I've been floating from department to department recently, pretty much bailing out different departments as they need me, and I'm noticing the same trend every time I get moved to a new department. I'll start off stocking, looking at the dates as I do, and wind up finding product that expired last year. Then I'll have to stop everything I'm doing and check the whole section and what do you know? Basket full of out-of-date product that I have to scan out. Some departments I can understand due to the size of them, like Grocery, but when I find things like that in Nutrition or heck, when I was working in Meat (emergency situation topic I posted a while back), that stuff should be a no-brainer that you have to rotate the product because it goes back pretty quickly. Yet I find stuff that isn't rotated and tons of out-of-dates, and it makes me afraid to even buy anything at all in my store without checking all of it for the sell by date.
It's gotten to the point where several of my co-workers look forward to seeing me get moved to a new department just to see how much out-of-date product I find on my first day.
At least the silver lining is that our Dairy department is actually really good about checking their out-of-dates. They're the only department in the store that does.
Nutrition products generally have short dates. Not enough preservatives to make them last longer. They must be rotated everytime.
I am shocked about Dairy. Did you check all the yogurt? All 5 million of them? :)
The proper way to stock shelves is to rotate everytime a case comes in. Time is so micromanaged that it is impossible to rotate everything all the time. Currently Manwich holds 226 cans and is usually can tight. We have one minute to get a new case on the shelf. It will take atleast 10 minutes to remove every can and check every date. Experienced clerks know which products to check often and which products to pass on. The price changers used to check dates when they changed the prices. They had to remove every price label from every product so they usually checked dates then.
Can you tell me where the expire date is on the Jones 12 packs located near the Faygo 2 litres? I have looked twice and can't find it. I don't think any have sold in over 6 months.
Congrats on catching the outdates. My best outdate was 4 years overdue. I found one 6 months ago because I hadn't seen the label for many years. It had to be a "make it right" return. There is no way it was stocked on the shelf. I hadn't seen that label since 2011. The store was new in 2014.
-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Saturday 9th of April 2016 07:26:54 PM
I'm im GM, we try to check out of dates as often as we can but with so many products and no ****ing hours it's really hard to never have anything fall through the cracks. They also love to send us massive plus outs of candy that is close-coded and if you happen to forget to check it within the next month or two you're screwed. Oh and forget about checking code dates on the register candy it's always too busy for me to get up there it's awful. I find it funny that they expect you to check the code dates on allll of the candy in like a day you could spend all 8 hours checking them and still not finish. I really wish they would spend money on more labor vs stupid crap like taste of Spain or those stupid aisle invader signs like really?
You guys haven't gotten the new markdown/out of date/reclaim system yet? (it's under CAO > Markdown)
Once you get all your BoH right and the out of date sent to reclaim it's a HUGE time saver! The gun keeps track of the expiration date for ever product in your department!
All you need to do is check it once every few days and you're golden.
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You guys haven't gotten the new markdown/out of date/reclaim system yet? (it's under CAO > Markdown)
Once you get all your BoH right and the out of date sent to reclaim it's a HUGE time saver! The gun keeps track of the expiration date for ever product in your department!
All you need to do is check it once every few days and you're golden.
My Receiver was saying something about a new reclaim system this morning. But, he didn't go into detail about how it worked. We are not using the new CAO Evolution yet.
How does CAO track dates? How do you know the products are out of date? Where can I read more about it?
I figured the Monday Markdown lists was derived from what other stores had been scanning out as reclaims/expires.
Right now, I have one OCD coworker that finds a lot of out of dates. I usually put him in an aisle that I want checked. Only problem is he is too slow and I think he checks every date on every product every shift.
One time, I had to clear AN ENTIRE shelf of outdated product. Most of it expired 6 months ago, the oldest bring from 2014-2015. I mean come on! The dates are not that hard to locate... Really they're not.
You guys haven't gotten the new markdown/out of date/reclaim system yet? (it's under CAO > Markdown)
Once you get all your BoH right and the out of date sent to reclaim it's a HUGE time saver! The gun keeps track of the expiration date for ever product in your department!
All you need to do is check it once every few days and you're golden.
Unless there's a different barcode on each item indicating the expiration date, that would be impossible. You might be able to add an addition to the barcode on things that are priced at the store (meat, bakery items, etc.), but unless the manufacturer starts doing it, it won't work for grocery items. As far as I know, every can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup has the same barcode, whether that can expires June, 2017 or August, 2018 or whenever.
You guys haven't gotten the new markdown/out of date/reclaim system yet? (it's under CAO > Markdown)
Once you get all your BoH right and the out of date sent to reclaim it's a HUGE time saver! The gun keeps track of the expiration date for ever product in your department!
All you need to do is check it once every few days and you're golden.
Unless there's a different barcode on each item indicating the expiration date, that would be impossible. You might be able to add an addition to the barcode on things that are priced at the store (meat, bakery items, etc.), but unless the manufacturer starts doing it, it won't work for grocery items. As far as I know, every can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup has the same barcode, whether that can expires June, 2017 or August, 2018 or whenever.
20 years ago when I worked in a warehouse, they kept track of the dates on each pallet. So, 99% of the time, they kept everything rotated. I suppose they can keep track of what the warehouse sends to kroger but they won't be able to get everyone on the same page. Not everyone is going to rotate.
I guess it could be done. If the warehouse knows it sent a case that expires in May 2016, they can say to check all product on the shelf today for that bar code. Eventually, it will get everything from 2015 off the shelves... :)
One time, I had to clear AN ENTIRE shelf of outdated product. Most of it expired 6 months ago, the oldest bring from 2014-2015. I mean come on! The dates are not that hard to locate... Really they're not.
Can you find the expire date on the Jones 12 packs of cans? I wish I would have opened one of the moldy cases to see if there is a date on the bottom of the cans.
About 6 years ago, I found the expire date for the bulk case of Kroger pudding. There was nothing on the outside of the case. I finally opened a case and the date was on the individual packages. The date appeared on the outside of the case after the package design was updated.
You guys haven't gotten the new markdown/out of date/reclaim system yet? (it's under CAO > Markdown)
Once you get all your BoH right and the out of date sent to reclaim it's a HUGE time saver! The gun keeps track of the expiration date for ever product in your department!
All you need to do is check it once every few days and you're golden.
My Receiver was saying something about a new reclaim system this morning. But, he didn't go into detail about how it worked. We are not using the new CAO Evolution yet.
How does CAO track dates? How do you know the products are out of date? Where can I read more about it?
I figured the Monday Markdown lists was derived from what other stores had been scanning out as reclaims/expires.
Right now, I have one OCD coworker that finds a lot of out of dates. I usually put him in an aisle that I want checked. Only problem is he is too slow and I think he checks every date on every product every shift.
When you check the product you are asked to input the products "latest date" before finishing and moving to the next in the list. I believe the gun is using the movement and warehouse dates to tell what needs to get set.
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