Inventory: Someone please shoot me

[dalesys]

Just to get you in the mood for inventory:

SKU check!

May I add an 'R' in SKU?

[gremcint]

I never minded inventory all that much because it meant not having to deal with customers and that's great.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I never minded inventory all that much because it meant not having to deal with customers and that's great.

I don't deal with customers most of the time anyway (being in the back room handling the direct store deliveries has its advantages.) so that day of the year (which was today, BTW) is usually rather boring.

Today I had to help put stuff back on the tops of the shelves (not an easy feat for me, as I do have trouble with the tall ladders and some of the bigger boxes of cat litter I had to leave on the floor b/c they were too damned heavy for me to lift up over my head) and helping with recounts, it wasn't too bad.

Of course tomorrow I'll be working my ass off . . . most of the deliveries I would have had today will be coming tomorrow. And I only have just over 7 1/2 hrs I can work before I hit the corporate dreaded OT.

At least tomorrow is Friday . . . . which means I can kick back and relax this weekend.

[Seanette]

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."

Is there an English version of "impactful" (shudder, retch)?

[EricKei]

Ah, yes, the joys of corporate-speak

I can give it a shot: "That which has an impact on the customer, thus grabbing their attention and making them more likely to buy" - "impressive" - "attractive (to the customer)" - "effective as an advertisement for the product"

Do those work?

[Seanette]

I could deduce the intended meaning, just hated the linguistic mutilation going on. Is simply speaking normal-person English too much to ask?

[cindybubbles]

Why do retail stores have to hire an inventory service AS WELL as have the staff count the merchandise? To see if it detects if some items have been stolen?

[Kit-Ginevra]

For more inventory-related fun,venture over to Retail comic this week kids

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Why do retail stores have to hire an inventory service AS WELL as have the staff count the merchandise? To see if it detects if some items have been stolen?

In my company, staff counts the backroom and a few things on the salesfloor. Inventory service (not eReGIS) does the rest.

[SimonF12009]

We had an outside company come into our store ONCE to do stocktake, but we spent so much time fixing their mistakes, they just let store staff do counts now

[Kit-Ginevra]

At least your inventory company doesn't have your mortal enemy as its team leader ...the one that vowed unspeakable revenge on your company when you had him arrested

[sms001]

doesn't have your mortal enemy as its team leader ... had him arrested

THAT sounds like a story worth hearing! (Or a link if you've posted it already?)

I do believe Kit's talking about the recent storyline in Norm Feuti's Retail comic

oops! Thanks, EK.

[EricKei]

I do believe Kit's talking about the recent storyline in Norm Feuti's Retail comic

[Chromatix]

With such a small shrinkage rate, I expect the *next* inventory audit to show a huge one instead. I'll leave the reasoning as an exercise to the reader.

[wolfie]

With such a small shrinkage rate, I expect the *next* inventory audit to show a huge one instead. I'll leave the reasoning as an exercise to the reader.

Never done inventory, but my guess is that the shrink happened but false numbers were put in to show that it hadn't happened. Next audit will get real numbers, so 2 audit periods worth of shrink will show up in a single audit.