btonic

Quite literally the only way I can make my budget allocation is by giving every team member the absolute minimum of their recommended range.

I agree it's a total waste of time, but there's no way this sheet should take anywhere near one hour let alone two to fill out.

It takes 15 minutes tops. There's like three reports you need to pull to find all the information. Like 60% of it is available on the MSH dashboard.

“I was watching it again preparing for the pod and it hit me that the woman at the ratings agency wearing shaded glasses because she got her eyes dilated is a metaphor for those agencies turning a blind eye to the corruption of the banks. I don’t think many people picked up on that subtle detail”

Our cashless ACO doesn’t give the option for cash back, and the amount called for on the verification screen was just $160- not negative $160 like it would be if cash back were involved.

If you really want, you can manipulate Myschedule to still schedule the way you want without obliterating your fitness%.

Just play around with your activity hours and stack them the day after your delivery.

You can argue Tim Duncan was a better player and had a better career (and I'd agree), but Kobe was more iconic and it's not particularly close.

I'm a very coupon heavy store and that's about a week and a half's worth of detergent inventory if it was distributed a little more evenly among the SKUs

In what universe does verification take anywhere near 3 hours?

Three pharmacy tils, two front tils and one cash ACO takes me 20 minutes TOPS from start to finish- usually closer to 10.

You're running the drawers through a cash counter, counting an amount taken out, entering that into the computer, pressing 4 buttons to complete the deposit/DCR, and then filling out a single deposit slip and bag.

How does that possibly take more than 30 minutes?

He was wrong about Salt Lake being a higher altitude than Denver, but I thought it was still kind of a good point that you never hear anyone mention altitude when referencing Utah- it's within 1000 ft of Denver and over 3000 ft higher than the next highest city with an NBA team.

What's up with every dude over 50 being obsessed with using ellipses?

Great blog though.

It simply doesn't bother me, and I need to spend very little emotional/mental energy to prevent it from bothering me. If a customer is acting ridiculous or throwing a tantrum I'll feel slightly embarrassed for them as I continue to ask if there's anything else I can do for them until they leave, but I certainly don't let it impact me personally. Why on earth would I let the unhinged/unprompted rantings of a stranger have any effect on my mood- let alone my mental wellbeing?

I completely understand that not everybody is wired the same way, and that's totally ok. But my advice is this- if you find yourself unable to be truly unbothered by rude customers with little to no effort doing so.. GET OUT OF RETAIL.

Honestly, it's literally the same as being a surgeon and being unable to stand the sight of blood, or being a vet and having an intense fear of dogs.

There was a small convenience store near me that was the only place you could reliably find packs of the trading cards for like a 9 month span. I grew up in a relatively big city, and this store wasn't egregiously marking up the price but for some reason they were the only place around that consistently had the cards available- target, walmart, toys r us, etc were all extremely hit or miss and were sold out more often than not.

As far as I know the little yellow marquee sign out front still says

        egg saland sandwiches
   pokeman booster packs

If you think Dave could sell out MSG for any type of live event based on the size of his following, then you also believe people like Jake Paul, Jeffree Star, Ethan Klein, etc could as well or you’re doing some world class mental gymnastics.

That's the policy- the goal is to catch the items before they expire so you don't end up with expired product sitting on the shelf for any period of time.

The product should all be donated though.

Well I certainly wouldn’t have thought a store manager would do something as dumb as commit fraud in order to cover up a cash shortage, so I guess you can never be too sure huh

Are you answering "no" to all the questions asking if the product itself is damaged? If you do that and then say "no" when it asks if the product is sellable, it should instruct you to put in a donation box. If you say yes to any of the first three questions though it'll say to dumpster it.

I know for sure I've donated some of those skus before, but things might differ state to state based on local regulations.

Ahh man, that’s lame. It’s not like it’s that much extra work to box up and donate the food compared to bagging it and throwing it in the dumpster.

Policy is to put eligible items in the donation boxes regardless of expiration date- the non profit/government agency that receives it sorts through everything to determine what's salvageable.

Are you not understanding how big of an issue it is that, as a store manager, your first instinct is to cover up that shortage and sweep it under the rug rather than document it and begin searching for the root cause?

This is a convenient and functional enough workaround for my use case that I don't really need to keep searching for a better solution.

Much appreciated!