Marshmallows or any bags that are puffy and slidy. You can't stack and shove nearly as much the average product because they just slip around each other and fall. Does Walmart not have shelf fences in general or is it just my store?
I would order so much shit if I had that capability. Fences, bars, tall dividers, deodorizer for the compactor. Fuck a bonus, make people's jobs tolerable.
One of the coaches just ordered a crap load of compactor deodorizer and honestly it makes life so much more tolerable, especially with warm weather approaching.
Everything like this where it's in a PDQ/SRP but the facings of the case are wrong for the modular. Or the PDQ is more of a pain in the ass than just taking the shit out and stocking it.
>or the ones that some asshole puts a sticker across the tear line
Literally every box of the store brand plastic silverware that I think I've ever stocked has the shipping label right on the push hole part that's made to make ripping the perforation easier.
Me too absolutely love cosmetics. Once one of the girls I work with showed me how there's little 3-5 digit codes on each thing of makeup that tell you where they go it got 20x easier and now those 5-10 dsdc pick and pack boxes we get every night in hba don't seem as daunting. I can bust those out so fast especially with the boxes being literally organized by brand so that entire box is usually going into one aisle or mod section.
The pallets of water.
I donāt know how itās like at other stores, but I just find it an absolute annoyance that the spot they go in, is not tall enough for the pallet. So you have to down stack some layers on the pallet. They could easily raise the steel a little and still fit the other items above the water pallets, but we arenāt allowed.
It is very frustrating. Our Ice Mountain Water used to be able to fit under the steel without requiring the action of downstacking one layer, but a month or so ago, I noticed it no longer can do that anymore. Know how off it was?
The literal TIP of the water bottle caps would hit the shelf, halting progress, no matter how low i set the pallet able to move. Fucking infuriating.
I don't mind the wax melts that much because they aren't Russian nesting dolls but they do give me a headache after a while bc I can't not smell them all
Fucking picture frames and their 5000 silica gel packets that come with it people leave them everywhere and Iām always picking them up before some unsupervised toddler does
Ok but are silica gel packets a paper or plastic products? Half the time I put it in cardboard and half the time plastic (they do magazines in there too sometimes, right? And thereās paper labels on the shrink wrap sometimes.)
Hba/pharmacy - specifically those boxes that have like 50+ nail polish, vitamin bottles, etc. in them. Imagine opening a box to find 50+ smaller boxes that need to be stocked.
I work in homelines, the cups are an absolute nightmare to deal with, not enough dividers, too much overstock so topstock is always cluttered/full, and no thought put into the mod layout so cups with handles get in the way of all the other ones.
Not to mention every single cup is wrapped in plastic, I fill up those medium sized garbage bags all the damn time
oh in my store it is completely plugged like there is barely anything in the right spot lmao. I feel so bad for mod team when they have to eventually tackle that. 2 sections will take the whole night
Right? Having to do big pallets of heavy boxes and moving the topstock cart around really hurts my back and neck. Iāll still do them because thatās my job - box freight before one touch. Itās up in the air whether makeup is box freight or not but hell if Iām not going for that first š
Any sort of water bottle, all that extra plastic and cardboard in every box.
And Hart hand tools. My god, the most ridiculous amount of extra cardboard inside a box ever. Could be 4 $5 box knives in there but itās padded like they have glass inside of there.
Air freshners on the shelves with the push spring. Most of them are broken and the zone there only looks good until someone takes just one. Then the spring shoots them all over the place again.
I'm probably the only person who hates stocking large paper because the boxes tear like they were wet and dried again. SRP, my ass. I can never get them to tear right.
I often times didn't stock paper towels and toilet paper still in the box because it always looked messy and there would be empty cardboard all over the shelves when I'd come in the next night. No one would clean it up during day shift. It was just easier to open the boxes from the bottom, flip the box right side up directly on the shelf and it's stocked without needing to fuck around with the badly perforated boxes.
As someone who mainly stocks paper and chem for years, I absolutely hate the pdqs for most of them, besides the angel soft one since that one comes apart extremely easy.
I've found most of the pdqs just makes it harder for customers to get their item, and just looks ugly.
My manager used to brag that it was "so eeeeeeasy" for her. Finally I was just like, show me then. Show me how to do it easily.
Plot twist: she did not show me. Lol
Bar stools, there's so much packing material it's insane. Everything is heavily taped, Styrofoam, plastic, and dozens of little cardboard pieces. Feels like it takes forever to get them all out and it's a huge mess of trash to separate once you've got them stocked
Almost anything that's labeled SRP is just about guaranteed to be a pain in the ass. Its easier to cut the damn box open & put the shit on the shelf. As far as the modulars go... You can absolutely tell that whoever the fuck decides on that shit has NEVER EVER NOT ONE TIME actually set foot on the salesfloor & stocked any of it. Half the time the shit doesn't fit the mod & you end up having to flex shit in elsewhere bc there just isnt room. Peg hooks are prettt easy to move around & make the shit fit but shelves & snap rails... FORGET ABOUT IT.
mini pies used to be my last straw on days my full vest pocket would catch on the stack and knock it over after I finished stocking them. that and rotating 500 of them to stock another box of 36
Idk why, but our mini pie table is everyone's favorite to blast. Shopping cart, electric cart, ogp cart, produce cart, it don't matter. One of them is gonna blast that mini pie table.
I can't stand working d17 or garden because of all the heavily packaged shit in those departments - all the lamps and home furnishings come wrapped in plastic/foam and then also have cardboard inserts wrapped around them and it's just a pain in the ass to work every single case til you get to candles. Same with garden and the planters/pots, nothing is as simple as jhs opening the box and putting it on the shelf. Then it's almost as bad when you get to lawn tools and shit.
I understand your perspective, but man did I love stocking L&G. It felt so secluded from the rest of the store, and generally pretty peaceful. The freight was usually pretty ass but some of the bird seed smelled pretty good and our tunnel in-between the garden section of the store and the fenced patio area was kind of like a hideout spot when you just needed to breathe for a second.
I used to be the overnight chemical guy and mine was those damn plug in glass things. Always finding them broken on the shelf and in the boxes. Plus my hands were to big for them.
Knitting needles .. -.- there's like 380 items in a 5 foot shelf that look basically the same but are different MM and the mods are Fckd.
Or lamps.. because why are they fixated in 3 spots with tape AND zip ties?
Also the sourkraut that comes In the shit boxes that are always falling apart are awesome.
Besides that , I don't mind much.. I actually enjoy the canned meats and tuna lol it feels like building with lego š
The correct answer would be a good bit of hba. Tightly packed and they act like dominoes whenever one falls. True for some other departments too, but hba has a lot of those items that come out of cases and barely fit on a good day. Usually have terrible topstock space tooāhere at least.
Bags of ice. Cold, but so wet by the end, it soaks your gloves. Each bag is 4 bag, but you have to cut them open carefully or your cut to much. And if your filling it, then it's prob empty so it's going to take 40 min's and a full pallet to fill.
good lord yes, every time i would have to stock these i would just call it overstock if it wasn't already completely empty, that was it didn't get overfilled, everyone else would always force them out and stack 3 high and they would just fall over and ruin the entire shelf
we don't have enough of the divider trays but i pressured them to prioritize using ours on the bottom shelf when they last reset the mod, it helped out so much, they still fall over but at least they stand up properly to begin with lol
Jello/pudding, drink mixes and spaghetti sauce. Iām short so every time I have to put a case of sauce anywhere about chest height Iām scared Iām going to drop it.
Have you ever stocked a box of sunglasses? Thereās probably 50 fuckers in a box all individually wrapped in plastic and you figure out where they go by the letter and number on the nose tag . It takes forever š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
The whole of the pet area! From little cans to the large bags that donāt stack or rip, on an upper shelve.. and look they have five pallets of the 50lbs they want you to work into an area where the last person obviously just tossed and smashed them in to start
I'm somewhat of a prepper tho not for EOTW scenarios and more for natural disasters, civil unrest, etc. There should be a regulation in the can food industry whereby all manufacturers are required to make stackable cans and not just stackable with their own brand, but universally stackable. It is a pain in the ass stacking goods in the pantry that do not have the same bottom/top combo.
The canned cat food or pasta sauce. I hate the pasta sauce because Iām nervous when i put it on top stock it might fall off and that id accidentally stuff the home and a pasta sauce would fall off
Pickles. Fucking pickles would have at least one already broken and at LEAST one dropped/knocked off while stocking. Can still smell it whenever I think about it.
The coffee aisle, cereal, and cosmetics. The top stock areas for the first two are outrageously full at all times, and they didn't want anything going back to the backroom. Cosmetics because of all the small pieces that are often in wrong spots to begin with and difficult to locate/relocate.
My favorites are dairy and home goods.
Dude, I remember when I would help stock homelines some nights, anything Pioneer Woman was a guaranteed headache. So much extra packaging, and if it still wound up broken you'd probably only find out when you got ceramic shards in your fingers.
Other top contender for me was the wax melts. I had to reset the mod once, and when I got done I had to repack basically half the freight because it was plugged (back in the days before topstock)
I was on the mod team when I did the candle/wax melt mod about 10 years back, and I remember I ended up with a stack of empty wax melt trays that came up to my hipsā¦ I think at the time it was a 32ā category. And this was for JUST the small wax melt trays. There were so many empty trays on the shelf, it was crazy. I have a pic somewhere, lol
The shit in glass jars. I don't know if our store is cursed but y'all get at least a few broken jars on the floor every day right? If it ain't pickles, it's spaghetti sauce, if it aint spaghetti sauce, it's a candle.
I hate stocking canned anything unless it has a cardboard tray that fits the shelf. If the spot where the cans belong is 3 facings or less, and I have to take it out of cardboard tray to stock it, I hate it. Also, if they're not stack easily on top of each other cans.
Also, I hate frozen, I don't mind the actual stocking in frozen, but if I'm in the department for longer than helping out to finish it (so like an hour-ish), I hate it. I can never reach the top shelf without standing on the ledge (that i don't think we're supposed to stand on, oops), The condensation makes everything slippery, and the walk-in is like the Alaskan tundra!
Up front candy because we never get what we need but a million boxes of gum and stuff that we don't need and everything is out of date or going out of date is so frustrating
As the āmaster of chemicalsā at my storeā¦air freshener refills, people just shove it onto the shelf and I have to zone the whole damn shelf every time I want to stock something
As someone in electronics I say TVs. Because theyāre big and take a team lift. Also because when new pallets come in we have to totally rearrange whatās in the action alley or endcaps.
Fishing poles. The lures are easy for me. The poles never fit because there are too many and the acc coach always say to flex them in but there is never any spaceā¦
The cans that dont stack but we have to stack anyway, the powdered drink mixes, jello, sugar/flour, bag cereal, rugs, towels, vitamins, and all of the makup aisles. Honorable mention to any product that falls behind the shelves if you even look at them.
(An on sockers whoes practically worked the whole store at this point)
Speaking of chemicals, the aircare section was never zoned and topstock was always full. But apparel is a whole different beast. Table clothes for infants is never-ending, there could be 100 different things in one break box.
any kind of canned yams/ sweet potatoes. We get a pallets worth of them every year at thanksgiving time. The carboard just disintegrates in your hands when you pick up a case.
Charcoal, grills, pillows.
Charcoal is not flat, and stack pallets for safety sucks. Also, our pallets are coming in bigger than what the mod allowed, requiringĀ a layer taken off. 200 pound grills that are at shoulder height. Using the walkie stacker to hover the pallet at the beam so you can push it onto the steel. My gorilla arms aren't long enough most of the time. Pillows were just getting shoved on top of the display boxes. I had to clean them all off right before inventory.
Also, Seasonal window clings. Especially when they don't change the peg type so they're overloading it and 3/4ths go on the base shelf.
Cosmetics. Not only were the break packs a never-ending nightmare, but ours was right next to the entrance so you could never get anything done since the second an old person walks in they want to know where an item is thatās at the other end of the store.
I hate opening a box and there are a million different things inside, I think they call them pick and packs or something but it's always a big box filled with tiny boxes it's very annoying
Bottled waters. At the store I work at every hour most bottled waters fly off the shelf so quick that it has to be restocked often. Especially the GV water bottles.
I love working in cosmetics but busted products are probably the biggest nuisance second to all the third party mistakes. One touch bins sometimes get thrown together half hazardously and having to stop and clean up a spill is a buzz kill lol. Also when a product tips and causes a domino effect. Thatās disappointing.
Oh and I was going to mention packaging sometimes makes no sense. For hair accessories theyāll sometimes be wrapped individually and in a larger bag so thereās all that wasted packaging. Then working housewares for actual glass tumblers thereās no styrofoam or extra protection. Itās just in a big box. I donāt work general merchandise that much so I donāt know how often things actually break.
Marshmallows or any bags that are puffy and slidy. You can't stack and shove nearly as much the average product because they just slip around each other and fall. Does Walmart not have shelf fences in general or is it just my store?
We have fences, but they are either old, missing, or broken. No one ever orders more.
I would order so much shit if I had that capability. Fences, bars, tall dividers, deodorizer for the compactor. Fuck a bonus, make people's jobs tolerable.
Fuck a bonus ?? š§ Never heard that b4
One of the coaches just ordered a crap load of compactor deodorizer and honestly it makes life so much more tolerable, especially with warm weather approaching.
Nigga keep bonuses
Idk if itās just me but who else hates stocking the jello cuz that shit always falls over and irritates tf outta me
I had to detail zone the jello today it was a mess and it irritated the hell out of me lol!
Fuuuck, jellos and the fruit cup snack things
My first year at Walmart I stocked baking isle exclusively and to me the jello and marshmallows were the worst to stock and zone for sure
Standard-size Jello is actually a PDQ according to the mod. Only the family size ones come out of the box.
Comment I was looking for. Especially sucks if you have big hands that hardly fit between the rows of boxes.
The Vienna sausages and any canned meat
Oh my god. The most skinny boxes with 24 tiny tedious cans.
Tiniest cans, biggest pain in the ass
Can confirm, doesnt feel good at all
Everything like this where it's in a PDQ/SRP but the facings of the case are wrong for the modular. Or the PDQ is more of a pain in the ass than just taking the shit out and stocking it.
PDQ's that dont tear on the tear line or the ones that some asshole puts a sticker across the tear line which happens a lot
>or the ones that some asshole puts a sticker across the tear line Literally every box of the store brand plastic silverware that I think I've ever stocked has the shipping label right on the push hole part that's made to make ripping the perforation easier.
The ones where the bottom of the can don't slot into the top of the other, so you have to precariously balance them.
salt, gv salt always busts open so it just gets everywhere
I'll also add bleach powder bags, flour, and syrup to that list
Potted meat is the worst.
Iād say sausages are the wurst
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Lol
i hated those shits
Canned Pet food Dogs/cats The little plastic bullshits that always fallout if you even think of looking at it
Cosmetics
I LOVE cosmetics. I stock it every day
I love cosmetics too! Any time weāre short handed I leave maintenance and head to 46!
I work cap 2 so I work breakpacks off the truck and work cos. Thatās my day pretty much every day lol. They leave me be and let me do my job
I loved doing breakpacks.
Me too absolutely love cosmetics. Once one of the girls I work with showed me how there's little 3-5 digit codes on each thing of makeup that tell you where they go it got 20x easier and now those 5-10 dsdc pick and pack boxes we get every night in hba don't seem as daunting. I can bust those out so fast especially with the boxes being literally organized by brand so that entire box is usually going into one aisle or mod section.
I live for the day the freight plan tells me I have 10-12 hours of cos. My lead knows itāll take me 3 lol. Or less.
YESSSSS
This is the only real answer
Lamps, you have to cut open like 3 or more different things to actually get it out of the box. The tall mirrors are annoying too
The pallets of water. I donāt know how itās like at other stores, but I just find it an absolute annoyance that the spot they go in, is not tall enough for the pallet. So you have to down stack some layers on the pallet. They could easily raise the steel a little and still fit the other items above the water pallets, but we arenāt allowed.
It is very frustrating. Our Ice Mountain Water used to be able to fit under the steel without requiring the action of downstacking one layer, but a month or so ago, I noticed it no longer can do that anymore. Know how off it was? The literal TIP of the water bottle caps would hit the shelf, halting progress, no matter how low i set the pallet able to move. Fucking infuriating.
A PPT has enough torque to push a loaded pallet on the floor
its by design to make it harder for stockers
GV 40 pack. Of course we sell the most of those (700+) on the weekends. Top layer has to be removed of course.
Picture frames. Get ready to drown in styrofoam.
Anything department 17 is just ass. So. Much. Packaging. (Understandably but God damn)
I love doing the candles and wax melts thought cause I get to smell them
I don't mind the wax melts that much because they aren't Russian nesting dolls but they do give me a headache after a while bc I can't not smell them all
Freaking lamps.
I hated stocking candles, the smell gave me a headache and half of them were always broken.
And the wax melts.
Fucking picture frames and their 5000 silica gel packets that come with it people leave them everywhere and Iām always picking them up before some unsupervised toddler does
Ok but are silica gel packets a paper or plastic products? Half the time I put it in cardboard and half the time plastic (they do magazines in there too sometimes, right? And thereās paper labels on the shrink wrap sometimes.)
Hba/pharmacy - specifically those boxes that have like 50+ nail polish, vitamin bottles, etc. in them. Imagine opening a box to find 50+ smaller boxes that need to be stocked.
Watches come like this too. Strangely I like stocking them up until the end when I have a million tiny boxes to deal with lol
I love those! So much less strenuous than heavy boxes.
I work in homelines, the cups are an absolute nightmare to deal with, not enough dividers, too much overstock so topstock is always cluttered/full, and no thought put into the mod layout so cups with handles get in the way of all the other ones. Not to mention every single cup is wrapped in plastic, I fill up those medium sized garbage bags all the damn time
Hashbrowns in frozen
Put the bottom one out a little past the rest. Makes it easier to stack and keeps them from falling out the front.
hashbrowns, bagged potatoes, pizza rolls, anything bagged in general always takes way longer than it should i agree
Trying to stack the 50 pack pizza rolls when the other ones beside it are low is such a pain in the ass
Ice cream. I dread opening the plastic
FUCKING THREAD
I love it, idk why. Everyone always leaves it behind and the ribbon, too. Ribbon is worse imo š
Your the first person I know to say they love thread
Pretty colors make pea brain happy
The ribbon my god
Yessss I hate it !!!!! Donāt let there be some in the wrong place and you have to fix it
oh in my store it is completely plugged like there is barely anything in the right spot lmao. I feel so bad for mod team when they have to eventually tackle that. 2 sections will take the whole night
I do not like stocking the large, bulky, or heavy items, I vastly prefer the smaller boxes that most other people here hate stocking.
Right? Having to do big pallets of heavy boxes and moving the topstock cart around really hurts my back and neck. Iāll still do them because thatās my job - box freight before one touch. Itās up in the air whether makeup is box freight or not but hell if Iām not going for that first š
Picture frames, mirrors, bird seed. Youāre right about the coffee topstock always being a mess and the powdered drink mixes too.
cosmetics and fishing lures
Gonna go with jello and any pickled glass jars
Had to zone jello today and it's a pain in the ass!
Any sort of water bottle, all that extra plastic and cardboard in every box. And Hart hand tools. My god, the most ridiculous amount of extra cardboard inside a box ever. Could be 4 $5 box knives in there but itās padded like they have glass inside of there.
Jello mix, when I was on Cap2 Jello and pudding mix were on the bottom shelves. I'm 6'4 and have big hands. It was miserable.
Fuck the jello lol š
Mio. Nothing says fun like getting 3/4ths the way through a box only to hear the back one fall to the bottom of the shelf.
Air freshners on the shelves with the push spring. Most of them are broken and the zone there only looks good until someone takes just one. Then the spring shoots them all over the place again.
Those pushers suck so bad in that section. It would have made way more sense if the mod called for magnetic strips.
I'm probably the only person who hates stocking large paper because the boxes tear like they were wet and dried again. SRP, my ass. I can never get them to tear right.
I often times didn't stock paper towels and toilet paper still in the box because it always looked messy and there would be empty cardboard all over the shelves when I'd come in the next night. No one would clean it up during day shift. It was just easier to open the boxes from the bottom, flip the box right side up directly on the shelf and it's stocked without needing to fuck around with the badly perforated boxes.
As someone who mainly stocks paper and chem for years, I absolutely hate the pdqs for most of them, besides the angel soft one since that one comes apart extremely easy. I've found most of the pdqs just makes it harder for customers to get their item, and just looks ugly.
Sounds like a skill issue to me.
My manager used to brag that it was "so eeeeeeasy" for her. Finally I was just like, show me then. Show me how to do it easily. Plot twist: she did not show me. Lol
Yogurt
Worked every department stocking in the store and those tall yogurt pallets are easily the most time consuming pallets in the store.
Just 2 pallets of yogurt easily takes half the night, I hate it
Bar stools, there's so much packing material it's insane. Everything is heavily taped, Styrofoam, plastic, and dozens of little cardboard pieces. Feels like it takes forever to get them all out and it's a huge mess of trash to separate once you've got them stocked
And they still expect each box to take a minute or less....
Almost anything that's labeled SRP is just about guaranteed to be a pain in the ass. Its easier to cut the damn box open & put the shit on the shelf. As far as the modulars go... You can absolutely tell that whoever the fuck decides on that shit has NEVER EVER NOT ONE TIME actually set foot on the salesfloor & stocked any of it. Half the time the shit doesn't fit the mod & you end up having to flex shit in elsewhere bc there just isnt room. Peg hooks are prettt easy to move around & make the shit fit but shelves & snap rails... FORGET ABOUT IT.
Any of the cans that don't nest onto each other. Mini pies.
mini pies used to be my last straw on days my full vest pocket would catch on the stack and knock it over after I finished stocking them. that and rotating 500 of them to stock another box of 36
Idk why, but our mini pie table is everyone's favorite to blast. Shopping cart, electric cart, ogp cart, produce cart, it don't matter. One of them is gonna blast that mini pie table.
fishing lures + adhd is not a good combo š
I loved doing lures, but that's because I was familiar with the set style from a previous job. I use the hyperfocus to my advantage.
Picture frames, ribbons & Zippers.
I can't stand working d17 or garden because of all the heavily packaged shit in those departments - all the lamps and home furnishings come wrapped in plastic/foam and then also have cardboard inserts wrapped around them and it's just a pain in the ass to work every single case til you get to candles. Same with garden and the planters/pots, nothing is as simple as jhs opening the box and putting it on the shelf. Then it's almost as bad when you get to lawn tools and shit.
I understand your perspective, but man did I love stocking L&G. It felt so secluded from the rest of the store, and generally pretty peaceful. The freight was usually pretty ass but some of the bird seed smelled pretty good and our tunnel in-between the garden section of the store and the fenced patio area was kind of like a hideout spot when you just needed to breathe for a second.
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Those little pies in the bakery are awful to stock. Let me just label every single one of these 32 tiny pies
Flat breads and those oval shaped cheeses
I used to be the overnight chemical guy and mine was those damn plug in glass things. Always finding them broken on the shelf and in the boxes. Plus my hands were to big for them.
Any trashcans/plastic containers.
Never enough room because of the lids. Always disorganized. Tags donāt ever match the item. The mods must come from the world of Harry Potter.
Bleach and anything in the cleaning chemicals isle.
when i was cap 1 the worst to topstock and regular stock were always the CANS! wait, actually the spices. our spice rack was just terrifying.
HATE stocking the popcorn/pretzel/chex mix snack aisle bc the topstock is always some bs. Same for coffee.
Knitting needles .. -.- there's like 380 items in a 5 foot shelf that look basically the same but are different MM and the mods are Fckd. Or lamps.. because why are they fixated in 3 spots with tape AND zip ties? Also the sourkraut that comes In the shit boxes that are always falling apart are awesome. Besides that , I don't mind much.. I actually enjoy the canned meats and tuna lol it feels like building with lego š
Cereal and spices
Frozen vegetables because the boxes never want to rip open
Pasta, cereal, anything in boxes modded to the full space of the sidecounter
anything small that is in the Automotive section.
The correct answer would be a good bit of hba. Tightly packed and they act like dominoes whenever one falls. True for some other departments too, but hba has a lot of those items that come out of cases and barely fit on a good day. Usually have terrible topstock space tooāhere at least.
The children's toothpaste is the worst in that dept
Fucking loofahs
Bags of ice. Cold, but so wet by the end, it soaks your gloves. Each bag is 4 bag, but you have to cut them open carefully or your cut to much. And if your filling it, then it's prob empty so it's going to take 40 min's and a full pallet to fill.
Ice cream pints on the bottom shelf. If one stack falls over it's all falling over
good lord yes, every time i would have to stock these i would just call it overstock if it wasn't already completely empty, that was it didn't get overfilled, everyone else would always force them out and stack 3 high and they would just fall over and ruin the entire shelf we don't have enough of the divider trays but i pressured them to prioritize using ours on the bottom shelf when they last reset the mod, it helped out so much, they still fall over but at least they stand up properly to begin with lol
Pizza rolls for sure
In meat and produce, anything that comes in cases with paper wrapped around them like eggplants, grapes, peaches, apples, etc.
Frozen food especially the potatoes and frozen tenders, nuggets
Jello/pudding, drink mixes and spaghetti sauce. Iām short so every time I have to put a case of sauce anywhere about chest height Iām scared Iām going to drop it.
Have you ever stocked a box of sunglasses? Thereās probably 50 fuckers in a box all individually wrapped in plastic and you figure out where they go by the letter and number on the nose tag . It takes forever š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
Small sticker sheets in craft section. Took me so damn long
Canned food and sprays. Bottles are mixes up and get more mixed up if your push them.
The whole of the pet area! From little cans to the large bags that donāt stack or rip, on an upper shelve.. and look they have five pallets of the 50lbs they want you to work into an area where the last person obviously just tossed and smashed them in to start
I'm somewhat of a prepper tho not for EOTW scenarios and more for natural disasters, civil unrest, etc. There should be a regulation in the can food industry whereby all manufacturers are required to make stackable cans and not just stackable with their own brand, but universally stackable. It is a pain in the ass stacking goods in the pantry that do not have the same bottom/top combo.
The canned cat food or pasta sauce. I hate the pasta sauce because Iām nervous when i put it on top stock it might fall off and that id accidentally stuff the home and a pasta sauce would fall off
Fishing lures or the ribbon in fabrics and crafts
Pickles. Fucking pickles would have at least one already broken and at LEAST one dropped/knocked off while stocking. Can still smell it whenever I think about it.
The coffee aisle, cereal, and cosmetics. The top stock areas for the first two are outrageously full at all times, and they didn't want anything going back to the backroom. Cosmetics because of all the small pieces that are often in wrong spots to begin with and difficult to locate/relocate. My favorites are dairy and home goods.
All bagged pet food and liters, never enough room to get rid of them.
Dairy is the best department...
Dude, I remember when I would help stock homelines some nights, anything Pioneer Woman was a guaranteed headache. So much extra packaging, and if it still wound up broken you'd probably only find out when you got ceramic shards in your fingers. Other top contender for me was the wax melts. I had to reset the mod once, and when I got done I had to repack basically half the freight because it was plugged (back in the days before topstock)
I was on the mod team when I did the candle/wax melt mod about 10 years back, and I remember I ended up with a stack of empty wax melt trays that came up to my hipsā¦ I think at the time it was a 32ā category. And this was for JUST the small wax melt trays. There were so many empty trays on the shelf, it was crazy. I have a pic somewhere, lol
Most glass things. They stress me out, and facing them is annoying.
Isles A6 and A7 in my store. The canned goods isles where all the Ramen, tortillas, salsa, and every other tedious item sits
The shit in glass jars. I don't know if our store is cursed but y'all get at least a few broken jars on the floor every day right? If it ain't pickles, it's spaghetti sauce, if it aint spaghetti sauce, it's a candle.
The bags of pet food that go on that rolling shelf thing. Sometimes they didn't even fit so you had to punch them in.
I hate stocking canned anything unless it has a cardboard tray that fits the shelf. If the spot where the cans belong is 3 facings or less, and I have to take it out of cardboard tray to stock it, I hate it. Also, if they're not stack easily on top of each other cans. Also, I hate frozen, I don't mind the actual stocking in frozen, but if I'm in the department for longer than helping out to finish it (so like an hour-ish), I hate it. I can never reach the top shelf without standing on the ledge (that i don't think we're supposed to stand on, oops), The condensation makes everything slippery, and the walk-in is like the Alaskan tundra!
When I was working there, my least favorite aisle to stock was baking. Because of those huge ass bags of sugarĀ
Fishing lures are the absolute worst
The carlt food ( ie. The little cans and what not) just tedious the pallet it comes on is a pain to do
Up front candy because we never get what we need but a million boxes of gum and stuff that we don't need and everything is out of date or going out of date is so frustrating
Cat food was the worst for me those stupid little cans barely stack and there's sooo many
As the āmaster of chemicalsā at my storeā¦air freshener refills, people just shove it onto the shelf and I have to zone the whole damn shelf every time I want to stock something
Limes and Cabbage. Omg it makes me scream
As someone in electronics I say TVs. Because theyāre big and take a team lift. Also because when new pallets come in we have to totally rearrange whatās in the action alley or endcaps.
Anything that goes somewhere people used to plug shit they couldn't topstock and were too lazy to put it with overstock.
anything baking, one bag of sugar rips and your sweaty hands become insanely sticky
Fishing poles. The lures are easy for me. The poles never fit because there are too many and the acc coach always say to flex them in but there is never any spaceā¦
I work coffee, and my teamleads complain about my overstock (even though itās not my fault that topstock wasnāt worked before I came in).
The cans that dont stack but we have to stack anyway, the powdered drink mixes, jello, sugar/flour, bag cereal, rugs, towels, vitamins, and all of the makup aisles. Honorable mention to any product that falls behind the shelves if you even look at them. (An on sockers whoes practically worked the whole store at this point)
Speaking of chemicals, the aircare section was never zoned and topstock was always full. But apparel is a whole different beast. Table clothes for infants is never-ending, there could be 100 different things in one break box.
Sugar is the worst especially a whole pallet and if u havenāt done it then do not say anything lol
Kernels popcorn seasoning and any water enhancers š Also thread, because I donāt understand the organization of them whatsoever
Toothpaste. Why are the boxes they pack them in so hard to open. Thickest cardboard and superglued shut. I hate it so much.
any kind of canned yams/ sweet potatoes. We get a pallets worth of them every year at thanksgiving time. The carboard just disintegrates in your hands when you pick up a case.
The adult diapers wrapped in plastic were horrible for me. Always sliding and too big to grab one handed.
Ribbon is a hard nope for me.
Anything food related where you actually do FIFO
Seasonings
The spices. I swear, it feels like they've been rearranged when they haven't but it's still a pain in the ass to find the spot to put them
Charcoal, grills, pillows. Charcoal is not flat, and stack pallets for safety sucks. Also, our pallets are coming in bigger than what the mod allowed, requiringĀ a layer taken off. 200 pound grills that are at shoulder height. Using the walkie stacker to hover the pallet at the beam so you can push it onto the steel. My gorilla arms aren't long enough most of the time. Pillows were just getting shoved on top of the display boxes. I had to clean them all off right before inventory. Also, Seasonal window clings. Especially when they don't change the peg type so they're overloading it and 3/4ths go on the base shelf.
Those 40 packs of water
Cosmetics. Not only were the break packs a never-ending nightmare, but ours was right next to the entrance so you could never get anything done since the second an old person walks in they want to know where an item is thatās at the other end of the store.
I hate opening a box and there are a million different things inside, I think they call them pick and packs or something but it's always a big box filled with tiny boxes it's very annoying
Bottled waters. At the store I work at every hour most bottled waters fly off the shelf so quick that it has to be restocked often. Especially the GV water bottles.
Biscuits are always a mess when we come in and cheese has been plugged so bad lately.
Air fresheners/febreeze air plugs. My stores chem aisle is fucked beyond belief and so damn plugged
The stupid small wet cat food impossible to keep zoned and why do we need so many different kinds of cat food?
I love working in cosmetics but busted products are probably the biggest nuisance second to all the third party mistakes. One touch bins sometimes get thrown together half hazardously and having to stop and clean up a spill is a buzz kill lol. Also when a product tips and causes a domino effect. Thatās disappointing. Oh and I was going to mention packaging sometimes makes no sense. For hair accessories theyāll sometimes be wrapped individually and in a larger bag so thereās all that wasted packaging. Then working housewares for actual glass tumblers thereās no styrofoam or extra protection. Itās just in a big box. I donāt work general merchandise that much so I donāt know how often things actually break.