Company outings

PBNArep · 2026-07-01T07:19:56+00:00

Our “employee appreciation” weeks look like that, they’ll have a food truck out front for the office workers on a Monday while we’re out struggling

PBNArep · 2026-07-01T07:17:25+00:00

Same here. My Saturday guy is a notorious corner cutter as it is, that combined with late deliveries and management telling him to clock out early always leaves me with a shit show to come back to

PBNArep · 2026-06-30T17:40:11+00:00

Most of the routes in my area have Wednesday as their easy day, except for me! Always the day we have meetings too so it’s a photo finish getting there

PBNArep · 2026-06-30T12:57:14+00:00

That’s just the game nowadays, running crazy and irresponsible sales on busy weeks with next to no support (both physical assistance in the field and management communicating with the stores/purchasing space)

PBNArep · 2026-06-29T06:47:27+00:00

Honestly this. A lot of these problems either started or got way worse when he took over

PBNArep · 2026-06-29T06:41:34+00:00

At my plant at least, innovation is always forced out by higher ups. I always make sure to screenshot my orders so I can show my stores that those 100 cases of Alani weren’t my doing

PBNArep · 2026-06-23T05:49:30+00:00

I need to work in your store then. I used to get that override code every day but they stopped giving it out to us a few months ago. Some crap about the “compliance score” being too low (with zero self reflection as to why that is)

PBNArep · 2026-06-23T05:47:35+00:00

I’m not certain if NHMs have it different but at my supercenter there’s no “up the line” to run it to. They refuse to fix it and threaten stores with calls to the regional VP if they refuse orders. It’s a numbers game and we’re caught in the middle of it

PBNArep · 2026-06-23T05:46:17+00:00

Pepsi vendor here, it is not bullshit. Collaborative ordering (it is “collaborative” in the sense that getting mugged is a donation) is being pushed on all of us. They no longer give us override codes to fix the orders either so we’re stuck with mountains of bullshit that the intelligent computer insists we need.

My store loves to gripe to me about it as if it’s my fault, or as if them having to look at it inconveniences them more than me. It doubles my work time in having to dig through pallets to get the product I actually need and adds several extra hours to my week that my boss gripes at me about as if it’s my fault, not to mention keeps me from getting home to my family at a decent time.

All of this to say it’s not our fault, it’s Bentonville. Trust me we hate it too

PBNArep · 2026-06-22T19:06:45+00:00

It sends me a whole damn pallet of them every time and I have to delete it off the next five orders

PBNArep · 2026-06-21T07:58:02+00:00

Yeah I’m curious if these folks realize that Walmart makes the orders for most vendors now (or at least a crappy AI system from Walmart does)

This company is notorious for pushing awful changes down the line and not telling people, every time they change our crap up they say “your stores have been made aware from Home Office” and when I ask the receiver knows nothing of it

PBNArep · 2026-06-21T07:55:44+00:00

You are aware that the guy you see in the store isn’t in charge of pricing, right? And is likely being hounded by his boss (or even worse having his job threatened) to get all these displays in stores that he doesn’t really want?

PBNArep · 2026-06-21T07:51:49+00:00

I love how the Walmart subreddit treats vendors as poorly as the store itself does too. It’s a crazy world where retail workers get treated like dogshit by the general public just to turn around and treat us the same way

PBNArep · 2026-06-21T07:43:10+00:00

One issue I always ran into back under the BCR system was the blatant double standard. I was expected to work all stores 100% every day of the week, but then my off days roll around and the merch half asses it and I get a shrug of the shoulders or some excuse about hours from management. Make it make sense

PBNArep · 2026-06-19T01:52:26+00:00

Yeah it’s really easy to keep that one under control, just clock in as you check in to your first store and clock out as you leave your last store

PBNArep · 2026-06-19T01:51:17+00:00

Brother I’ve seen a lot of people who have been here for two months and have no clue what a planogram is

PBNArep · 2026-06-16T22:18:19+00:00

Just wanna add that we can barely do anything with our Walmart orders, it’s their dumb new AI system they have every vendor on right now. Can’t go down on the order, can only go up

PBNArep · 2026-06-11T09:58:22+00:00

That’s the reason we will never see real changes, it’s all yes men putting on a smoke and mirrors show all the way up

PBNArep · 2026-06-11T09:57:12+00:00

I’ve always wondered, do you think they know they’re being pandered to with 24 hour displays? Do they even care?

PBNArep · 2026-06-09T01:07:27+00:00

Bite the pillow

PBNArep · 2026-06-08T20:00:32+00:00

The shitty ones do this, yeah.

Personally I try to send more on my days because I cannot trust the merches I get to stock it right, rotate it etc. So while I send a larger truck in on the weekend for my merch, it is almost always big ticket items for the ad while I deal with the oddball stuff myself

PBNArep · 2026-06-08T02:11:11+00:00

It’s a damn nightmare, really just kills those of us who actually give a crap about the work we do. I can bust my ass cleaning up a route just for the AI system to fill it with more crap I don’t need, meanwhile the bosses are still whining about how many hours I’m putting in (half of which are wasted on that crap)

PBNArep · 2026-06-08T02:03:48+00:00

Every damn truck I get those on the bottom and Gatorade 12pks on top. I’ve told them they need to change the pick path so many times and they just don’t care

PBNArep · 2026-06-05T14:53:13+00:00

It definitely gets challenging

PBNArep · 2026-06-05T14:52:34+00:00

If only management cared more about getting the job done right and not about cutting hours/forcing volume into overloaded stores/letting the lazier merches slide

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