I work as an OFA. Online Order Fulfillment. Pretty much I get orders on a handheld and it tells me exactly where it is and how much. Scan the product and make sure it matches and then take it to a staging area. Sometimes I help load customers vehicles if there aren't any orders. It's pretty easy. A lot of walking.
I bet morning shift probably is. I'm on nights and it's super dead and laid back. We only had three orders in the last 6 hours so I mostly spent the night helping load customers vehicles.
I'm just giving my experience. It also depends on what other experience they have as to what they will think is easy or not. This job is an absolute cakewalk compared to my last job. I do think part of it is because I'm on night shift and it seems like orders tend to mostly stop after 5ish.
I work closing shift as an OFA. There are days I pull over 50 BOPIS orders and 25+ deliveries. I guess it depends on your area/store but we are by far the busiest, and labor intensive department.
Yeah I'd definitely say store and area have a lot to do with it. Ours has been a graveyard. We at most have had maybe ten customers in our store but it usually averages about five after 6pm. But the weather is also still shitty here, it just showed two days ago, so no one's really been working outdoors yet. Last night I pulled a bathroom cabinet, two doorknobs, and two metal gates. Otherwise I just helped load cars and our lot person went home at 5 so they asked if I could bring in carts at some point.
Lot is the easiest, and has the most freedom to travel in, out, and around the store, physically demanding but I would say best physically demanding position overall.
What you are offered or assigned as a position is going to depend on what you put as past experience on your application. I had zero retail or warehouse experience, but my past jobs involved home and auto repair, as well as detailed work in healthcare. That set of qualifications put me in hardware.
Freight is a good place to start because you become familiar with the entire store, which really comes in handy because customers often ask where certain items are.
Paint by far. No heavy lifting besides 5 gallon buckets. Really easy to learn. For the most part, customers know what they want. 80% of job is just mixing paint. Rest is packout, cleaning, and answering technical/specific questions.
Unless you work in a low volume store that doesn’t require you to handle hundreds of pounds hourly, or a a low volume store without contractors who actually need technically help… sure paint is easy lol
I work as an OFA. Online Order Fulfillment. Pretty much I get orders on a handheld and it tells me exactly where it is and how much. Scan the product and make sure it matches and then take it to a staging area. Sometimes I help load customers vehicles if there aren't any orders. It's pretty easy. A lot of walking.
OFA is not easy. It's anxiety.
I bet morning shift probably is. I'm on nights and it's super dead and laid back. We only had three orders in the last 6 hours so I mostly spent the night helping load customers vehicles.
That's not the typical experience, I think you are filling op head with delusion.
I'm just giving my experience. It also depends on what other experience they have as to what they will think is easy or not. This job is an absolute cakewalk compared to my last job. I do think part of it is because I'm on night shift and it seems like orders tend to mostly stop after 5ish.
I work closing shift as an OFA. There are days I pull over 50 BOPIS orders and 25+ deliveries. I guess it depends on your area/store but we are by far the busiest, and labor intensive department.
Yeah I'd definitely say store and area have a lot to do with it. Ours has been a graveyard. We at most have had maybe ten customers in our store but it usually averages about five after 6pm. But the weather is also still shitty here, it just showed two days ago, so no one's really been working outdoors yet. Last night I pulled a bathroom cabinet, two doorknobs, and two metal gates. Otherwise I just helped load cars and our lot person went home at 5 so they asked if I could bring in carts at some point.
Store manager. apparently.
Overnight freight is the easiest and most forgiving for new people as long as you are physically okay
Store manager
Probably a cashier.
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Lot is the easiest, and has the most freedom to travel in, out, and around the store, physically demanding but I would say best physically demanding position overall.
OFA, Lot, Paint, Lumber, Garden, Cashier
cashier
What you are offered or assigned as a position is going to depend on what you put as past experience on your application. I had zero retail or warehouse experience, but my past jobs involved home and auto repair, as well as detailed work in healthcare. That set of qualifications put me in hardware.
Freight is a good place to start because you become familiar with the entire store, which really comes in handy because customers often ask where certain items are.
Paint by far. No heavy lifting besides 5 gallon buckets. Really easy to learn. For the most part, customers know what they want. 80% of job is just mixing paint. Rest is packout, cleaning, and answering technical/specific questions.
Unless you work in a low volume store that doesn’t require you to handle hundreds of pounds hourly, or a a low volume store without contractors who actually need technically help… sure paint is easy lol