There was a meeting yesterday with all the deli and bakery department heads in the division. One of the topics was that everybody is ordering too much and we have too much product in our freezers. Today I ran the frozen food bills. They added out 30 cases of 4-count muffins plus 10 cases of 8-inch pies plus some 12-count Hawaiian Rolls even though we're still trying to get rid of the ones they sent us last Thanksgiving. I bet a good third of the stuff that's in our freezer right now is stuff that someone from corporate decided to add out.
Kroger is penny pinching like no other keeping track of scan outs, over ordering, all perishable depts have to do inventory every month its like everyone is on the bottom 20, and it's probably going to get worse.
When I used to work frozen a few years ago, I paged the deli head and asked if she wanted me to put her stuff back in the freezer or leave it out. She asked what order. She didn't order any frozen, Corporate added out 30 plus cases.
Oh yeah this happens all the time, i have gotten a whole wheeler full of spring cupcakes/brownies/etc and then it will say i'm overbought. Well of course when you're sending all these random distros... you get these things faster than you can sell through them. There's no incentive to not be bottom 20 anyway since we have to do inventory every period.
Oh yeah this happens all the time, i have gotten a whole wheeler full of spring cupcakes/brownies/etc and then it will say i'm overbought. Well of course when you're sending all these random distros... you get these things faster than you can sell through them. There's no incentive to not be bottom 20 anyway since we have to do inventory every period.
I was kind of surprised how late we got our spring stuff in. Heck, we got the paper work before we even got much product in to fill any tables for it. Kind of like they were pre-emptively scratching stuff before we even got it.
I'm willing to bet I was at that same meeting, I liked how in practically the same breath they said if you are over baking you're wasting time not only baking it but spending all that time marking it down so you must not be following CAP, and now here's a whole table we want filled with rolls that you can mark down. Not like you have a place to put those markdowns though. What I want to know is do they ever talk to each other? They never seem to know what each other is doing, now I did understand the muffins as that was due to a last minute sale (why they had to add it out over a week ahead of time I'll never understand if long since put them out). What I want to know is who the heck comes up with the spot tables? Why have a huge table full of product that gets so few days, I shrink enough bread that gets crap days now we have the roll display and those stupid pretzel trays that get no days, and you can't just put a few out or management complains it doesn't look full and fresh, so out more goes just to get marked down, I'm just glad we don't actually have to make them we are having a hell of a time trying to keep up with the cookies every time they have a spot table my town loves these cookies.
