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I've noticed in the last 5 or so years in the area I live, that there aren't overnight receiver/stocker shifts working large retail chains. Day shift employees will be trying to receive a delivery, stock the delivery, while constantly getting pulled away to tell customers that "well, technically the item you want is in the store but its buried under 1950 pounds of other products on a pallet that is packed in the middle of six other pallets. If you want to wait an hour or two, we might be able to find it for you." while secretly hoping the customers will just fuck off so they can actually get the receiving/stocking done to stop all the questions.
I used use to do night shift stock work, and we got paid more for working late. I'm guessing this is the reason they're stopping it??
Ya it's super hard to stock with customers around. We used to lay all the boxes all over the aisle BEFORE we'd put shit on the shelf. It was so much more efficient. Some guys used to just throw all their cardboard on the floor and clean up all at once before the store opened. Also we could blast music all night. Of course we argue about tastes in music.
If that's the case those companies are in bad shape. That's a form of cost-cutting that will impact your bottom line badly very quickly. I can't imagine how unusable my store would be if we didn't have freight crew.