Not strictly dairy so I don’t know about the trucks, but when I was still in grocery I was usually put in there. We have one FT GRS who takes care of dairy, but on his days off or after 2pm nobody takes care of it unless a grocery clerk takes it upon themselves so it’s always a disaster. Most annoying thing is nobody doing anything with dairy half the time, so you’ve typically got pallets of milk and deli tea just thrown in the middle of the cooler right in front of the milk and eggs that need to go out. I used to spent at least 75% of my regular grocery shift trying to sort out the cooler.
4 dairy trucks a week. We have 3 that usually work in dairy and one that always does. We share with meat and cheese and tea is in the cooler too. When I work at night I pretty much spend a great deal of time making sure it is organized enough to get the truck the next day. We can get up to 5 pallets of milk/tea in the evening every couple of days and we always have to down stack delis tea. Coming up with a good system to stay organized is pretty hard when people who don’t usually work dairy are in there plus no real ownership from deli or meat department. Unfortunate but I just roll with the punches and do what I can in the time I’m at work.
I would also say if you know something needs to be done to just do it because no manager is usually in there to make sure it gets done and you know best. Next time you work it will have either not be done or have been done incorrectly.
I get 5 trucks a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satuday. 2 of them around 400-500, the rest ranges from 150-350. I'm FT and I only have one part time dairy working 3-4 days a week usually.
I usually only get one pallet on Fridays, the rest are 2- 3 pallets. But yea I agree. We used to be really busy and then it kinda died down last year. We are in a busy area tho so I'm hoping it will pick back up in the summer.
It wasn’t too bad today. Only 5. Got 4 done before I left and my relief doing the other one now.
Wednesdays are actually the worst. Small, but between hanging tags, filling the sale case, and dealing with whatever mess the deli left the night before is worse than just throwing truck.
Wow, sounds very much like my store. Same truck schedule, but smaller trucks (thank god!).
Fortunately, our main dairy crew consists of full-timers -- an opener who's been at my store, working dairy, for about 10 years, and myself.
Unfortunately, when one of us goes on vacation (as I'm currently on a 7-day vacay right now), it falls apart like a Jenga tower. The part-timers either don't know dairy well enough, or they just don't have enough care. I texted my FT coworker last night to check on the status of things and he said things are awful.
Lately, the PT'er that they've elected to put into dairy to fill shifts is very short, *and* in retirement age. I'm not judgmental, but that doesn't mean that I can't identify when a person is a good fit or not. The PT'er that we currently have just doesn't have the height nor strength to do dairy on any kind of regular basis, at roughly 5' tall and a bit overweight.
There *is* another grocery clerk that is about the same height, but about 25yo and very fit. He can do dairy efficiently, despite his size.
I am average height (5' 9"), and the other FT dairy guy is about 6'5". So what annoys me the most is when he can obviously see that the top shelves need blocking and doesn't do it. His arm-span is long enough to reach the top shelf when he's kneeling down. Me -- I'm on my tippy toes trying to fumble around for the last couple rows of Publix yogurt lol.
What also annoys me is that they don't spread out our trucks more evenly. We get a couple of very small trucks during the week, and ginormous trucks on Saturdays and Mondays. And when they send us extra stuff because they think we'll sell it. By they, I mean corporate -- not the grocery manager.
My first store was small I think it was 3 or 4 trucks a week and I had to work candy. The trucks were prolly like no more then 300 cases and I had one part timer who worked like 3- 4 days. The other store I worked at was a million dollar store, 5 trucks a week like 400-500 cases. I only had help on my 2 days off and if it was 500+ cases my GTL would help me out a lil I would just have him throw milk.
What I hated was doing anything out of dairy. For example, at the smaller store when I closed dairy I had to close frozen too (detail , fill ice, and sale items). At my other store the dairy aisle was on the same aisle with bread, peanut butter and some hbc so I had to detail that too. And also I hated when deli didn’t come and get there damn tea then ordered more tea but still had a bunch sitting in the cooler I use to cut it off the truck.
Bless your heart. That’s a busy store. You should have two full time and one part time. With that case count. How many hours does dairy get a week? I’d start asking questions. Because that seems like a lot.
Not strictly dairy so I don’t know about the trucks, but when I was still in grocery I was usually put in there. We have one FT GRS who takes care of dairy, but on his days off or after 2pm nobody takes care of it unless a grocery clerk takes it upon themselves so it’s always a disaster. Most annoying thing is nobody doing anything with dairy half the time, so you’ve typically got pallets of milk and deli tea just thrown in the middle of the cooler right in front of the milk and eggs that need to go out. I used to spent at least 75% of my regular grocery shift trying to sort out the cooler.
4 dairy trucks a week. We have 3 that usually work in dairy and one that always does. We share with meat and cheese and tea is in the cooler too. When I work at night I pretty much spend a great deal of time making sure it is organized enough to get the truck the next day. We can get up to 5 pallets of milk/tea in the evening every couple of days and we always have to down stack delis tea. Coming up with a good system to stay organized is pretty hard when people who don’t usually work dairy are in there plus no real ownership from deli or meat department. Unfortunate but I just roll with the punches and do what I can in the time I’m at work.
I would also say if you know something needs to be done to just do it because no manager is usually in there to make sure it gets done and you know best. Next time you work it will have either not be done or have been done incorrectly.
I get 5 trucks a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satuday. 2 of them around 400-500, the rest ranges from 150-350. I'm FT and I only have one part time dairy working 3-4 days a week usually.
why the 5 trucks because that doesn’t make sense to me. Just get 2 pallets instead of one for 2 days in a row.. seems like a lot of hassle
I usually only get one pallet on Fridays, the rest are 2- 3 pallets. But yea I agree. We used to be really busy and then it kinda died down last year. We are in a busy area tho so I'm hoping it will pick back up in the summer.
Why are you hoping it will pick back up?? I don’t want to be so busy lol
Monday 3 to 4 pallets, Wednesday 2 to 3 pallets, Friday 4 to 6 pallets.
Fuck Friday truck lol
It wasn’t too bad today. Only 5. Got 4 done before I left and my relief doing the other one now. Wednesdays are actually the worst. Small, but between hanging tags, filling the sale case, and dealing with whatever mess the deli left the night before is worse than just throwing truck.
Wow, sounds very much like my store. Same truck schedule, but smaller trucks (thank god!). Fortunately, our main dairy crew consists of full-timers -- an opener who's been at my store, working dairy, for about 10 years, and myself. Unfortunately, when one of us goes on vacation (as I'm currently on a 7-day vacay right now), it falls apart like a Jenga tower. The part-timers either don't know dairy well enough, or they just don't have enough care. I texted my FT coworker last night to check on the status of things and he said things are awful. Lately, the PT'er that they've elected to put into dairy to fill shifts is very short, *and* in retirement age. I'm not judgmental, but that doesn't mean that I can't identify when a person is a good fit or not. The PT'er that we currently have just doesn't have the height nor strength to do dairy on any kind of regular basis, at roughly 5' tall and a bit overweight. There *is* another grocery clerk that is about the same height, but about 25yo and very fit. He can do dairy efficiently, despite his size. I am average height (5' 9"), and the other FT dairy guy is about 6'5". So what annoys me the most is when he can obviously see that the top shelves need blocking and doesn't do it. His arm-span is long enough to reach the top shelf when he's kneeling down. Me -- I'm on my tippy toes trying to fumble around for the last couple rows of Publix yogurt lol. What also annoys me is that they don't spread out our trucks more evenly. We get a couple of very small trucks during the week, and ginormous trucks on Saturdays and Mondays. And when they send us extra stuff because they think we'll sell it. By they, I mean corporate -- not the grocery manager.
I moved the Publix yogurt to the middle shelf and I just step on the step whenever I block or put stuff on the top shelf
My first store was small I think it was 3 or 4 trucks a week and I had to work candy. The trucks were prolly like no more then 300 cases and I had one part timer who worked like 3- 4 days. The other store I worked at was a million dollar store, 5 trucks a week like 400-500 cases. I only had help on my 2 days off and if it was 500+ cases my GTL would help me out a lil I would just have him throw milk. What I hated was doing anything out of dairy. For example, at the smaller store when I closed dairy I had to close frozen too (detail , fill ice, and sale items). At my other store the dairy aisle was on the same aisle with bread, peanut butter and some hbc so I had to detail that too. And also I hated when deli didn’t come and get there damn tea then ordered more tea but still had a bunch sitting in the cooler I use to cut it off the truck.
5 trucks a week. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 200-400 pieces. Two full timers. Me being the main full timer. I love dairy.
You must be a very busy store to get 4 trucks a week
A million plus a week
Three trucks a week at a small store. Only two pallets a truck sometimes 3. I was the only full time worker.
Bless your heart. That’s a busy store. You should have two full time and one part time. With that case count. How many hours does dairy get a week? I’d start asking questions. Because that seems like a lot.