So the past couple of nights we've been rearranging the entire grocery department, because with this dumb-ass walk-in clinic being installed in my store soon, we have to move all kinds of merchandise to open up the areas the contractors will need to work in.
Basically, everything gets moved over an aisle, or to the opposite side of an aisle.
As we've been doing this, we've been checking the expiration dates on all the products. This is supposed to be the HBA/Grocery specialist's job, but since she is generally a lazy slug this does not get done. And, to be fair, we third-shifters are partially to blame, because we generally don't rotate product when filling, but that may be because we don't have a big crew and need to work fast and don't take the time to rotate product.
Over the past two nights, we've filled up 5 shopping carts with product that is past its expiration date. Tonight I found two bags of peanuts that expired in November--of last year. That's going to be a few hundred dollars of shrink against our store.
I've hereby decided to be very cautious when buying any foodstuffs from my store.
Basically, everything gets moved over an aisle, or to the opposite side of an aisle.
As we've been doing this, we've been checking the expiration dates on all the products. This is supposed to be the HBA/Grocery specialist's job, but since she is generally a lazy slug this does not get done. And, to be fair, we third-shifters are partially to blame, because we generally don't rotate product when filling, but that may be because we don't have a big crew and need to work fast and don't take the time to rotate product.
Over the past two nights, we've filled up 5 shopping carts with product that is past its expiration date. Tonight I found two bags of peanuts that expired in November--of last year. That's going to be a few hundred dollars of shrink against our store.
I've hereby decided to be very cautious when buying any foodstuffs from my store.
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