Looks like potatoes on top of a juice/salads/apple pallet on top a watermelon bin. And somebody already played jenga with it? haha, sometimes warehouse is real dumb. If only it wasn't dangerous. What a mess.
Sadly I've seen worse on our trucks. One of our trucks had 3 pallets that had fallen apart before it arrived at our store. One was soda, one was Aisle 2 Pickles, Ketchup, etc. And other was cereal. It was a d*** mess. Soda, pickles, and glass everywhere My Department head refused and sent it back for them to clean up.
Looks like potatoes on top of a juice/salads/apple pallet on top a watermelon bin. And somebody already played jenga with it? haha, sometimes warehouse is real dumb. If only it wasn't dangerous. What a mess.
Yep...OP here...Definitely potatoes on top of a ton of juices, which quite a few boxes got crushed in the process and bottles were scattered...Greens, cherries, salads, and all on top of a watermelon bin for who knows what reason why!!! And I've seen some bad pallets before...Several years back, one of our managers needed to get at some toilet paper on sale...Customers were asking for it, there was none on the shelf and he decided he was going to pull the whole pallet of toilet paper off the truck it was on with a manual jack...Problem was...There were three layers of spaghetti sauce jars on top of that SHIFTING pillow of TP rolls...Needless to say, when he hit the dock plate, he hit a bump...Guess what happened? The whole top-heavy thing tipped over leaving sauce and glass shards everywhere...I happened to be in the back room when this happened and I even offered to help him clean it up...His mistake, his mess was his answer and he angrily refused my help...Well, I can't say I didn't offer!!! And how long do you think it took to get to the toilet paper then after cleaning up all that glass??? Some things I guess I'll never understand!
Insane as this is, there is actually a reason behind how/why it happens. Other retail distribution centers (dunno about Kroger) have a truck loading system based on speed and space only. I.e., cram as much sh!t in whatever order you can as quickly as you can into a trailer, and in such ways that it fills every sq. inch of space as possible.
Insane as this is, there is actually a reason behind how/why it happens. . . . system based on speed . . .
Yes: every picked pallet is on a timer. ("Gotta hit yo' numbas, dawg!") No time for proper wrapping, apparently, and those seconds shaved at the warehouse are often more than exceeded by the time spent at the stores reconstructing crashed pallets.
Rush 'em and crush 'em -- the same corporate mentality that dominates the stores.
