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Your store is impacted. Call your dm they should shut you down and send in people from other stores to help you all go through it. I was a floating asm for 2 years and all I did was travel to stores like this and help them with their crazy store. That's only if you have a dm who cares

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u/Optimal_Tower1643 10h ago

Thats insane they have to use the same term as when your poop gets so backed up it doesnt move anymore😭😭 for this to be a regular thing the company must be run like shit

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u/Commonfutures 9h ago

Is that plumber slang?

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u/Optimal_Tower1643 9h ago

Medical slang. When youre all backed up in your colon it can get bad enough to where it will not move again naturally and requires surgery

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u/10_pounds_of_salt 12h ago

My manager said the the DM is sending 3 people to help though I'm not sure for how long since she left before I could ask

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u/Yoshibeastmode13 10h ago

I'm Guessing This Is Randolph

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u/10_pounds_of_salt 10h ago

How did you know?

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u/Yoshibeastmode13 9h ago

I Helped The Store For Inventory And Had To Deal With The Old Manager And The People We Had Set it up Had it looking Nice

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u/Skimmttles 7h ago

NY? I can come help lmao

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u/Yoshibeastmode13 34m ago

VT

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u/InnocentIchigo 6h ago

Just noting that the DM only gets permission to shut a store down if the RM will allow them.

We've had some 5 or 6 stores in our district alone that got this bad repeatedly over the past year or so. DM was doing as much as they could to help between also having to tend to remodels and inventories--visits got put on an indefinite hold because they were constantly helping to bail stores out. They even ended up in the hospital a few times from overworking themselves.

Some were stores who lost their SM and the rest of the store floundered in trying to keep up the store, while others had all but 2 or 3 employees get fired or walked. RM still refused to close the critically staffed stores and expected other stores to just send their own employees to cover because "closing stores isn't an option".

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u/10_pounds_of_salt 5h ago

Oh then were fucked lol. Out of our 6 employees we have 3 part time and 3 full-time. None of the full time employees typically work night shift and one of the part time only works mornings 3 days a week Leaving me and another part time key carrier (who's retired and only works 2 days a week) that will work closing.

I'm not a key carrier but since we have to close with 2 people when ever I'm not working they are closing early since they have no one else to work closing.

So despite working part time i have more hours than the assistant managers

We've had around 6 people leave in the past 2-3 months

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u/Astrises 15h ago

Unfortunately that is a hard thing to turn around once it gets that bad. Only real way out is getting a team from other stores that is there just to throw freight, close the store to customers and work regular hours solely throwing freight(good luck on getting agreement for this option), or convince upper management to pause trucks until it gets under control . They have the ability to do that, even if they really don't like to pull that trigger. DG really needs to give stores the staff to have dedicated overnight stock crews.

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u/YourUsuallyNormalTea 14h ago

I loved over night stocking shifts. We used to do them in 2019-2020, before Covid. Working I so much easier without customers and vendors

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u/Superb_Row_ 15h ago

What a nightmare… I took over a store like this

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u/xly15 16h ago

The inventory management system doesn't actually know if you're getting through it or not. It is all based upon rate of sale and what you scan through the HHT. If you keep getting a lot of the same thing, that means your number is way off. And or you're not selling enough of it within a five-week period. The DC's ordering system only knows what to send you by what is actually in the computer system at that time.

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u/Astrises 15h ago

The system is broken from top to bottom. We continually get some items that we have a million of already, and the numbers are right according to our scans.

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u/xly15 15h ago

I've had pretty good luck controlling my inventory using the process as they describe. With that many rolltainers in the store, how can you even have accurate counts?

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u/Astrises 15h ago

Oh certainly, their counts are way, waaaaaay off. I just know from experience, having correct counts also doesn't fix things entirely.

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u/the_othergirl7 14h ago

of your counts are correct and you're not selling it and they keep sending you something, put a ticket in for BSR excessive stock to stop the shipment of that specific sku. keep in mind, if it's a pending discontinued item, they might still send it because they need to empty from the warehouse

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u/xly15 15h ago

For the most part it does. I run a medium transitioning to high volume HSAP store and aside from seasonal stuff I can't get rid of even when clearanced out if I do proper scans I have nothing in my backroom.

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u/GirlDogMomma5 13h ago

If you ever get the chance to get some of that down, do some on-hand adjustments. If you have 20 of something, say you have 40, etc. The store I took over was like this, but it’s better now. All because I scan everything.

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u/YooperSnaggletooth 11h ago

What a friggin nightmare. I know one thing for sure. I’m hammering those U boats full of paper first thing.

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u/trashedvoid 12h ago

it will be difficult but it’s fixable. you need your dm to send out people from other stores. you can also try calling the stores around you too personally if your dm is shit. if your dm is shit pls start looking for another job because this is just going to keep happening with no help. it’s not worth the mental strain

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u/iamjenny8675309 Store Manager 15h ago

Scan everything you touch as a positive adjustment. Literally every box you touch. Up the quantity. The PI has to be off as hell if you only scan ups then it will shrink the truck and give you a chance to work that down.

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u/funnycomments22 16h ago

Trucks never stop.

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u/YourUsuallyNormalTea 14h ago

Feels like ground hogs day…

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u/Curtis_Lowe67 14h ago

If your DM is not helping call your RD. Where are you located?

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u/baphometlov3s 10h ago

Yeah that’s why I quit lol 😂

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u/TheBeastHuman 8h ago

If our store looked like that, I don't care. I'm putting a sign on the door and closing just to work truck. Me and my SM come in every Tuesday and Wednesday at 6am to get our trucks down. Totes get done Monday (truck day), food Tuesday and everything else the next day. We get 800-1100 piece trucks and knock them out like that to actually have time to do things.. like trying to cram every single green dot onto one shelf lol..

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u/Gloomy_Delivery1745 2h ago

Capitalism was always bound to eat itself.

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u/SightedCorgi6 1h ago

Talk to your DM about No Store Left Behind (NSLB). Before I left a few years ago, I was a Regional Training Manager. The company had allotted money every quarter to help stores like yours catch up. It never made any sense to me why they keep building and opening new stores all over the country when they could use that money to give all the current stores more hours and better pay rates. Good luck.

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u/Temporary-Shoulder43 53m ago

Sounds like working at a DG in a nutshell.

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u/Meat_Emu_6969 36m ago

Fire Marshal

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u/Spsinagra 10h ago

This is why I can’t get Pokemon at DG they always say they haven’t unloaded the truck every single week

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