Anybody else heard we are going to automated orders soon? Yes, it's been talked about for awhile but rumor has it that it is actually planned for 6mos from now, eliminating order writer positions.
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I remember using a telxon scanner with a wand and red led to order items in the late 80s/early 90s. Our system had the ability to auto-replenish, but the manager didn't trust it so we ordered everything with the scanner which we had to put up against the phone receiver to send the order. It blows my mind that everything is received electronically/sold electronically and we still manually order everything. It's because our technology team is full of people who were promoted from within. This will all start to change very soon.
COMPUTERIZED SUPERMARKETS -1977
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*meant to say 80s
I worked for a supermarket in the 90s that had automated ordering. All items entering the building were scanned and new items were ordered depending on their case counts. Inventories were done twice a year. Manual adjustments could be made before sending the order. This was over 30 years ago. We WILL get automated ordering.
Automated ordering WILL happen, but the idea that it could happen any time remotely soon is laughable. It’ll be years before it starts, and years after that before they’ll be able to consolidate the buyer positions more, and years after that to eliminate them entirely.
Hope this is true. I'm paid well by wfm but just cannot handle the numerous expectations and bad leadership. Really bad leadership!!!
I'd wait for a severance package. Last time they laid buyers off the package was pretty good. I should have taken it myself. Depending on your service hours it went up. My payout after taxes would have been about $13,500. I guess there's no guarantee they'd do that again though.
This has been a rumor for a bit but I think it's a little further down the line. What OTS is doing right now is step one for "perpetual inventory" which means in theory the store will know what we buy, sell and still have on the shelves based on sales. We won't have to count inventory but once a year. The next step is a computer program that would submit automated orders to buyers for review and adjustment. Knowing how terrible Kronos is at scheduling, the auto orders will probably also be abysmall. It will probably increase labor on buyers if anything. There are robots in stores by me but they aren't ordering they are doing tag audits. Making sure all products are tagged and the tags are correct.
Should I start looking for a new job? I just became a buyer .please no funny comments
It’s coming for sure u id–ts. Getting ur bags packed or get ready to start working nights to cover needs of the business.
Praying this is true. Recently in the SW region a regional clown said this was coming, but didn't provide a time frame.
Don’t tease!
Are we talking layoffs with severance?
The power of one is a lame excuse at being mediocre.
The region is negative and understaffed and they keep hiring Ec’s when raises are not going to be 5%?
what did you expect and what global r—d decided that?
Team members can’t pay the rent raises yearly so under staffing will become the norm along with incidents and accidents.
No overtime in norcal equals team members leaving working 6 days + and Dory and Randy are doing what now?
Not helping stores while store leadership sits on their butts and watch them get older and fatter.
Planograms would have to designed correctly for it to work. We get resets with incorrect shelf measurements. We get resets with discontinued product and product we can't even order. Before auto ordering could happen every store would have to be measured and properly planogramed. Then the teams would actually have to stick to it instead of moving tags around every time they stock.
That was the reason for having to be certified in perfection in shelf stocking. Keeping product lined up within a certain number of inches on the shelf. Automated scanners were tested at Walmart for months. They scan and place the order. You guys didn't need to be certified in anything. It was a lesson in stocking prosition so when the scanners come in they will beable to function accurately. Amazon uses them in the warehouses. Why wouldn't they use them in the stores?