So this is why the GM isn't happy...

[mattm04]

I had the last two days off and when I came in I found our an interesting story. It seems a few days ago when a thunderstorm came by the area it decided to hit a few transformers and and substation in the area. This knocked out power to the three major shopping plazas and surrounding areas where other larger businesses exist. Now most power failures last a few hours or maybe a little longer in the event of a really bad storm. This one lasted from 10 PM at night to noon the next day. Because of the duration we lost 95% of the frozen food in the display cases and the entire dairy department. Thankfully most of the sutuf in the main freezer survived, except the ice cream(a pallet and a half of the GOOD, read, expensive stuff) and ice. I can only assume we lost most of the meat and deli stuff.

Now I know why our GM was not in a good mood when I saw him. I can also assume tat the supermarket across the street suffered the same. I have yet to hear the total loss, but it can't be good.

[Hyndis]

Ouch!

Though at least the shrink wasn't due to incompotence.

At one of my previous jobs, working for a big box retailer, we had an entire pallet of frozen food that had to be tossed. Why? Well, we got the pallet earlier in the day. Apparently whoever unloaded it from the truck didn't actually put it away, instead they put it with all the other pallets of junk that got pushed around every night, since there's simply far too much junk in the store to backstock it all.

Well, I was working graveyard shift at the time, and when I got on work and was going about my duties, I noticed a box of frozen pancakes sitting out the middle of the floor. I went over to it, curious, and found that it was an entire pallet of KEEP FROZEN food. The food wasn't even remotely cold anymore.

I pointed this out to the night manager, who is a very awesome guy, and he thanked me and was extremely annoyed by this. Not at me, as the pallet had been sitting around before I even got to work, but he thanked me for discoverying it and said he'd go chew out dayside for leaving the entire pallet of food to end up as shrink.

Luckily the store didn't actually sell very much frozen food. That single pallet would last us for about a week. We sold mostly canned food, sodas, and other non-perishable, non-food items. I shudder to think of what would have happened had we dealt with larger volumes of perishable food and had those same idiots doing the unloading process...

[mattm04]

I just found out more today

About 15K in Ice cream, 700 in Cheesecakes, 8-10K in meat, 3K in deli, and somewhere in the range of 15-20K in dairy and a few thousand in misc frozen. The biggest problem was that we lost power late at night and were not able to procure dry ice until the next day.

And we rally don't know how several 2 Lieter bottles ended up in tiny pieces.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ouch!

Though at least the shrink wasn't due to incompotence.

At one of my previous jobs, working for a big box retailer, we had an entire pallet of frozen food that had to be tossed. Why? Well, we got the pallet earlier in the day. Apparently whoever unloaded it from the truck didn't actually put it away, instead they put it with all the other pallets of junk that got pushed around every night, since there's simply far too much junk in the store to backstock it all.

Well, I was working graveyard shift at the time, and when I got on work and was going about my duties, I noticed a box of frozen pancakes sitting out the middle of the floor. I went over to it, curious, and found that it was an entire pallet of KEEP FROZEN food. The food wasn't even remotely cold anymore.

Been there, done that. For about a year my store carried an extensive line of groceries, including frozen snacks and other refrigerated items.

Our corporate people at the time were from Fred Meyer and they decided our stores should be like Fred Meyer but on a smaller scale; therefore the emphasis on groceries.

One night a pallet of refrigerated and frozen stuff came in on our truck and we told the HBA/Grocery specialist about it, so she could work it out. For some reason she never got to it.

The entire pallet had to be tossed and I got a talking-to from my manager Harry, because HBA/Grocery specialist lied and said I didn't tell her her stuff came in.

Not too long after this, it happened again: Pallet of frozen stuff comes in, I call up HBA/Grocery specialist to tell her it's ready to be filled, she doesn't touch it. Again she tells Harry I didn't let her know it came in. I get a write-up because again I have supposedly caused shrinkage for the store.

I probably should mention HBA/Grocery specialist was fucking Harry at the time, so he believed everything she told him and wouldn't listen to those people backing me up and telling him she was the one who screwed up.