Distribution center insanity!

[drjonah]

OK so I'm trying to wrap my head around who at the distribution center decided it would be a wonderful idea to send us an entire rolltainer of canning jars

We haven't sold a case of jars in over 6 weeks yet they decided we needed about 30 cases of them! But yet when I try to order Sure-jell (which the old ladies would buy in bulk if they had the chance), I keep getting shot down.

I swear the warehouse people just find stuff they can't get rid of, and send them off to random stores so then WE can't get rid of them

[Dreamstalker]

Yes, they do. Every so often we tend to get shorted on the weekly sale items (it all comes in when the sales are changing over--shouldn't the motherlode be coming in on the first night or at least consistent shipments for the duration?) or get inundated with stuff that doesn't sell/we don't even carry.

And poor P ends up doing rotation and claiming out the expired stuff that didn't/doesn't sell.

[xxscooterxx]

We have to deal with this, only its with the cigarettes. We will only get a few cartons of some of top sellers, but get 10 cartons of stuff only one or 2 people buy. This results in us constantly getting cussed out because yall all know its the cashiers fault.

[drjonah]

We have to deal with this, only its with the cigarettes. We will only get a few cartons of some of top sellers, but get 10 cartons of stuff only one or 2 people buy. This results in us constantly getting cussed out because yall all know its the cashiers fault.

UGH, this too! On certain holidays corporate will order cigarettes for us 'To make sure we don't run out'. Well for Memorial Day corporate decided we needed FIVE cartons of Newports! Nevermind the fact that nobody in this town smokes Newports.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

UGH, this too! On certain holidays corporate will order cigarettes for us 'To make sure we don't run out'. Well for Memorial Day corporate decided we needed FIVE cartons of Newports! Nevermind the fact that nobody in this town smokes Newports.

Depends on the 'hood. First of the month, Newports fly out of our store. Had 6 of each coming in tonight, I'll place another order that'll come in Friday.

We have a computer assisted ordering system but I still have to scan every tag each time I make out an order to make sure the system hasn't ordered anything I don't want.

Six cartons of Newport Menthol 100s will move yet the compute will automatically set it for 4. Once I've been ordering at least 6 for a while (as well as have 6 weeks of sales movement on hand) the computer is supposed to adjust the quantity that's automatically ordered.

Note: I said "supposed to." Our computer will still figure out to order a carton or two of Pyramid reds (which don't move hardly any - maybe a carton every two or three months) so I have to manually readjust the quantity to zero.

But I have a feeling we may still need Newports between tomorrow and Friday - send MORE.

[Marmalady]

I think it must be the same mentality that causes our DC to make sure that we always get sent half a dozen of a particular type of mop head ( that we have no handles for, and never use) but never enough things like glass cleaner, disinfectant, or liquid soap.

[Dreamstalker]

Whenever we don't get a needed cleaning supply, I sign out something from the shelf...lo and behold, it comes in on the next store order.

Only to wind up ON the shelf for sale when one of the dinguses on the front end tosses it in the returns cart, ignoring the fact that it isn't even an actual brand we sell... I now wonder if the reason we never have any steel cleaner is because it's all getting sold by accident (will that stuff even scan at a register? I didn't think so...)