freezer in the back is so hard to open that two employees have hurt their backs trying to open it.
It seems to me that store maintanence has been set aside lately. And these are just the things that are broke that I know of. I'm wondering is it this bad everywhere? Or is it just at older stores? My store has been open 14 years.
I can assure you, it is like this in ALL retail environments. The lust for profits against spending is at an all-time high..... and on a collision course with DISASTER~
So true what you say. The freezer door has already injured two people and it still hasn't been fixed. And one of the injured is the wife of one of the shop stewards, so the union has been called about it. It just seems that once the store hit the 10 year mark they said screw it and started neglecting repairs and using more re conditioned stuff versus new.
Our trash compactor is broken and I heard that it won't be fixed until next year. So until then we're using dumpsters which are the type with sliding doors, and they really aren't designed to hold as much trash as we have at the end of the day.
Do not know what area you or any of you othes are in but this is what I have been told. SWKMA and the Dallas area has over one hundred srotes. They only have three plumbers to cover all the stores. Was in a D& meeting just te other day and a member of faslity engeneering was there. He made a comment about placing carpentry type work on the net early, because there is only three carpenters to coverall the Dallas area of the KMA. AS far as the other maintenance, He said they was down to about two mechanichs per district. There are about 20 plus stores in each district.
My recomondatin if they place all maintenance people on task sheets, make them wok within an ELMS guidline and hold thm accountable for timely repairs and quality work.
