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How do you feel when it's your Friday?

I love telling customers on Monday that it's about to be the weekend. Or if they ask how my weekend was I'll say it's about to start

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u/KakeLin — 8 days ago
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Mate rotation

Losing a few mates to other stores :(

One of them is one of the top 3 mates in the store. I'm sad, yo

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u/KakeLin — 1 month ago
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If your store has an absolutely awesome and beloved mate...

...be sure to thank them. Everyone likes feeling loved. And you want them to keep being awesome

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u/KakeLin — 2 months ago
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False alarm discontinues

Someone new at the Nazareth warehouse must be mistaking the discontinued D for a done D.

I checked a few weeks ago when the walks into a bar peach weren't there and QIL said discontinued! And the apple overnight oats (which I don't really care about) were discontinued but suddenly back the other day

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u/KakeLin — 2 months ago
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When you truly WOW a customer

Can help you feel better, especially when life itself is going absolutely awful

Been actually looking forward to being at work more than not being at work.

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago
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Is anyone else always among the last to get their reviews?

Doesn't matter if it's a good review, DNME, or even the WOW. I'm always one of the last. It's freaking weird.

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago

Clean 90s R&B with non-sexual lyrics?

I figured this would be a great place to ask for more songs to add to my playlist. Sexual lyrics, though allowed on playlists for work, make me hella uncomfy and i don't want uncomfy in the stuff i wanna enjoy as i play for my coworkers.

I'm quite sex-repulsed!

I have many TLC songs but if y'all listen to any good clean deep cuts please tell me!

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago
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Smoke

It's crazy doing cart runs and the wildfire smoke is making it so hard to breathe out there

Fellow east coast stores in the smoke path, how's everyone doing?

Edit for spelling

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago
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When is peak time at your store?

Here it's between like 1230 and 330 or so. That's when we have the most registers open.

We always get a rush of people after 8 as well since people have learned that stuff from the night truck got stocked.

Around 5 can be strangely slower.

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago
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How's your cold units holding up in this heat dome?

Ours... Isn't

Never seen the curtains down during the day.

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago
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Captains meeting happened yesterday

How long do you think before the POS traderjoesobsessed leaks all the insider info from it?

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u/KakeLin — 3 months ago
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Are secret shoppers hired by the state or the company?

To enforce state law or company policy?

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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We still have mini totes lol

Well, as of yesterday there was still a huge pile at the bridge. I'm a best shifter so I'm not at work yet to check.

Thought last shipment was supposed to be Monday but we got one Tuesday night!

I had a customer excited run over to the bridge when I told her that we still had totes, I turned to point her to the bridge and we ran into each other but we were both okay

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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How many stores actually switched to 9 am open?

Seems lots of the people here still open at 8 am. My store has a nice 9-9 sign by the entry/exit doors

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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Truck came before 6 pm, we waited until 7 pm to put the totes out. Only like 8/36 cases or so remained.

Was kinda hard to tell cause they were broken down on the display by the bridge and in carts in the back ready to refill the display.

Thankfully there will be few left for the morning crazies. The sane people got their fair shot at a bag

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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Sold out of bags between 12 pm and 1 pm on day 1. I think people camped our night truck because as soon as it arrived it was busy

I had 8 pm register and it was busier than 6 pm on a Sunday rofl. Our night truck gets in at 6.

But at least humans had their chance to get bags not just resellers! I complimented a customer that came to my line with one of her bags actually with groceries in it! USING THE BAG NOT JUST A DUMB STATUS SYMBOL! (well I didn't say it quite like that)

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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My cutter finally broke after 4.5 years T_T

It was the cutter I got when I was hired! I'm devastated

The tab broke off, the one that you use to get the blade out :(

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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I was doing final cart run and...

...apparently a beetle decided to land on my head but I didn't notice. Worked the rest of the night and clocked out then went to the breakroom to get my stuff. All of a sudden I feel something on my neck and freak out and slap at it.

It landed on a table so I got a disposable cup and put the poor thing outside as I left. Plus I didn't wanna leave it in the breakroom

I guess it just wanted to hitch a ride :(

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago
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Do any trader Joe's share a space with another business?

Not just same building (many do especially city stores) but ones that aren't really fully divided from each other

Had a dream where a trader Joe's at the end of an aisle was like a clothing department. There was a trader Joe's café outside the space that was that store's version of demo

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u/KakeLin — 4 months ago