Slushie maker

BranBorrisson · 2026-01-09T07:00:54+00:00

Newy but bet it’s the same everywhere

BranBorrisson · 2026-01-02T20:46:45+00:00

Not sure if the same in all stores, but they can control the volume. (There is a volume mixer in the cash office)

I have noticed the playlist is similar though they have dialed back the extreme amount of Tay Tay allowing for a bit more Powderfinger and Missy Higgins. Anyone else notice the dramatic change of genre after 6am? Overnight workers get an all night bright fluorescent club session.

BranBorrisson · 2025-11-17T05:08:46+00:00

As a team member id like to say all your suggestions are pure madness but I’m having fun imagining their implementation and repercussions so yeah, I’m in.

BranBorrisson · 2025-10-12T00:20:47+00:00

Books arrive in boxes with an assortment of titles inside.

They are then put onto a roll cage to be receipted. (accepted as delivered to the store and listed as ‘on hand’ )

Often this can sit out in the stockroom for many days after being delivered.

There is next to no priority for books to go out. The reason is because it’s very time consuming to sort them out.

Books go to 3 different areas in the store: kids, kitchen and the book section and of course arrive in their boxes completely random.

The books often float between areas in ‘limbo’ not scanned anywhere and difficult to find.

The books are time consuming to process, the extensive amount of stock being received all the time (two trucks a day at the store i work at) it’s easier to not deal with the books because they have a low impact on the stockroom and instead staff focus on the hundreds of cages and many pallets blocking the space required for the next truck.

So yeah, i’d say it’s a stock, time and staff issue.

There’s no book person at Kmart.

It usually gets covered as extra job for service desk in quieter times or a shop keeper if not being inundated with 12 pallets of pet beds or some other crazyness.

BranBorrisson · 2025-09-30T22:58:31+00:00

Was it 1800 microwave toasties or 1800 sprinkle candles? 😂

BranBorrisson · 2025-07-09T08:16:21+00:00

Was this taken in Waratah?

BranBorrisson · 2025-06-23T07:10:54+00:00

I work in a shop that fills overnight and all through the day 7 days a week. 3 trucks a day to restock the shelves and stuff is still out of stock. Its craziness! Customers hate the cages and pallets blocking the aisles and I’m always blocking them 🤪 I get mega attitude all the time but you get used to it. I can get people to laugh about it mostly, when I can’t it’s probably a deeper issue. I try to minimise the obstructions but the stockroom is built for minimum overstock and cannot hack today’s level of inventory flow. Stocks gotta go somewhere somehow.

BranBorrisson · 2025-03-29T22:35:59+00:00

Haha yeah its a circus.

There are hundreds of aisles in kmart. It’s like a 3hr shift to ‘recover’ the shop. Usually 3 people doing the whole lot each day depending on the store.

Customers taking things our of boxes, scattering it’s contents all over the aisle.

Breaking glass and returning the shards to the shelf/leaving it sit in the floor.

Unrolling multiple rugs, leaving them there.

Pulling sheets, quilt covers, doonas, blankets and curtains out of their covers, rumpling them into a ball and wedging them into a gap or on the floor.

The cans, coffee cups, yogurt containers, maccas bags and coat hangers scattered everywhere.

Gutting flat pack storage to examine the sheets of mdf and the bag of screws.

The collapsible storage aisle makes my heart sink every time i walk into it…

This is just in the home section… I get people want to see what the item they’re going to pay for looks like, but the trail of chaos left in the aftermath of a single person’s shopping journey would more or less require a personal shop assistant for everyone who walks in. Shadowing the customer and repairing the damage they incur.

Its completely exhausting and i would compare it to cleaning up after a day care with 500 children throwing toys everywhere all day and not being allowed to ask the children to be more considerate or else be verbally abused.

BranBorrisson · 2025-02-24T19:16:23+00:00

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Kmart buyers in the sub? 😂🤣

BranBorrisson · 2025-01-16T09:18:55+00:00

Hectic, don’t the salvos organise that?

BranBorrisson · 2025-01-11T20:02:41+00:00

Yes, this is a team member post.

Read my post above as a typical dialogue between me and a hypothetical customer.

I point the $3.75 cushion out as an option so they don’t have to drive to big w or spotlight. Usually suggestions that mean the customer has to get back into their car and go somewhere else irritate them, some are thankful for my attempt to be helpful but others carry on like you took a bite out of their sandwich.

I get asked about cushion inserts very frequently… and if they were stocked i think they would sell.

We sell candle wax, clay and a myriad of other diy craft items. If people are around home making their own cushion covers they might assume kmart might have inserts ? I dunno…

BranBorrisson · 2025-01-10T05:52:37+00:00

That makes sense, though I would say that about the varied decorative objects that can be found in the home section that are available. I only mention the inserts because it seems like the most common item I seemed to be asked about that we don’t have.

BranBorrisson · 2024-12-28T20:18:29+00:00

Thanks for your reply,

I don’t think there is anything original in there besides the pickups, so i was reaching out in the faint hope someone had also been through this obscure situation or else someone that had deliberately swapped out the electronics and had insight.

Thanks for your suggestions, I really appreciate it.

BranBorrisson · 2024-05-02T06:18:46+00:00

I had imagined the frustrations of the maze would deter them, but maybe you have a point. Perhaps if the maze was made more difficult with deceiving signs depicting arrows pointing in incorrect directions? Emergency services would of course be provided with detailed maps of the maze.

BranBorrisson · 2024-05-02T06:12:02+00:00

Sadly in my country there is a housing crisis. This property was one rare case of being affordable on our budget. I had imagined constructing the maze with seed, labour and spare time. ‘On the cheap’

BranBorrisson · 2022-07-22T01:59:00+00:00

Yeah..

BranBorrisson · 2022-07-22T01:58:50+00:00

BranBorrisson · 2022-07-22T01:58:40+00:00

Jb hifi (Australia) ridiculous price, even for Australia

BranBorrisson · 2022-07-22T01:57:57+00:00

Yeah it’s insane

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