I'm a cashier and lately two meat cutters have been going to my check lane. They have been reducing meat down to 25 cents! Steaks, frozen chicken, ham, ground beef, and seafood are all either 34 cents or 25 cents! I hate that those scans have been under my name! I didn't confront the meat cutters. But, I did speak to a co-manager about it and she has done nothing so far! I printed 3 copies of the receipts to give to management. She could care less about it! I told her I'd continue giving her copies of the receipt from now on and all she did was smile! I'm going to speak with the main store manager because I don't want anymore of those cheap items to be under my name. I'll lose my job if something doesn't get done! What should I do?
I agree with AnonymousCutter, something isn't right as Meat in general is never that low in price and that is a large discrepancy. Personally I'd follow chain of command as you've been doing, but speak to your SOM as well as the MOD with this, and possibly request that the Meat Dept Head be involved in the meeting as well as that will have them in the loop as to their dept employees actions. If none of that works, I'd go to Store or Corporate LP / Store Director with this and explain the situation.
Also make note of it in personal documentation that you have brought this to your co manager (times and dates) and that no action has been taken by her in 3 consecutive reports. This will help if you have to bring LP / Store Director in as they can cross check the back room cameras feeds with your reports to verify your story.
-- Edited by UC151 on Friday 13th of May 2016 03:44:27 PM
The ones marking it down that low are the ones who will get into trouble. When you mark something down with the RF unit, it records who was using it. That's one reason you never let anybody use your EUID number to sign into an RF unit or let someone use a RF unit that you've been using without signing out first. As a cashier, all you can do is scan the item at whatever the price says.
Sounds like your store has a thief. We actually fired someone for marking stuff down the expensive produce drinks, parfaits and stuff for like 10 cents.
I hope you are right and I won't be the one getting into trouble as the cashier scanning such low prices on meat!
The only time cashiers get into trouble for something like that is when they don't scan something and just pass it through. As long as you scan everything, you'll be alright. Anyway, it's not up to the cashier to decide if a item is priced too low, although I agree that 25 cents for meat is suspect. Departments will often mark stuff down to ridiculously low prices to get rid of it before it expires. This happens a lot when the warehouse decides to send out a bunch of product that's getting ready to expire or when there's product leftover from a recent holiday. Our bakery department got in a shipment of Easter cakes a couple weeks ago. We had to mark them 75% off to try to get people to buy them and we still couldn't sell them all. If they are marking down meat to 25 cents and it's legit, the item is supposed to be offered to the customers first. You're never suppose to mark something down for yourself. You're also not suppose to have someone else mark it down and then put it back for you to pick up when you get off.
I hope you are right and I won't be the one getting into trouble as the cashier scanning such low prices on meat!
The only time cashiers get into trouble for something like that is when they don't scan something and just pass it through. As long as you scan everything, you'll be alright. Anyway, it's not up to the cashier to decide if a item is priced too low, although I agree that 25 cents for meat is suspect. Departments will often mark stuff down to ridiculously low prices to get rid of it before it expires. This happens a lot when the warehouse decides to send out a bunch of product that's getting ready to expire or when there's product leftover from a recent holiday. Our bakery department got in a shipment of Easter cakes a couple weeks ago. We had to mark them 75% off to try to get people to buy them and we still couldn't sell them all. If they are marking down meat to 25 cents and it's legit, the item is supposed to be offered to the customers first. You're never suppose to mark something down for yourself. You're also not suppose to have someone else mark it down and then put it back for you to pick up when you get off.
I agree with this. And not supposed to shop while on the clock.
We mark damaged cans down 50%. Only when we are trying to get rid of something in a last ditch effort will we go 75% off.
I have seen employees go to the receivers area in the backroom and pick markdowns out before customers had a chance to buy them. Very poor choice. We had a mispick the other day of something we don't carry. I think the step daughter marked the case down and paged the off the clock employee into the backroom to pick it up to buy a reduced price.
