Bad to Worse

Okay.
So.
Apparently....things are much worse at my sister's store than my managers expected them to be.

Like. It was known our sister store was behind on their planner/resets/pogs. That they were a bit behind on truck. But like...the general thought was that it was only a couple months behind.

Nope.

It's been much longer than that.

Apparently our sister store hasn't touched any of the planned resets, planners, pogs, displays since BEFORE the pandemic started.

Like. That's a good EIGHT MONTHS where none of the planned stocking resets had been done.

Which just like...boggles my mind.
How can you get EIGHT months behind on that?
Like....my store is twice the size of theirs.
We only had like 9 people with a skeleton crew.

And we still managed to stay on top of all the stuff that corporate wanted us to do stocking wise. *shakes head* 

Idk...like I knew our sister store was struggling before the pandemic. 
But struggling like that? *shakes head*

Like, from how it was described.
The sister store's receiving area --which is rather small, like maybe a half to a third of the size of the receiving area in my store.
Has about 6 trucks worth of product that needs to go out onto the floor.

SIX TRUCKS.

Like. I think the 'smallest' truck shipment we get in is like...eight pallets? 
Most of the time it's a higher number than that.
And I'm just like O_o.
That they have sooo much product in the back that needs to come out.

But you know why it hasn't come out onto the floor?
Because a lot of that product is new stuff. 
Stuff that doesn't already have a spot on the shelves.
Not when the shelves haven't been reset to make room for the new product. 

Like...can you imagine how much product might be wasted? Just because it wasn't put out on the shelf in a timely manner?
Can you imagine all the HOLIDAY items that were never sold that are now on clearance because it's past their season?

Like.
No wonder corporate is pissed enough to approve giving people overtime to fix things. To get the store stocked and back up to standards.

(Though really, it shouldn't be surprising that you put people on a skeleton crew for months at a time that some things just fall through the cracks) 

It's just...crazy.
So crazy.

It's been described like playing a game of jenga.
Where you have to be careful which piece you move in the puzzle. 
Because like you have to reset the section but in order to reset the section you have to like...find the product and have all the proper shelving and hooks and such and who knows where that is among all the piles of boxes.

I just feel for my sister store.
Like. How hard must it have been to be working there during that time.

Like. One manager described the receiving area like unto walking into a hoarders home.

That's bad.
So bad. 

*shakes head*
I hope we can help our sister store get back to a better set up.
Because gah. I can't imagine it. 

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi