How much out of date food do you come across when doing your review? (Express stores)
Every single time I do it I will find at least one item (usually around 5 or more) from the day before, days before or longer.
Probably around 50% of the items I reduce aren’t even on the review. I’m finding these by accident by just looking around or later on in my shift when stacking shelves.
This means that there will be so so many items that aren’t on the review that need to be reduced that get missed, it’s not necessarily a case of people not checking the back of shelves etc properly it’s just that the PDA isn’t telling us to review the correct items and I know this because I can do it multiple days in a row and find an extremely niche food out of date that hasn’t come up on the review. I always input the next date for the remaining stock correctly too and it still happens.
This now means I have to spend an extra hour or so every single day doing the review so I can also check every single item in the milk, meat, seafood, provisions and other chiller as well as every fruit and veg even if I’m not told to because of the sheer amount of stuff that gets missed.
When my manager sees how much out of code food I find he gets so stressed but the literal only way to prevent this is to scan every single solitary item in the store which is thousands of items every single day and would take hours and hours which is why the review exists. There’s literally nothing you can do about it.