Just out of curiosity, how many people do other stores have on their overnight stock crews.
Me (Night Manager/Groc Backup), one 40 hour guy, two guys in 30-40 range, and a guy that works ~20. Am getting another ~20-30 guy soon to replace a guy who quit several weeks ago but that's it. My boss/Department Head comes in the early morning and helps us finish sometimes. I replied to your other thread too and my best advice is to shape your trucks around the staff you have. If I know I only have a night with two or three people, I try to make that truck as light as possible, hitting sales items and other key items but other crap can wait until another truck. Our frozen lead also works nights. We are a smaller store but I'd really love to have a few more guys that could hit backstock, stock so I can do more endcaps/displays/ordering without having a ton of OT each week, etc.
We have 6 Grocery trucks and 4 Peyton trucks a week. We have one day that we are able to run all the backstock with no truck.
We break down and run the Peyton truck(I have someone unloading the grocery truck onto the floor at this time) and then break down and run the grocery truck four nights a week.
It is a million + dollar market place.
Before we moved into this new store, the old store night crew was 5-6 people. Now that we are in the new store, sales have doubled and keep going higher.
Even with all the mis picks and missing pallets, we have one of the better in stock scores. I trust everyone but 3 people to use the Telxon for residual scan. I have 7 people willing to help me order. They order "their" aisles and I order everything else. We are constantly correcting Bohs. We have not changed over to Order Evolution yet.
