I have a job interview tomorrow morning for a lead position in natural foods. I've been trying to find information on questions that may be asked. Such as "what are the 4 C's of produce and the 4 S's?" Does anyone know where I would be able to find this information? Any other tips or pointers would also be greatly appreciated. I've been helping out (pretty much doing the job) in my current store in natural foods for over a year now and I'm tired of making the current lead "look good."
I forget the other one, but you should have attended the "Fresh and Friendly" meeting where they went over this. In Natural Foods you don't have to cull anyway, culling means to throw out the nasty looking tomatoes that nobody wants to buy and stuff.
i guess that is what culling technically means but you still have to do markdowns and scan out anything that is outdated. Which at my store is usually half a shopping cart b/c I'm the only one in natural foods that checks dates when I'm stocking.
customers.. yes.. basically same as courtesy, i knew it had something to do with kissing customer ass...
well we had some chick from key retailing come and make us cull the actual vegetables. this is not the same thing as markdowns that you use the gun for. we have to markdown salads and mushrooms with the gun and use stickers but the actual bulk produce we either put in the 99 cent bags if it's only slightly damaged but fruits and vegetables that are no good we pitch. the whole thing "if you wouldn't buy it yourself, through it out"
while culling could refer to markdowns throughout the store, in this case of the "4Cs of Produce" it doesn't. It means throwing out bags of clementines with mold, smashed pears, drippy tomatoes, bruised apples, wilted turnip greens, gashed cucumbers, ripped peppers, black bananas, cracked squash, mushy avocadoes, sticky wet grapes, broken stinky potatoes.
