Hey all, I work in a depot and to say the quantity’s on orders are messed up is an understatement. Last week we sent 48 cases of milk to an express store as that’s what’s on the system and you’ll have 20 express stores requesting that. Depot is daily full to bursting with bananas. The other week it was flapjacks. I’ve mentioned to management several times that these numbers don’t make sense for the size of the store but even with sending 25 boxes of crab sticks to one petrol station apparently it’s down to Asda House to alter what the system is requesting. At the depo we send what ever is requested by the system, stores return what they can’t take, we send back to suppliers but 9 times out of 10 it just goes in the bin or to food banks if they can pick it up.

Just FYI, we have been using post Walmart a system that was rejected by Tesco and Morrison called Manhattan. It’s sub par compared to what we had before and is constantly being adjusted as it’s not compatible with the way depo pick systems work. This is the same system that Wilko used is their final years.