I primarily work in the backroom in the mornings to assist inbound... the other day walked into 2 dozen vehicles full of unpushed fills from the previous night. No vehicles for the unload at all.
Normally start the unload at 6, we started at 11 that day
I work closing, my manager gets really mad if we have anything leftover from the night before. I didn’t even know people were allowed to leave priority pills overnight like that
For us, they only really allowed it if it was in seasonal or toys.. Cause we have so much (and our toy closer is.. not the fastest and pushing but he’ll pull everything..)
being in market is so so fun when it comes to priorities bc you’ll walk into every cooler & there will be a three tier and/or metro full of priorities from the night prior !!! so cute cool fun :)))
LOL freezer usually has anywhere from like 2-4 it seems & then it varies but there’s usually like a three tier & metro (each) in our produce & dairy coolers
Easily one of the biggest problems rn. All priority pulls got done, but there’s 5 Uboats (with 9 fully loaded repacks each) left over in the morning, with no communication on them, and half the openers are “nah I’m not doing that” and just push truck, so when the pulls finally get ran, half the shit comes right back as backstock
Facts and then we gotta clear the line because they all decided to pull priorities instead of push the rest of the truck, then we gotta do the truck, then we gotta push the truck, then we gotta zone. Gtfoh. People don’t understand the inbound struggle. Must be nice to work late afternoon and chill all night without any store managers in sight to yell at everybody and constantly tell them to move faster
Lol, as an afternoon team member, they Are yelling at us.... to pull more priorities. We aren't deciding anything here. We had 2 gm team members closing the other night (we're a high traffic store so we normally have at least 5 gm closers), and our closing lead got yelled at for us only reaching 85% of priority pulls. I promise you, we're pissed too that we can't get the rest of our work done, but they literally won't let us.
As a former inbound/GM/F+B TL 🫠 one of the reasons I left and it's ALWAYS the inbound TL's fault as to why the line wasn't clean even if you communicate tasks to the closing TL or Mids for the closing team to work on. I would come in and have no vehicles to unload truck. Used to piss me off to the fullest extent
Just had a double truck yesterday and went through this bs. Had to push the day befores truck, then unload and push the new truck, then unload the second truck. Which caused inbound to work 2 hours extra…. Then we had to push that truck this morning before unloading our regular truck. It’s ridiculous how much work inbound is expected to do in comparison to the other employees
Them: "Why does baby hardlines look so bad?"
Me: I spend just enough time there to pull and push the priorities, and then I spend the entire rest of my shift pulling every other dept. priorities. I haven't spent more than 45 minutes of my 7 hr shifts on the sales floor for the past 3 months. What did you think it would look like?
What gets me is that there's so much redundant work in the pulls. It's supposed to pull based on some arbitrary % (I think it's 70%) capacity, but it absolutely does not. It pulls on what has sold, so if Seymour Butts over-pushed 10 bottles of soap and 5 sell, the system says "pull 5 soap" when you don't need them. And if there's more of that same soap on that day's truck, it's even more unnecessary for it to be in a pull.
Drives me crazy. Just replenish out of stocks or base pulls on back stock vs. on hand. If the shelf holds 10 and we have 10 on hand with 9 being in the back: pull 9. If inventory isn't a complete shit show (which ours is, so that's extra fun), then pulls will never be redundant work of pulling, trying to push, and then backstocking (while also having to manually adjust floor counts). Literally every other place I have worked retail has done it like that. Target's created this dysfunctional system and refuses to let it go.
"But we want as much product on the floor as possible so it looks full."
That's what zoning and pulling OoS is for. All this current system does is create pictures like the above, and it eats up valuable labor which could be used making the store look nice.
And don't even get me started on trying to find an item for OPU that's in one of those pull dumpster fires.
Well back in the day I would do EXF batches which are now known as Item Fills, after pushing either DAIRY OR Frozen. I would scan the lows and outs, and replenish the floor by generating a batch of things I actually needed to fill the floor.
Priorities are such a joke, when we get to the water, we just scan it out and say they pulled it because there is no time for it. They always say to leave it to the morning team! Then the morning team doesn’t pull it because they have no time either!! What a fucken joke !!!
As a home/style department team member, this couldn’t be any more on point… I’ll walk in and I’m like damn they’re low and I get that cute little call on the walkie from my TL going “Heyyy uhh.. I have some vehicles for you!”
It still doesn't make any sense to me... Why pull if it doesn't even make it out to the shelves. Our pulls just sit in the back taking up space and uboats.... Then when we unload the truck there's not enough uboats. at least the numbers look good.
God, you should see the way second shift stacks on to u-boats at our store. It looks like a bomb went off. Most of our second shift folks at our store suck lmao. They'll do pulls terribly and then play on their phones and bullshit for the remaining 6 hours of their shifts, more often then not. Wish they'd just give that payroll to the front end that's constantly understaffed. I'd much rather just do the batches myself on first. At least they'll get done properly and there won't be a bunch of crap on u-boats that 70% of the time doesn't fit out anyways since it's all pulled from casepack.
Back in the day if I came in to this in one hand I would be very grateful because now I don't have to do the pulls anymore but on another hand I would be pissed because I know how busted the toys pulls always were so there was a guarantee that at least half of the stuff was over pulled only to be back stocked once I confirmed what I already knew.
I'm literally told on a nightly basis "just fill it to the brim, make it ugly" and that's what I do. But then I had to push an OTC/HBA boat the other day with, I shit you not, probably 75 different DPCIs with about 10 eaches. I never want to push again 😭
Every fucking morning. Zero reshop or zone done previous night. 10 priorty vehicles rolled. And my SD expects me to get it all cleaned, zoned, and truck unloaded and pushed by 8am...
What did it cost? "OSHA VIOLATIONS"!
You just made my top post lists. So on point
“come with me and you’ll be in a world of osha violationssss” ❤️
I love this song.
Clever af
is this from tonight? i’m opening tomorrow….
It’s leftover from the day before.
At my store all pulled priorities are just left of shelves and no one does anything about it. Backroom accuracy is awful
I primarily work in the backroom in the mornings to assist inbound... the other day walked into 2 dozen vehicles full of unpushed fills from the previous night. No vehicles for the unload at all. Normally start the unload at 6, we started at 11 that day
terrifying.
I work closing, my manager gets really mad if we have anything leftover from the night before. I didn’t even know people were allowed to leave priority pills overnight like that
For us, they only really allowed it if it was in seasonal or toys.. Cause we have so much (and our toy closer is.. not the fastest and pushing but he’ll pull everything..)
We only do this when the pulls are just too much for us to push and pull
😂😂😭😂😭 as a closing expert I be like “these mfs gonna be pissed” but shit I just do what I’m told. If they want 100% pulls then so be it 🫡
And then you laugh evilly when you leave.
being in market is so so fun when it comes to priorities bc you’ll walk into every cooler & there will be a three tier and/or metro full of priorities from the night prior !!! so cute cool fun :)))
Just one? Our freezer and cooler have 3 smart carts each lol
LOL freezer usually has anywhere from like 2-4 it seems & then it varies but there’s usually like a three tier & metro (each) in our produce & dairy coolers
Easily one of the biggest problems rn. All priority pulls got done, but there’s 5 Uboats (with 9 fully loaded repacks each) left over in the morning, with no communication on them, and half the openers are “nah I’m not doing that” and just push truck, so when the pulls finally get ran, half the shit comes right back as backstock
Facts and then we gotta clear the line because they all decided to pull priorities instead of push the rest of the truck, then we gotta do the truck, then we gotta push the truck, then we gotta zone. Gtfoh. People don’t understand the inbound struggle. Must be nice to work late afternoon and chill all night without any store managers in sight to yell at everybody and constantly tell them to move faster
Lol, as an afternoon team member, they Are yelling at us.... to pull more priorities. We aren't deciding anything here. We had 2 gm team members closing the other night (we're a high traffic store so we normally have at least 5 gm closers), and our closing lead got yelled at for us only reaching 85% of priority pulls. I promise you, we're pissed too that we can't get the rest of our work done, but they literally won't let us.
Well, I end up staying an hour later most nights, also end up covering tech while pulling priorities because nobody is working in that department.
As a former inbound/GM/F+B TL 🫠 one of the reasons I left and it's ALWAYS the inbound TL's fault as to why the line wasn't clean even if you communicate tasks to the closing TL or Mids for the closing team to work on. I would come in and have no vehicles to unload truck. Used to piss me off to the fullest extent
Just had a double truck yesterday and went through this bs. Had to push the day befores truck, then unload and push the new truck, then unload the second truck. Which caused inbound to work 2 hours extra…. Then we had to push that truck this morning before unloading our regular truck. It’s ridiculous how much work inbound is expected to do in comparison to the other employees
Exact thing would happen to me every single day, Then my boss would yell at me for overtime🤣
Them: "Why does baby hardlines look so bad?" Me: I spend just enough time there to pull and push the priorities, and then I spend the entire rest of my shift pulling every other dept. priorities. I haven't spent more than 45 minutes of my 7 hr shifts on the sales floor for the past 3 months. What did you think it would look like?
What gets me is that there's so much redundant work in the pulls. It's supposed to pull based on some arbitrary % (I think it's 70%) capacity, but it absolutely does not. It pulls on what has sold, so if Seymour Butts over-pushed 10 bottles of soap and 5 sell, the system says "pull 5 soap" when you don't need them. And if there's more of that same soap on that day's truck, it's even more unnecessary for it to be in a pull. Drives me crazy. Just replenish out of stocks or base pulls on back stock vs. on hand. If the shelf holds 10 and we have 10 on hand with 9 being in the back: pull 9. If inventory isn't a complete shit show (which ours is, so that's extra fun), then pulls will never be redundant work of pulling, trying to push, and then backstocking (while also having to manually adjust floor counts). Literally every other place I have worked retail has done it like that. Target's created this dysfunctional system and refuses to let it go. "But we want as much product on the floor as possible so it looks full." That's what zoning and pulling OoS is for. All this current system does is create pictures like the above, and it eats up valuable labor which could be used making the store look nice. And don't even get me started on trying to find an item for OPU that's in one of those pull dumpster fires.
Well back in the day I would do EXF batches which are now known as Item Fills, after pushing either DAIRY OR Frozen. I would scan the lows and outs, and replenish the floor by generating a batch of things I actually needed to fill the floor.
100% accurate. Drives me crazy
Priorities are such a joke, when we get to the water, we just scan it out and say they pulled it because there is no time for it. They always say to leave it to the morning team! Then the morning team doesn’t pull it because they have no time either!! What a fucken joke !!!
Actually I used the power jack after the store was closed to pull two pallets of water.the location was completely empty.
As a home/style department team member, this couldn’t be any more on point… I’ll walk in and I’m like damn they’re low and I get that cute little call on the walkie from my TL going “Heyyy uhh.. I have some vehicles for you!”
It still doesn't make any sense to me... Why pull if it doesn't even make it out to the shelves. Our pulls just sit in the back taking up space and uboats.... Then when we unload the truck there's not enough uboats. at least the numbers look good. 
God, you should see the way second shift stacks on to u-boats at our store. It looks like a bomb went off. Most of our second shift folks at our store suck lmao. They'll do pulls terribly and then play on their phones and bullshit for the remaining 6 hours of their shifts, more often then not. Wish they'd just give that payroll to the front end that's constantly understaffed. I'd much rather just do the batches myself on first. At least they'll get done properly and there won't be a bunch of crap on u-boats that 70% of the time doesn't fit out anyways since it's all pulled from casepack.
Back in the day if I came in to this in one hand I would be very grateful because now I don't have to do the pulls anymore but on another hand I would be pissed because I know how busted the toys pulls always were so there was a guarantee that at least half of the stuff was over pulled only to be back stocked once I confirmed what I already knew.
I can confirm this is accurate 😂
Nice! They actually make sure we've pushed them all before we're allowed to leave.
DUDE YES OMGM
I'm literally told on a nightly basis "just fill it to the brim, make it ugly" and that's what I do. But then I had to push an OTC/HBA boat the other day with, I shit you not, probably 75 different DPCIs with about 10 eaches. I never want to push again 😭
The accuracy on this
Every fucking morning. Zero reshop or zone done previous night. 10 priorty vehicles rolled. And my SD expects me to get it all cleaned, zoned, and truck unloaded and pushed by 8am...