since grocery is a skeleton crew anymore, the DSD clerk is having to do his/her job and help with several other tasks. Aside from checking in vendors and unloading trucks, they have to run bread on bread clerk's off days, clean up the hallway, tons of markdowns from resets, assisted short dates for grocery and nutrition. Frequently they'll sort the grocery truck (since we no longer have a guaranteed guy for that task).
Musn't forget marking down the massive loads of taste of italy round 2 product. Went over so well the first time, they thought it would be good to do it again. That's a real time hog for the dsd clerk.
Yep, that pretty much sums up everyday in receiving for me. Our new grocery manager has been doing bread so that helps.
Most days I feel like I could work 18 hours and still not get everything done,
you don't have one person who runs bread? They don't have an official title, the guy just does bread every day (before helping grocery). Ours gets 40 hours, works 5 days. The receiver fills in on his days off. With basically 1-2 people doing it, the orders stay pretty normal. If it were just a designated task then you'd have too many different ideas on what should or shouldn't be ordered.
you don't have one person who runs bread? They don't have an official title, the guy just does bread every day (before helping grocery). Ours gets 40 hours, works 5 days. The receiver fills in on his days off. With basically 1-2 people doing it, the orders stay pretty normal. If it were just a designated task then you'd have too many different ideas on what should or shouldn't be ordered.
Yeah i was confused by the "wow" comment too. In my home store there is a guy who does the bread aisle and beer aisles, just those 2 aisles as a daytime clerk, and that is an 8 hour job.
you don't have one person who runs bread? They don't have an official title, the guy just does bread every day (before helping grocery). Ours gets 40 hours, works 5 days. The receiver fills in on his days off. With basically 1-2 people doing it, the orders stay pretty normal. If it were just a designated task then you'd have too many different ideas on what should or shouldn't be ordered.
Yeah i was confused by the "wow" comment too. In my home store there is a guy who does the bread aisle and beer aisles, just those 2 aisles as a daytime clerk, and that is an 8 hour job.
Our bread is done by outside vendors, so we don't get that prob. Bakery bread is handled by bakery staff, and beer I'm not sure about. Vendors also run our soda aisles for us, we as employees condition and face.
you don't have one person who runs bread? They don't have an official title, the guy just does bread every day (before helping grocery). Ours gets 40 hours, works 5 days. The receiver fills in on his days off. With basically 1-2 people doing it, the orders stay pretty normal. If it were just a designated task then you'd have too many different ideas on what should or shouldn't be ordered.
Yeah i was confused by the "wow" comment too. In my home store there is a guy who does the bread aisle and beer aisles, just those 2 aisles as a daytime clerk, and that is an 8 hour job.
Our bread is done by outside vendors, so we don't get that prob. Bakery bread is handled by bakery staff, and beer I'm not sure about. Vendors also run our soda aisles for us, we as employees condition and face.
What about the Kroger brand bread and soft drinks? Vendors usually only handle their own product.
