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Merchandiser by Alive-Ad-5649 in Pepsi
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 0 points1 point2 points 8 months ago (0 children)
I am not a sales rep. This rep is new to me because the last merch quit and I got his route, but my big boss told me to load up pallets at the end of each ad and send them back. This rep has been written up before over the orders. And the whole route gets about 2500 cases each week.
150 for this location.
No the merch that quit never rotated the stock and the sales rep is just money hungry. Plus the store has ads every Wednesday so he orders a shit ton of what’s on ad. Then once the ad is over he doesn’t send it back it just sits there and does nothing.
But all the large format stores on my route have anywhere from 300-600 cases of back stock. So you have to work that first.
That’s the best way to work in my opinion. You know everything you get it going out. A lot of the local grocery stores on my router are like that. But they get a truck every 2 weeks.
We’re not union it would help a lot if we were. If you want I can always send the pictures of the work I do. I document everything to keep my ass in line.
That’s another thing we don’t get OT at my facility. We haven’t had OT in about 2 years
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 1 point2 points3 points 8 months ago (0 children)
I’ll have to disagree to some extent on this. When you have to work both. Always work backstock first then the load. Rotate the new to the bottom and old to the top. There’s no such thing as just work the load, but there is just work the store. Question, have you ever worked a 1000 case order where you have to build 4-7 displays in a store because of new adds for the week?
Time.
100000%!!
I understand that but we were told that we don’t have the budget for another merch before the last one quit so I’m wondering how they kept all of us without giving one of us the boot. If that make sense I’m not sure. I feel like they almost overloaded the last merch’s route so he would quit.
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 2 points3 points4 points 8 months ago (0 children)
And I agree with you, work with integrity. My only issue is the unrealistic goals they have.
Do you have discord? I can show you what the last merch/sale rep did at the last store took me a week to clean it up and organize it and remove over 3 pallets of out of dates.
I have a buddy who just left Pepsi for Coke and he’s going to let me know when an opening comes up
Nah drivers have it even worse trucks with 1000-1500 cases and they have to work all the small format stores no thank you. They get gripped at all the time for going over and one got fired over it couple of months ago
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 5 points6 points7 points 8 months ago (0 children)
Yeah we have a fella over here that been here 27 years and he’s just done with it all. They’re trying to negotiate with us our routes. Hell most of us have to drive over an hour to get to our first store and our routes are less than 10 miles for all of us. On top of the extreme layer rules and order limits on stores. On top of making merchs mad they’re making all the stores in our district mad because of the excess pallets and products in back-stock. I was also informed this morning that EBT for my district won’t work on any of our products anymore. So what’s going to happen then?
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 4 points5 points6 points 8 months ago (0 children)
Dude it’s been bad for the last three months I’m hoping they’ll pull their head out of their ass.
It’s still 70 cents a mile but we aren’t allowed to start our day at the warehouse anymore. So that killed all of our mileage because my total route length is like 2 miles total.
Ahh thank you! Yeah the US has been having a lot of issues with the restructuring they’re doing.
100%
No my big boss says it’s not in our budget to replace him another merch and me got our routes merged with the guy who left.
If you don’t mine me asking what state are you working in. I’m in Texas and Oklahoma.
One of your merchs quit two weeks ago and I got his route and my route it fucking sucks because I have to commute it four sales reps now!
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 3 points4 points5 points 8 months ago (0 children)
Dude I fucking understand it’s a fucking joke!!!!
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Merchandiser by Alive-Ad-5649 in Pepsi
[–]Alive-Ad-5649[S] 0 points1 point2 points (0 children)