just wondering if it's entirely store employees. Would like to meet someone who works at the warehouse and tell them how they can **** off, especially the weekend crew
if there are, 2 questions: why do you keep building pallets that consistently lean? And why do you want to continue putting the heavy product on TOP and delicate stuff on the bottom, constantly damaging product (and creating leaning pallets ...)???
if there are, 2 questions: why do you keep building pallets that consistently lean? And why do you want to continue putting the heavy product on TOP and delicate stuff on the bottom, constantly damaging product (and creating leaning pallets ...)???
The order selectors are under time limits to get the pallets done or they lose their jobs. I have heard they get rotated every 6 months with new so they don't have to pay insurance.
The warehouse is set up in a certain order. The order selectors drive down aisles in 5-10 acre warehouses to get products. If Ziplock baggies is the first thing they get to, then Barilla pasta, then laundry detergent, then spaghetti sauce, that is how the pallet stacks up. If anyone has worked a KMP grocery pallet, they know what I am talking about. As a matter of fact, I helped clean up 10 cases of broken Classico spaghetti sauce this morning so we could get the rest of the pallets off the trailer. The manager will need to order more for his endcaps! :)
I was going to defend the workers but after lastnight, I think they are ****ing idiots.
My night started with picking up grocery pallets while trying to unload the drop trailer. The first one was a 5 foot cereal pallet stacked on top of a flimsy pallet that looked like 3rd grade artwork. Made it worse that it was on the tail of the trailer and I could not turn pallets. They were all sideways. What made it happen was there was 3 feet of empty space between it and the pallet in front of it. I am going to be very pissed if one of our evening guys did it and left the fricken mess for me to clean up. Got the second pallet out, then the third one fell over when I hit ramp. I didn't have room to turn it sideways or wrap it to the machine. It just had to be all small stuff. Couldn't be a few cases. Had to be 100 cases of cans and small stuff. Everything on the pallet was stacked straight up and down, no tyeing or anything. I never moved the above pallets. That is how it arrived.
One juice pallet was dangerously leaning. I got it out in one piece with luck. After the initial crappy start, the rest of the night went well. As I was getting ready to leave, the Reciever opened a KMP trailer with 10 cases of Classico spaghetti sauce smashed on trailer floor. She had enough crap to deal with, so I helped her clean it up. I think it fell over as she walked up to it. She had sauce on her from head to foot. lol. I hope she doesn't tell anyone that I am a team player...
-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Tuesday 28th of July 2015 03:34:19 PM
just wondering if it's entirely store employees. Would like to meet someone who works at the warehouse and tell them how they can **** off, especially the weekend crew
I am not a store Kroger employee, I work for Kroger Manufacturing. Don't work in distribution, so we are off the hook (you may get bad products from us though).
just wondering if it's entirely store employees. Would like to meet someone who works at the warehouse and tell them how they can **** off, especially the weekend crew
I am not a store Kroger employee, I work for Kroger Manufacturing. Don't work in distribution, so we are off the hook (you may get bad products from us though).
yeah we've gotten some outdated product on many occasions. What's funny is several years ago whenever something like that happened (clearly the fault of someone in the warehouse or distribution center) we'd remove the items from inventory under "warehouse damage" but after awhile they began telling us not to do that anymore. WTF?
The order selectors ["pickers"] are under time limits to get the pallets done or they lose their jobs.
That.
More than one flimsy turn of Saran wrap sure would be helpful. Why would greedy, irresponsible Krogrr grant time enough to do our jobs well, though?
what they don't realize is that the 20 seconds to make a couple extra runs around a pallet with saran wrap that's saving them in wages (at the warehouse) is costing them several minutes in cleanup at the store.
Example: Not wrapping a milk pallet properly (net savings 20-30 seconds of warehouse time/wages) will potentially cost them a lot more man "hours" and wages at the store should it spill. You've got me (topped out) + the driver (who's being paid well for his time) + any other store employees who might come help. That lost time/money can add up fast! I'm not sure what a warehouse guy gets paid, but I believe that 20 seconds of his time is a lot cheaper than 20-30 minutes of our time should a milk pallet be dumped (that's not a great example because I would hope that we'd be smart enough to re-wrap any milk pallets that look shady before pulling them off the truck) but things happen in transit. I think we all know the feeling when we raise the dock door to see milk dripping from the back of the trailer. Cancel my break, I've got a mess.
That whole scenario ^ doesn't even factor in one thing, the customer. What if 1/2 gallon chocolate milk is on sale 10 for $10, and it all gets dumped before it makes it to the cooler? You're going to be out of it, potentially, for a day (if not longer). Assuming worst case scenario that you only ordered a stack.