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Would the third party count company be able to resource monthly counts in every store? Would be easier to get instore staff to just count the store on a rolling basis across the year.

 Also once  a area is accurately counted there shouldn't be a need for daily low and gap scans as stock records should be correct.

Not that simple with stock records, shrink his them very quickly for various reasons the obvious one being theft but of course waste being wrongly scanned, checkout operator errors, the wrong stock turning up etc etc. Getting rid of gaps and low scanning will only come back to haunt them very quickly.

Plus that assumes the 3rd party companies get it right every time and you often find some lines have been under or over counted, and we all known the old stock control saying about todays false gain being tomorrows unknown loss.

Quote from: londoner83 on 05-02-24, 10:15AMWould the third party count company be able to resource monthly counts in every store? Would be easier to get instore staff to just count the store on a rolling basis across the year.

 Also once  a area is accurately counted there shouldn't be a need for daily low and gap scans as stock records should be correct.

How does that save money having the minimum wage outsiders that care even less about their job counting stock every month. Minimum 20 of them per night and 2 fat controllers 12 times a year?

These rumours about going down to one stock controller have to be BS.

We know by tomorrow anyway

Be going off sick instantly if they think I'm doing a one man job,had enough of that s*** in 2019 when they did their damage.Mental wellbeing bunch of twats if its true.

Tomorrow? Are all the krispy kreme guys on a confectionery call?

What ever come from today good luck to you all and hope you all get the outcome (if any) that you want 

We're doomed

What makes people think we'll find anything out today 

All store managers have a conference call today

Announcements regarding redundancy or major changes regarding staff generally get released the first Monday of February. This gives time for stores to return to normal after Xmas, and allows 4 weeks for consultation, 4 weeks noticed to be worked with affected staff out of the business by the end of the financial year (end of March). Early Easter this year MIGHT affect this usual time frame but I doubt it so we should hear something today 

Yesterday was a bank holiday in the ROI so if its a change affecting UK and ROI simultaneously that would explain it being announced today instead of yesterday

Any info on the store manager meetings this morning about the restructure ?

Quote from: Captain001 on 06-02-24, 09:13AMAny info on the store manager meetings this morning about the restructure ?

It was due at 9 so there probably still on it now

Do we rely on management coming out and spilling the beans in annoyance, gaining bits and pieces of potentially misunderstood info as they go? ...or is there likely to be an official announcement straight after?

Quote from: Raven on 06-02-24, 09:32AMDo we rely on management coming out and spilling the beans in annoyance, gaining bits and pieces of potentially misunderstood info as they go? ...or is there likely to be an official announcement straight after?

Most likely as always cascaded down store managers will call a manager meeting feed out the info which in turn will be passed onto us

Ah, so we'll piece it together bit by bit as best we can then.

Meeting finished...now we wait

Any update ??

Your Union reps should be in the briefing the store manager will be giving to managers. It will say that on the briefing store managers get. If the relationship with the union is strong in store thats what should happen.

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Are all in meeting now
We have been called for a brief at 1200 with store manager in our store

Interesting day ahead then in work saying that with the union you got to be having a laugh I work in an extra few hundred staff and I only know 1 union rep .. senior management and store reps should be having meetings with who ever is affected by any job changes asap

Of course this announcement could be what sort of a payrise we may end up getting.

I'm wondering same

Our phone shop is going and our produce department is going from 3 tier to 2 tier.