Just wanted to know if the new cart stocking only is a disaster in your store like it is in ours. If you don't know what that is or if your store has not implemented it yet, get ready. The new rule in our store is that we can only use top-stock carts to stock. And only the middle section can have freight on it.
It starts when you unload the truck: You can only fill the middle section of the top-stock cart. The top and bottom must be empty. When the middle section of the cart is full you pull the cart from the line and replace it with a new cart. The filled cart is then pulled to the floor and worked by the person who was on the truck line working that department. So if you had six people on the line unloading the truck you now have five. When the next cart is filled the same thing happens. So if the person working the first cart has not finished that cart then you go from five to four people on the line. Makes unloading the truck slow at times. If you have enough people to have some unloading and some stocking then you don't have to pull people from the line. (our store does not have enough people to do that)
It is also fun when you get large boxes of freight, say cereal boxes or large HBA displays because after two or three boxes the carts are filled.
Now, after the truck is unloaded you take out a cart at a time and work it. New freight is only in the middle, the top shelf is for trash only and the bottom is for overstock. If the truck freight is on a pallet you take and empty cart and fill the center shelf only (top shelf for trash only and bottom for overstock) and go stock it and repeat the process.
You are constantly going back and forth to the back room and waiting at the cardboard bailer because your to shelf is full of trash (think doing laundry detergent or juice or hardware) At the end of the night the night crew is to take all the carts with the overstock on the bottom shelf and put them on pallets to be binned.
A pallet of merchandise that used to take an hour now takes two to three (going back and forth to get new freight and waiting for the bailer). Why do they think this system works? How is it going at your store?
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It all sounds like a waste of time! It’s not a big surprise.
Sounds like another dumb program. If home office would just work in a store for about a year they might actually solve some problems. Although they could start listening to their employees.