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Lack of cold chain

Started by Peacelily, 05-09-20, 07:22PM

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lucgeo

#50
I think everything gets wasted now...which is a crying shame  :-X
When I was a kid, the local butcher had a whole lamb, pig and beef cuts hanging up in the shop all day. Joints were cut from it, and they were put back in the big fridge at end of day, to come out the next. Bacon bones were given free ( for the dog mister  :-[ ) everything was done on the smell test.
At one time, anything found on shop floor that was salvageable, was transferred up to the canteen for the staff lunches. Boxes of eggs with some broken were taken in the back, and full boxes made up for sale, cracked were sent to canteen for breakfast or for baking. OOC  long life tins, crisps, biscuits etc..were wasted and put out for staff to help themselves.
The amount of money lost now is shameful. Rather than have more staff to rotate stock, get it out on the shelves, monitor the aisles whilst doing it, has been replaced with accepted % of losses in stocktake for shoplifting, negative book stocks and missing stock, which can be as much as 100k (5 full timers ) in medium sized stores. Replaced with less staff, more waste, more shoplifting, all monitored by newly installed CCTV, whose main aim seems to be to monitor the staff for the slightest misdemeanour (easy prey) rather than bother to even pursue shoplifters out of the store ( Yep they've cut back on security staff ) never mind through the courts.
This, apparently, is progress  :-X
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King1999

Progress the excuse to cut back..........expect more from the few.Who just want to get through their shift without any drama and get out of the place.

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