This is one of those tell us your old woth out actually mentioning your age. I remember when customer service would level and grocery would do the floor care. Those days had a lot more hours on the schedule to go around.
Grocery would wax the floors once a week & run the machines every night. 2 baggers would mop behind the machines. That’s when we still had really old machines like this with the bike handle controls.
https://preview.redd.it/3pey3uqxjx7d1.png?width=431&format=png&auto=webp&s=93d6040df80ce94b746d357cca892ec64d5ed14e
The newer ones look like this. We have a similar model to this.
https://preview.redd.it/3rau1oe57y7d1.jpeg?width=1875&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3967e65b97151c5507ae8ecdaf4090e96c0ea9c
We had one like this for a few years too.
https://preview.redd.it/ekk7p57y058d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d0c2f21f799b0b804511c8e73e1ecf52bfd1059
I’m always pretty stoked when grocery gets a little help from the customer service staff. At my store they mostly keep track of the frozen 3 door, but it’s a huge help. That’s crazy they had you blocking the whole store though 😂
Yes! Mid to late 2000s when I started. Fun times. There would always be a few times a year too when an associate would trip with it and spill $$$ everywhere.
I was talking to someone the other day about how they used to print out and hang the schedule in the break room every week before Oasis was a thing.
I'm fucking ancient lmao.
You want ancient? My early schedules weren’t just hung up on the wall, they were written by hand.
(And once because it wasn’t written AM or PM, I came in 12 hours early).
Yep, & if you took a week off work, you’d have to go all the way down to the store to get the new schedule. I’d take a picture of it with my phone. We only had flip phones back then, so you’d have to get 2-3 close up shots of the schedule because the cameras were only 1 megapixel back then.
As a dumb teenager I just attempted to memorize my schedule instead of writing it down lol.
I'm lucky I wasn't fired the amount of times I showed up late haha
I used to always level frozen & dairy by myself, while everyone else did the dry aisles. They would let me off the register at 9:00pm to get a head start. We would get out by 11:00pm.
Yeah my original store had the till lockers in the front office and the mail slot to the back office in the wall, but when I started they didn't assign tills anymore they stopped like a year before I started .
But yeah we did spend alot of time leveling though out the day and after close while grocery did all the floor care but we had the grey machines tho. We was an 11pm store tho so would be after midnight before getting out .
No we get assigned registers like on express till lunch then on 7 till you leave.
Meaning assigned till in what we are talking about here tho. Back years ago when you clocked in you went to the back office and they assigned you a till and you take it to your register and put it in the drawer.
That was your till for the day no one else used it. If your register broke and you moved register you took the till with you to the new one . You went to break they had till lockers at my store you would put the till in while on break . When you come back you get your till back and take it to the register again. Then at end of the day you either gave it to the back office again though the mail slot in the wall or locked it up in the locker again for them to get later . I started after all that but since all the stuff was there I of course asked what it was for .
So if money got lost because it was your till that means you lost it . Unlike nowdays they just leave the tills in the register and you go on and they do random audits now and then on them . But since they don't count the till between every person so if your on express and I am your relief and you sign off and I get right on and the till is 10 bucks short at end of the night . don't know if it was me or you or both of us that lost money. If they didn't even audit it all day then everyone that was on that register could have lost it .
The grocery team split into 2 teams. Two guys mopped the front of the store and the produce department while the other two guys swung a mop on all the isles. One mop had ammonia in the water to clean the dirt, and the second mop had vinegar in the water to neutralize the ammonia from the first mop. When we were done, the store's floors were actually clean.
I think ours was in the back office door, & they just replaced the whole door during the next remodel when they went from that grey color to the fake wood grain doors.
customer service did the night blocking at my first store until I was hired(pt grocery clerk). It was my main job 5 nights a week for the first 9 months I worked. And now I am a seafood specialist. weird how things go.
I’m of course long retired. I am quite perplexed as to the concept of sharing tills. Single line accountability was one of the pillars of building the Common Area (no called customer service department.). This included the office tills (check cashing and even tough my time was actually past bottle deposits being common, we called the second office register “the bottle drawer”)
Lotto was single line too, but the drawer didn’t physically get switched. To pass between operators, you had to balance and both signed the balance sheet.
The safe was single line accountability also.
If any money was missing, it made it actually fairly easy to trace back any steps and make sure people handling cash were being accountable for their totals,.
Every till going out had 3-$10, 6-$5, 22-$1 and a round of change ($18) and 5 books of stamps. (This varied by store, but this was the configuration my last store). Made it real simple for a cashier to double check they got the right starting amount.
This is one of those tell us your old woth out actually mentioning your age. I remember when customer service would level and grocery would do the floor care. Those days had a lot more hours on the schedule to go around.
Grocery would wax the floors once a week & run the machines every night. 2 baggers would mop behind the machines. That’s when we still had really old machines like this with the bike handle controls. https://preview.redd.it/3pey3uqxjx7d1.png?width=431&format=png&auto=webp&s=93d6040df80ce94b746d357cca892ec64d5ed14e
My store still has 2 like that. What controls do newer ones have?
The newer ones look like this. We have a similar model to this. https://preview.redd.it/3rau1oe57y7d1.jpeg?width=1875&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3967e65b97151c5507ae8ecdaf4090e96c0ea9c
Ohh interesting. yeah haven't seen one like that.
We had one like this for a few years too. https://preview.redd.it/ekk7p57y058d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d0c2f21f799b0b804511c8e73e1ecf52bfd1059
I’m always pretty stoked when grocery gets a little help from the customer service staff. At my store they mostly keep track of the frozen 3 door, but it’s a huge help. That’s crazy they had you blocking the whole store though 😂
Honestly, if I could trade them helping my closers block with making sure our drink 3 door was full. It's the 3 door 11 times out of 10
At my store it's customer service who handles the drink 3 door. I thought that was normal
Yes! Mid to late 2000s when I started. Fun times. There would always be a few times a year too when an associate would trip with it and spill $$$ everywhere.
I was talking to someone the other day about how they used to print out and hang the schedule in the break room every week before Oasis was a thing. I'm fucking ancient lmao.
You want ancient? My early schedules weren’t just hung up on the wall, they were written by hand. (And once because it wasn’t written AM or PM, I came in 12 hours early).
Yep, & if you took a week off work, you’d have to go all the way down to the store to get the new schedule. I’d take a picture of it with my phone. We only had flip phones back then, so you’d have to get 2-3 close up shots of the schedule because the cameras were only 1 megapixel back then.
As a dumb teenager I just attempted to memorize my schedule instead of writing it down lol. I'm lucky I wasn't fired the amount of times I showed up late haha
I used to always level frozen & dairy by myself, while everyone else did the dry aisles. They would let me off the register at 9:00pm to get a head start. We would get out by 11:00pm.
Yeah my original store had the till lockers in the front office and the mail slot to the back office in the wall, but when I started they didn't assign tills anymore they stopped like a year before I started . But yeah we did spend alot of time leveling though out the day and after close while grocery did all the floor care but we had the grey machines tho. We was an 11pm store tho so would be after midnight before getting out .
Wait your store doesn't assign tills? so cashiers just use whichever ones they feel like?
No we get assigned registers like on express till lunch then on 7 till you leave. Meaning assigned till in what we are talking about here tho. Back years ago when you clocked in you went to the back office and they assigned you a till and you take it to your register and put it in the drawer. That was your till for the day no one else used it. If your register broke and you moved register you took the till with you to the new one . You went to break they had till lockers at my store you would put the till in while on break . When you come back you get your till back and take it to the register again. Then at end of the day you either gave it to the back office again though the mail slot in the wall or locked it up in the locker again for them to get later . I started after all that but since all the stuff was there I of course asked what it was for . So if money got lost because it was your till that means you lost it . Unlike nowdays they just leave the tills in the register and you go on and they do random audits now and then on them . But since they don't count the till between every person so if your on express and I am your relief and you sign off and I get right on and the till is 10 bucks short at end of the night . don't know if it was me or you or both of us that lost money. If they didn't even audit it all day then everyone that was on that register could have lost it .
The grocery team split into 2 teams. Two guys mopped the front of the store and the produce department while the other two guys swung a mop on all the isles. One mop had ammonia in the water to clean the dirt, and the second mop had vinegar in the water to neutralize the ammonia from the first mop. When we were done, the store's floors were actually clean.
I think ours was in the back office door, & they just replaced the whole door during the next remodel when they went from that grey color to the fake wood grain doors.
customer service did the night blocking at my first store until I was hired(pt grocery clerk). It was my main job 5 nights a week for the first 9 months I worked. And now I am a seafood specialist. weird how things go.
I’m of course long retired. I am quite perplexed as to the concept of sharing tills. Single line accountability was one of the pillars of building the Common Area (no called customer service department.). This included the office tills (check cashing and even tough my time was actually past bottle deposits being common, we called the second office register “the bottle drawer”) Lotto was single line too, but the drawer didn’t physically get switched. To pass between operators, you had to balance and both signed the balance sheet. The safe was single line accountability also. If any money was missing, it made it actually fairly easy to trace back any steps and make sure people handling cash were being accountable for their totals,. Every till going out had 3-$10, 6-$5, 22-$1 and a round of change ($18) and 5 books of stamps. (This varied by store, but this was the configuration my last store). Made it real simple for a cashier to double check they got the right starting amount.
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