Do you just have a really large flow team right now because we have been working 40hr weeks just working truck and still barley come clean by 12:30pm
Right now were pushing are stuff plus beauty now because according to the store there team is struggling so its are problem again. We were told that dayside well help push left over truck push if we zone every section were pushing in to help them but of course every time there's left over push from the truck when i go home. I guarantee it well be there when i get in the next morning in addition to all the salvage and bales.
Even worse is i have to move all that stuff out of receiving and then go scavenge the store for U-boats (that dayside thinks is faregame) so i can set the line up
Our team has only gotten smaller with the new system, 4 or so people have left. From the flow team, we have 20 people that I can think of off the top of my head, but 7 or so of them only come in once or twice a week. There are 5 that I can think of that used to be from the backroom team. On top of that, maybe 3 people from the old hardlines dayside that push truck regularly.
I am the guy who sets the line up at my store, and it only takes me about 20 minutes usually. The line is supposed to bet set all day, and our U-boats are mostly all labeled so people know not to leave them full. The market team likes to steal the unlabeled ones, but generally speaking I don’t have to scavenge for them.
We don’t “come clean” by 1230, because many of our team now starts at 9am, 10am… I work toys after the unload, and I regularly leave a U-boat or an auto tub for my GM lead to take care of, maybe 30 percent of the time. That being said, our store is up 40% in toys vs LY, since the ToysRUs in our shopping center closed. I typically work a 530-1, with the unload finishing at 8-830 and a 45 min lunch thrown in there. “Coming clean” isn’t the same priority as it was before, because now I have to zone, audit, assist guests, take calls, load my own cardboard (and soon make bales), flex, price change, backstock, push go-backs… if I don’t finish, someone after me can because I’ve already finished many other tasks in my department.
So with all uboats its easier to sort the truck? Are you doing a push all? It almost sounds like your store is too good to be true. Especially if everyone is getting 40 hours? Payroll is crap Right now
Not everyone is getting 40 hours. Most TMs don’t, actually. They just like me, and I’m in one of the heavier departments now.
We are indeed doing a push-all, but it seems like they may be sending us less product that goes straight to the back. Maybe that’s not the case since I don’t backstock my product all at once, but it feels that way. Could just be we’re selling more.
Let me tell you though, the U-boats are AMAZING. The surface area for a three-tiered U-boat is something like 1.5x the surface area of a flatbed, and since they’re on different shelves, they don’t typically overflow. For example, Toys at my store comes in 3 custom blocks, with 6 three-tiered U-boats and 1 two-tiered. Each shelf is its own aisle, except there are a total of two shelves on all of the vehicles that share two aisles.
Since each aisle gets its own shelf, I can sort the front of the U-boat with E17 1-2-3 and the back with E17 6-1-1, for example. It’s like bowling except it doesn’t require the extra steps. It’s organizing then pushing instead of palletizing, walking/throwing boxes down the aisle, then crouching or kneeling to push from the floor.
Are you for real? Seriously, I'm wondering, or maybe this is just an ASANTS thing. We get some trucks about the same size (some days are smaller) and I sort those repacks - pretty sure we never get enough Barbies or whatever to make it worth keeping that many open repacks going. Some of the kitchen aisles could definitely have their own repacks, even multiples, but not how you're describing here for toys & sporting goods. I sort into 9 open repacks, including 2 each for kitchen and seasonal because a lot of those items tend to be bulkier. No way do I have space to do a box per aisle.
From the combos, I usually have around 8 full repacks for toys. I organize them into boxes for LEGO, Barbie, boys, girls, preschool, puzzles/games. I start with 1 box each and add more as needed. Some days I have less, like yesterday I only had enough for 1 repack. Sporting gets 5 or 6, seasonal around the same right now. Market gets 1 to 3. We don't sort anything other than combos on the line. The team pushing in kitchen takes the 4 repacks and then distributes the stuff like chem, pets, etc. to their respective depts.
How are you guys able to make it with one thrower?
I throw maybe once every other week,, if our main thrower is off or calls out. There’s one other guy that will do it since I know the line better than he does. None of us have any trouble throwing a truck alone. Hell, we’ll do doubles alone without a problem. I mean, we get sweaty, maybe a little exhausted, but the 2 hour unload lets us slow down a bit.
