That's the thing about incentives -- you get what you measure and reward, not necessarily what you intended!
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, at 1:53 AM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: > Another government story. There was some item SWMBO bought at the base > commissary but she could no longer find it. So she found the manager > and inquired. The manager said they no longer carry that item because > it sold so fast they could not keep it in stock. You see, the manager > was penalized for empty shelves but not lost sales. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:54 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling > prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any > to sell... > My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice > for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 > choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They > don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not > sell. > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely > selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given > location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. > I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. > I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > ________________________________ > From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Kaleb > Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores > as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The > stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it > in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran > it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler > same as every other store. After that they were no longer really > competitive and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to > do business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up >> to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would >> send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast >> right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast >> and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim >> gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying >> stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the >> stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other >> store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden >> he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to >> one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't >> sell again... >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the >> overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. >> >> A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 >> or whatever, and let you take it home. >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >>> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >>> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a >>> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few >>> pennies >>> >>> --FT >>> Sent from iFōn >>> >>>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >>>> handle items that do not "scan" then? >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>>>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the >>>>> shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very >>>>> confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says >>>>> April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf >>>>> says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them >>>>> further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t >>>>> sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of >>>>> last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>>> >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
