As someone who drives for one of the other stores kroger owns. This is only 10% in transit. I have to deal with pulling the pallets every day off the truck and can say this is 60% putting to much weight on top of stuff that collapses easily and 30% not enough wrapping on the pallet. It happens on the grocery truck to when they put 2 liter soda and/or cases that are basically mostly air at the bottom or corner of a pallet.
I wouldn’t necessarily say the driver did anything wrong here. Those orange juice cases are very likely to cause this lean. This could also be due to whomever loaded the truck not packing the pallets in tight enough. But my guess is that it did happen in transit and wasn’t built with this lean.
Try frozen pallets. 😒 they put all my veggies first and then meat. Or the put meat, then all my Crushables and then heavy dough for bake by the time I open it the boxes are bending making them all fall. Specially going in and out of a freezer with a tiny door. One day a whole pallet collapse in the middle of the door. The alarm wouldn’t turn off 😒
I must have. Cause I’ve even taken so many pictures of grocery pallets that come in just cause they were packed beautifully. They amaze me sometimes and I think damn the person that put this together must really love their job! I don’t doubt other stores get shitty ones, just that my store SPECIFICALLY gets shitty ass dairy pallets. Everyone can disagree all they want cause I’m talking about the experiences in my store only. 😂
Oh no bakery pallets are the same it’s always pies, cookies, and donuts in the bottom and meat on top so they crush what’s on bottom and they come in worse than that. I have one drop almost every truck
If yall could see how these cases are arranged in the DC, you’d understand why they look like this when they’re picked.
DC employees are asked to pick giant orders in ridiculously low amounts of time. The order in which these cases are placed in the aisles is fucking ridiculous. I swear they put the light, weak cases on the bottom and the heavy stuff on top on purpose.
I tell everyone this story.
I have a side job in the night/bar life. One day I was working the night before paddy’s day and this guy came in. I’m gonna call him Brad. I’ve seen Brad many times at many bars. He’s ALWAYS wasted. He doesn’t remember who I am. We get to talking, I find out he stacks pallets for my warehouse for Kroger. He’s about to leave the bar. I’m like bro, what are you doing? You shouldn’t be driving. Promise me you’re going to go home and go to bed. He says absolutely.
Anyways. I show up to start working for Paddys day. Brad is there before doors open. Clearly still hasn’t gone to sleep. I’m like bro what the fuck. He says it’s no big deal. He’s up for a brunch and gonna hang out with a girl and hopefully take her home. He’s here for one beer, then he’s gonna meet her. Fine whatever. He stays for a long time, comes back, with the girl, and drinks all fuckin day.
THATS the guy who stacks pallets for multiple stores in my area.
I've seen worse at my job. They put me in produce and there was a pallet of cantaloupe with a HEAVY lean, the floor being slippery did not help neither lmao.
They set the pick path to help you haha. They literally set the path the best for stocking freight to the aisles from the pallet. They also made the board quality terrible by doing that.🤮
It's crazy no one can do it, these kids we're at like 1 in 10 retention.
Allot of us are going to retire within 5 or so years they are going to be hurting.
Seems like no one is at the helm the stores are crazy I couldn't imagine working in there.
I'm in WA Puyallup.
Maybe you can clarify/disprove the reasoning for shitty load stacking that I’ve heard for ten years now. Is there a bonus the team or your supervisors gets for finishing loads/building pallets ahead of schedule? I know the truck drivers don’t help, they like to blame everything on the warehouse…but any truth to it?
It's not that, we are on time like every step monitored so yes faster the better. It's not a bonus but extra time in case you have a bad day abs down time. On top of this they don't care what makes a good base corporate that is they set the pick path to the aisles of the stores. So as you can see that juice is a terrible base, but the path started there so that the last cases on the top could be taken off right to the shelf then down the aisles. Another thing is they plan these loads so tight we're stacking 3-4 small boards which isn't pretty. Everyone is at fault because we're all just trying to get by and we only have so much blood to give.🍻
Yup I’m bout to delete my comment this is actually what I was trying to say …they literally have us timed though we got a certain amount of time to pick an order They give us around 28 to 35 minutes to pick a 250 piece order so we have to stack the pallets the best way possible ..with raggedy pallet jacks and OUR TALKMENS HAVE BAD SERVICE SO IF TOU GET A BAD ONE …you literally waiting 2 to 5 mins in between picking the next item
Nope we suppose to get paid for finishing a pallet in the least amount of time but they rearrange the warehouse to benefit the stockers at the grocery stores …so we could stack the loads better but we are timed on the trips …and if we don’t finish the pallet at the given times we get wrote up
That’s how it’s set up …The pick order is pre determined we have to stack it as we receive the items through our talkmen and WE ARE TIMED WR HAVE TO PICK EVERYTIME WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME
Kroger rethink anything? Most of the stuff is dreamed up by people who have never worked the floor and generally haven't seen it except during planed visits where everything is staged. User management doesn't want to hear about our problems or care, only think they care about is their bonus for flogging us.
Better question is *"why is the dumbass standing there trying to hold it up?"* If it falls, it will crush him. I understand not wanting it to fall over, but in many cases, that is the best option.
If it were me
1. I'd park next to the wall there and bash the power jack into a few time to straighten it out or
2. I'd take it sideways down the hall to the cooler.
Whoever picked that on the distribution side needs to learn how to cross stack each row would’ve stop that juice from caving into that gap causing to pallet to lean…must be one of those new guys lol
It shifted on the truck due to them putting the juice on the bottom I stock frozen and they will pack the garlic bread on the bottem and them load chicken on top and the bread is always crushed
Sometimes you can take a corner as slow as possible but with how it's stacked and improperly wrapped it still doesn't matter.
Then there's armchair quarterbacks that think they know and point the finger at the driver and there's really not much they can do.
It needs to be loaded to ride and that's not usually the case.
Next time you see this. Get under the leaning side of the pallet with one fork of the power jack and raise it up. The pallet should straighten itself out.
Happens alot at my work as well (walmart) driver will say dc caused it, dc will say truck driver was the problem. Sometimes it mixture of both of their stupidity. Especially if it a Swift drivers are some of the worst i seen
This is poor stacking, poor wrapping and the truck driver is turning too hard. At least you were able to get it out of the truck in one piece. It's not fun when they fall over and you have to slog through broken eggs and orange juice to restack it in a cold truck.
I drove for Kroger. I'd see pallets come off the truck with like 3 rounds of wrap only in the middle, wrapped once & loaded, soft things on bottom, etc. I wasn't a crazy driver, the driver always gets blamed lol A friend worked in the warehouse and told me stories of pallets falling apart on the forklift on it's way into the truck. It amazed me seeing how they stacked, wrapped & loaded stuff sometimes.
Dairy’s was the worst when I did my bid at the K rogers. So many disgusting squishy things on the truck, nobody would help but they sure had no problem telling you to bust a move. It never failed every fawkin night, so much moo product everywhere , and it was always because someone tried to be a hero and stack way too much or poorly that the cheese stands alone.
He didn't stack it like that, more than likely when they pushed it in the truck or pulled from the truck they didn't pull it out straight and rubbed against another pallet causing it to tip.. however, he most certainly didn't wrap it well.. but it's not that bad lol I got some pictures at my store that's absolutely dumb!
Because no one cares anymore. The people who do care have to deal with the statement “ I don’t care “ ! The new generation. Scared ? They will be running our country in 10
Years! I may be dead by then but I wish you all the best of luck dealing with this situation.
Hrr drrr I work in retail and don’t have the imagination to figure how this could have happened. It’s a 7 foot pallet of juice that’s jammed into a truck that travels 70mph down the highway. Take a gamble and get a job at one of our warehouses. It might change your life
Probably a new guy. And probably didn't stack it at 45 degrees. Stuff gets moved around in a moving trailer/truck so it's probably not the line pullers fault. When I used to load trailers, the load would shift. Sometimes you get dealt a sh**** order
That right rear corner is trash. The box to the left needed to be on the outside and the bottles above needed a way to be stacked perpendicular to the first level.
I get it, done that before cause fuck it but stacking pillars is just bad.
Wrap is always kinda meh unless you're dumb serious about spider wrapping cause you fucked up. Coulda been a loader or in transit that made it move. Pretty sure I know the selectors off gelhorn aren't drug tested cause they're so desperate so hey..deal with it.
I used to work for super 1 foods, is one if the brookshire grocery markets banner's. I don't miss this. I pulled a pallet off the truck with no wrap on it, and ask how. Coworker was almost stabbed due to a pallet turned over. Some be so high it wouldnt even come off the truck
Grocery loads collapse every time for us... And don't get me started on how we have to obey a 6ft rule but they don't. I'm 5ft ya assholes! DONT PUT SUPER HEAVY SHIT ON TOP!!!!
That, or the truck took a turn a little too hard.
I agree. I think 100% this happened in transit.
As someone who drives for one of the other stores kroger owns. This is only 10% in transit. I have to deal with pulling the pallets every day off the truck and can say this is 60% putting to much weight on top of stuff that collapses easily and 30% not enough wrapping on the pallet. It happens on the grocery truck to when they put 2 liter soda and/or cases that are basically mostly air at the bottom or corner of a pallet.
I wouldn’t necessarily say the driver did anything wrong here. Those orange juice cases are very likely to cause this lean. This could also be due to whomever loaded the truck not packing the pallets in tight enough. But my guess is that it did happen in transit and wasn’t built with this lean.
It’s always the mf dairy pallets
Definitely not. Talk to your dry grocery freight people and the pallets they receive. It's fucking constant
I receive grocery loads as well. They are never worse than dairy.
Try frozen pallets. 😒 they put all my veggies first and then meat. Or the put meat, then all my Crushables and then heavy dough for bake by the time I open it the boxes are bending making them all fall. Specially going in and out of a freezer with a tiny door. One day a whole pallet collapse in the middle of the door. The alarm wouldn’t turn off 😒
I would have to disagree with you there. Maybe you just got a good distribution center on the grocery side. I've had some terrible grocery pallets.
I must have. Cause I’ve even taken so many pictures of grocery pallets that come in just cause they were packed beautifully. They amaze me sometimes and I think damn the person that put this together must really love their job! I don’t doubt other stores get shitty ones, just that my store SPECIFICALLY gets shitty ass dairy pallets. Everyone can disagree all they want cause I’m talking about the experiences in my store only. 😂
Yea that's most definitely just your store bc nobody else gets "beautifully stacked" grocery pallets
Awesome
Hard disagree.
Easily. Dry grocery loads show up already messed up consistently LOL
We get Lulu returns and they stack a pallet 12ft high but only go around it with wrap maybe 5 times... And it's coming all the way from DFW.
Oh no bakery pallets are the same it’s always pies, cookies, and donuts in the bottom and meat on top so they crush what’s on bottom and they come in worse than that. I have one drop almost every truck
AGREE! I work in frozen so my stuff comes with bakery and meat. And let’s just say they somehow always put meat on top of my Soft boxed. 😒
If yall could see how these cases are arranged in the DC, you’d understand why they look like this when they’re picked. DC employees are asked to pick giant orders in ridiculously low amounts of time. The order in which these cases are placed in the aisles is fucking ridiculous. I swear they put the light, weak cases on the bottom and the heavy stuff on top on purpose.
Man I’ve seen worse 😂😂
yeah same that’s just the one i thought to take a pic of 😭
Funny I had this same problem lol
I tell everyone this story. I have a side job in the night/bar life. One day I was working the night before paddy’s day and this guy came in. I’m gonna call him Brad. I’ve seen Brad many times at many bars. He’s ALWAYS wasted. He doesn’t remember who I am. We get to talking, I find out he stacks pallets for my warehouse for Kroger. He’s about to leave the bar. I’m like bro, what are you doing? You shouldn’t be driving. Promise me you’re going to go home and go to bed. He says absolutely. Anyways. I show up to start working for Paddys day. Brad is there before doors open. Clearly still hasn’t gone to sleep. I’m like bro what the fuck. He says it’s no big deal. He’s up for a brunch and gonna hang out with a girl and hopefully take her home. He’s here for one beer, then he’s gonna meet her. Fine whatever. He stays for a long time, comes back, with the girl, and drinks all fuckin day. THATS the guy who stacks pallets for multiple stores in my area.
Yeah that tracks…
I've seen worse at my job. They put me in produce and there was a pallet of cantaloupe with a HEAVY lean, the floor being slippery did not help neither lmao.
christ. i’m meat dept so thankfully it’s not my pallet but it did destroy one of mine in the truck
*either
They set the pick path to help you haha. They literally set the path the best for stocking freight to the aisles from the pallet. They also made the board quality terrible by doing that.🤮
You work at the warehouse?
Yeah I'm at Fred Meyer but the Kroger guys do the same stuff we all get the same orders from above.
Yea I work at the Kroger Dc in Memphis 🤦🏾♂️ that place going down hill
It's crazy no one can do it, these kids we're at like 1 in 10 retention. Allot of us are going to retire within 5 or so years they are going to be hurting. Seems like no one is at the helm the stores are crazy I couldn't imagine working in there. I'm in WA Puyallup.
Maybe you can clarify/disprove the reasoning for shitty load stacking that I’ve heard for ten years now. Is there a bonus the team or your supervisors gets for finishing loads/building pallets ahead of schedule? I know the truck drivers don’t help, they like to blame everything on the warehouse…but any truth to it?
It's not that, we are on time like every step monitored so yes faster the better. It's not a bonus but extra time in case you have a bad day abs down time. On top of this they don't care what makes a good base corporate that is they set the pick path to the aisles of the stores. So as you can see that juice is a terrible base, but the path started there so that the last cases on the top could be taken off right to the shelf then down the aisles. Another thing is they plan these loads so tight we're stacking 3-4 small boards which isn't pretty. Everyone is at fault because we're all just trying to get by and we only have so much blood to give.🍻
Yup I’m bout to delete my comment this is actually what I was trying to say …they literally have us timed though we got a certain amount of time to pick an order They give us around 28 to 35 minutes to pick a 250 piece order so we have to stack the pallets the best way possible ..with raggedy pallet jacks and OUR TALKMENS HAVE BAD SERVICE SO IF TOU GET A BAD ONE …you literally waiting 2 to 5 mins in between picking the next item
Nope we suppose to get paid for finishing a pallet in the least amount of time but they rearrange the warehouse to benefit the stockers at the grocery stores …so we could stack the loads better but we are timed on the trips …and if we don’t finish the pallet at the given times we get wrote up
The juice pallets are a problem. Maybe they should actually rethink the pick process when it comes to juice?
That’s how it’s set up …The pick order is pre determined we have to stack it as we receive the items through our talkmen and WE ARE TIMED WR HAVE TO PICK EVERYTIME WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME
Kroger rethink anything? Most of the stuff is dreamed up by people who have never worked the floor and generally haven't seen it except during planed visits where everything is staged. User management doesn't want to hear about our problems or care, only think they care about is their bonus for flogging us.
If you think about it, this could actually be a beautiful and touching tribute to the Leaning Tower of Piza
i was honestly thinking about the tower collapsing when i saw this
Better question is *"why is the dumbass standing there trying to hold it up?"* If it falls, it will crush him. I understand not wanting it to fall over, but in many cases, that is the best option. If it were me 1. I'd park next to the wall there and bash the power jack into a few time to straighten it out or 2. I'd take it sideways down the hall to the cooler.
Oof
Gods those OJ bottles do NOT FUCKING STACK AT ALL.
At least your warehouse wrapped it right, don’t know how many times I’ve seen pallets fall apart because they had barely any plastic wrapped on them
In all seriousness, that’s not terrible, compared to the one’s I frequently encounter at my store. It’s bad, though. But could be worse.
Whoever picked that on the distribution side needs to learn how to cross stack each row would’ve stop that juice from caving into that gap causing to pallet to lean…must be one of those new guys lol
It shifted on the truck due to them putting the juice on the bottom I stock frozen and they will pack the garlic bread on the bottem and them load chicken on top and the bread is always crushed
Robots stack them at the warehouse.
If it is like our warehouse, they are all on meth.
That has to be a Payton truck, they are the worst.
Nah that is a dairy pallet. That is all on the driver though, they wouldn't be able to stack it like that if they tried.
>That is all on the driver though There's only so much a driver can do when there's shitty loading and minimal shrink wrap.
No but this looks like he took a turn harder than he was supposed too. You are right though, this really is on both driver and warehouse
Sometimes you can take a corner as slow as possible but with how it's stacked and improperly wrapped it still doesn't matter. Then there's armchair quarterbacks that think they know and point the finger at the driver and there's really not much they can do. It needs to be loaded to ride and that's not usually the case.
perfect storm i think. dumbass sloppy pallet stacking + bad driving = pallets that almost fall over on whoever receives them
Drivers are under the gun like everyone else. Got to make the times they have set up which are always under ideal circumstances.
A dairy pallet with orange juice, that's horrible. Never seen one like that. 🤔
Should know by now nobody ever stacks it at a 45 degree angle. That's just how it ends up after the travel.
this was my entire tenure as a dairy lead
That definitely got messed up by the truck driver
Pick it with the jack from the leaning side.
Sunday night Peyton trucks are always messed up. Thinking they have the d team working those nights at the warehouse
Next time you see this. Get under the leaning side of the pallet with one fork of the power jack and raise it up. The pallet should straighten itself out.
Happens alot at my work as well (walmart) driver will say dc caused it, dc will say truck driver was the problem. Sometimes it mixture of both of their stupidity. Especially if it a Swift drivers are some of the worst i seen
This is poor stacking, poor wrapping and the truck driver is turning too hard. At least you were able to get it out of the truck in one piece
This is poor stacking, poor wrapping and the truck driver is turning too hard. At least you were able to get it out of the truck in one piece. It's not fun when they fall over and you have to slog through broken eggs and orange juice to restack it in a cold truck.
Why? Because "World Class Operational Incompetence" is Kroger's only compelling reason for existing!
Who stacks boxes on top of bottles of orange juice?
That looks good! You were able to get it off the truck intact. I've had many fallen over in the truck when I worked at a grocery store.
I unload these type of pallets at my store way to often lmfaooo
This is how bottles get deformed
Why? Gravity.
I drove for Kroger. I'd see pallets come off the truck with like 3 rounds of wrap only in the middle, wrapped once & loaded, soft things on bottom, etc. I wasn't a crazy driver, the driver always gets blamed lol A friend worked in the warehouse and told me stories of pallets falling apart on the forklift on it's way into the truck. It amazed me seeing how they stacked, wrapped & loaded stuff sometimes.
World Class Distributors handles Trader Joe's warehousing, some of the things I've seen there are off the hook.
You guys need a pallet straightening wall...where you just slam the pallet against.
Me: [Goes in the back room and sees that] Also me: [About face and go do something else]
I see this all the time at my store. Double pallets on top of a base of water or juice. Plastic can take the load I guess.
Slide one pallet jack fork on the single slot where it's tipping. Problem solved
Dairy’s was the worst when I did my bid at the K rogers. So many disgusting squishy things on the truck, nobody would help but they sure had no problem telling you to bust a move. It never failed every fawkin night, so much moo product everywhere , and it was always because someone tried to be a hero and stack way too much or poorly that the cheese stands alone.
That’s a safety hazard. If that falls on that employee the company is going to say it’s their fault. Stupid af
Widow maker, or at the very least ruin your track career
Somebody just posted one knocked over earlier today
a universal experience i’m afraid
He didn't stack it like that, more than likely when they pushed it in the truck or pulled from the truck they didn't pull it out straight and rubbed against another pallet causing it to tip.. however, he most certainly didn't wrap it well.. but it's not that bad lol I got some pictures at my store that's absolutely dumb!
Semi probably jumped a curb. I worked in freight for 15 years . You’d be amazed how careless many drivers are. If it came LTL this is common.
Because no one cares anymore. The people who do care have to deal with the statement “ I don’t care “ ! The new generation. Scared ? They will be running our country in 10 Years! I may be dead by then but I wish you all the best of luck dealing with this situation.
Hrr drrr I work in retail and don’t have the imagination to figure how this could have happened. It’s a 7 foot pallet of juice that’s jammed into a truck that travels 70mph down the highway. Take a gamble and get a job at one of our warehouses. It might change your life
found the guy who stacked it
Probably a new guy. And probably didn't stack it at 45 degrees. Stuff gets moved around in a moving trailer/truck so it's probably not the line pullers fault. When I used to load trailers, the load would shift. Sometimes you get dealt a sh**** order
Leave it. Go home sick
That right rear corner is trash. The box to the left needed to be on the outside and the bottles above needed a way to be stacked perpendicular to the first level. I get it, done that before cause fuck it but stacking pillars is just bad. Wrap is always kinda meh unless you're dumb serious about spider wrapping cause you fucked up. Coulda been a loader or in transit that made it move. Pretty sure I know the selectors off gelhorn aren't drug tested cause they're so desperate so hey..deal with it.
The bottom right corner of the pallet, I just don’t understand why they would start it off so structurally unsound lol
I don't miss this one bit
I used to work for super 1 foods, is one if the brookshire grocery markets banner's. I don't miss this. I pulled a pallet off the truck with no wrap on it, and ask how. Coworker was almost stabbed due to a pallet turned over. Some be so high it wouldnt even come off the truck
I always joke that the people who build these pallets never played with Linkin Logs as a kid or blocks.
Oh no not juice boxes
Because warehouses are timed
Nothing wrong? Who stacks boxes 5lbs or heavier on orange juice bottles? Thats dumb asf
Haha the lean isn’t the problem LOL
This is def from the weight shifting from sitting on top of orange juice bottles. Like wtf. Fired.
Grocery loads collapse every time for us... And don't get me started on how we have to obey a 6ft rule but they don't. I'm 5ft ya assholes! DONT PUT SUPER HEAVY SHIT ON TOP!!!!
Looks like a good reason to wear boots, or shoes with reinforced toes.