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For the last couple of years, Walmart is reducing the number of products that they are carrying. Their strategy is to carry their store brand and a more limited number of brand name products. Personally, I like this idea as it reduces the useless proliferation of "off shoot" products. How many varieties of Oreos do you really need in a store.
Reducing the number of products helps to reduce overhead which will reduce costs.
I've noticed they have a lot of things missing off their shelves lately and it's getting on my last nerve. I know they are remarketing thier "products" but how about stocking some rolaids and my fiber pills weren't in either.
I've noticed they have a lot of things missing off their shelves lately and it's getting on my last nerve. I know they are remarketing thier "products" but how about stocking some rolaids and my fiber pills weren't in either.
I know what your saying, I was going to have my g/f pick up some cream of chicken soup today and she said they were all out, made me thing of this thread.
Which part of what I wrote threw you into a tizzy?
Did I say the "FLOOR"?
I don't think so.
"Did you find everything you were looking for"?
you have NEVEA, EVA heard that
We have a local Walmart manager, who couldn't find her arse with both hands.
4 cup Mr. Coffee filters are a SPECIAL ITEM......limited to stock on hand. If people want 4 cup coffee filters, you must drive 70 miles one way to our other location....
I spend about $300.00 a month on foods and must haves (toilet paper, etc.)
how much of that do you think Walmart gets from me?
oh yeah, good point another poster made about sam's, same thing, they have an item for a whole year, then the next thing you know, it's not there anymore, what happened???!!! they do not know. oh, it was a special item. Sam's bought 10 truckloads, and when they're gone, they're gone forever. Better buy it now while you still can.
Sam Walton would be rolling in his grave if he knew how his family were running the joint.
For the last couple of years, Walmart is reducing the number of products that they are carrying. Their strategy is to carry their store brand and a more limited number of brand name products. Personally, I like this idea as it reduces the useless proliferation of "off shoot" products. How many varieties of Oreos do you really need in a store.
Reducing the number of products helps to reduce overhead which will reduce costs.
One. Great value cookies taste like cardboard with alot of sugar.
If they want to reduce overhead, tell the truck drivers to quit idling the engines at truck stops and at the docks.
Walmart "generally" uses 3 different types of labels: GM (general merchandise, these are the yellow and white labels), Clearance (same as General merchandise but red and white), and Grocery labels (white and yellow with an orange square on the upper left).
There are also 3 main types of merchandise although there are a few exceptions (these are on the labels as well):
AD~ Assembly item. Sometimes these items take up to 3 weeks to come in but usually between 1-2 weeks after ordering.
WHSE~ Warehouse item. These items will arrive in 3 Days after ordering unless the warehouse is out.
GO~ These items are for the most part NOT ordered at store level and are the "one shot deals". Sometimes these are merely a bonus package, I.E. 12 extra loads of detergent, 1 bonus razor, etc. Sometimes they are seasonal, I.E. Christmas, Easter, Summer, etc.
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As I stated above, if the PI (perpetual Inventory) of an item is Overstated (I.E. upon scanning the system shows you have 52 but in fact you have 7), the system will NOT order it because it thinks you already have plenty. It is usually the Dept. Managers duty to correct the PI if it indeed is deemed wrong. This, and warehouse outs are the main reasons items are out on the shelf.
If you are ever in a store and an item you want is out here is one thing you can do: find an associate with a Gemini or Telexon (handheld scanners) and ask them to scan a label under the Keep it Stocked screen. If BR show up it means they DO have it in the backroom... simply press alt and then F7 to find the location in the backroom. This only works if the merchandise is properly binned in the backroom and is not still sitting on a pallet or a cart.
I hope I answered your question but if not just let me know.
Walmart employee for 10 years? Management?
You ARE the answer person. Tell us all why Walmart s*cks.
They have strawberries this week for $1.50. They are huge berries....nice ones.
They had them at my store too, and they were very nice indeed.
Walmart is good or bad depending on where you live. My daughter lives in Philly, and took her friend out to a suburban Walmart. Her friend had only been to ones in the city. Well, my daughter's girlfriend went crazy over the place. She loved it, said it made her want to move out to the suburbs just so she could shop there. My daughter has assured me that the Walmarts in town are terrible. She misses the ones we have up our way.
I think if the WM "superstores" keep cutting back on their food product selection they will save some money at first, but they will lose all the ground they originally gained from area supermarkets. It's getting so you can't even complete a shopping list.
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and my fiber pills weren't in either.
Out of stock. What stock?
