Long story short, I have been in both grocery and dairy for about a year now, and I'm about to be placed in produce. What kind of difference or similarity can I expect?
First, understand that produce is considered the most important dept. in a grocery store, that's why it's the first thing you see in most stores. ... So here's the bullet points:
Keep everything full. Don't have enough of something? Fake it out, spread other things around, do not leave empty holes for mgt to see.
Keep your back room and sales floor inventory fresh. Always be culling and rotating.
Keep your sales high and your throw aways low.
* Keep management off your a$$. Not uncommon to have some prick leave you by yourself and expect you to perform the work of 3-4 people. You run into that, you shut it down---any way you need to, go over their heads, a l w a y s remind them you're one person and you need help.
Shrink will fly through the roof. A lot more rotation, a lot more cleaning, a lot more expectation on presentation, about 10 inventories a year I think. Fruit flies. Rattlesnakes and terrifying spiders in banana pallets apparently. Smaller department. Smaller sales. Bigger egos. More old timers. No minors.
Although in our division, produce does not cashier or bag, only groc does. They only take care of floral when there is no one in floral. I didnt even know that wasnt company-wide.
A lot of things just depend on your specific store. Ask your produce lead about your new job expectations and compare them from your past experiences. Or ask produce clerks, theyll be a bit more honest than leads. Maybe.
-- Edited by GreyKnitHat on Sunday 29th of April 2018 11:22:24 AM
Shrink will fly through the roof. A lot more rotation, a lot more cleaning, a lot more expectation on presentation, about 10 inventories a year I think. Fruit flies. Rattlesnakes and terrifying spiders in banana pallets apparently. Smaller department. Smaller sales. Bigger egos. More old timers. No minors.
Although in our division, produce does not cashier or bag, only groc does. They only take care of floral when there is no one in floral. I didnt even know that wasnt company-wide.
A lot of things just depend on your specific store. Ask your produce lead about your new job expectations and compare them from your past experiences. Or ask produce clerks, theyll be a bit more honest than leads. Maybe.
-- Edited by GreyKnitHat on Sunday 29th of April 2018 11:22:24 AM
Well, minors arent allowed in coolers. For the most part, you wont see minors in perishable departments unless theyre only stepping in for a moment to grab things. Or your store breaks laws, which I aint sayin doesnt happen. Or maybe your state is different.
Our store is too, except for the comanagers or mods, front end managers/u-scan attendant, produce, deli, dairy, frozen, bakery, and meat depts.
Thats what Im referring to there. You might have ONE minor in produce, but thats it. Dry grocery, front end, non foods, click-list, all packed with minors on second shift.
Minors aren't allowed in any perishable departments here as far as i know. Legally they aren't even allowed to use a boxcutter. The only department i've ever seen minors in is front end, clicklist, and starbucks.
You may spend half or more of your day cashiering and get written up for not doing your job.
At which point, if you stop coming up to cashier, you will get written up for that as well.
And they will cut your hours.
You may have made a mistake.
Make friends with your produce lead because this here is true. Produce doesn't get a lot of hours and if hours get cut or management decides we need an extra part time person, some unfortunate person already in the department is losing some hours. So work hard and you won't be the person to lose hours since the lead decides who's getting how many hours when they write the schedule.
