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In the last month our Super Target store has changed to a push all process. I am a early morning backroom team member (we are a 4am process). I understand the concept of, being in a perfect world, that the backroom helps push on the floor while waiting for backstock to be brought back by the flow team, after they have finished the morning pulls.
But our store, as I am sure many others, do not live in a perfect world. And lately, due to being understaffed and in the midst of the latest big grocery reset and this week, back to school being set, we walk in almost every morning, to a backroom already full of backstock, from the previous day's truck and the hourly caf pulls.
I think once the backroom is done with the morning pulls, if there is backstock we should not be out on the floor pushing. We should be trying to backstock as much as we can before the day's workload hits. I thought it couldn't get any worse until today. Our new ETL-Logistics (who started Monday and has no logistic experience) told us shortly after break to stop doing the pulls and go push the floor.
Of course, we did it. And then could not finish the backstocking of today's truck since we gave up a good portion of our morning pushing the truck. Just wondering if other stores make the backroom push, even when they have plenty plenty plenty of work to do from the moment they walk in the door. Thanks.
But our store, as I am sure many others, do not live in a perfect world. And lately, due to being understaffed and in the midst of the latest big grocery reset and this week, back to school being set, we walk in almost every morning, to a backroom already full of backstock, from the previous day's truck and the hourly caf pulls.
I think once the backroom is done with the morning pulls, if there is backstock we should not be out on the floor pushing. We should be trying to backstock as much as we can before the day's workload hits. I thought it couldn't get any worse until today. Our new ETL-Logistics (who started Monday and has no logistic experience) told us shortly after break to stop doing the pulls and go push the floor.
Of course, we did it. And then could not finish the backstocking of today's truck since we gave up a good portion of our morning pushing the truck. Just wondering if other stores make the backroom push, even when they have plenty plenty plenty of work to do from the moment they walk in the door. Thanks.