Alex Shepard week 2 post 3

On Saturday I worked in the produce department in Salem for a five hour shift. I went in around nine in the morning and got to leave around two. When I was driving there it was pretty much down pouring outside so I had to drive very cautiously and it was also during the rush hour traffic which made it even worse. When I was getting close to my exit I had my directional on and this other guy turning onto the highway thought he had the right of way so I was forced to go to the next exit and turn around. It was annoying because it added a few minute onto my trip but luckily I still made it to work on time. When I got to work the produce department had already received two of their loads for the day and I was given the task of organizing each of the pallets into the cooler. It was not a very difficult task since I had gained a decent understanding of where everything was in the cooler, and if I didn’t understand where something was then I asked Richie who I was working with and he helped me put it in the right spot. About half way through my shift the second set of pallets came in and I put them away with only a few problems. The only thing that was bad about that day was how my arms hurt the rest of the day from lifting all of the packages.

Alex Shepard Week 2 Post 2

On Wednesday and Friday I was in the Hamilton Crosby’s Marketplace. During that time I was able to complete more of my big project of scanning all the items in the store to see how the store can improve as well as learn some new things as well. Both of these days I spent a total of nine hours per day working which was a lot but as long as I had something to do the time seemed to go by relatively quickly. On Friday I had to go into work at six o’clock in the morning to see how they opened the store. That morning I learned about how a store opens, different price changes and how to make a grocery order. The way a store opens is quite a complex system; the people that run it have to run through a multitude of different things before they can actually open the store. Price changes happen every week after a sale item has changed to become on sale or came off sale. The other time price changes happen is when items are marked down due to the company’s decision. Doing a grocery order is a complicated process. To do one you have to know a multitude of different information about the product such as how it sells, how much you have in backstock and how much is still on the shelf. I still need to learn a bit more about how grocery works to do one of the orders even though I have been working there for years.

Alex Shepard Week 2 Post 1

On Tuesday I went back to work at the Salem Crosby’s in the produce department. I am starting to get a better and better understanding of what needs to be done there and I am getting pretty good at putting the produce up on the shelf. The two people who helped train me in produce are now allowing me to do it myself while they are there to assist if necessary. This just shows that I have become able enough in their eyes to do produce in a manner that would appease the higher ups of the company. I now feel as though I am able to hold my own in the produce section of a Grocery Store with a little help now and then. The manager of produce has been giving me many helpful tips while I have been learning under him. I have also been monitored by one of the higher ups of Crosby’s that focuses mainly with the produce section, a man named Scott. He is a very nice guy but he is very enthusiastic about his work and will not rest until the produce section is in tip top shape. He looked over me when I was working and made sure I was doing things the right way and if I made any mistakes he made sure to correct me in a kind way. I know feel as though I can confidently be part of a produce crew as well as my original position of Grocery. 

Alex Shepard week 1 post 3

On Saturday I worked in the Hamilton Crosby’s again. This time I was taught how to receive product for the store. Receiving is a very important part of any store because without it you can’t get any product. Learning how to do receiving seemed tough in the beginning since it has a lot of things you have to keep track of at the same time but I got used to it the more I did it. On Saturday I scanned in around five vendors and their product each one I was getting better and more used to doing the receiving. The vendors were very kind and understood that it was my first time doing this so if I made a mistake they did not criticize me and let me learn from my mistakes.  When there wasn’t any vendor coming in I kept myself busy by making sure the dairy chest was full as well as doing some more of my project of scanning in the items in the store. Keeping the dairy chest full was easy since that is what I have been doing for around three years at the Manchester Crosby’s but it still kept me busy. When I worked on the scanning I made it more than halfway through aisle two. While scanning in the Hamilton I have not come across many mistakes except in the general merchandise section but it was told to me that that would be a problematic area because that company uses different tags than that of the store. 

Alex Shepard week 1 post 2

On Wednesday I worked in the Hamilton Crosby’s Marketplace. On this day I was given a project that will most likely take me a few weeks to complete but it is a very important task. I was given the job to scan every item in the store and make sure they are priced correctly and on file. If they are not on file I am supposed to write down the UPC, the product, and what the problem is on a graph. This is a very tedious job since I have to go to every section of the store and scan in every item. I have spent a total of two days working on this and I have scanned in the entire liquor section, all the aisle wings and aisle 1 and I have also started on aisle 2. This is a very important project because there has recently been a law passed that makes it so you don’t have to use price tags on your product but there are some restrictions. A restriction that exists is that you have to have at least a ninety nine percent ring in rate, which means that ninety nine percent of the product that goes through the register rings in correctly, and I am making sure that all the items in the store are correctly on file so crosby’s can get one step closer to not using price tags. This project is going to last me a while since I have only completed 2 out of the eight aisles.

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