Even though I've only been at one store, I've heard people from other stores and truck drivers say that my store is the only one or one of very few stores that pallets have to be transported via sales floor to the designated departments. Are there really stores out there that you can take a pallet from the loading dock all the way to Dairy or Meat cooler through the backroom hallways? Or is this a myth? My store's backroom is an extremely cluttered mess though.
In my home store, to get skids to meat or dairy, you can go through the back hallways but to get them to the bakery you have to go out on the sales floor. The only part of the back hallway that's cluttered is the part between the bakery and deli, out to the trash compactor, but everything past the back dock to the freezer is open.
In my new store, it's so small, i can't even work the bakery skid in the bakery, i have to load it on wheelers in the back hallway.
Even though I've only been at one store, I've heard people from other stores and truck drivers say that my store is the only one or one of very few stores that pallets have to be transported via sales floor to the designated departments. Are there really stores out there that you can take a pallet from the loading dock all the way to Dairy or Meat cooler through the backroom hallways? Or is this a myth? My store's backroom is an extremely cluttered mess though.
I'm in a Marketplace store so we have it pretty nice. I didn't realize how good we had it though until I had to go to other stores to help out with re-grand openings. Jesus, i don't know how some stores operate
Our meat cooler is near receiving, so at times meat doesn't have to walk far at all. Dairy / Frozen on the other hand are across the other side of the backroom by Dairy Receiving and the compactor chute (receiving is a totally separate area with our internal warehouse in the same area (but only access areas, which are locked off by fence gate under MOD lock n key. People are employed to work in there, but I've only gotten a glimpse of how it looks when the overhead lights are full on vs normally dark n dim)
Floral has a cooler that is by one of our two entry ways into the back of the store near the employee lockers n such. I don't know where Produce cooler is tho, but the prep rooms in both Meat n Produce are definitely kept cold and on an active monitoring system for refrigerant, which has both visual n audible alerting for leaks. If it should go off, room is to be evac'ed n sealed with Manager on Duty informed to report to Produce / Meat immediately via page. Anytime anyone pages with the words "immediately" or our emergency code or loss prevention code, it usually means "hey get here now, we have a serious situation." Any management level employee will usually drop what they are doing and respond if it is MOD called vs our Store Director / a Co-Manager called by name, or if emergency / LP code, all available management / LP will answer and assist immediately.
-- Edited by UC151 on Tuesday 1st of November 2016 10:57:49 PM
It is true at my New Marketplace store. We can get the Dairy, Frozen, Meat and Produce into the coolers thru back hall ways. Deli and Bakery needs to go thru the store.
But, when the Grocery back stock is cluttered, I go around on the sales floor. The Meat door is 90 degrees right next to the Produce Door. To get into the Meat cooler, I have to open the produce door so I can maneuver the jack backwards into the meat cooler.
We also have two balers. If the person in Home goods doesn't tie the bale soon enough, it won't fit down the hallway to the back dock.
