r/petco

Buying forty pound bags of store brand cllumping clay keeps my pet budget predictable every single month. What makes me pause on motorized units is the quiet trap of recurring supplies. Some systems, like PETKIT, push specialized flushable pellets or custom-fit liners that steadily drive up operating costs over a couple of years. I noticed PetPivot while searching for open-top machines, but I am trying to verify if standard grocery-shelf litter works without jamming the sifting mechanism. Tying myself to brand exclusive refils completely wipes out whatever money I thought I was saving on basic care.

Does a motorized box only stay economical if it takes regular supermarket clay??

Funny how our petty bather is now a brown nose with the new salon leader 🤓

Anyone know the store use seaweed sku/lookup?
The sku provided on the aquatic feeding chart isn’t pulling up on OSS 😭

How long is the only manager on duty allowed to leave the building for? I get stuck in schedules where it’s myself and one manager for over half of the day and I have one who just up and leaves to either grab themself food or to go handle personal errands and they tend to be gone for up to 30 minutes sometimes. It’s not every time that they’re gone are they absent for that long, but I time it on the occasion and they’re never gone for less than 15 mins. I know it isn’t a long time to be alone in the store but they also do it on closing shifts with other associates when it’s just the two of them and when they return, they go straight to the back and I feel like I don’t see them for 45 mins or more sometimes. I just am wondering if this is something normal and if they’re allowed to leave associates alone in the store. I also don’t know if I should say something or not but it’s kinda frustrating when you have to tell customers multiple times a day “I have no idea where my manager is”.

Don't know what I actually expected out of this company for a milestone anniversary, maybe I'd least get a shout-out somewhere from someone. Even a paltry, if not automated "hey, thanks for your years of service" would have sufficed.

Do any of you have a list of things in wellness to make ordering easier? Writing everything on the board and relying on the team to let me know is NOT going to work for me. I want to do a weekly inventory of wellness and keep stock that way. I’m gonna make my own but thought I’d reach out here first. GM says there is no inventory list for wellness.

Has anyone had a problem at the register where when you input the amount of cash the person gave you, the system just starts adding Hella numbers before it auto continues so it says they have you 5,000 dollars in cash instead of 50? Anyone else deal with this?

Does anyone else’s store have a constant problem with sick/fighting turtles? My store has been following all the Petco guidelines exactly and have had no issues with water quality or heating/lights, yet we almost always have at least one turtle that is having problems.
(Plz share if you’ve had problems yourselves, I’d like to have evidence to show corporate that selling these guys is definitely costing us more time and money than we make from selling them/their supplies)

For context, I’ve been a sales associate at my location for well over 4 years now as a part timer due to university. Now I’m done with school and I’ve made a name for myself at my store due to my reliability with VCP and hard work and want to ask my GM for a promotion to SSA. Can any current SSAs give any context for their job compared to a regular SA? I want to know what to expect for this position and how different it will be compared to SA before I make a decision, thanks?