Price Change Hell

From Doug:

Another tale from my college days working in the drugstore...

From time to time, we'd get these price change sheets from the home office. We'd have to pull all the stock, inventory it, peel off the old price tags, make new ones, stick them on, and restock the shelves.

Loads of fun, right?

So one day we get a price change for some canned weight-loss milkshake crap -- we have about a hundred of them in stock, and the price is going up by TWO F***ING CENTS A CAN.

I point out to the manager that it's going to take me about two hours to change the prices on these, all for what?

Another TWO BUCKS TOTAL?

I make more than that in ONE hour, let alone the two hours it's going to take to do all this crap.

So why do it? It's costing the company money!

Here's his enlightened, thoughtful response: "Shut up and do your job."

Comments

[mel]

Oy, way to waste. That's up there with all the overstock being thrown away instead of being recycled or redistributed to charities. Go friggin figure.

[Logan]

I Love counter-productive policies. The BK that I used to work at had a crew room about 8 feet away from the kitchen. We used to keep our drinks in there, so that if we had a short lull in between orders we could run back there and chug down some caffiene before rushing back to cooking. If you want me to really bust ass, I need my caffiene fix.

Corporate decided to put an end to that though. We then had to go up front whenever we needed a drink, get a little plasic cup, get a drink (since it was ice cold, you had to drink it slowly or get a headache), then throw the cup away and use a new one the next time you needed a caffiene fix (like in 10 minutes).

All the policy did was slow down productivity, because we were away from our stations a lot longer, and increase expenses because we used a new cup each time rather than using the same large cup all day long.

[Pharmacy_psycho]

When I worked for a large mart-store, I was given the glorious task of price changes. Actually it didn't bother me that much because when I got to the ones in the stock room, it meant I didn't have to be out with customers.

The annoying part was that I seemed to be the only one who knew the pricing policy; the sticker was supposed to go in the upper right-hand corner. Half my time seemed to be spent black-marking over the previous 8 stickers (the ones I wasn't able to pull off) put willy-nilly all over the package.

On the one hand, I miss the old days where price stickers were on things because if I find something and there isn't a price on it, I can never seem to find a working scanner to get the price. Really annoying where there isn't a counter tag or its on the lowest shelf under the edge of a dog/cat food bag. If you think I'm going to wrestle a 40# bag of food into my cart only to find I'm not going to pay for it, you are sadly mistaken!