Inventory SCs

[Lala]

We had an outside company come in Saturday night/Sunday morning to do storewide inventory while the store was closed. A week later we’re still finding green stickers and stacks of paperwork scattered throughout the store. I guess technically they’re employees, but I dealt with them as customers.

SC: Customer/employee of Inventory Company
Me: Hi!

SC: (on phone, standing in front of sandwich bar) What do you have to eat?
Me: Hot soups, sandwiches, salads. We also have premade sandwiches and green salads in the front. I can show you if you like.
SC: (huffs at me) Is there a sandwich place around here?
Me: (There is meat, cheese, and veggies in front of me. There is a case next me with premade paninis. There is a display of bread behind me) No.

SC: (looks over darkened hot food case). Do you have any hot foods?
Me: We have hot soup, but that’s all we have right now.
SC: (mutters to self) There’s nothing to eat.
Ok, I understand that for you, it is dinnertime. However, for us, it is only 9:30 in the morning. We have soups, sandwiches, and salads. It is too early in the morning for us to make fried chicken and corndogs. Also, he did not look at me the entire time he was talking to me. He had his side to me and kept looking around the store. Rude.

About half of the workers for this company were Hispanic, and did not speak English very well. So when a group of them came up, I called our cook (who’s from Costa Rica) to help and translate as needed. So I would ask them something, they would not quite understand, Cook would ask in Spanish and then give me the answer. They were polite, they were friendly, they didn’t get angry that we were going a bit slow. I rang them up, gave them their change, and all of them smiled brightly and said “Thank you”. They were the nicest customers I had that day.

[Javarod]

Laughs, "Let me guess, WIS, the combined product of Washington Inventory Service and Western Inventory Service. I used to work for RGIS, then Washington, and the employees over at Washington would fit your description. As to the stickers and paperwork, we could never find them all at the end of inventory, no matter how hard we tried, not that they wanted us spending too much time on that."

[Ghengis51]

Good lord I remember RGIS, I'm pretty sure they were the ones who used to do my Media Play's inventory. Over a decade ago. . . k feeling old now.

[XCashier]

Laughs, "Let me guess, WIS, the combined product of Washington Inventory Service and Western Inventory Service.

:shudders: I worked for them briefly. They were horrible. Never again.

[Javarod]

:shudders: I worked for them briefly. They were horrible. Never again.

NOds, "Washington always seemed low rent, though both companies sucked out here through no fault of their own. WIS impressed me with the new generation of machines they had when i was there, Windows CE based, it was a very flexible machine that was easier to unload data from. RGIS on the other hand always seemed to be a more polished and professional company. Oh, and it was always fun to visit WalMart in the old days where WIS had the account, since their old uniform was blue vests, just like the WalMart ones, sans the big smiley face on the back.

[Lala]

It might have been WIS. The green tags are kind of fun; it's like a scavenger hunt. "Found another one!" Stick on random coworker.

[Keiara]

We had RGIS do our inventory. First time we hired an outside company. For those in washington state I work for the hardware chain that prides itself on customer service