I went from a marketplace to a slow slow money losing store. What is the best approach to turning a grocery department around at a slow store? Almost everything is a slow mover and there is tons of certain products that will never sell down. I know you can send stuff back to the warehouse (depending on how much and what is and if it has been opened,...) and also send to other stores but what else can be done to get excess product out?
I once worked in a store that did 200k a week in sales, one of the smallest stores in the district. I don't know much about grocery but all i'd say is put on very tiny orders. Grocery trucks should be really small in stores like that.
Then why not mark it down? That way you're not loosing too much money and it's not just sitting in the back taking up space. That's what we do. If we have an overabundance of product we do not need, we do a big markdown to get it moved out. Then when it's back to a manageable number we put the correct price back on. Just make sure you put a sign that states "overabundance of xxx product. On sale now for $××.×× until ××/××/××.
The only difficult thing is to estimate when you think the un needed product will be gone by.
Then why not mark it down? That way you're not loosing too much money and it's not just sitting in the back taking up space. That's what we do. If we have an overabundance of product we do not need, we do a big markdown to get it moved out. Then when it's back to a manageable number we put the correct price back on. Just make sure you put a sign that states "overabundance of xxx product. On sale now for $××.×× until ××/××/××.
The only difficult thing is to estimate when you think the un needed product will be gone by.
Well, of course, we can mark it down. That's not the point. The point is that I am replying to ANONYMOUSE1"s statement "and don't let anything come in that you don't need."
Marking stuff down is just another thing we shouldn't be forced to do over and over and over......... IF the warehouse would send us only WHAT WE WANTED AND WHAT WE ACTUALLY ORDERED, we wouldn't have to do that so often!!!!!
-- Edited by Kroger-Employee on Friday 22nd of March 2019 06:29:13 PM
Then why not mark it down? That way you're not loosing too much money and it's not just sitting in the back taking up space. That's what we do. If we have an overabundance of product we do not need, we do a big markdown to get it moved out. Then when it's back to a manageable number we put the correct price back on. Just make sure you put a sign that states "overabundance of xxx product. On sale now for $××.×× until ××/××/××.
The only difficult thing is to estimate when you think the un needed product will be gone by.
Well, of course, we can mark it down. That's not the point. The point is that I am replying to ANONYMOUSE1"s statement "and don't let anything come in that you don't need."
Marking stuff down is just another thing we shouldn't be forced to do over and over and over......... IF the warehouse would send us only WHAT WE WANTED AND WHAT WE ACTUALLY ORDERED, we wouldn't have to do that so often!!!!!
-- Edited by Kroger-Employee on Friday 22nd of March 2019 06:29:13 PM
I agree with you. I wasn't thinking about distros when I posted that. It would be nice if they stopped sending surprise distros. I will order 2 cases of tomatoes that I need and they will distro 3 cases on top of my order. grrr.. The ^ is a nice feature. Annoying when I expect it on a certain date and they scratch it tho.
We have a new feature on cao called order refresh. I am almost done with my order when cao does it. It adds things I don't need and removes things I do need from the order. I don't have time to redo the order to reorder the deleted items.
i'm with Kroger-employee. Why tf do they send distros? It's almost always something we don't need. Do we have to pay for that product because that seems counter-intuitive to me if we do
i'm with Kroger-employee. Why tf do they send distros? It's almost always something we don't need. Do we have to pay for that product because that seems counter-intuitive to me if we do
To be as honest and fair as possible (pretending to think like a higher-up Kroger corp person), I THINK the reason why they do that MIGHT be because ("way up the ladder" in the wholesale market/level,) they buy huge quantities of product, at a low price, stuff that they THINK is going to be good sellers.......so, they buy way too much, and the warehouses are stuck with it. SO, the warehouse personnel (and/or the CAO computer program?) "feel forced" to send it on to the local stores. And then we have to deal with it.
