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How long does it take you to finish stocking a frozen grocery pallet by yourself? 



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Depends on what's on the pallet. Ice cream is relatively easy. When they mixed frozen veggies and TV dinners in one pallet is what takes me the longest.

Though, a large chunk of my time is digging out the pallet I needed from the freezer. Bakery/Deli always loves to put their junk in front of our junk.

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NutritionWhore wrote:

Depends on what's on the pallet. Ice cream is relatively easy. When they mixed frozen veggies and TV dinners in one pallet is what takes me the longest.

Though, a large chunk of my time is digging out the pallet I needed from the freezer. Bakery/Deli always loves to put their junk in front of our junk.


 Is your freezer so small that you can't put bakery/deli stuff off to one side?  That's what we do.  That way bakery can get to their stuff and frozen dept. can get to theirs.



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Look at your DDP.  Ask a department head how to if you do not know how.

All department run times appear to be different.

My DDP for the other day said 31 hours to run 1574 cases.  This does not include conditioning, helping customers, cleaning up spills, changing the bale or breaks.

so 1574/31= 50 cases an hour.    My general rule for grocery is to run 60 cases an hour not including all the other tasks.  That is what I tell all the new people.  That is my story and I am sticking to it.

I get the 60 cases an hour from when we used to file the TSG which was before the DDP.

 



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NutritionWhore wrote:

Depends on what's on the pallet. Ice cream is relatively easy. When they mixed frozen veggies and TV dinners in one pallet is what takes me the longest.

Though, a large chunk of my time is digging out the pallet I needed from the freezer. Bakery/Deli always loves to put their junk in front of our junk.


 Is your freezer so small that you can't put bakery/deli stuff off to one side?  That's what we do.  That way bakery can get to their stuff and frozen dept. can get to theirs.


 Yeah, it's small. It's 1/3 the size of our dairy cooler, which itself isn't big. It's also rectangular with the only doorway being next to the corner. Mind you, the deli and bakery has their own freezers EACH.

 

We could probably fit only 6 pallets in there once all the other junk (uboats, L carts, etc.) has been taken out. Well, 5, really, since we have one pallet of ice on hand at all times.



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 Yeah, it's small. It's 1/3 the size of our dairy cooler, which itself isn't big. It's also rectangular with the only doorway being next to the corner. Mind you, the deli and bakery has their own freezers EACH.

 


 

I bet if they're like most deli/bakery departments though, they leave their stuff in the main grocery freezer rather than putting it in theirs, especially if the department is run by all woman.  Now if there's a guy in the department, they'll usually have him do it.  I can always tell when the guy in bakery is off because their stuff will sit in the freezer until he gets back.  It's really bad when he goes on vacation because the bakery and deli will keep ordering stuff and nobody will make an effort to retrieve it.

 



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On average probably about an hour and 15 minutes. Big fatty pallets that have issues can take 2 hours, while nicely assembled all in the same general area can be less. The ice cream/veggie combo pallet they do takes the longest because I first separate it, then work each separately. Usually takes me 2 hours if I don't spot anything.

Also about other departments stuff, our stuff gets mixed in theirs every load so you always have to add time for sorting through their pallets to find maybe 20-30 cases of yours stuck at the bottom of theirs. I usually dig those out first, then roll the pallets into the dairy cooler, which is close to the freezer until I'm done with my stuff and roll them back. Working with space allows you to save a lot of time.

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On average probably about an hour and 15 minutes. Big fatty pallets that have issues can take 2 hours, while nicely assembled all in the same general area can be less. The ice cream/veggie combo pallet they do takes the longest because I first separate it, then work each separately. Usually takes me 2 hours if I don't spot anything.

Also about other departments stuff, our stuff gets mixed in theirs every load so you always have to add time for sorting through their pallets to find maybe 20-30 cases of yours stuck at the bottom of theirs. I usually dig those out first, then roll the pallets into the dairy cooler, which is close to the freezer until I'm done with my stuff and roll them back. Working with space allows you to save a lot of time.


 Our distribution center doesn't even try on frozen pallets. Every one of them looks like it was assembled by a disgruntled chipmunk, and the veggie pallets often tip over.



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DeltaGrocery wrote:

On average probably about an hour and 15 minutes. Big fatty pallets that have issues can take 2 hours, while nicely assembled all in the same general area can be less. The ice cream/veggie combo pallet they do takes the longest because I first separate it, then work each separately. Usually takes me 2 hours if I don't spot anything.

Also about other departments stuff, our stuff gets mixed in theirs every load so you always have to add time for sorting through their pallets to find maybe 20-30 cases of yours stuck at the bottom of theirs. I usually dig those out first, then roll the pallets into the dairy cooler, which is close to the freezer until I'm done with my stuff and roll them back. Working with space allows you to save a lot of time.


 Our distribution center doesn't even try on frozen pallets. Every one of them looks like it was assembled by a disgruntled chipmunk, and the veggie pallets often tip over.


 Yep, same here most of the time.   I unloaded Wednesday's truck and half the pallets at least were tipping so far they wouldn't fit in the freezer doorway.   Putting boxes of biscuits & other heavy items on top of a foundation layer of kroger/birdseye veggies.   You know how bad that is if you work in the department.   Crushed product everywhere.



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A little off topic but I keep getting the Kroger Multigrain Sandwiches on my frozen truck. What department does it belong to? Deli or does it go where you all keep your otis muffins and Weight Watchers snacks?

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A little off topic but I keep getting the Kroger Multigrain Sandwiches on my frozen truck. What department does it belong to? Deli or does it go where you all keep your otis muffins and Weight Watchers snacks?


 Get an RF unit and sign in.  Go to SPA and then price audit.  Scan the item.  It will show the department number for the item.



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A little off topic but I keep getting the Kroger Multigrain Sandwiches on my frozen truck. What department does it belong to? Deli or does it go where you all keep your otis muffins and Weight Watchers snacks?


 That's frozen grocery.   Date it to 18 days, should be with the rest of the bread. 



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Average cases to a pallet.. about 180.

Target load time(from palette to U-Boat) 8 minutes.
Target load amount: 50 cases, and stacked no higher than about 5 inches above my own height of 6 ft even.
Target stock time: 30 minutes per float.

If I hit these targets, I can finish a pallet on my own in 1hr and some minutes, taking in account for the last few that doesn't add up to 50.



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Average cases to a pallet.. about 180.

Target load time(from palette to U-Boat) 8 minutes.
Target load amount: 50 cases, and stacked no higher than about 5 inches above my own height of 6 ft even.
Target stock time: 30 minutes per float.

If I hit these targets, I can finish a pallet on my own in 1hr and some minutes, taking in account for the last few that doesn't add up to 50.


 Can u do a 600 case truck by yourself without overtime?



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Average cases to a pallet.. about 180.

Target load time(from palette to U-Boat) 8 minutes.
Target load amount: 50 cases, and stacked no higher than about 5 inches above my own height of 6 ft even.
Target stock time: 30 minutes per float.

If I hit these targets, I can finish a pallet on my own in 1hr and some minutes, taking in account for the last few that doesn't add up to 50.


 Can u do a 600 case truck by yourself without overtime?


 If you can you are going to be killing yourself doing it.   600 cases is something like a 12-13 hour truck.



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