Front Fill Yogurt = Disaster

The snow has somewhat melted but it was snowing and really, really cold today. Just freezing.

Work:
I'm behind. I haven't filed the reports from Monday. When I got in the 709s had only half-printed and then it was on sign stock. So I had to reprint the whole lot. And it took a while for me to figure out which ones to print.

They tore up dairy today. When I got in I couldn't find the eggs and Zhaun told me they hadn't been on the shelf since Tuesday. Lovely, so how are my sales doing? They were still in the process of moving the yogurt over when I left. It's horrid. You have to break your back putting 18 counts on the shelf because you can't just cut a box and drop it in, oh no, you have to hand stack them and get down and bend over to push them under the shelf above them and there's wire racks you put them on so that won't work well at all. And they have, like, four facings of each of the yoplait, which is just unnecessary. And they're all supposed to be case fill. Which means you cut open a case and put it on the shelf. Yoplait's been coming that way for ages now. But nothing else does. So are they going to talk to Dannon and all the other yogurt companies and get them to make special boxes just for this one store? It's a disaster, a total disaster. And now I'll have to front fill the entire yogurt section and it'll be awful. Having to super-fight the customers. Instead of 10-20 minutes to fill kroger yogurt it'll take at least an hour. Because now we'll have to wade in and out between them, stop to direct people, answer questions, try to get people out of the way so you can do your job, having people whine at you for your wheeler being in the way, have Bret get mad at you for not being cheerful about all this.

And I'm so glad they're doing it while I'm not in dairy or I'd have been freaking out.

Apparently our pizza goes pay per scan in December, so that gives us more time to get all the product authorized.

I stayed an extra half hour to try and get some scan outs done. Sometimes doing the grocery scan outs makes me want to date check all my food, all the time. There were two tubs of canned tomatoes that had expired in 2009. (some had only expired in March, though) And these had been pulled from the shelf, the remodel crew found them. And it's not really too unusual to find things like that though, we're always finding a group of one food or another, like once it was beans that expired three years ago (tells you how often we sold them, though!). Another time it was baking nuts that had expired four or five months prior. etc. And I know dates don't really matter quite as much as they make it out to be, but after having spent 6 years having it drilled in that you can't sell expired product it kinda sticks. Julie told me years ago that law says it has to be pulled by 8am the morning after it expires. I have never double checked, because I like having that fallback if anyone ever asks, I can say well Julie told me this and I never did my own research.

My last day off was yesterday, my next is next Friday. Much better than usual. Usually I have Sunday off them work straight through 11 days straight until Friday after Thanksgiving.