Target wins. That's what they wantWe are at least 2 trucks behind with all of it on pallets, flats or tubs clogging up the Backroom and sales floor. How bad is it? Three Flow TMs just up and quit and walked out the door!
Why quit? That shit's just job security...
And your hours are cut on the whim of corporate trying to look good for shareholders.Cause they don't give you more time to work it just more work. You get tired of being bullied and not getting help when you need it.
We just stared this within the past month or two and are slowly seeing and improvementI wish the DC that services my store would do this. Mispicks, mispicks everywhere.
All you can do is the best you can. If you don't finish, oh well... that's Life!
At least you have a job.
Hopefully things are getting back to normal now, but yes you pretty much need to cancel a trailer to start getting caught up. We were like 60 pallets behind in push at one point last Q4, and the first step was cancelling a trailer and having flow start pushing old shit. Everything needs to be wrapped and labeled so the pallets don't fall over and you can easily tell what it is. Get support from other stores to push and backstock and get everyone on board with the mentality that this can be fixed, one pallet/tub/cart at a time.Ok, so I know my store is not the only store that orders trailers for the o/n unload when you already have A lot of freight in your store. When you to the point where you can't really tell push from backstock, isn't it time for you to cancel a trailer to "catch" yourself?? Breakroom, please share your stories with me!!
So, basically, no one at corporate knows what the hell is happening or what the hell they're doing.Reading all of this is quite interesting. At the DC, we've been under the assumption that the stores have been super busy. Right now, we're running volumes like it was November/December. Normally around this time, we get old to go home because there's not enough work; instead, we're in mandatory OT. I'm not sure anyone really knows whats going on. We just keep getting massive label drop after label drop, and are projected to stay that way for several more weeks.
Well, no one in the DC itself really knows, my bosses included. Our projections come from HQ, so somewhere there knows what's up, but they're keeping us in the dark for now.So, basically, no one at corporate knows what the hell is happening or what the hell they're doing.
Not really though. We're getting in reserve (read: DC backstock) just as fast as we're moving freight out. We've even had to open up new locations just to hold the incoming freight.must be clear out the DC before we go bankrupt and have to go into liquidation and close just like Canada !!
the time has come.
thank keep us informed if the DC ever gets low you will be our inside guy.Not really though. We're getting in reserve (read: DC backstock) just as fast as we're moving freight out. We've even had to open up new locations just to hold the incoming freight.
We're up to 10 trucks a week atm, and our overnight team isn't coping well with it. And yet, while our trucks grow more numerous and the workload increases, we are still cutting hours. What the actual fuck.
Holy shit. That's too many trucks. We're struggling with 6-7 trucks a week. I think 10 trucks would ruin lives here. But 6-7 is brutal for us, we typically get 5 trucks with Sundays and Wednesdays off...the 6 days straight setup every week is starting to take its toll on team morale and energy.
We have also gone through about a dozen new hires on flow in about a month, though, so we're currently constantly short staffed. Most of them have NCNS'd their way to termination right away after their first couple days. Highest turnover I've seen outside of Q4.
We're seeing quite a bit of stuff come off the truck go right to the sales floor. When we do have a ton of excess backstock, it's either transition, bulky BTC stuff, or a bunch of the same non carry forward product. It's not uncommon to get 20+ cases of the exact same item that's almost out of season and will go clearance within a month. This week it was cheap BTC bathroom stuff. A few weeks ago it was summer pool toys.Reading all of this is quite interesting. At the DC, we've been under the assumption that the stores have been super busy. Right now, we're running volumes like it was November/December. Normally around this time, we get old to go home because there's not enough work; instead, we're in mandatory OT. I'm not sure anyone really knows whats going on. We just keep getting massive label drop after label drop, and are projected to stay that way for several more weeks.
Reading all of this is quite interesting. At the DC, we've been under the assumption that the stores have been super busy. Right now, we're running volumes like it was November/December. Normally around this time, we get old to go home because there's not enough work; instead, we're in mandatory OT. I'm not sure anyone really knows whats going on. We just keep getting massive label drop after label drop, and are projected to stay that way for several more weeks.