Quote from: Nightproduceworker on 27-03-24, 08:19PMwhat about picking and stacking of cages? How many does it take to load 64 cages for double decker. I know it's done on speed, why the cages come packed and absolute mess, which yes can be due to loading onto the lorry and travelling in the lorry. How many hours contracted to staff work to pick these cages?It's difficult to say really. Fresh is picked very differently to packaged:
Quote from: Last hurrah on 27-03-24, 06:33PMwhat about picking and stacking of cages? How many does it take to load 64 cages for double decker. I know it's done on speed, why the cages come packed and absolute mess, which yes can be due to loading onto the lorry and travelling in the lorry. How many hours contracted to staff work to pick these cages?Quoteand is this just one person loading the fresh stock? Or multiple workers with a machine or handwork?Just one, two for a fixed double decker if your store still gets them. They'll use MHE to move stock to the bay, only loading it onto a trailer if it's a standard 13m. No MHE on any deckers or short trailers/rigids - then it's all by hand.
Gets even more complex for multi run drops with more than one store on.
Quoteand is this just one person loading the fresh stock? Or multiple workers with a machine or handwork?Just one, two for a fixed double decker if your store still gets them. They'll use MHE to move stock to the bay, only loading it onto a trailer if it's a standard 13m. No MHE on any deckers or short trailers/rigids - then it's all by hand.
Quote from: Last hurrah on 27-03-24, 04:48PMand is this just one person loading the fresh stock? Or multiple workers with a machine or handwork?Quote from: Sherwoodforest on 26-03-24, 09:06AM@last hurrah think its more down to handling stock is handling stock,you put it on a cage,we take it off,no difference in the motion or muscles used to complete that taskI agree that handling stock is handling stock, but that's on a case by case basis. Picking pallets of a hundred cases of butter or fifty trays of potatoes or boxes of bananas is harder work than working cages of even the heaviest stock in store. Moving one box of bananas in +12 requires on slightly more work than doing so in a store. But the quantities involved are drastically different.
I'm not saying that working in a store isn't hard graft on some departments, just comparing the two jobs as like for like isn't accurate.
In terms of using machinery, yes our DCs use powered MHE for many tasks but that also brings with it significant risk of injury to yourself or others in a cold and noisy environment.
Loading a trailer in a fresh site is probably one of the most complicated things we ask a colleague to do as a business. You have to work out what order you're going to load in, what temperature zones to set and how much of each temperature to load. Then collect the stock, arrange it safely and secure it with straps, close bulkheads and ensure temperature zones are within tolerance. All the while you also have to be mindful of the weight of stock you are loading and ensure there's enough weight over the fifth wheel, or that the bottom deck of a DD or MDDD is heavier, even if you haven't put stock on it yet. You are responsible for tens of thousands of pounds worth of stock which hinges on your diligence and decision making. Unloading one in store means opening a door, checking a temperature, and pulling stock off into a warehouse (or to a chiller if you don't have tip and fill teams anymore). Technically you could say that putting stock on a trailer and taking it off is the same but in reality it isn't.
If we look at value to the business, an average store gets what, 10,000 customers per day? An average DC services 200 stores, so around 2,000,000 customers a day. With a headcount probably only twice that of a big extra.
Again, I want to be clear that I absolutely do not think working in store is easy, but working in a DC is not on the same level in my opinion.
Quote from: Sherwoodforest on 26-03-24, 09:06AM@last hurrah think its more down to handling stock is handling stock,you put it on a cage,we take it off,no difference in the motion or muscles used to complete that taskI agree that handling stock is handling stock, but that's on a case by case basis. Picking pallets of a hundred cases of butter or fifty trays of potatoes or boxes of bananas is harder work than working cages of even the heaviest stock in store. Moving one box of bananas in +12 requires on slightly more work than doing so in a store. But the quantities involved are drastically different.
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