Grocery folks... surviving Thanksgiving hell?

[mattm04]

The Monday before Thanksgiving, the most amazing thing happened, the DM visited at did actual work. Said DM actually fronted shelves.

On Wed. we had most of the registers open until 8:30 ish from noon on. The nice thing, is their is less thinking required on how much product to put out of certain items. Just grab a case and put it out. It will sell.

[Teysa]

You realize now that the end of the world is near. When district management types start doing actual work, you just know there's going to be trouble.

[draggar]

I used to hate working this time of year in the grocerey store but I LOVED the OT. The stores I worked at always lifted any OT restrictions. You had to work your shift and any OT was OK. The SCs, EWs, impatient customers, jammed aisles (where you can barely get a pallet down), kids and adults running all over.

We even had an overnight crew (Dec 23 night) just to do party platters for people who ordered them on Dec 24th. We'd normaly make 150+ platters.

I don't miss it - even now it'll be hard to find me in a grocerey store during "busy" times (heh, like I'm there then any time?). There is no way in hell you'll catch me in a grocerey store on Christmas eve unless it is 5:30AM (and even then my old store was BUSY).

[bean]

By 11 a.m. (and we open at 7) we'd already had $10,000 in sales

We wound up with about $285,000 in sales that day.