Inventory has to be the worst part of the job! The way we go about our system of counting inventory needs to be changed to avoid burning out team members more than they already are. My store doesn't even start counting until 9 or 10pm and there are so few tm's scheduled to count, it's insane. Someone has to be scheduled to work the floor though during the day, so there isn't much other option. Why does the company not hire an outside party to help? After counting into the wee hours of the morning, we're then expected to crunch numbers and find missing dollars....how is this productive? I personally am useless the next day because I feel so awful from being up all night! Furthermore, we're so short staffed that some tm's have to come back and work later in the day! Is corporate aware of this horrible process....please corporate, make a change for the better with how we count inventory!
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Way to burn out you TM's!!
Now we have to do it every month. Why because they have it so screwed up. To they really think TM!'s really care at 1am. Then to have to come back in the next day and give Great customer service!! Seriously.
DAMN KISSEL!
I'll never understand why they pay me $30 per hour (overtime) to count cans of tuna. Makes no sense!
Well, at least everybody at every store working inventory gets FREE PIZZA!!!
Down here in Florida we used this company called rgis to count for us up until a few years ago. I personally will not vouch for them. They left the store a mess and there was always, ALWAYS at least one counter who would cut corners and screw up counts, causing entire sections to be audited and recounted across the store. I prefer doing my own inventory because I know I do it right. Then again, can't speak for many of my fellows.
We used to hire some quick fingered outside guys to do inventory but we got cheap...
@LljuNEd-aiu You are wrong, wrong, wrong. Major grocery chains use third party specialists in conjunction with employees for back of house. Their work is audited and from a best practices standpoint, for you to assert that WFM's way is superior is ludicrous. Our exhauted TMs are NOT more accurate nor are they faster than teams of outside specialists Go tell that to the top accounting firms and you will be laughed out of the boardroom. Our systems when I worked there were an accounting wasteland consisting of seemingly incompatible computer data files with separate cost files and counts. That is NOT normal! And in 2013, South regional leadership (so-called, LOL) so bollixed up the whole initial count in January that EVERY store in the region had to do a full store count (not just perishables) every month for the next 10 months straight. Worse yet, many perishables teams had to do additional mid-counts because the results looked as organised as a bloody Jackson Pollock abstract expressionist canvas. This entire haunted house of a company screams "accounting irregularities" and needs to be investigated. They're running out of places to hide the bodies.
Hahahahaaa...... I used to estimate the count and keep it moving----whatever !!!! Their inventory is the worst I've ever done !!!
Try working inventory until wee hours then doing payroll too. That's always fun especially when you have no brain cells left to think.
WFM doesn't care about their team members!!!!
Just Guess who gives a ----.
The problem is the fixtures. Have fixtures changed in the last 30 years? How much more would it cost for a shelf that slides out and has locking tabs underneath? Probably a lot, but we're Whole Foods! At least we used to be.
The customer is who suffers, having it on a Sunday night is the most accurate way to do it but Sunday is the busiest day and your best grocery help is off during the day and come into a sh-- hole looking sales floor, product in back that could of been worked out.The overnight has to count so the grocery load doesn't get finished and just sits in the back all day Monday because all your help worked Sunday night, the shelves are empty and messy looking since no one is there to front them, so finally Monday night we finally finish load and front store but the the Monday night order is light because your sitting on Sunday night when the order is made so about Wednesday the store should be back into shape, so the customer loses here, but who really cares? right?
The company is a complete joke and if you're still working there and complaining about it.. go die..
Jokes!!
Lots to most companies do inventory. Most stores have moved to quarterly vs. ever period. It needs to be done do the highly perishable nature of groceries. We don't hire a 3rd party because let's be honest they are awful and count inaccurately anyway. You stay up to the "wee hours" to ensure your number are accurate and to find any anomalies. Really all you're doing is complaining because you don't understand something. There are bigger fish to fry in terms of productivity and efficiency, this isn't one of them.