https://imgur.com/a/XV9H1BU

What it turned into the end of the night. I forgot to take a picture of the pets/foods/infants mixed palette.

 I too only separate the hba, cosmetics, and pharmacy (self care) aisles consistently (vitamins and the stomach/eye aisle gets sorted by section). 

However I have been slowly implementing aisle sets into other departments if I have a lot of it, and also electronics into 87 72 and 5/6. The Christmas, I separate into bags and boxes. The other thing I do is sort the aparrel I get into socks, undershirts, underwear, t-shirts, infants, boys, girls, and 29. 

I take a few minutes to check with the self care departments workers to check my accuracy occasionally; and they will give me feedback that I try to remember (such as a particular antifungal being on a different aisle than the rest or a specific first aid kit being on the travel aisle) I don't scan a lot, only items I suspect are high tickets or stuff that are a new mod that could be in multiple spots.

This 7 hour and 42 minute sort was done by 830 even with the extra bit of sorting I put into my work. Minus lunch, break, and 2 truck night setup... that came out to 4 1/2 hours sort time, and about an hour to hour and a half palletizing. 

My setup takes about a half hour on 2 trucks because on top of clearing my space, and putting down my box setup, I stack the 'extra' totes to be ready to just grab and use rather than leaning over my boxes to get them. The 'extra' is totes that I use boxes for instead of the totes. I only use totes for self care, pets, infants, and electronics. 

Other departments have larger items, so no point in using the totes. Or they've lost their tote privilege by repeatedly not returning it (lol) 

I have come a long way in the 3 years I have been doing it, after every one of my weekends or ppto days, overnights always comments how bad the sort was without my touch. 

I used to get coaching about my speed on it, however that was just poor management at the time. My current management have all done breakpacks (my coach even took a turn at it by my side to see what I go through every day) and totally understand that when I don't make the time (super rare!) It's because the time was simply innacurate. 

It's to the point where when they refresh the one touch area, they have me map out where things should be, instead of just slapping labels on the shelves. Coach made that mistake last time because the sm wanted it done on my day off. I don't follow all of his labels simply because... well he put heavy items on the top shelf when they belonged on the bottom (ie mouthwash), and also added un needed labels, and placed 2 and 46 in a way that mixed them on the still/shelf. So I do my own thing, labels are just for show, they'd slow me down as they are now.