while grocery has almost nobody to run the product, we have a 40 hour guy who does nothing but check dates. This seems like a poor use of hours but what do I know? Be great if it were possible to rotate everything as we stocked and still make times but that is impossible. So much product on the shelves is not feasible to remove to stock new product...now if the product were only ordered when it was really needed (so the shelf isn't full) it might not be so bad. Plus having to check the dates on the product on the shelf...sometimes (heck many times!) the case of product that comes in is actually OLDER than what's on the shelf, so rotating that product would be counter productive
Everything is secret. Can't find out. Unlikely, since many people in the various depts are checking a variety of dates. Sometimes they play around with 'upgraded' electronics, but they mostly don't work so hopefully we all pitch in. Safety first for our customers and to he11 with management!
Kroger was finding up to 5% of the product outdated. Assisted short date program was supposed to fix a good deal of it but shrink continued to increase. Then they tried to start talking about total rotation of stock but when most departments cant even get the trucks up consistently they moved to having dedicated hours for rotation and the rotation calendar.
I havent looked at hours in a while so I cant tell you exactly where those hours came from but almost every program Kroger rolls out is just shuffling pre-exsisting hours to the new programs rather then add new hours, despite what they may tell you. The main goal of the company has been to increase productivity by 5% year over year, they do this by rolling out new programs and cutting hours. They try to tell you they made this or that take less time when the core aspects of the job havent changed in decades.
As someone that works in ClickList, I find out of date products almost daily.
Sometimes a customer even finds something that's out of date and brings it to me.
I don't blame the people working in these departments as much as I do corporate because it's corporate that refuses to invest in staffing stores properly to ensure the shelves are full and product is fresh for customers.
This is part of the reason I don't put ANY of my paycheck back into Kroger. I shop at the competition where product I pick up and buy is in date.
