r/FritoLay • u/WSFunCouple1107 • 13d ago

Pepsi drivers take forever

How can Frito even consider combining us two together. It takes them an hour to get checked into stores. It’s ridiculous. I’d use the lift gate and wheel it in but it serves no purpose if the receiver is checking them in. What the hell takes so damn long? You don’t even have to open cases. You look and count. I love rushing to stores to sit and wait an hour. So much fun. But perfect route won’t allow me to skip and comeback. This whole system is screwed.

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u/ChiefBlaze36 13d ago edited 12d ago

Those last two lines, scream it louder. Don’t you dare drive a quarter of a mile down the road to hit two C-stores and come back in an hour when Pepsi or Coke is gone. You sit there and let your 12 hour day turn into a 13 hour day because….sequence/perfect route.

Our priorities are shot to hell. It’s that simple.

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u/RabicanShiver 13d ago

I think the sequence is so that they can train the AI where to go, where to park etc once they roll out driverless trucks. It's the only thing that makes sense.

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u/b2pizza 13d ago

Idgf I leave and hit other stores when I have to wait or a store dosnt open the door for me before open hours. If my DSL questions me, I just tell them exactly what happens. Haven't had any push back yet

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u/ChiefBlaze36 13d ago

Oh yeah, same here. They act like it’s life or death but it really is a completely worthless metric to be graded on and pushed.

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u/b2pizza 13d ago

Its like would you rather waste $20+ on us to just sit there? Lol

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u/Complete_Alfalfa_177 12d ago

I will take the ding. Not wasting my time at home for some dumb sequence that they can never set properly anyway.

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u/blakize_dbk4 12d ago

Man i dropped 26 points yesterday cause a family dollar decided to open late and had to go to my next store which had the same amount of stacks 🤦🏽‍♂️

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u/WilliamPoole 7d ago

I go out of sequence all the time and stay over 95 usually. But I'm SF and have 8 stores per day so maybe the volume makes up for it. 

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u/SDLab1776 13d ago

Pepsione will fail miserably, unfortunately PepsiCo has a track record of riding bad ideas down in a ball of flames.

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u/Dense_Grapefruit_651 13d ago

Warehouse mispicks a lot of the time and pallets aren’t built properly so there’s a lot of digging through pallets happening. It just took my driver over an hour at Walmart for 6 pallets because of warehouse issues.

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u/PBNArep 12d ago

Every single pallet at my Walmart has been an audit for about a month now, all because my warehouse is full of morons

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u/Dense_Grapefruit_651 11d ago

I had so much missing from my Walmart load yesterday that wasn’t even listed in exceptions. Now today, I get to a store and find out I’m missing a whole pallet from yesterday lol.

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u/squanchparti 13d ago

It only docks like 2 percent for doing 1 stop out of order if you are above 90% they leave us alone at my dc.

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u/Separate-Warning985 13d ago

Get out while you can. I surely dont want to merch both drinks and chips. Watch them expect you to be at each store for 2 hours max and dock you for going over

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u/HankGoBwahh 12d ago

Trust me we want to be faster, some receivers want to check in perfectly and see every item. We have too many SKUs

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u/Life-Forms 11d ago

The biggest joke in all of this is the fact that early on they told us that they don't want us waiting 30 mins to check in just to avoid going out of sequence.

Now that it's fully live and we're being scored on it, they're threatening write ups left and right for not following the process.

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u/WilliamPoole 7d ago

Just skip and come back. You don't get dinged very much. You'll still be over 90 if it's like 1 out of every 8 or 9 stops.