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  • I Could Ask YOU The Same Question . .

    aka, the sequel to "Everybody Runs Out of Milk."

    More snow fell last night, forecasters were predicting (depending on which station you were watching) either 4-6 inches or 5-8 inches (saw that one on my Weather Underground app) and we went right back into another State of Emergency.

    Yesterday was busy, of course, with folks doing their usual breadandmilkbreadandmilk panic, which was starting to get into full swing right around the time I was walking out the door at 2:30. Some of our sections were still kinda low already by then b/c we'd had another snow rush on Monday and everybody woke to anywhere from a dusting to 1 inch of snow (as Bill Engvall would say: enough to make a footprint.)

    Luckily this morning it was just powdered snow, so it wasn't hard to clear off the wheelchair ramp and, after slipping a bit on our road and Mom driving almost 5 miles an hour down Phillips Avenue (it's hilly in sections) I was only 7 minutes late this morning (Grasshopper said to take my time when I called the store - back roads especially were bad this morning and this was around 6:45.)

    Hadn't been out on the floor long after clocking in, was trying to straighten out the destroyed bread section, the wine section and the beer case (all of these sections are on one aisle together) I see this customer wander down the aisle and ask me "What are you doing open this morning?"

    "We're not allowed to close," I replied and went back to straightening the wine section.

    Then it hit me after she'd wandered away: she DID really ask me that. WTF???

    Too bad I couldn't ask her "What the FUCK are you doing in here in this weather?"

    At least I didn't have to hear anyone complain about running out of milk this morning . . . case was blown out again - only a handful of skim and 1% again (whole and 2% move out faster) and a few half gallons and quarts. I guess not many of our customers want the soy or almond milks.

    I'm waiting for the griping on the milk to commence again tomorrow . . . Dairy guy only got in 2 small half pallets of gallons and after he was done running those to the shelf, he had NO back stock left.

    Same with Appleseed over in Produce. He and a part timer who came in ran 2 1/2 pallets of produce and only had a few boxes of cabbage, some potatoes and a dozen cases of salad mixes left after everything was ran through.

    And if the roads are so bad and the radio and news stations are advising everyone to STAY INDOORS (including the National Weather Service) as we had a severe winter storm warning in effect until noon, why for the love of Cheese are you dragging yourself into the store in your damn pajama bottoms??? Or bringing your babies out in this weather???

    And how many vendor deliveries did I get today? ONE and I was surprised I had that one. Turns out the Red drink guys sent their trucks out 2 hours later than they normally leave the warehouse . . . got the call from Bullfrog (my regular driver who, no matter the weather, will be out in it in a T-Shirt and SHORTS!! I swear he has no feelings in his legs, but I digress) and he made it in right before noon w/2 pallets.

    Most of my time was spent either straightening out the chip side of the aisle, running cigs and candy (yesterday's grocery truck was being unloaded when I left yesterday afternoon) and running through the Cheerwine back stock and trying to fill that section up (it was literally empty and none of their guys were out running their routes at all today - I'll see them tomorrow and get my delivery that was supposed to have come today) and try to finish up my date rotation for the week (still not finished. And don't look to BJ to help either . . .he'll find more busy work on a Friday so he can get out of rolling up his sleeves and helping me out.)

    Be interesting to see how bad it'll be tomorrow. Lows in the mid 20's and the stuff that has melted will just freeze . . . at least tomorrow will be Friday.

    Just let me get through one more day without somebody being a total twit and I'll be sleeping in on Saturday while whichever MOD gets to check in the Pepsi delivery (my Friday delivery will be coming Saturday since they did not run the trucks today.)
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    Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
    aka, the sequel to "Everybody Runs Out of Milk."

    And if the roads are so bad and the radio and news stations are advising everyone to STAY INDOORS (including the National Weather Service) as we had a severe winter storm warning in effect until noon, why for the love of Cheese are you dragging yourself into the store in your damn pajama bottoms??? Or bringing your babies out in this weather???
    They are indoors. Inside the store is indoors, isn't it?
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    • #3
      I still find it funny that, in the two states I've lived in, it may be bad enough that schools are closed and there's weather warnings and reduced speeds on the road, but people can STILL manage to make it to the mall and movies and heaven help you if you close!
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      • #4
        Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
        and try to finish up my date rotation for the week
        Of course, the date rotation on the bread and milk aisles would be super-easy.
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        • #5
          The guy in shorts must be related to the woman I saw the other day in capri-length leggings, flats and a short-sleeved t-shirt....in the 12 degree weather. That's Fahrenheit BTW.
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          • #6
            Customers always panic, i'm dreading work tonight. Last storm they bought three pallets of bulk water and close to two pallets of gallon water. If enough stock comes in, i'm going to have a long night.
            Seph
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            • #7
              Javarod -Maybe they'll let you just unwrap the pallet and then back away slowly, while the savage customers pounce on their prey...
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              • #8
                I've always been one to be very harsh on the city/county workers that, especially this being Wisconsin, there is no excuse for not plowing and having shitty roads. Except that, most winters (this one not being snowy enough yet.....yet yet), roads are just in dispair and disarray for the near 6 months winter lasts around here with ice ruts and ice/snow cakes from not "plowing" until the front passes and it then deep freezes below zero.

                Having said that, unless you have to work or there is something you desperately need, there's no reason to be out in that bad of weather.
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                • #9
                  Quoth blas View Post
                  Having said that, unless you have to work or there is something you desperately need, there's no reason to be out in that bad of weather.
                  Agreed, stay home unless you've got an excellent reason to be out. And most people don't have an excellent reason, or good enough driving skills for that matter...

                  I remember a few years ago a homeowner complaint during a serious blizzard (we ended up with over a foot of snow). The backhoe cleaning a neighborhood blew its transmission (it was a real hanger queen) and had to be hauled back to the shop. He calls, angrily demanding to know when his cul-de-sac will be cleared. It's 2:40am on a Sunday, JUST WHERE ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING? Seriously, your neighborhood will be clean by the time the sun rises. If you need an ambulance earlier we'll get another piece of equipment in right away - otherwise you can wait until something comes free!

                  Bloody jackass...

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                  • #10
                    Quoth EricKei View Post
                    Javarod -Maybe they'll let you just unwrap the pallet and then back away slowly, while the savage customers pounce on their prey...
                    IIRC that's what we used to do with the emergency milk pallets that we'd get sent to us by the warehouse back at the WD on Phillips Avenue . . . otherwise the hapless person trying to work the milk into the refrigerated display would get trampled!

                    They would NOT stay out on the floor long enough to get warm, I can assure you. Same with the pallets we'd get in of chitterlings during the fall (Big College Homecoming week.)
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                    • #11
                      Our local warehouse store has issues with milk no matter the weather. Found an old video which says it takes 15 semi trucks per week to keep it stocked with milk. Probably not now, since the exchange is not great, but still.

                      On that note, I can't hold it against people if they stock up upon hearing of bad weather... I know if I was running low on stuff, I'd be there too. It's the people who ignore all the warnings (come on people, there are many ways to keep up on this!) and then later fight the weather to get to wherever risking themselves and others, then have the audacity to be mad at the poor soul who is manning the store. Idiots.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth EricKei View Post
                        Javarod -Maybe they'll let you just unwrap the pallet and then back away slowly, while the savage customers pounce on their prey...
                        Lol, had that during the bad snow about five years ago. XD Once the gritters finally found the village where I live, I was able to get in via a lift from my dad. The petrol station had practically been stripped bare of all edible products as well as all deicer and scrapers. Having seen some in the store as I walked thru (cuz customers apparently don't have the thought process to realise that yes, you CAN buy car care products in the supermarket as well as the petrol station!) I suggested heading over there to transfer their deicer and scrapers to the petrol station to try and curb the constant whining from stupid customers. My manager said yes so I went over and filled a big trolley with deicer and scrapers.

                        I kid you not, the second I got on to the forecourt, customers were grabbing at the product in my trolley and running into the kiosk to pay. I just let them, cuz I'd taken down a list of what I'd gotten from the supermarket so I figured that as long as I had one deicer and one scraper, I'd be fine. My trolley was half empty by the time I finally got to do the transfer, and completely empty about twenty minutes later. Deicer is serious business. XD
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                        • #13
                          I was going to go shopping today, but they changed the weather forecast from finally being above tits fall off freezing to snow and freezing rain and it is all gloom and doom. I have wine, vodka, cat food, and the kids have pizzas and lunchables. We can weather thru the weekend because I will punch somebody if I have to go to a grocery store. Last 2 Saturdays were horrific weather and Friday night the grocery stores were just full of stupid people acting like the snow would be 20 ft tall and they would never have enough to eat and that mentality pisses me off.

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                          • #14
                            Yeah, that mentality pisses me off cuz where I live, the snow rarely lasts longer than five days at the most yet some customers are acting as tho they have to either stock up with enough food to last for months, or else choose which one of their kids must be killed and eaten so that they may survive the snow!

                            Repeat after me, customers. This is not Alaska.
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                            • #15
                              Quoth EricKei View Post
                              Javarod -Maybe they'll let you just unwrap the pallet and then back away slowly, while the savage customers pounce on their prey...
                              Luckily i work 3rd shift, i just have to refill the aisle with anything we have left.
                              Seph
                              Taur10
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