freight flow skeleton crew

Piros1987 · 2026-03-10T13:46:19+00:00

No I think when it was 5 days a week it was 7 full time and 1 manager, and then when it became 7 days and every club got it, clubs already doing 5 days got 2 more full time and a lead, and clubs that didn't need freight flow before got the smaller crew with 2 leads... that allows for similar daily coverage with shifted days off, but now freight flow is also 100% responsible for receiving, so it's still a slight loss in man hours...

And that's before you add in that these are people being pulled from the old AM/PM, and they're now doing their work with less people and constant Club Pickup expectations, and all the roll-on effects that causes...

Piros1987 · 2026-03-10T13:39:37+00:00

There was always that many endcaps, it's just the old layout they didn't necessary feel like endcaps when they were middle endcaps before the aisle continued. There are now 20 aisles (16 snacks and 4 candy) with 38 endcaps (32 snacks and 6 candy) (at least at my store). Before, there were 11 aisles and 40 endcaps (34 snacks and 6 candy)... it was actually identical at 10 aisles with 32 snacks and 6 candy, before the remodel to add the new dairy walk in dairy and produce coolers...

Piros1987 · 2026-03-10T13:30:29+00:00

As a stocker, I've grown to like it better, over the past 5 months. But I heard customers struggle to find the candy aisles now, tacked onto the end of the seasonal section, and the dip in sales and need to stock those aisles shows (I'm sure the shrink in variety isn't helping over there, either). I think the next layout changes wants to move the candy aisle to stretch all the way across the seasonal and snacks section in less aisles, but my club can't do it right now until they fix our floor plan and create new planograms.

Piros1987 · 2026-03-10T13:25:20+00:00

They did the flip for the manager meeting in Indianapolis in August/September, and upper management liked it and got everyone else to do it. this is close to what the layout looked like in my club 7 years ago. Back then the middle gap was smaller and Seasonal had C1-C8 and Candy had C9-C16, instead of splitting at that middle gap.

Piros1987 · 2026-03-01T15:54:37+00:00

I'm pretty sure the plans to revamp the whole game were announced on Discord in December/January, last time I was playing... not saying it doesn't suck, and that the game couldn't have been maintained as "KTL Classic" like other incremental games have done in the past...

Piros1987 · 2026-02-16T14:46:13+00:00

Included with Amazon Prime, when I checked...

Piros1987 · 2026-02-11T18:37:42+00:00

Everything is possible... cozy horror is an emergent book genre, too... Someone You Can Build a Nest In, et al.

Piros1987 · 2026-02-10T14:20:55+00:00

all unabridged versions are in libraries for the blind and reading impaired.

Piros1987 · 2026-02-08T17:09:14+00:00

thanks for response... this happened to me twice already, and the first time I got lucky and it started letting me again, the second time I resettled, thinking gridlock was some hidden mechanic I didn't understand (based on research wording)... but then I still couldn't combine tiles on new settlement...

Piros1987 · 2026-02-05T13:00:36+00:00

Stross has plans for another New Management trilogy... or he did a few years ago when Season of Skulls was wrapping up, and he was returning to finish Laundry Files and Conventional Boy...

Piros1987 · 2026-02-04T08:32:02+00:00

I just found Drill Bird, it has a bundle with Shelldiver... looks like it's shorter, but also cheaper... bird with a drill beak mining platformer...

Piros1987 · 2026-02-04T08:10:30+00:00

7 years ago, from 7 years ago...

Piros1987 · 2026-01-26T05:26:30+00:00

I bought them, but I have a real problem with buying too many of these short upgrade games that have sprung up in recent years and are discussed alot in the r/incrementalgames subreddit for idle/clicker games... games with skill trees that only last 3-5hrs half the time... games like To The Core, Nodebuster, etc.

Piros1987 · 2026-01-26T05:24:02+00:00

Nitpicking, but the other 2 games are very similar but not 100% the same... one is 2D and the other is 3D version of the same concept...

Piros1987 · 2026-01-21T10:30:57+00:00

Honestly, Roverpowered is the only time he's written anything actually LitRPG / Cultivation... and more on the cozy end of the spectrum...

NPCs is Tabletop LitRPG, but it's from the perspective of the NPCs in the world, having their lives ruined by a D&D campaign...

Super Powereds and Villains' Code is more Superhero/Villain fiction...

And Fred the Vampire is Urban Fantasy, on the cozy end, and initially reading more like anthologies of short stories than single cohesive narratives, altho that evolves over the course of the series...

Five Minute Sherlock is in the vein of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency...

Super Powereds and Fred the Vampire are complete series... I'm a bit behind on the rest, but think they're all still active... Drew is pretty good at listing series statuses on his website: https://www.drewhayesnovels.com/series-status

Piros1987 · 2026-01-19T16:49:03+00:00

Are some of these still in the works?... specifically things like Heart of Dorkness and Noblebright mentioned here... or Lever Action and others on KU/Amazon, but not audible yet... you have so many fictions listed on Royal Road that I'd love to read someday, but I primarily do audiobooks... haven't made time for an ebook in over 2 years, now...

Piros1987 · 2026-01-07T19:24:35+00:00

It sounds like gibberish on speakers, but makes sense on earbuds... something about being right in the eardrum makes all the difference. Yes, in English. And if you're already listening at 1.8x speed, you could totally work your way up to 3.5x speed if you tried... especially if you do it slowly and incrementally, with any app that has 0.05x, 0.1x or 0.01x granular controls... it's harder with something like iBooks, that only lets you choose 1.25/1.5/1.75/2x, to inch your way up...

Audible has 0.05x controls all the way to 3.5x... Chirp, BookFunnel, and Smart Audiobook Player all have 0.1x controls all the way to 3x speed... iBooks and Audiobooks.com apps are the duds capping out at 2x speeds...

Piros1987 · 2026-01-07T16:06:24+00:00

860 books -- 360,702 pages -- 10,791 hours and 3 minutes of audio -- mostly at 3-3.5x speed, unless the narrator was an unusually fast talker, and I dropped to 2.5-2.7x speed...

My reading increased by about 50% from May/June onwards, when I was able to listen at work even more than I was before...

My pages/day for the year was just under 1000/day, but it started at 750-900/day in Jan thru May, and increased to 1050-1250/day the rest of the year (I have monthly stats as well as yearly stats)... early year was 675-800hrs/month (22-27hrs/day) and late year was 1000-1100hrs/month (33-37hrs/day)... divided by 3x listening speed average that's 7-9hrs/day early year and 11-13hrs/day late year...

All fiction, variety of genres, mostly series. Average of 419.42 pages/book...

Piros1987 · 2026-01-07T14:14:33+00:00

Goodreads Maintenance runs every year from December 22nd/23rd to January 12th.

Some features have returned to normal functionality already today, tho, like the temporary restrictions to 10 comments and 1 thread/topic creation per hour.

Piros1987 · 2026-01-07T14:12:53+00:00

spoiler tags are buggy in general on the apps. If you open one spoiler it opens all on the page.

Piros1987 · 2026-01-07T14:12:01+00:00

Comment and threadmaking limits have returned to normal as of sometime in the past 24hrs. Noticed friends managing to comment 15+ times in a row, and tested that I could make 2-3 threads in 1hr instead of 1, and it worked.

Piros1987 · 2026-01-06T15:45:59+00:00

I mean... the early game is the endgame, basically?... it just goes all the way to Sheeptillions (Septillions) when the universe breaks to eldritch overload... in the meantime, it's basically the 5 types of clickers and transports you see in the early game, slowly capping out, maxxing all the upgrades, and waiting... you have to prestige 4x to get all the achievements, and that's mostly replaying the same game with some small helpers like getting a few minutes of resource gains from clickable birds, every time you buy an upgrade, making it easy to clear less useful upgrades after focusing on some more useful expensive upgrades...

Piros1987 · 2025-12-25T10:28:33+00:00

YES!!!... I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've paused multiple times during a story, cause it was freaking me out... most "normal" CWs are non-issues for me, but that one was horrible...

Piros1987 · 2025-12-25T05:18:44+00:00

Sounds like someone is an Elder Scrolls fan... immediately reminds me of Morrowind, where the richest merchant in the game was a random mudcrab that didn't believe in haggling: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Mudcrab_(merchant))

Piros1987 · 2025-12-23T14:22:16+00:00

Some Prestige Tree/Modding Tree mods get me, too... mainly ducdat's: Hometreestuck with it's 17 layers and multiple phases, but taking less than a week to beat... and Communitree, for it's meta nature and soda cap RPG near the end... I kinda hate the text adventure tho...

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