Tomorrow we begin backroom pre-counting for inventory at the swamp. Yay. Not.
We spent today trying to push as much merchandise as we could from the backroom to the salesfloor so the inventory service has to count it and not store employees. Unfortunately this is being done in ways that don't conform to the swamp's merchandise presentation rules and will need to be taken down and re-backstocked after inventory is finished, if not during the process and then counted in the backroom by employees. There will be managers from other stores and corporate people trawling through the store during this process.
Today we tried to push out as much toilet paper as we could from the backroom, even though there wasn't much there to begin with. One of the truck kids built a main-aisle display of toilet paper, and it looks like CRAP. Many of the packages are turned backwards and upside down, and it just looks like a big pile. Corporate would veto this because it isn't "impactful" and doesn't "drive sales."
Then we had some cookware sets for a new set in housewares. Their planogram doesn't get set until after inventory. What does my manager do? Stack them in the main aisle. This wouldn't be so bad except we only have two or three of each set. Again this would not be "impactful" and it will need to be taken down eventually.
Reconciliation on Wednesday will be a blast. I have a box of about 100 of a certain glue stick in the backroom, and the scanner says we only have 16 of that glue stick on hand. This is likely the result of one of several transfers of merchandise from some of our small-town stores that went pear-shaped and wasn't properly manifested and added to our inventory. There's going to be a lot of this stuff. Luckily I am not doing reconciliation. That's my day off, and after six days in a row I'm going to need it.
We spent today trying to push as much merchandise as we could from the backroom to the salesfloor so the inventory service has to count it and not store employees. Unfortunately this is being done in ways that don't conform to the swamp's merchandise presentation rules and will need to be taken down and re-backstocked after inventory is finished, if not during the process and then counted in the backroom by employees. There will be managers from other stores and corporate people trawling through the store during this process.
Today we tried to push out as much toilet paper as we could from the backroom, even though there wasn't much there to begin with. One of the truck kids built a main-aisle display of toilet paper, and it looks like CRAP. Many of the packages are turned backwards and upside down, and it just looks like a big pile. Corporate would veto this because it isn't "impactful" and doesn't "drive sales."
Then we had some cookware sets for a new set in housewares. Their planogram doesn't get set until after inventory. What does my manager do? Stack them in the main aisle. This wouldn't be so bad except we only have two or three of each set. Again this would not be "impactful" and it will need to be taken down eventually.
Reconciliation on Wednesday will be a blast. I have a box of about 100 of a certain glue stick in the backroom, and the scanner says we only have 16 of that glue stick on hand. This is likely the result of one of several transfers of merchandise from some of our small-town stores that went pear-shaped and wasn't properly manifested and added to our inventory. There's going to be a lot of this stuff. Luckily I am not doing reconciliation. That's my day off, and after six days in a row I'm going to need it.
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