After more than a year of being told that we don't have the space in this store, we finally have a rack for returns baskets. It's a 6-foot slide-together metal shelf unit that has definitely seen better days (one of the retainer rings for the bottom shelf is missing so that shelf is wonky; J wants to get that fixed posthaste as we suspect the whole thing will collapse if hit hard enough with something like a cart or pallet jack). But it exists and fits neatly behind the formula case up front; it's shallow enough that the pallet jack can still get close to the bakeshop freezer. Ironically, the plastic pallets and crap that was there before took up more space, and adding the rack is forcing the rest of that space to be organized as the baskets take up the entire thing (only shelf free is the very top, and only I'm tall enough to reach up there). I spent 3 hours yesterday labeling the baskets and showing people how it works. No more baskets under the registers; returns are to be put in the rack by whoever's free, and then when someone has any downtime they take a basket from the rack and put everything away.
In theory. Someone did put "Produce" on one of the labels, so I suspect we'll be finding produce/perishables in that basket for days to come until it gets reprinted or I'm allowed to start beating people with a leek. No frozen stuff made it back there yet, so I have hopes for that.
In theory. Someone did put "Produce" on one of the labels, so I suspect we'll be finding produce/perishables in that basket for days to come until it gets reprinted or I'm allowed to start beating people with a leek. No frozen stuff made it back there yet, so I have hopes for that.
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