We are no longer allowed to bring skids or pallet jacks onto the sales floor between 9am and 9pm. This does not allow us to bring out skids of case water to stock the floor for our customers. Also, when we stock eggs in the bunker we did bring out the skid which increased productivity and reduce the amount of lifting the associate had to do. However I guess Kroger does not care about either or having a fully stocked bunker of eggs for their customers. I do not understand why Kroger has decided that having stock on the floor is not as important as having no pallet jacks on the floor and that they care so little for the well being of their associates that they expect them to now do double the lifting and get it done in the same amount of time. I guess the Marsh way is now the Kroger way here in Indianapolis.
We are no longer allowed to bring skids or pallet jacks onto the sales floor between 9am and 9pm. This does not allow us to bring out skids of case water to stock the floor for our customers. Also, when we stock eggs in the bunker we did bring out the skid which increased productivity and reduce the amount of lifting the associate had to do. However I guess Kroger does not care about either or having a fully stocked bunker of eggs for their customers. I do not understand why Kroger has decided that having stock on the floor is not as important as having no pallet jacks on the floor and that they care so little for the well being of their associates that they expect them to now do double the lifting and get it done in the same amount of time. I guess the Marsh way is now the Kroger way here in Indianapolis.
I think this has been an "unofficial" policy at my store for years, but in reality we CANNOT pay alot of attention to it. Pallets of bottled water (when water is flying out of the store is huge quantities), pallets of on-sale potatoes, watermelons, onions, pallets of Coke and Pepsi products that MUST be re-stocked or customers will be threatening war, you get the idea? Your manager must be the ditzy type who thinks he/she has to follow every dumb little "rule" even when it is obviously TOTALLY WRONG AND STUPID!!!
Always been a rule that no pallets are allowed on sales floor from 9am to 9 pm.
Of course, frozen department work day hours. They have a special blanket to keep pallets frozen while filling freezers directly from the pallet.
Water often needs to be replenished. Very time consuming to find a uboat, transfer water onto uboat and then stock water.
At the stores with sealed concrete floors, power jacks are never to be used on the sales floor.
We had a bad wax job on our tile floors one year. They used wrong stripper or let it sit too long and tiles came unglued every other step! Took six months to get them all glued back down. I was pulling a pallet of 32 packs of water across the building in front of the service desk and hit a pebble or something small. I had 40 tiles pop out of place like a domino chain reaction. The front end looked awful for about three weeks.
We have this rule at my store but I break it if I need to. For example, low on potatoes/onions and it's easier to just bring the entire pallet out and work off of it instead of double lifting to put on a truck. I think as long as you are careful and quick to get it off the sales floor, you should fly under the radar. Just don't do it while any district staff is there.
I think about everybody breaks that rule at my store. Especially the power jack one as I've often seen one or two of the Produce guys use one from time to time. As for the no skids and pallets on the floor between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. I think they somewhat hold to that during the afternoon and early evening hours. But it's hard as all get out during the morning hours when everyone has stuff to work out. And then when night stock has to fill stuff too and we are still open til 1 a.m.
Heck, I had 3 pallets to work out myself this morning. And although I was doing my best to get through them as quickly as possible. The seafood manager was like "you gonna get finished with those some time today?" Cause they were strategically brought up along side and around her display cases. And I didn't finish with working them out and getting Frozens' stuff back to them, and eventually stacking all 3 and loading up Deli's stuff and taking it to them til about 10ish. So I can only imagine how long it takes for other departments to get their stuff worked out and able to get pallets and what not back to where they belong.
