Did Coke and Pepsi pull their accounts? We haven't had a vendor in weeks. Last time a vendor was in he told me they were having problems with getting payment and this might be his last time in for a while.
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It’s because Eddie treats vendors like garbage. Thinks they owe him something, when in fact it’s the inverse. Vendors aren’t putting up with it anymore and rightfully so. The juice was worth the squeeze for them back when Sears was worth something. Now that it’s gone to hell, there’s no reason to stick around.
McClane would send everything they had then after a few months only thing they would send is lunchables.
I also remembered a similar situation with Dept 33 McClane shipments. If I remember correctly, SHC was trying to change the terms of payment and Mcclane was close to saying, "Goodbye." I wonder if McClane is still doing business with Kmart?
I was receiving manager at a Kmart before I left and started working for Coca-Cola. At that time shipments from Canada Dry,Pepsi,and coke would come at least once a week. When I stopped pass my old store the only vendor left is Pepsi. My boss at Coca-Cola told me back in October that they were cutting back shipments to Sears Holdings. Vendors know Sears can't pay.
DEXing DSD vendor shipments are a nightmare if the unit of measure price is not correct when the product is scanned in. I could tell you all horror stories where the invoice totals were so off because the "each" unit price got some how go mistaken for a "case" unit price. There is no way that you can fix it, because once the shipment is completely scanned in, that's it, and what's printed on the invoice is what the DSD vendors are going to get paid. The errors just keep compounding and invoices don't get paid correctly.
If you buy Pepsi on Kmart.com you dont pay deposit. Great way to use points and the stuff mixes great with granddads cough syrup
Our DEX system never has worked. We got a new manger a year ago and he ranted and raved about having all vendor DEX. So we bought new DEX equipment, had someone come in and rerun the wires, set it up. Well wouldn't you know it the thing didn't work right and was constantly a problem. Someone Pebbled the problem and found out the company no longer supports the DEX system. Lots of wasted time and money
I used to work in the receiving department for Kmart many years ago and I was wondering if they still DEX the receiving shipments for Pepsi and Coke?
There may be a national price agreement, but bottlers who service at the store level are in many cases regionally owned. I could easily see how some of the smaller bottlers would cut off shipments of payments weren't timely.
this would be a national account for coke or Pepsi. Remember it is all the same pot that says them everywhere
There have been a few Pebble post about Coke and Pepsi vendors not stocking the stores (Kmart) so this could be a problem.
Eitherway I don't think these are handled at a national level. I think Cocacola is split over like 20 different distribution vendors, if not more. Groceries and such are typically handled at a very different level vs typical retail vendors.
I believe the OP is talking about the vendor for Kmart, not the machine vendor for the breakroom in the stores.
Normally Pepsi and Coke pay the retail to put machines there not the other way around.