District management came in and raised minimums on lots of product. Seems to have been random. Items with weekly usage of 2 and physical allocation of 24 now have mins set at 42! Makes you think they are getting some kind of kick backs from suppliers. Next they will complain about quantity of backstock! I could understand if these items were going empty on regular basis but NOOOOO! No rhyme or reason to the changes. Store management has no clue why this has been done.
If company management can't do this right, no wonder Kroger sucks.
The mins used to be locked on CAOs for employees at our store. The only person that had clearance to change them was the store manager. When we have resets, they never get corrected. Print a barcode or write down the UPC code and ask manager to change the ones that are completely out of control. Finally, a month ago, all employees have access to change the mins. My canned veggies and fruit are finally going down off of backstock. I am having a hard time resetting mins for some products. I have to decide if it is a fast seller or not and set mins accordingly. Cake mixes section, for example, got trimmed down drastically. The shelf holds maybe 13 pieces. They come in 12 in a case. I have been setting the mins from 4-6 just to make sure it doesn't become a hole.
I check/change them when I do backstock cart review or when I check backstock BOHs at the end of the night.
We have the same problem here in Columbus. Our grocery coordinator changes mins from the office, without ever coming into the store. Allocation of 12 Kroger Value baking chips min set at 42. We can and do change the mins when we catch something. By then it is too late. We have the product. We either hold on to it until the holidays or mark it down.
My min on most stuff in my aisles is Allocation minus pack = min. Seasonal stuff like baking items the min is lowered so that I can rotate slow movers.
