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Every time it SNOWS.
Our weather so far this winter has been mild . . . until this past weekend.
On Saturday - high winds Saturday night up to 50 mph . . . knocked power out of the big Litter Box store not far from us. Wasn't restored until Sunday midday and the refirgeration took longer, so due to massive losses for their store (lost all their frozen and refrigerated items) a lot of their customers flocked to our little store since we're the next closest one. Sales that day (according to Baby Jesus) were around $52,000.
Yesterday - winter storm warning went into effect around 4pm. Several inches of snow were intially expected, around the 3-5 inch range, followed by sleet after midnight.
You can guess how my day was yesterday: all my Monday deliveries were flocking into my frigid back room to get checked in and fill the shelves. Our perishable truck came yesterday morning also but was missing our milk order and a couple of pallets of frozen, which was soon replenished by a 2nd truck that came not long after the first one. Stockers were working to make sure we had everything filled, my guys (the DSD vendors) were flocking in and filling and running through their back stock as the aisles were becoming swamped with customers panicking as if the end of the world was upon us. My day was busy, I didn't get to do my regular Monday cigarette on hand counts or start on my date rotation - I was running product out to the shelves to replenish after the guys had been in once that day and trying to keep up until around 2:30 when it was time for me to go and by that time, it was IMPOSSIBLE to try to work on the sales floor for the swarm of people.
Snow started around 3:30 here, then the sleet came earlier than expected (around 5 or so) so we ended up with around 2 inches of snow w/around a quarter inch of sleet on top. Roads were terrible this morning - some of the folks who were scheduled to work today couldn't make it in. Luckily my managers don't live far from me, so I hitched a ride with Grasshopper this morning (who also had to pick up Baby Jesus and our Produce Manager, Appleseed) and made it to work.
Milk was blown out for the most part, needless to say. Only a few gallons of 1% and skim were left, as was most of the soy and almond milk products. Bread was just about empty - just some store brand loaves and we did have some buns and potato bread products left. One of my bread guys came back late yesterday w/extra bread in the event he couldn't get out today but the other guys we didn't see (or at least they didn't make it in before I left right after 2.) What bread backstock we had worked through yesterday was already gone.
Needless to say by noon, we were getting busy again. Because NONE of my guys made it in today, I was trying to recover the chips/beer/soft drinks and I lost count of how many trips I made to the back room to grab 2 ltr Pepsi products to refill the shelves (99 cents and they go off sale tonight.) Ran through my cigarettes that came in this morning (last night's grocery truck did not make it in - it came this morning early and both Grasshopper, Baby Jesus and JB - our grocery manager who replaced Blondie - were all helping the stockers to break down pallets, load up floats and stock shelves.)
And folks were griping that we were out of what they wanted. Did you not see that white stuff out on the damn ground when you looked outside this morning?
I had just wrapped up around 2 and was heading up front to put my handheld up and clock out and a guy had the gall to ask "Is that all the milk you've got?"
"Yep," I answered. "What you see is what we've got."
"You don't have any more in the back?" he persisted.
"Nope, it runs out any time it snows here," I answered.
"But Litter Box isn't supposed to run out of milk," he continued.
"Happens every time we get snow. Doesn't matter which store it is, we all run out of milk." I kept right on walking up front at that point, already fed up with this one.
Is it too hard to grasp that every time we have a snow event that people run to the grocery store and buy up everything? They'll buy enough food for a month and then come back for another buggy full 3 days later.
What I wanted to tell that dumbass: your ass should have been in here sooner, like 2 days ago if you wanted milk.
Can't promise anyone what time the truck will come tomorrow . . . and tomorrow we're expecting snow showers in the afternoon w/more sleet and temperatures to DIVE into the MINUS single digits at night (tonight's low is expected to be around 8 above and high tomorrow around 35) and another round of snow/ice on Saturday.
Since when did I live in Wisconsin? Irv, this is your fault.
Our weather so far this winter has been mild . . . until this past weekend.
On Saturday - high winds Saturday night up to 50 mph . . . knocked power out of the big Litter Box store not far from us. Wasn't restored until Sunday midday and the refirgeration took longer, so due to massive losses for their store (lost all their frozen and refrigerated items) a lot of their customers flocked to our little store since we're the next closest one. Sales that day (according to Baby Jesus) were around $52,000.
Yesterday - winter storm warning went into effect around 4pm. Several inches of snow were intially expected, around the 3-5 inch range, followed by sleet after midnight.
You can guess how my day was yesterday: all my Monday deliveries were flocking into my frigid back room to get checked in and fill the shelves. Our perishable truck came yesterday morning also but was missing our milk order and a couple of pallets of frozen, which was soon replenished by a 2nd truck that came not long after the first one. Stockers were working to make sure we had everything filled, my guys (the DSD vendors) were flocking in and filling and running through their back stock as the aisles were becoming swamped with customers panicking as if the end of the world was upon us. My day was busy, I didn't get to do my regular Monday cigarette on hand counts or start on my date rotation - I was running product out to the shelves to replenish after the guys had been in once that day and trying to keep up until around 2:30 when it was time for me to go and by that time, it was IMPOSSIBLE to try to work on the sales floor for the swarm of people.
Snow started around 3:30 here, then the sleet came earlier than expected (around 5 or so) so we ended up with around 2 inches of snow w/around a quarter inch of sleet on top. Roads were terrible this morning - some of the folks who were scheduled to work today couldn't make it in. Luckily my managers don't live far from me, so I hitched a ride with Grasshopper this morning (who also had to pick up Baby Jesus and our Produce Manager, Appleseed) and made it to work.
Milk was blown out for the most part, needless to say. Only a few gallons of 1% and skim were left, as was most of the soy and almond milk products. Bread was just about empty - just some store brand loaves and we did have some buns and potato bread products left. One of my bread guys came back late yesterday w/extra bread in the event he couldn't get out today but the other guys we didn't see (or at least they didn't make it in before I left right after 2.) What bread backstock we had worked through yesterday was already gone.
Needless to say by noon, we were getting busy again. Because NONE of my guys made it in today, I was trying to recover the chips/beer/soft drinks and I lost count of how many trips I made to the back room to grab 2 ltr Pepsi products to refill the shelves (99 cents and they go off sale tonight.) Ran through my cigarettes that came in this morning (last night's grocery truck did not make it in - it came this morning early and both Grasshopper, Baby Jesus and JB - our grocery manager who replaced Blondie - were all helping the stockers to break down pallets, load up floats and stock shelves.)
And folks were griping that we were out of what they wanted. Did you not see that white stuff out on the damn ground when you looked outside this morning?
I had just wrapped up around 2 and was heading up front to put my handheld up and clock out and a guy had the gall to ask "Is that all the milk you've got?"
"Yep," I answered. "What you see is what we've got."
"You don't have any more in the back?" he persisted.
"Nope, it runs out any time it snows here," I answered.
"But Litter Box isn't supposed to run out of milk," he continued.
"Happens every time we get snow. Doesn't matter which store it is, we all run out of milk." I kept right on walking up front at that point, already fed up with this one.
Is it too hard to grasp that every time we have a snow event that people run to the grocery store and buy up everything? They'll buy enough food for a month and then come back for another buggy full 3 days later.
What I wanted to tell that dumbass: your ass should have been in here sooner, like 2 days ago if you wanted milk.
Can't promise anyone what time the truck will come tomorrow . . . and tomorrow we're expecting snow showers in the afternoon w/more sleet and temperatures to DIVE into the MINUS single digits at night (tonight's low is expected to be around 8 above and high tomorrow around 35) and another round of snow/ice on Saturday.
Since when did I live in Wisconsin? Irv, this is your fault.
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