Hey everyone, Monday’s comic will be up in the early evening. Dummy me went away for the Easter weekend without loading up Monday’s strip in advance. It’ll be a tad late but still on Monday (that counts right? Yeah didn’t think so either) Sorry for the inconvenience.
Found you through a banner on Wes Molebash’s site, “You’ll Have That.” I’ve read your comic from the start and now I’m hoplessly addicted. (This would be the time for a donut-and-coffee break and hushed discussion, right?)
Keep it coming!
Thanks for clicking though and giving it a full read. Yes take a break and regain your strength…just remember no food on the sales floor.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20090313
‘Nuff said.
Oh come on! I just bought this big-ass bacon cheeseburger and 847oz. soda and am only popping in for a few seconds to check the price on something!
By the way, I can’t find the item. Can you check in the back?
“If it isn’t on the shelf, we are out of stock. Now, if you’d like, I can check with the computer and see if another branch has that same item.”
That line almost always sells them on avoiding a half hour waste of time. The stock room is so messed up with truck unloading, it’s like winning the lottery to find that needle in the boxy haystacks.
Depends on whether your company employs people specifically to keep the stockroom organised or not….. And whether they’re any good at it or not.
This is one of the better posts I have seen.
My company does not. In fact, their backroom tracking is “under construction”, as of a month-plus ago.
In fact, the other week, I went back to the storage bin for my department to retrieve a coffee maker for a customer. The new system requires me to “check out” the binned item.
The system said it wasn’t in there. In fact, for the whole 4 foot by 12 (or more) foot storage rack, it said one item was “officially” on the whole rack system. (Which was nearly filled to capacity.) The goal, by now, is for the whole backroom to be 100% inventory controlled.
Dare I say my little finding would indicate 1% down, 99% to go for that goal?
On a different note, I wish that I had a recording device in the break room, today. There was so much chatter about schemes that dishonest customers use and such, it could have provided four months of material ideas for this strip.
So it’s taken your company more than a month to do what is essentially an audit? Something which can be done overnight? By about five people?
And I thought my company was bad.
I always wondered how the stacks in my walmart were organized, working the sales floor of toys. The over head bins, not the rolly backstock walls. They both seem to have been organized on the concept of ‘THERE’S SPACE THERE! SHUVE IT!’
and now at a grocery store, overnight stocking, I know, yes, it was that way. But we have less backstock, for many reasons… And we don’t have to have people unload the truck in a great line of sweaty men, pulling box after box off the truck. Everything, EVERYTHING. E. V. E. R. Y. T. H. I. N. G. comes on pallets, wrapped up. Not that they’re in order, but I don’t have to take it off the truck, like Walmart or Target.