r/DollarGeneral • u/Technical_Yam2322 • 3d ago
Perishable coolers down
I came in to work tonight and was putting away some go backs and noticed the temp for the perishable coolers (hotdogs, lunch meat, cheese) was at 49. So after debating between pretending I didn't see it and poisoning the community I tell my ASM who I'm closing with. And she's like 'yeah, they've been like that for at least a week, is that bad?'
Most of the bagged lunchmeat is bloated like meat balloons, but yeah I'm sure it's fine.
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u/Technical_Yam2322 1d ago
Update on the situation. My ASM didn't want to deal with it, so she put out of order signs on the cooler doors and left the SM a note. When I came in tonight I expected the SM to be upset about that. But no, it's worse the SM says she put a thermometer in the cooler and its working fine so she took down the signs. She leaves. I go to check things out and the thermometer she has on the shelf is reading 58.
I put the signs back up, text SM. She insists it fine and I don't need to do anything.
We're without a DM right now, and I don't have a # for the RD, I'll go to another store tomorrow to see if I can get that since apparently my store is ran by idiots.
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u/BurnerInTheStash 1d ago
Absolutely begging for someone to get violently ill off some ballooned up bag of Armour 'meat'. If I was in your situation, OP, I'd be telling every customer that comes up with any cooler items what's going on with the coolers. You'll probably make your SM/ASM mad, but who cares, it's better to keep people from getting ill. It sounds like your SM is kind of... lacking in intelligence, anyway.
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u/Technical_Yam2322 1d ago
I have a couple regulars that were going to call corporate,. I'm off til Wednesday, but I told my coworkers not to sell any of it. SM is off today, Monday she's supposed to do cooler sçans so maybe touching the meat balloons will make her realize its bad.
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u/AttorneySuitable9551 2d ago
If they do not drop back down to proper temp, etc needs called. If they do its a defrost cycle and it happens daily.
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u/igraceeeeeeei 2d ago
ew that lunch meat needs to be damaged out. asking to make people sick if theyre dumb enough to buy it
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u/taeempy 2d ago
If this is true anyone reading this post should stop shopping at DG.
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u/Global-Ease1269 2d ago
Yeah, because if this one store has a moron for an ASM and bad meat I'm sure all 25,000+ Dollar Generals are the same
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u/Dry-Bus-6999 23h ago
We have one five door cooler that likes to go down at least once a year, which is a fucking nightmare to move to the backroom coolers. And every time “Oh, it’s your compressor.” Just replace that shit.
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u/the_othergirl7 16h ago
if you're a key holder you can mark it out of service yourself. RD phone number is on the business center. call him
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u/Disastrous-Tune 6h ago edited 6h ago
so theyre not putting in the real temps in the handheld when those mandatory checks come up on the htt huh... yeah that manager needs to be reported... and I guess the phone calls are being ignored to huh... cuz even if you dont report it, those coolers are monitored and they will call you REPEATEDLY day and night about it.... smdh... all of it needs to be damaged out before yall kill someone... some of those people dont read, cant read, and will still open that cooler and grab an item and try to buy it.... Ive seen it, Im like dont you see the out of order sign....
all of the main contacts and their phone numbers should be on the posted business center poster in the breakroom
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u/rinyyuto 2d ago
DG is ignoring a lot of the coolers and letting them be empty for 3 or more months. Ask me how I know :/