uboats are my favorite, im glad my frozen manager lets me borrow a big 3 shelf uboat. l carts are alright as long as theyre the 4 wheelers, because the 6 wheelers are trash. then we have the tall carts with stairs for the sky shelves which i use as temporary backstock storage a lot. finally theres the accursed blue old dinosaur carts which wheels take a thousand pounds of force to turn. avoid at all costs!
I like the green uboats. I can tie a bag to the ends. Never used one with shelves but I could see them getting top heavy if loaded wrong. I also like running directly off pallet for cans. Tie bag on backrest of pallet jack. Most aisles are too narrow for pallets especially with Pick-up running around at 4am. The brown Lcarts aren't bad except they don't roll very well! We used to have dull blue 2 tier carts with a ladder attached. Can't fit much on them. Ladder was good for top stock shelves. I think 6 of the 8 barely used carts were scrapped during a remodel. They originally gave us 4 blue carts when we had 12 stockers. lol. We got 4 from another store. They were used for less than a week before that idea went down in flames.
Now, we mostly spot everything and run off the floor.
We got a whole bunch of new U-boats. Half of them were supposed to be for GMC but nightcrew decided to monopolize half of them...AFU*CKING GAIN. So Now when GMC needs to use a boat, we have to off stack their product and take OUR Uboat to get GMC product out to the floor.
Ha. I work in a high volume store. 1.8m in sales with fuel.
The purpose of the top stock shelves is to free up uboats, make running backstock easier and make correcting bohs easier. Basically, the top stock shelves are actually backstock shelves. The previous backstock uboats are supposed to be for multiples only and rarely need to move. Day crew is supposed to pick sales items and endcap products from them. We lost 30 backstock uboats when we went to top stock shelves. Still, the store doesn't have enough uboats.
75+/- uboats for Gm
75+/- for grocery
40 for vendors
20 for Dairy
20 for Frozen
20 for meat
10 for produce
10 for Deli/bakery
On a good day, night crew can scrounge up 20 uboats for breaking down the truck. A bad night, 8 uboats and 5 brown Lcarts.
I tell everyone to put all backstock on the top stock shelf and multiples on the previous backstock uboats. Most still don't understand.
When inventory day comes, there are at least 50 empty uboats cluttering up the store.
By company rules we're ot use u-boats but they're always occupied by merchandise or not enough. So it resorts to staff using customer carts. Which we're not to use but do. The broken wheel u-boats are the ones we're stuck with and for safety concerns none of us use them.
