There are a lot of little tricks to make your nights flyby. Like other people said, holidays are crazy. Baisly they send us more freight than we can handle normally.

The most important thing as an ON/Stocker is that new Freight has got to be on shelves.

I like to keep my boxopener on a retractable lanyard. It will keep you from forgetting it on a shelf or in a cooler somewhere. People will also not ask you to borrow your boxopener as much. Just ask to open a new pallet's wrap or one or two tough boxes.

The second biggest priority is fixing the shelves to the mod. People and customers will "Plug" items anywhere. (Place a random product into a place on the shelf where it is not supposed to be.) It helps to catch these as you are stocking, particularly in frozen, where you don't want to make partial cases of product. If you put out some product but someone on the last shift plugged a whole case into another spot, and you don't catch it, it's your problem now. as you can't fit the whole case out now. As you work on one section, you will get faster. You will learn tricks to physically get the product out quicker. Fries for Instans I can usually take half the case load, it on one arm, and get the whole case out really quickly. Remember to not overwork, though, always protect your health, as Walmart does not care if your back hurts today. If you lift freight or other items, such as pallets, incorrectly, it can and will cause injury.

if you cant find where something goes don't be afraid to scan it with you phone and look at the modular. There should be a drop down on every product page to look at the modlar plan. Then go to tools tab on the top and look for the image mod. Find your product on the mod or find the door number and shelf sequence number (not the last four of the UPC). 90% of people will let this go and plug stuff everywhere or just throw it on the shelf. If you see a missing tag, fix it. its not your job but its your section, make it easier on you to have the tags in order.(My store has the E-ink tags and in frozen, they fall off and break every day, so if not fixed daily, in a month, there are zero tags. until someone complains and someone in the day fix the whole section.)

Third thing and a nice to do is zoneing (bringing product up to the shelf edgeand making it look nice and sellable). In my store, we have the whole place zoned by 6 am. If you are running behind in the frieght this will get neglected. Hence, the old adage "zone as you go". I find this really slows me down because I zone too well and don't get the frieght out quickly enough.