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To: freekitty
not too long ago Wal-Mart was supposed to move to a 'just in time' stocking operation where fewer items would be kept in a standard retail store.

Apparently they forgot that if it takes 100 hours to stock a particular type of goods in one session and you chunk that up into 10 pieces, each piece will take 11 hours ~ because every time you need to stock that item you must PREPARE to stock it ~ and that includes having the employee who does that job on the scene, with the truck at the platform, and everybody with a power jack ~ whoops!!! NO POWER JACKS at Wal-Mart ~ so you need to have the BIG GUYS WITH THE MUSCLES on the scene with portable hand jacks all ready to go.

Then there's end of job clean-up.

Not surprising to see that the new system of reduced inventory on hand is leading to shortages. It always does.

33 posted on 03/27/2013 2:31:32 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I agree. I do remember watching the employees restock a while back. They had these hand held thingies which showed them what needed restocking when they held them up to the shelves. At that time; those shelves were restocked almost immediately.


116 posted on 03/27/2013 9:23:21 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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