Frozen is a generally easier and straight forward dept and drug gm can be hell on earth so from Back to School through Valentines day ... choose wisely.
My opinion? Frozen. Get some gloves, two sets. One for ice: thick gloves, walmart sells a good brand for 10 bucks and these right here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/292380013610. There's a frozen lead who taught me some stuff that told me to have one for ice and one for handling the frozen food. Just like Grocery, make sure you scan your BOHs and correct any minimums needed. Highest sellers: Frozen vegetables ( year around ), garlic bread, potatoes including orelda, cheap kroger pizzas, kroger ice-cream, eggo waffles etc etc. You won't be able to do your backstock on truck nights. If the backstock is too high, cut the order to maintain it or call for a blitz. Department is very easy. If you have a second hand, teach him on everything. At my store my second had has been slippin' and my backstock suffered due to it, but I'm getting it together ( he's being replaced due to too many call outs and no shows ).
Frozen lead is a solitary position. 80 percent of the time you WILL be alone. Your back-up may suck as hell not going as fast. If this is the case, adjust the truck to your liking BUT make sure to maintain and fill sale items. Keep the sale items filled at all time, especially during labor day, Thanksgiving & Christmas. Thanksgiving week is one of the biggest weeks for maximizing sales, so I suggest if you're going to have the position to keep tons of whip-cream on stock both cool-whip and cheap kroger brand stuff. Pies sale well, especially sara lee & edwards. Pie Crust is a HUGE seller, especially that 2 for 3 orange pack color. Purple doesn't sell that well, but still a good one. This year I'm gonna' keep atleast 50 on stock during that week or more. Anyways, that's all the tips I know. One of my suggestions is get good with the gun, scan your back stock and fix any minimums that's needed. Good luck!
How many pieces are your orders? And how many days a week do you get truck? And why do you think frozen is better then drug GM?
I am not the person who commented earlier, but I am the backup-to-the-backup in frozen at my store. We average 250 pieces, 7 days a week. We have 1 opener, and 1 closer. IMO frozen is just straightforward. If you have competent people, it's a department that won't cause you too many headaches.
My opinion? Frozen. Get some gloves, two sets. One for ice: thick gloves, walmart sells a good brand for 10 bucks and these right here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/292380013610. There's a frozen lead who taught me some stuff that told me to have one for ice and one for handling the frozen food. Just like Grocery, make sure you scan your BOHs and correct any minimums needed. Highest sellers: Frozen vegetables ( year around ), garlic bread, potatoes including orelda, cheap kroger pizzas, kroger ice-cream, eggo waffles etc etc. You won't be able to do your backstock on truck nights. If the backstock is too high, cut the order to maintain it or call for a blitz. Department is very easy. If you have a second hand, teach him on everything. At my store my second had has been slippin' and my backstock suffered due to it, but I'm getting it together ( he's being replaced due to too many call outs and no shows ).
Frozen lead is a solitary position. 80 percent of the time you WILL be alone. Your back-up may suck as hell not going as fast. If this is the case, adjust the truck to your liking BUT make sure to maintain and fill sale items. Keep the sale items filled at all time, especially during labor day, Thanksgiving & Christmas. Thanksgiving week is one of the biggest weeks for maximizing sales, so I suggest if you're going to have the position to keep tons of whip-cream on stock both cool-whip and cheap kroger brand stuff. Pies sale well, especially sara lee & edwards. Pie Crust is a HUGE seller, especially that 2 for 3 orange pack color. Purple doesn't sell that well, but still a good one. This year I'm gonna' keep atleast 50 on stock during that week or more. Anyways, that's all the tips I know. One of my suggestions is get good with the gun, scan your back stock and fix any minimums that's needed. Good luck!
In my experience, you have to stock very fast and know how to use an RF handheld. You will get ZERO help from anybody else in store so it is on you to put your entire load up every night and stay on top of it. For a long time we couldn't adjust our minimums so it was hell. We can now but sometimes they change back. You have no control over distributions, clearing out the warehouse or resets. You just deal with it as it happens. In my store, they don't want a mark-down door so that **** just sits in the freezer going out of date, same with nutrition frozen which has its own aisle and we never have time to work it. In my store we get 600 piece loads 3 days a week and a 300 piece load 1 day a week. I am off 2 of the backstock nights, so not **** but conditioning get done because the grocery manager pulls my guy to help out on the dry grocery side of things. There is me and 1 other guy. The regular guy with me is on the phone all night talking to his wife and is not engaged at work so he never finishes his allocated part of the work, puts stuff in the wrong place, is unorganized with backstock, doesn't get **** done on my off nights. When he is not there (on leave now), there is a part timer they stick me with that is retarded or may as well be. Can only do about half the work he should be doing, puts product in sideways and doesn't understand what double face means, puts damaged product in shelf, etc. We are a million dollar store, have 12 doors to change out every Tuesday night, and they stick a retarded part timer over there so they don't have to babysit him on day shift. Well it is what it is. Good luck with your frozen gig. I would say go with the drug/GM position.
I feel the same exact way. No help ever. Supposed to have the truck done the day it comes in whether it is 300 or 600 cases. Oh and fill ice, lows and holes, order, do backstock scan, condition and make sure the freezer is organized. Yup.
If you don't set your minimums up good or cut the order, you're in for a **** storm. Trust me. The guy above with the 12 doors. Wooo, Jesus. Good luck man, lol. Goddamn.
