to be pissed off by great hulking restocking cages blocking supermarket aisles when the shop is really busy

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You want something and there are 3 of those great big cages blocking the way. So you go and shove the cage out of the way and someone scampers over and hauls it back because they want to get past.

It's bloody infuriating. I don't mind if it is in the middle of the night or whatever but surely they shouldn't block the aisles with these things in the day.

Grumble grumble.

Its so farking annoying Yanbu! I especially hate the death stare they give you if you dare to move them too.

I get why they are required though I really do for anyone who feels like jumping down my throat.

I went christmas food shopping at 1am last December. What I thought was a cunning plan turned out to be a bit of a pain as it was really difficult to get anything off the shelf as they were restocking (which was fair enough). DD took advanatge of me hefting the trolleys out the way by putting a load of extra biscuits and sweets in the trolley.

OOh people like me

Look, I am not going up to people who work in shops and grumbling at them.

I am just moaning in an idle way to strangers on the internet.

My daughter works in Asda, I am certainly not someone who is a bastard to people in shops, god knows they work hard.

I have a clash every Monday morning with the Sainsbury's lady who restocks the soup section.

She wants to stock the shelves. I want to see the soup. She has taken to pulling my trolley to one side and shoving her arse towards me as she puts the soup in.

I have given up on soup and am now doing pitta bread and salad for lunch but feel disgruntled, as the bread lady seems a bit annoyed by my being there too.

Edgar it was a genuine question, that was why I was asking. Don't Ocado do their online shopping from a warehouse?

The online shop pickers can't pick from the back up because there isn't enough stock out there ... the stores usually have deliveries every day, and a minimal amount of stock out back. The idea is to usually stock 1.5 X of the average daily turnover of each item (max) This ensures freshness and prevents the warehouse overfilling.

If they had too much stock out the back, then the date rotation would get mucked up and waste would soar. Rotation is another reason the pickers pick from the shop floor, plus being able to keep control of stock levels ... more difficult to get correct stock counts if there are half empty cases in the warehouse.

Blardy hell, can we not have a whinge about anything anymore ?

It's funny, when I worked in various retail shops it was always a priority that the customers were not inconvienienced in any way, and there are ways to place big cages without shutting off the whole of the effing aisle, causing customers to need to move them. Who technically probably shouldn't be doing it, because of H+S ishoos.

And breathe. FFS.

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It is 24 hour opening I think - they can't re-stock and face-up over night"

if you aren't walking in to a fully dressed shop, night shift hasn't done its job.

everything that came in prior to midnight should be out too.

H&S allows there to be cages in aisles, although staff should offer to move them as you do need manual handling training to move a roll cage.

in some older stores there isn't enough space in aisles to have them central though.

If it snows here I'm turning into a snowylittlekitten

I was a bit concerned by the lack of icing. It's 3.5 weeks to Christmas. What will go missing next?

Ocado have a warehouse.

JS, Asda, Tescos just use the stores.

as most are moving to fully automated warehouses, picking individual units for online orders and shipping them from warehouse (which may be 50+ miles away) just doesn't work.

not just that, each type of goods has a different warehouse - frozen will come from a different place to ambient.

When I worked in a supermarket we were only allowed one cage in any aisle at a time. That's seems to have gone out the window now

YANBU I went to Asda yesterday, and they had loads of extra displays down th emiddle of the aisles and on the ends, with all the seasonal stuff on. It made the shop hard to negotiate around, and it was busier than usual.

I don't know if it has anything to do with the design of the older stores. The two (old, horrible) Tescos in this city always have cages everywhere, the new one (nice, clean) doesn't so much.

Yes steppe Asda is like that here, loads of extra stuff down the middle of the aisles and on the ends.

after 8-9pm they do drag out which means taking the full delivery to the aisle.

during the day it should be max two (one goods, one card/crates)

it can be really difficult in small stores to have even one, but those are the breaks.

some stores have to close overnight due to usage restrictions so can't restock then even i desired.

I still contend that 24 hour opening has made shops look more untidy.

NB. I have never complained or grumbled to a member of staff or behaved in anyway which is not courteous to supermarket staff but the cages still get on my tits and the online shopping behemoths wind me up too.

All that happens is that I spend less time in the shop, buy the absolute bare minimum and get out asap. So I suppose they are doing me a favour really.

I was upset by the JS lady restocking in the chilled section though. I waited patiently for her to finish stocking a shelf of something I wanted to buy (pies perhaps - can't remember now), and when she turned away and started opening a new cardboard box I reached past her and said 'excuse me' as I took my item. She gave me a withering stare and said "you'll have to wait until I've finished restocking". The fact that she only had a job restocking because customers come in and buy the stock, seemed to have passed her by.

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whathasthecatdonenow Sat 01-Dec-12 23:13:15

I still contend that 24 hour opening has made shops look more untidy.
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the only difference staffing wise between 24 hr and non 24 hr stores is that one has till staff and a security guard on overnight, the other probably doesn't (though till staff don't always get to go straight home either, they have set-up and shut-down jobs also)

restocking overnight takes place just the same regardless, complete with drag out, and spotting goods to aid speedy replenishment.

maybe i'm feeling a bit grumpy too. just watched what should have been a good Harrison Ford/ Brad Pitt film and it seriously lost its way at the end.

pip JS lady was put of order.

customers get to go first.

The ASDA I use is never faced-up. I don't complain, just grumble to myself when I'm on my knees reaching to the back of the bottom shelf for a box of markies.

YABU if you want stuff in shelves at this time of year needs must
The bigger ones get hourly deliveries in December and are open 24hrs...

That's what I meant re H+S Edgar. Staff should move them, not customers !

Only having a light hearted whinge, I know how hard people work, and how shittly they are treated sometimes.

I can remember Christmas being blardy awful if you work in retail, but common sense and a bit of empathy on both sides costs nothing.

We were never allowed the unitainers on the shop floor when it was open I worked in a supermarket. You had to move the goods onto a little trolley. I don't miss shop work at Christmas, I must say.

Have,just spent 8 hours restocking. We are so busy the shelves would be empty if we didn't. Night staff do full up too. Do always move if a customer can't get to stock and vair polite. But most of us are just trying to do our job.