I have been working for Kroger 23 years at the same location. Pretty much know how things should be done. Seen the Key Retailing and the various programs live and die over the years.
We supposedly have changed the Perimeter clerk concept to the Replenishment Clerk idea. These people are supposed to fill holes from the Pre-Primetime report, HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Our replenishment clerk works Dairy/ Frozen/ Beer/Wine. If our grocery truck arrives in the morning along with our Peyton truck, the only thing that those pallets do is hold the floor down.
He used to process our 01 truck. Now nothing. Water aisle is empty. Gatorade is empty. Sugar is empty. Paper is blown out. Ends are craptastically screwed. Our manager is telling us we only have 175 hours for night stock a week.
What are your experiences on night stock? Good and bad. I want a feel for what others are going through. Success? Failure? Tips for working smarter?
Do you'll run 01 and 69 on nights? Currently, we only run 01. And help sort Peyton if it arrives early enough. The new eschedule might change that tho. Might flip the trucks. Night does 69 and daycrew does 01.
Do you'll run off of pallets or spot on floor or off of Lcarts?
I am at a larger store so our stuff isn't completely empty but we still have a lot of holes from poorly managed replenishing. I just ran backstock review the night before in one aisle. Peyton was delivered. This morning, I saw a full case on the just scanned the day before backstock cart. I went to shelf with it on my way out and sure enough it was a hole. I will have to check the BOH tonight if I remember and make sure someone didn't 0 it out. Dang kids on days have no clue what they are doing! This is a reoccuring event. One day, I filled holes with 8 items from our new items wall. The items were not even new!
I can't think of any suggestions right now. We have 2 full timers, 4 part timers(includes me). On the last two schedules, we part timers have been getting two days off a week but hours have been cut.
We run 01 and peyton at nights. And Cookie/Cracker. Most stuff is on pallets. I have to sort my stuff off pallets because my aisle has 3 poles down the middle, making it next to impossible to run the pallet down the aisle. Which is fine because I prefer to stock a section at a time and condition it right then.
I used too be a replenishment clerk go digging for products. Its a pain, especially if management pulls me too work in another department. Id never get the thing complete plus management thinks you can find all 70 holes in 10 minutes.
I'm in night stock in one of the bigger remodeled stores. We get double trucks, grocery and peyton, 5 nights a week. We currently have a crew of mostly old timers from 15-40 years at kroger. The majority of the crew have a max on vacation weeks. So from April till November there is always 1 person on vacation. God forbid someone calls in sick. 5 out of the 8 of us are full time. We are 2 people shy of what "they" call a full crew. When we lose someone retired,quit or fired; our hours go to the day crew.......! An average of 1200 cases come in a night. If the trucks show up on time then we mostly can get it done. Most nights along with unloading the grocery and peyton, a 2 person job, we have another person with a lesser count of product to put up deal with unloading the perishable truck(s) along with the milk that gets dropped off. If the grocery/peyton doesn't get done then its up to our day stock. So yeah its a hit and miss and lately a more miss on most days. The 20+ year kroger vets are sicken by management and the rest of us that are the part timers are there to pick up the pieces. Since I've been there in the 2-ish years the crew has gone through 10 people that haven't made the cut. 8 of them didn't make it past the first week. How's that for a story/average week?
