Management wanted me to take a trial run on the pricing team. I currently work on the front end as a bagger in my store but I asked management if I can do both at the same time for more hours and they said yes. Any experiences on the pricing team? From what I understand the department is relatively easy.
Management wanted me to take a trial run on the pricing team. I currently work on the front end as a bagger in my store but I asked management if I can do both at the same time for more hours and they said yes. Any experiences on the pricing team? From what I understand the department is relatively easy.
Oh no it's not. Pricing is a very demanding job and you often have to work during the day and then be back at night and work through the night and then back again. I would not want to work that schedule. Our former head of pricing actually stepped down from the position when he was told he would have to work through the night several nights a week.
I hope this means you'd be getting paid a clerk's wage.
And like another poster mentioned, being part of the tag team is definitely not for everyone. You could have to work first, second, and third shifts all back to back. It could seriously screw with your sleep schedule (I speak from experience). I still do third shifts once a week, and I always feel awful afterward. If management ever asks me to do more third shifts, I'll either refuse, or request to do a different job. Be sure you're the kind of person that doesn't care what time you work at all before accepting such a position.
depends on how organized your file lead is. ours is chaotic and probably the worst in our district.
finding a good tag puller is hard. it's boring and you go cross-eyed looking for expiration dates. you don't always have enough hours or people for pulling or for hanging.
it takes a minute to get the mapping scheme when starting to hang new tags but it's not bad.
every week we have crazy numbers of missed tags, items not on file and correct prices not downloaded or in store specials not put back in after they get reset during the next ad week.
I'm a high school student and both of my department managers and all GM's are aware of that. With that set aside, they still want me on the team and they said they can make a schedule work for me. They said they felt comfortable doing it because I've worked with technology since I was 12, including building and fixing machines.
I'm a high school student and both of my department managers and all GM's are aware of that. With that set aside, they still want me on the team and they said they can make a schedule work for me. They said they felt comfortable doing it because I've worked with technology since I was 12, including building and fixing machines.
Ah, forgot to mention thay clerks and courtasy clerks in our store both get 7.30.
I'm a high school student and both of my department managers and all GM's are aware of that. With that set aside, they still want me on the team and they said they can make a schedule work for me. They said they felt comfortable doing it because I've worked with technology since I was 12, including building and fixing machines.
Ah, forgot to mention thay clerks and courtasy clerks in our store both get 7.30.
Yeah, but, they're on different pay scales and would do seniority differently, which is why I brought it up. You should cover your bases just to make sure you don't get screwed. Also, what does "make a schedule work for me" really mean? In my experience, that can almost never be trusted.
I'm a high school student and both of my department managers and all GM's are aware of that. With that set aside, they still want me on the team and they said they can make a schedule work for me. They said they felt comfortable doing it because I've worked with technology since I was 12, including building and fixing machines.
Ah, forgot to mention thay clerks and courtasy clerks in our store both get 7.30.
Yeah, but, they're on different pay scales and would do seniority differently, which is why I brought it up. You should cover your bases just to make sure you don't get screwed. Also, what does "make a schedule work for me" really mean? In my experience, that can almost never be trusted.
Our managers actually are good people, contrary to what most say about their managers on this forum. Making a schedule work for me, front end and pricing coordinator will decide what days I will be in what department working around my school schedule and state laws. This is all according to my manager.
I have great managers but there's no way anybody could do pricing on a 4-8 shift in the afternoon. It's a job you do when no customers are in the store
We run one of the largest stores in the division and I have no idea how they expect me to do it either. Our inventory clerk runs around mid day with her scanner no problem I don't see why I'd have any issues.
As a backup scan coordinator I would say the whole aspect of tag team is okay. It centralizes the tag hanging hours to one team per say. Instead of the departments hanging their own, because most department heads don't have pricing as a number one priority.
My schedule is Sunday off Monday 12a-830a Tuesday 6-230
Wednesday 12a-830a
Thursday off
Friday 7-330
Saturday 6-230 or 7-330
My scan coordinator
Su 6-230
Mo 4-12
Tu off (works for division)
We 4-12
Th 6-230
Friday 6-230
Sat off
The job is easy if you have efficient tag hangers. There is 3 of us hanging the whole store. And we get done with minimum overtime each week.
