I am soon to start in a Order Selector position for Kroger. Is there any few tips or helpful information someone can give me regarding this jobs. I want to be more than well prepared for this job. Thx.
That is an odd question. No that posts here actually works at the warehouse that I know of. Welcome anyhow.
It will be interesting to hear of your experiences in the warehouse. Most people here only see the results of what the warehouse sends to the stores.
Are you are working in the warehouse?
I worked in a warehouse 20 years ago. Get lots of rest. Be ready to work your butt off. Pay attention if someone trains you on stacking products or get really good at wrapping them.
Basically, you drive a pallet machine around and stack product on pallets.
What area will you be working in? Dry Grocery, Frozen, meat, dairy?
I see no one is willing to give you some real advice, so i'll do it myself.
[1] Use common sense. If something is bulky and heavy don't stack it on light weight items.
[2] Work quickly, but safely. The first 3 months i've heard you must be near 100% effective or they'll let you go in your probation period.
[3] Wrap a pallet a few times until you feel its secured.
[4] Use proper lifting techniques. DO NOT kill your back.
[5] Don't be sloppy like these other order selectors. Take pride in your work. If its not a pallet you would want ship then fix it.
[6] Keep hydrated and don't stand around. There is always work to be done.
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I see no one is willing to give you some real advice, so i'll do it myself.
[1] Use common sense. If something is bulky and heavy don't stack it on light weight items. [2] Work quickly, but safely. The first 3 months i've heard you must be near 100% effective or they'll let you go in your probation period. [3] Wrap a pallet a few times until you feel its secured. [4] Use proper lifting techniques. DO NOT kill your back. [5] Don't be sloppy like these other order selectors. Take pride in your work. If its not a pallet you would want ship then fix it. [6] Keep hydrated and don't stand around. There is always work to be done.
I agree with everything you stated especially #4. The warehouse will throw the person under the bus and find someone else to break.
I was the first anon and was a little helpful. I am an old school warehouse worker(20 years ago for 3 years) and out of touch with the way they do things now. We would pull product using stickers. Now, they might use scanners to find the slots/products in the warehouse.
I know then, every half second was accounted for. There is not time to restack a pallet. Either you built a solid foundation, it falls over before you finish the run(and you have no choice but to restack) or you send a ****ty tightly wrapped pallet out the door. You quickly learn which boxes have a high crush limit. Tieing the products together is the most important part of stacking. Weight, not so much. I would clock in and be given so much time to make the runs and aim for accuracy. For example, the 01 pallets(2 x 7 feet high) with 12 pks pop, canned veggies, pasta sauce and baking would be a 40 minute run. 2 pallets of paper would be a 15 minute run with 3 minutes to get one way to that area of the warehouse. Sucks when you get a worn out pos machine.
There is no control of the order of products to get the bulky heavy products on the bottom. I think 69 is off a conveyor system and there is some control but not much. 01 is probably a 2+ mile run thru the 20 acre warehouse with a double pallet hauling machine. You might have space at the beginning to hold odd stuff aside, but eventually, you have to throw it in the pallet somewhere. The order selector builds 2 pallets at a time, wraps them and then sets them in a staging area for loading. The "old timers" on the forklifts stacks pallets and loads trucks. They don't give a **** about anyone or anything. I swear the last three trucks I have unloaded were rigged to be a pain in the butt to unload. One game they like to play is sticking the Mac & Cheese cups inside the pallets where the forks go to unstack it. Last time, I had noodles all over out back room for a week. This time, I stopped in time and did minimal damage.
That is an odd question. No that posts here actually works at the warehouse that I know of. Welcome anyhow.
It will be interesting to hear of your experiences in the warehouse. Most people here only see the results of what the warehouse sends to the stores.
Are you are working in the warehouse?
I worked in a warehouse 20 years ago. Get lots of rest. Be ready to work your butt off. Pay attention if someone trains you on stacking products or get really good at wrapping them.
Basically, you drive a pallet machine around and stack product on pallets.
What area will you be working in? Dry Grocery, Frozen, meat, dairy?
