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[tim 3] 30/7/2019 08:45

Yes thats correct but the amount stored in the back is a small fraction of total lines.

Also depending on the store most product in the warehouse are stored in cages or similar and would be much harder and take longer to pick than on the shop floor.

Many stores have now stopped night shifts but you are right they are more efficient and easier to manage but they are also much more costly with premium rates often paid.

[rolo7] 30/7/2019 08:36

Small cube Excess stock goes above top customer shelf on sales floor and big cube stays out back drinks, cereals toilet rolls etc. Yes day staff do little work chatting mobile use but night staff don't!....

[tim 3] 30/7/2019 08:30

Loganair.

The way supermarkets work now is deliveries come in large mixed product cages and pallets and are put straight on the shop floor hardly anything is stored in the warehouse.

Picking in the back is just not practical.

[loganair] 29/7/2019 22:11

So you think it is a good use of supermarket staff, for one to stack the shelf and 5 minutes later for a second member of staff to take that same item off the shelf and put in a green plastic bag for on-line home delivery.

Most the time I see around 10 members of staff walking all around the supermarket packing their green plastic bags for on-line home delivery and my word don't these supermarket staff do this packing ever so very slowly.

It seems to me an unproductive use of so many members of the supermarkets staff.

One medium sized supermarket is spending around £1,000 per day on their on line home-delivery. Supermarkets have at best a 3% margin which means this one medium sized supermarket will need to sell and deliver around £33,000 worth of on-line home deliveries to break even per day.

[konradpuss] 29/7/2019 20:18

I see Coupe is going to open some restaurants in stores. Well according to the Telegraph.

I think he should ring up Phil Clarke and ask him how he got on buying Giraffe and opening some branches in a few Tesco stores!

What did Dave do as soon as he became CEO of Tesco? sell em!

Coupe - you could not write it.

He is the Teresa May of Sainsbury - bring on Boris.

[imperial3] 29/7/2019 16:59

Thanks chiefbrody.

[chiefbrody] 29/7/2019 15:00

Fairly safe.They only just raised it a tad after a few years of cuts. Would look like idiots (even more) if they cut it again so soon.

[imperial3] 29/7/2019 10:01

How safe is the dividend?

[buywell3] 29/7/2019 07:02

SBRY RSI dropping back once more

10 level could IMO get hit once more soon

[muffinhead] 28/7/2019 23:52

For all the grumbling old farts on this BB

[muffinhead] 28/7/2019 23:18

"the manager no longer has the right to tell his staff what to do when they are acting in a private manner - like being on their mobile phone or chatting with each other"


Phone use: If not already policy, then it should be and managers should enforce it


Banter amongst staff can increase productivity and job satisfaction


Just like banter on here helps pass the time and stimulate the grey cells!!

[loganair] 28/7/2019 22:05

The manager said 20 years ago the manager had much more say over the staff, however today unless it is to do with health and safety the manager no longer has the right to tell his staff what to do when they are acting in a private manner - like being on their mobile phone or chatting with each other.

Down 1 isle, there were 4 members of staff stacking shelves, chatting to each other etc...I could have packed the shelves on my own in half the time.

Sadly the productivity of many supermarket staff is very low, very low indeed. huge savings could easily be made in this area if the supermarkets increased the productivity of their shop floor staff.

In my experience Tesco's staff are the worse while Waitrose are the best.



In our local Tesco's, 98% of goods arrive in two lorries at the same time.

[tim 3] 28/7/2019 21:05

I know for a fact that Sainsburys staff are allowed to use mobiles on the shop floor and believe me they do!

[muffinhead] 28/7/2019 20:38

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loganair
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I asked a supermarket manager about staff being on their mobiles and he said that he could not stop them unless they're actually moving a cage around the shop floor as stopping them is against the workers rights.

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We all know this is BS

[muffinhead] 28/7/2019 20:37

fulfilling an online order from the warehouse not a great idea currently...

1. typically poor hygiene environment

2. everything is in boxes... fresh fruit, packed chilled meat, dairy and perishable goods have a short shelf life

3 large pallets of products have several items, tightly wrapped in cling film. Removing single items makes the pallet stacking unstable

4. warehouse deliveries may vary during the day exposing packing staff to moving equipment

5. stock control... items have to be checked out of the store so the items are automatically reordered

all easier to do from the aisles

[loganair] 28/7/2019 19:58

I asked a supermarket manager about staff being on their mobiles and he said that he could not stop them unless they're actually moving a cage around the shop floor as stopping them is against the workers rights.

[buywell3] 28/7/2019 18:06

.......... African Swine Fever (ASF) & the Final Straw Donkey ...............



Some doubted that African Swine Fever had the capacity to cause a Global Slowdown in its own right.


They will IMO soon be proved wrong. And the Global cost will be in excess of $2 Trillion over the next 3 years.


Not only has African Swine Fever entered Bulgaria as I posted last:

It is also in Poland :-


Today it has just been reported as being found in Slovakia


In fact things in the EU are now looking very bleak indeed



There has now also been the first reported case of ASF being detected in the UK



buywell notes:

The world has not yet woken up to the implications and ramifications of this pandemic pig killer.

95% fatal to infected pigs, and no cure exists.

This disease infects ALL provinces in China and IS AFFECTING ITS ECONOMY



The problem is that ASF will soon also be killing pigs in America and the EU by the millions just as it is in China and many Asian countries.

Protein food prices across the Globe are now spiking upwards and will continue to do so causing additional inflationary pressures on economies and countries that are already under strain from other problems.

buywell thinks pigs are the final straw that will break the back of the Global Donkey

[loganair] 28/7/2019 18:04

I am saying to use existing stores to pick/pack, but why not in the stores warehouse at the back.

Groceries arrive into the stores, the supermarkets warehouse at the back, (I do not mean a huge centralised warehouse, I mean the small warehouse that each store has at the back to take deliveries) why does Tesco put on to the shelves instead of when the items initially put into to stores ware house, why not then at the back sort out the items for home delivery.

Instead Tesco employs one person to take the cage and stack item on to shelf, then a second person comes a long and takes from shelf to put in to the little green bags for home delivery.

Why not, before the item is taken out of the stores warehouse at the back, member of staff packs the green bags, also means less walking around for the packer. Then when the cage is taken onto the store floor, less items will need to be put on to shelf, Surely this would save a lot of time - makes sense to me.

[smurfy2001] 28/7/2019 17:43

loganair, Ocado have warehouses with thousands of robots for packing groceries. It's very expensive. I can't imagine as a CEO you'd want to compete with that or can compete with it. If you can't match what Ocado are doing no point building a large picking/packing warehouse.

I can see why it makes sense for Tesco to use the existing stores to pick/pack and concentrate on the delivery network.

[neilyb675] 28/7/2019 16:56

Zzźzzzz Zzźzzzz

Great another 2 minutes of my life wasted.

[loganair] 28/7/2019 14:23

At my local Tesco...one member of staff stacks the shelf, a couple of minutes later a second member of staff takes the same item off the shelf and packs in green bags for on line home deliveries.

My local Teaco is a medium size Tesco and at any one time I see around 10 members of staff going round packing green backs for on-line home delivery.

I have never understood why items for on-line home delivery can not be packed straight from the stores warehouse in the back and is put out on the shelf first.

Often the members of staff doing the packing for the on-line home deliveries are spending half their time chatting to each other and even seen some on their phones chatting rather then packing their little green bags - very low productivity from these members of staff.

[buywell2] 28/7/2019 13:38

Any greens here ?

Did you guys know

1% of ALL the electricity generated in England is used by the BIG Supermarkets for powering their fridges , many of which lie open for the public to gaze upon with longing, and kids to finger with their grubby mitts

I kid you not