I found a new way to cut down on out of stocks. I work picklist and sometimes I'll get an order that's entirely sub-free. No subs whatsoever. Well, to bypass that and keep our oos low what I do is this:
1. A customer wants 24oz Prego Meat flavored spaghetti sauce. For $4.99 we are out but we have the 48oz one, same name, same flavor for $6.99. What I do is write down the ply code from the original, then manually type it into thr zebra and hit scan. It scans at the $4.99 price. So they get the bigger one for the cheaper price and that way it keeps our oos low.
It keeps the customers happy and our picklist leaders happy when they come by to see how we are doing. They do not know I am doing this so I see no harm in it.
Yeah. What your doing is causing shrink and messing up inventory. What you think is a good idea, isn't actually. It makes the higher ups think we are ok on oos. And if there is a contest on which store has the lowest oos, then it is cheating. Plus not everyone does what you do. It confuses the customer in the long run, and they'll think "why didn't I get the larger one for the same price as the little one again? It happened last time..."
Do it correctly so that the CORRECT info is sent back to Picklist or wherever they monitor the metrics at. Quit falsifying information.
I found a new way to cut down on out of stocks. I work picklist and sometimes I'll get an order that's entirely sub-free. No subs whatsoever. Well, to bypass that and keep our oos low what I do is this:
1. A customer wants 24oz Prego Meat flavored spaghetti sauce. For $4.99 we are out but we have the 48oz one, same name, same flavor for $6.99. What I do is write down the ply code from the original, then manually type it into thr zebra and hit scan. It scans at the $4.99 price. So they get the bigger one for the cheaper price and that way it keeps our oos low.
It keeps the customers happy and our picklist leaders happy when they come by to see how we are doing. They do not know I am doing this so I see no harm in it.
The standard size Prego jar was originally 32 ounces. Then they cut it down to 30. Then they cut it down to 28. Then they cut it down to 26. Now it's 24. In five years it'll probably be a 20 ounce jar. Small jars will be 12 ounces.
