Inventory at the swamp is tomorrow. We started pre-counting the backroom today. This process normally takes three days to complete, but we're trying to do it in two.
I drew the worst section to have to count: School supplies. This is because we have massive quantities of small items that have been carried over two or maybe even three years. Among my findings:
And the best (cough cough) one? Thirty boxes of cheapy paper folders, 75 to 100 per box. These I had to painstakingly count by hand because of the different quantities in each box, plus some different folders found their way into the boxes, either due to customers sticking them in the wrong box or employees doing the same when restocking.
I am so happy I am not working Wednesday, and thus not doing reconciliation.
I drew the worst section to have to count: School supplies. This is because we have massive quantities of small items that have been carried over two or maybe even three years. Among my findings:
- about 400 packs of one kind of mechanical pencils (which many teachers specifically say they don't want their students bringing in, so why are we investing so heavily in them?)
- Many, many trapper keepers (which again teachers don't seem to want their students using)
- about 5,000 notebooks ( at least those were on pallets and pre-counted, so I just had to type the quantities into the scanner)
- about 300 bottles of Elmers School Glue
- several hundred boxes of 24-count Crayola crayons
- about a hundred 10-packs of thin fine-line Crayola markers
- hundreds of erasers
And the best (cough cough) one? Thirty boxes of cheapy paper folders, 75 to 100 per box. These I had to painstakingly count by hand because of the different quantities in each box, plus some different folders found their way into the boxes, either due to customers sticking them in the wrong box or employees doing the same when restocking.
I am so happy I am not working Wednesday, and thus not doing reconciliation.
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