I was shopping at wal mart today and saw little shelf tags that said "temporarily out of stock" stuck next to the item upc just like we do at kroger. Who started this practice, us or them? Theirs were less noticeable, seemed to be more helpful to employees than customers (ours are bold, blue).
'Sorry, but we're too f u c k i n g cheap to hire the right amount of staff or give the few we do have adequate hours to properly stock what you came to buy----plus, our dick head managers don't know how to order things right or communicate with our ware houses'
'Sorry, but we're too f u c k i n g cheap to hire the right amount of staff or give the few we do have adequate hours to properly stock what you came to buy----plus, our dick head managers don't know how to order things right or communicate with our ware houses'
Why don't you print that out and hang it where you have out of stocks?
'Sorry, but we're too f u c k i n g cheap to hire the right amount of staff or give the few we do have adequate hours to properly stock what you came to buy----plus, our dick head managers don't know how to order things right or communicate with our ware houses'
Why don't you print that out and hang it where you have out of stocks?
Besides, I feel that the "Temporarily Unavailable" stickers are really a waste of time (peeling them off, and on, and off and on, and in some departments where a lot of them are needed, it can add up to a lot of wasted hand motion - translated: wasted time) and money (the money spent to manufacture them, money spent by Kroger to purchase them for the stores).
AND also they are a very subtle, but real, insult to the intelligence of the average customer. Why is it an insult to the customers, you might ask? BECAUSE an empty shelf ("hole") should be a very clear and obvious signal that we are currently out of a particular product. We shouldn't need a sticker or sign to confirm that. Kroger assumes everyone is an idiot. Sometimes it is true for individuals, but why insult the entire populace while you are at it?
But leave it to Kroger to think it is necessary to do other things like:
Label "TRASH CAN" with a sign that reads "TRASH CAN" on the wall above the trash can.
Show a picture of a BROOM in the "flip cards" cleaning procedures manual used in Produce. With it's proper use: ("Used to sweep floors").
They still ask. They ask before even looking. They ask when it's in stock and right in front of their face.
EXACTLY. They still ask.
SO, save time and keep stocking what we DO have, instead of playing with those annoying blue stickers! In many cases, a few hours or a day later we have the stuff back in stock, so then we need to remove the sticker. WASTED TIME on a skeleton crew is NOT GOOD.
The best use for the temp OOS stickers is as backing for temporary white-label tags so that when they have to be removed or replaced with a proper tag you don't end up with ripped sticker and adhesive left on the shelf
