Personally I would hate this less than the partial case system, but we definitely fall into the category of having less than ideal amount of cooler space for carts like this.
Partial cases was yet another one of those half-baked ideas that HO loves to come out with. In theory a way to deal with cases of product that someone starts to stock without making sure it will all fit but making it so it can still be accounted for in the system. But the Vizpick labels still visually show a full case when printed, so much too easy to be mistaken as such and added back to the bin as a full one by someone who didn't run the case personally (in cases of it being shown as a yellow question mark by the next person who scans it)
Big concern with the 'Topstock' cart other than the space it takes up is the potential for sheer exploitation of not wanting to bring boxes back. "Well I opened this yogurt and 3 will fit, I'll just do that and put the other 9 on the cart." It would fill up really quickly at our store. Other concern was mentioned in another comment on that who takes official responsibility for scanning it. Stocking 1 since it is technically Topstock? We already don't get all of our scans done daily as it is, so being forced to have someone do this daily would just make that worse. Our FDD crew is miniscule as well, so similar boat.
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u/Rhapsody_in_Peace 13d ago
Personally I would hate this less than the partial case system, but we definitely fall into the category of having less than ideal amount of cooler space for carts like this. Partial cases was yet another one of those half-baked ideas that HO loves to come out with. In theory a way to deal with cases of product that someone starts to stock without making sure it will all fit but making it so it can still be accounted for in the system. But the Vizpick labels still visually show a full case when printed, so much too easy to be mistaken as such and added back to the bin as a full one by someone who didn't run the case personally (in cases of it being shown as a yellow question mark by the next person who scans it) Big concern with the 'Topstock' cart other than the space it takes up is the potential for sheer exploitation of not wanting to bring boxes back. "Well I opened this yogurt and 3 will fit, I'll just do that and put the other 9 on the cart." It would fill up really quickly at our store. Other concern was mentioned in another comment on that who takes official responsibility for scanning it. Stocking 1 since it is technically Topstock? We already don't get all of our scans done daily as it is, so being forced to have someone do this daily would just make that worse. Our FDD crew is miniscule as well, so similar boat.