I saw this on my last visit to the store. Why would anyone want the sale price?
Posted Sep 22, 2023, 11:39 AM UTC
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That’s what happens when algorithms replace the humans. I come from wfm and all kinds of upside down asanine pricing can be found courtesy of Amazon…
I used to set and batch pricing for my dept, a human, with the ability to calculate margins, movement, and the “perceived value” of an item, among other factors - to set a price or promo
Ftw
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Saw those ugly sale signs yesterday and they are not appeasing 👀
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I would inform management that they are deliberately forcing customers to buy only one item instead of two. I would also take that product to a cashier to do a price check. With a manager in tow.
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Nah, fuck it. Not my problem.
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I work for Amazon and this shit here seems par for the course with them
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So first of all glitches happen and this is proof. Also customers at my store always look for said glitches and mostly get stuff for the most ridiculous low prices. We definitely need to do better. I have told mgmt that these sale signs look like other stores (that I no longer shop at) and that it looks ugly and we should just stick to the green signs we have that say something like savings from A to Z. They are revamping stores and changing concepts to mirror other stores now because the other way of being different I guess wasn’t working too well. I have often told customers we don’t make you buy 10 of one item to get the sale price like other stores but now we do and it’s sad but I’d still rather shop at fresh even if I didn’t work here.
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The plot thickens. We can’t give it away and I’m afraid to say what part of south county I’m in.
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They can revamp all day long to mirror others they still won't make it
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Actually working there, yeah that could be the correct response. No one is treating this like a real business. Profit? What are you crazy? Just break down another pallet. See no evil hear no evil, just go about your business and never mind expiration dates. Never mind empty holes . Don’t even attempt to empty bins. We might as well just have the milk crates for anything that doesn’t fit on the shelves, the waste of time in this ceremonial “Destock” it makes no difference. Everything stowed is there to die. Not being put on shelves is not your business just break down another pallet. This is about management and their metrics, they’re not interested”as far as I can see” on the success of this business. They are interested in themselves, he’ll with the company. Waste? You don’t know the definition of waste! I’ve seen it all. I just detach in order to clock in and clock out. Corporate could know if they would take the time but they choose not to. It’s hard to be emotionally invested in a company that could care less.
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I could not agree more. But in my experience from working at my store most people don’t realize there are more efficient ways to get it done to where we don’t have shit like this… but every associate prefers doing it the “Amazon approved method and refuses to deviate enough to make room in the bins, get the pallets done and not have a ton of items that we will never sell.
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If you had innovating ideas, please share. The implementation could become infectious. You “could” have the info to breathe new life into this dying business. I would be deeply grateful to fall back in love. To have a job with meaning would be a nice refresher.
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I might be a bad example atm I haven’t been in my store for about 2 weeks but the last time I was there I had just completed a personal challenge for myself working 72 hours in one week. I was brain dead but most of that time I was working in their center store department. “I was originally in center store then transferred to front end because of the fact that I was so overworked that it made me hate my job”
- so when I was center during that 72 hour week because overtime was approved, in order to help us get ready with all the new products… I just went and did my own thing, I didn’t go by what “dock associates preferred me to do, and somehow I was able to get through 10 pallets on my own within 3 hours.
- my store is one of the smaller stores so I can’t really compare it to a larger store, but ever since they got rid of overnight, they started receiving everything to the front and then stuffing the bins with items, just because they “don’t fit or are not in Plano” we been swamped with overflow in products pallets that never get done stuff carrying over to the next shift. It’s like no one cares about getting it done and not having to handle the same issues the next day.
-if you want to make space go to HP, or replen, look through the bin, if the item isn’t there click the box and added to the front, going back to cycle count it out is only going to prolong the process of making space and clearing out bins. The numbers might be wrong virtually in the front but since everything is received to the front regardless there’s no reason to really be concerned with accuracy.
- Expiry, in my store no one seems to check the top shelf of dairy products the ones where we put the single yogurts and the fancy ones, so most of the time those never sell and have been “past their expiration date.
- if you see an item that we have a large amount in the back, let’s say you have hundreds of simply orange juice stowed away, if your doing expiry take some of them off before the expiration date and make room so some of those juices get to see the light of day. You will be doing anyone who has to stow a favor, and the product we donate will get reimbursed to the company regardless.
- expiry when it comes to products like eggs and yogurt most of the time they get shipped in large quantities so checking each carton for a specific date is time consuming and is the main reason it never gets done anymore. Again if you have a ton of eggs take them off the shelf, and make room for more.
- “sorting” when it comes to building carts idk who came up with the idea of making carts for specific aisles, there’s people who work in my store for over a year and they still can’t even tell you where something is, the way you get rid of pallets is by putting as much stuff on a cart and sending it out. Most associates take about 30-40mins to stock a cart, and 30 minutes to build carts because they trying to make them for specific aisles. It’s more efficient to just put everything on a cart and have someone stock it. By doing this you can easily get carts made in 5 minutes and you can use the extra time to work on other tasks like replen.
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Yes so what you’re saying is keep those milk crates and just stuff them with merch. Don’t actually record inventory because the numbers are automatically off. If it’s a large quantity don’t even check dates just stuff them in milk crates. It’s all a tax write off anyway. That’s “kind of” what I understood here. I’ve had such ideas before but I assume I’m always being watched and that the TC I’m assigned will hold all history.
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I do agree with the aisle pack part of shipment. What a waste of time. Find a box put the box on the cart, who cares what aisle it is. Just get it done. %100. Trying to organize this mess into proper aisles is futile. That I will carry with me. Again I must iterate, assume you are, or will be monitored. I’ve no “horse in the game” anymore. As long as I have practiced “integrity”, you can say whatever you want. I’m on camera and my TC will exonerate me from any wrongdoing. I am who I am. Amen.
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That’s sad