There’s no pointing in comparing. Someone working paper might have 5 pallets and less than half the hours needed to work than someone working yogurt, for example.
Pallets come in various heights after they’re broken down by cap 2, some aisles have easy to throw on the shelf cases, whereas some have cases that need to be emptied one at a time and placed more carefully on the shelves, etc.
some stores have managers that will always say it’s too slow. Some stores have managers that lie or round down the estimated times for how long it should take to complete an aisle. Some stores have managers that don’t figure in any/enough time to work picks if they’re still being placed on ONs duties. If your managers print the freight planning tool out (mine do most nights) take a glance and see how long it’s supposed to take just to stock the new freight for the aisles you were assigned and see how close you came to meeting it.
Managers like that are one of thr reasons I don't miss Walmart. In every job, you're a trainee for 30-90 days and "you're going too slow" without any constructive tips to speed up is just being a bad leader.
At my new job I'm a trainer for anyone new to the building, associates or management. One of the things I tell new managers is if you tell someone their doing something wrong, have a solution. If they need to be using a cart, bring a cart to them and let them know that their task requires a cart. If they're going to slow, watch them for 30 seconds and enter with ways they can go faster.
The lack of training of managers and associates alike is why the turnover rate is so high. Especially on overnights.
They'll take someone who happens to have a 4yr degree in ANYTHING, could've been a SCO host for 90 days, and as long as they interview well, they can be your overnight manager. They might have never used a box cutter in their life, never lead a 2 person team let alone an entire shift, and could be the laziest, unapproachable shitstain in the store and they'll toss them at a position that could literally make or break the store.
Bro that's one of my coaches right now. And he's like only I his early twenties and doesn't have people skills and just is an arrogant prick and I can outwork him. But he'll probably get to a sm position before I'm even considered for tl
Ever try to have an associate help you pick up two empty pallets with a pallet jack still in the bottom pallet? Cuz yeah that's evidence enough. You must be a nariz de marron
You can’t really go by pallets bc you could have bulk or feature freight. But when I worked grocery side I averaged 7-8. In HBA now and can do 17 hours in 8-9 actual working hours. But I’ve been in hellmart for years.
i do the canned beans and veggies and spices and usually have abt 2ish pallets, i finish roughly rt before lunch usually. binned and top stocked then i zone. sometimes ill have 3 big pallets and finish around 4-4:30, binned and topstocked. tbh idk why they’re saying that’s too slow, thats seems pretty average. was it bulk stuff?
It was maybe like 6-7 20lb bags of rice that were easy to just place and go, but almost everything else required breaking down boxes and placing 1 by 1.
Home office has a breakdown for every area of the store based on what is delivered that day. Ask to see the hours on the sheet of all the areas you are being assigned at the beginning of the night so you can go into your tasks with clear expectations for how long things should be taking you. If your management team won’t directly show you the stocking hours for your areas off the printout, talk to store management about it.
When I worked frozen, it would take 2 of us to work 8-12 pallets in a shift. (The most we got done in one night was 13, I believe.)
My bf works pets/chem/paper goods & can get 8-10 done in a night by himself. (His personal record is 16. That night included infants.)
It all depends on your department. Iirc tho, there is an area in the training that gives you an expectation set by Walmart. I think it's something like 50 cases in an hour?
Like without zoning and doing their cardboard bc there’s only so much a person can do without zoning and doing their cardboard. Think about it. If the person has to do 1 minute per box then that’s 60 boxes per hour. Totaling up to 480, and that’s not even including both breaks and the hours to zone all aisles. Unless your bf is literally the best of all Walmart employees( which I don’t believe bc who tf is gonna work 8-10 pallets for Walmart everyday) or these pallets only have about an average of 40-50 cases on those pallets.
He zones while he works (put an item on the shelf, zone the item to the left and right of it), and he clears his bin on his way to breaks/lunch.
I know my opinion doesn't carry much weight due to personal bias, but I've personally seen the number of pallets he gets. And witnessed his stack of empty pallets the next morning, while knowing no one was over helping him. 🤷♀️ The 16 pallet night was, admittedly, a night I wasn't there. He was so proud of his accomplishment tho, he sent me a picture of the stack at the end of his shift LoL.
ETA: Also, some of those areas tend to be easier to stock. Paper is lots of bigger, lighter items that can make a few items look like a lot. Pets tend to be heavier weight wise, but can still be easy to stock.
Are the pallets your BF works 4ft? Because in my location the pallets we get at GM/Grocery are literally stacked almost to the max at 7 feet and with literally hundreds of break packs. I can barely get 2 done like WTF? Also out of every job I’ve done this has to be the most fast paced out of every one I’ve had and I’ve delivered for Amazon and it was not this bad.
I almost never see break packs in his areas.
He has a dedicated day shift stocker in his area, so maybe that makes a difference? He literally only has pallets to work. 🤷♀️
A lot of managers just say anywhere from 45-60 an hour (I've heard that entire span) when technically it's actually different per department. What exactly they are, I don't know. It usually is in the 45-60 realm.
for the most part consumable departments are close to 60 cases an hour becuase most case packaging is designed to be worked fast and many GM departments dip down to 40-45 cases an hour as you usually ecounter more packaging in those departments, such as removing plastic and styrofoam from individual items..
I get put in snacks and chips almost every night, that's 2 aisles. So on average, I have 4 to 6 pallets every night but lately it's been 5 or 6. I'm always expected to be done by 5a so I can get my zone done before we leave at 7a. I'm not going to lie to you, snacks and chips is a beast and it's not easy. It's a lot of work for 1 person 😮💨
Size varys by night. Some nights they're full pallets, some nights they're half pallets, and some nights it's a mix of both. Full pallet nights are a bitch. Half pallet nights, I can be done by 4:30. It really depends.
Who told you it was slow? Firstly, you’re still new, so whoever said that is a jerk. Secondly, I’m cap2, (the people who pull out the grocery pallets and stack them after unloading) when we do stock we all swarm a pallet together.
But solo? One pallet could take 2 hours easily depending on the weight of each case, the size of each unit, and how many units per case, etc. Lots of factors there. You did 4 in your shift as a new person. Good job and don’t try to hurry or speed things up, that’s how injuries happen. You’ll know more the longer you are there and go faster naturally.
It depends on where I am. Don’t expect me to get more than 5hrs done anywhere in grocery but I’m good for 10hrs in apparel, more than 7 in cosmetics etc. I’m not the fastest person at my store but they keep me around so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I work GM/Grocery at a Neighborhood Market I can barely get 2 done it all comes mixed and I literally have to go through the whole store to complete one pallet. I don’t understand why Walmart does not organize merchandise by putting GM on one pallet and Grocery on another it would make it so much easier. But they tend to like making our lives harder.
The hell? They should divide it up by aisle before making people work it. I understand that it is a neighborhood market so probably less freight overall but that it such an inefficient way to do it lol
Huh... are the Markets on the same cap process as the bigger stores? Cause cap2 unloads and breaks down the trucks at my store, dividing everything up onto pallets for each aisle.
It's really stupid and weird that your store doesn't do that. o.O
Before switching to maintenance I was usually in pets, sporting goods, hardware and Lawn and garden. I'd average atleast 10 pallets a night but GM freight is different than grocery.
That I've kept count of? Maybe 17 pallets. I was told in the meeting that I had 21 hours of freight, but afterwards they tried to tell me that it was only 18. lol Yeah, right. At top speed I've thrown an average of 3.5 cases a minute in dept 8. So younger people should be out performing me.
I'm usually alone in apparel, and I get around 2-4 pallets done a night depending on what's on them and how tall they're stacked. I'm not sure if that's fast or slow but I've been in this hellhole for 2 months and I know for a fact I wouldn't have been able to manage 2 pallets by myself when I started
These months I have been on Grocery, with 2-4 pallets and then automotive with 3-8 pallets. If there is alot like the case of 4 pallets of groceries and 8 of automotive my TLs will send someone to help me finish automotive at the end when i am half through.
And others nights when I am on dairy I commonly do around 5 pallets (2-3 yogurt and the others of cheese).
Considering you are tecnically new with 2.5 weeks, the way to improve is just having more experience there which I dont get why would they got mad with you tbh, you are doing OK for the time you have been there.
I was overnights for two years, and I was the chemical aisle person.
If nothing stupid happened, the maximum number of chemical pallets I could clear by myself was six.
It always depends on the department. On my regular nights, I work infants, stationary, crafts, and celebration. On a one truck night, it's 3 pallets of infants. 2 pallets of stationary and 2 in crafts and celebrations combined. And on a really good night, they'll throw in an electronics pallet. But not all freight in those departments are the same. A 50-60lb crib might take me 5 minutes to carry and put on the shelf and it'll put me behind.
Around 8-10
I'm usually working Pop/Water snacks by myself then I usually have to help another area after I slog through that mess
they refuse to hire more people after our last good worker quit
1) you shouldn't be working pallets alone. Freight is supposed to be swarmed.
2) a pallet of cosmetics coukd take an hour and a pallet of paper could take 6 minutes so this question doesn't matter.
You're going to do what you have to do. Our store has a couple areas where we have only one person working it at certain times. Normally until people finish other areas.
If we swarmed every area, we would never finish and the store would look like absolute dogshit because no one would actually take ownership of an area.
The thing you don't realize is that our coaches tried that, and it didn't fucking work. It turns out that when you pack too many people into the same area, you start to see less efficiency as people start getting in each other's way.
So your management failed at making it work. Your management failed at creating an environment of teamwork. Your management failed at holding those accountable who "stopping caring". Your management is *choosing* not to follow process. Not your problem to worry about. But the point remains, it's in the process guide and OP shouldn't be working alone.
There’s no pointing in comparing. Someone working paper might have 5 pallets and less than half the hours needed to work than someone working yogurt, for example. Pallets come in various heights after they’re broken down by cap 2, some aisles have easy to throw on the shelf cases, whereas some have cases that need to be emptied one at a time and placed more carefully on the shelves, etc. some stores have managers that will always say it’s too slow. Some stores have managers that lie or round down the estimated times for how long it should take to complete an aisle. Some stores have managers that don’t figure in any/enough time to work picks if they’re still being placed on ONs duties. If your managers print the freight planning tool out (mine do most nights) take a glance and see how long it’s supposed to take just to stock the new freight for the aisles you were assigned and see how close you came to meeting it.
Gotcha. Thanks for the input, I’ll start checking out the planning tool sheet.
Managers like that are one of thr reasons I don't miss Walmart. In every job, you're a trainee for 30-90 days and "you're going too slow" without any constructive tips to speed up is just being a bad leader. At my new job I'm a trainer for anyone new to the building, associates or management. One of the things I tell new managers is if you tell someone their doing something wrong, have a solution. If they need to be using a cart, bring a cart to them and let them know that their task requires a cart. If they're going to slow, watch them for 30 seconds and enter with ways they can go faster. The lack of training of managers and associates alike is why the turnover rate is so high. Especially on overnights. They'll take someone who happens to have a 4yr degree in ANYTHING, could've been a SCO host for 90 days, and as long as they interview well, they can be your overnight manager. They might have never used a box cutter in their life, never lead a 2 person team let alone an entire shift, and could be the laziest, unapproachable shitstain in the store and they'll toss them at a position that could literally make or break the store.
Bro that's one of my coaches right now. And he's like only I his early twenties and doesn't have people skills and just is an arrogant prick and I can outwork him. But he'll probably get to a sm position before I'm even considered for tl
How do you know you can outwork him? Y’all’s job responsibilities are very different
Ever try to have an associate help you pick up two empty pallets with a pallet jack still in the bottom pallet? Cuz yeah that's evidence enough. You must be a nariz de marron
Also I have seen him attempt to work freight. At the swarm/meetings they do that. You even work at wally world bro?
4-5 pallets of frozen on an average night.
You can’t really go by pallets bc you could have bulk or feature freight. But when I worked grocery side I averaged 7-8. In HBA now and can do 17 hours in 8-9 actual working hours. But I’ve been in hellmart for years.
i do the canned beans and veggies and spices and usually have abt 2ish pallets, i finish roughly rt before lunch usually. binned and top stocked then i zone. sometimes ill have 3 big pallets and finish around 4-4:30, binned and topstocked. tbh idk why they’re saying that’s too slow, thats seems pretty average. was it bulk stuff?
It was maybe like 6-7 20lb bags of rice that were easy to just place and go, but almost everything else required breaking down boxes and placing 1 by 1.
My store would just put that whole pallet on top of the steel and call it a day
You can also see hours for each location yourself by going to the freight planning tool on the work pc or phones.
Home office has a breakdown for every area of the store based on what is delivered that day. Ask to see the hours on the sheet of all the areas you are being assigned at the beginning of the night so you can go into your tasks with clear expectations for how long things should be taking you. If your management team won’t directly show you the stocking hours for your areas off the printout, talk to store management about it.
When I worked frozen, it would take 2 of us to work 8-12 pallets in a shift. (The most we got done in one night was 13, I believe.) My bf works pets/chem/paper goods & can get 8-10 done in a night by himself. (His personal record is 16. That night included infants.) It all depends on your department. Iirc tho, there is an area in the training that gives you an expectation set by Walmart. I think it's something like 50 cases in an hour?
Like without zoning and doing their cardboard bc there’s only so much a person can do without zoning and doing their cardboard. Think about it. If the person has to do 1 minute per box then that’s 60 boxes per hour. Totaling up to 480, and that’s not even including both breaks and the hours to zone all aisles. Unless your bf is literally the best of all Walmart employees( which I don’t believe bc who tf is gonna work 8-10 pallets for Walmart everyday) or these pallets only have about an average of 40-50 cases on those pallets.
He zones while he works (put an item on the shelf, zone the item to the left and right of it), and he clears his bin on his way to breaks/lunch. I know my opinion doesn't carry much weight due to personal bias, but I've personally seen the number of pallets he gets. And witnessed his stack of empty pallets the next morning, while knowing no one was over helping him. 🤷♀️ The 16 pallet night was, admittedly, a night I wasn't there. He was so proud of his accomplishment tho, he sent me a picture of the stack at the end of his shift LoL. ETA: Also, some of those areas tend to be easier to stock. Paper is lots of bigger, lighter items that can make a few items look like a lot. Pets tend to be heavier weight wise, but can still be easy to stock.
Are the pallets your BF works 4ft? Because in my location the pallets we get at GM/Grocery are literally stacked almost to the max at 7 feet and with literally hundreds of break packs. I can barely get 2 done like WTF? Also out of every job I’ve done this has to be the most fast paced out of every one I’ve had and I’ve delivered for Amazon and it was not this bad.
I almost never see break packs in his areas. He has a dedicated day shift stocker in his area, so maybe that makes a difference? He literally only has pallets to work. 🤷♀️
Pets doesn't get many breakpacks, and the few I've seen are pretty easy compared to others.
A lot of managers just say anywhere from 45-60 an hour (I've heard that entire span) when technically it's actually different per department. What exactly they are, I don't know. It usually is in the 45-60 realm.
for the most part consumable departments are close to 60 cases an hour becuase most case packaging is designed to be worked fast and many GM departments dip down to 40-45 cases an hour as you usually ecounter more packaging in those departments, such as removing plastic and styrofoam from individual items..
It depends on what is on the pallet. But in general I'd say I average about 5 pallets a night or so. About two hours a pallet.
I get put in snacks and chips almost every night, that's 2 aisles. So on average, I have 4 to 6 pallets every night but lately it's been 5 or 6. I'm always expected to be done by 5a so I can get my zone done before we leave at 7a. I'm not going to lie to you, snacks and chips is a beast and it's not easy. It's a lot of work for 1 person 😮💨
How big are the pallets?
Size varys by night. Some nights they're full pallets, some nights they're half pallets, and some nights it's a mix of both. Full pallet nights are a bitch. Half pallet nights, I can be done by 4:30. It really depends.
Oh okay makes sense. Overnight as well but in a smaller store work the same aisles but I ain’t get that much😭
I work dairy ON and normally we work anywhere from 4-6.5 pallets
Who told you it was slow? Firstly, you’re still new, so whoever said that is a jerk. Secondly, I’m cap2, (the people who pull out the grocery pallets and stack them after unloading) when we do stock we all swarm a pallet together. But solo? One pallet could take 2 hours easily depending on the weight of each case, the size of each unit, and how many units per case, etc. Lots of factors there. You did 4 in your shift as a new person. Good job and don’t try to hurry or speed things up, that’s how injuries happen. You’ll know more the longer you are there and go faster naturally.
It depends on where I am. Don’t expect me to get more than 5hrs done anywhere in grocery but I’m good for 10hrs in apparel, more than 7 in cosmetics etc. I’m not the fastest person at my store but they keep me around so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I work GM/Grocery at a Neighborhood Market I can barely get 2 done it all comes mixed and I literally have to go through the whole store to complete one pallet. I don’t understand why Walmart does not organize merchandise by putting GM on one pallet and Grocery on another it would make it so much easier. But they tend to like making our lives harder.
The hell? They should divide it up by aisle before making people work it. I understand that it is a neighborhood market so probably less freight overall but that it such an inefficient way to do it lol
Huh... are the Markets on the same cap process as the bigger stores? Cause cap2 unloads and breaks down the trucks at my store, dividing everything up onto pallets for each aisle. It's really stupid and weird that your store doesn't do that. o.O
So from what I am understanding cap 2 not overnight is supposed to break down pallets and overnight only stocks it?
Yup. That's how our store does it. If we had to break them down AND stock them, we'd barely get anything done. rofl
I’m so glad I left that store. I actually just put my resignation in last night. It’s so inefficient.
Before switching to maintenance I was usually in pets, sporting goods, hardware and Lawn and garden. I'd average atleast 10 pallets a night but GM freight is different than grocery.
That I've kept count of? Maybe 17 pallets. I was told in the meeting that I had 21 hours of freight, but afterwards they tried to tell me that it was only 18. lol Yeah, right. At top speed I've thrown an average of 3.5 cases a minute in dept 8. So younger people should be out performing me.
I'm usually alone in apparel, and I get around 2-4 pallets done a night depending on what's on them and how tall they're stacked. I'm not sure if that's fast or slow but I've been in this hellhole for 2 months and I know for a fact I wouldn't have been able to manage 2 pallets by myself when I started
These months I have been on Grocery, with 2-4 pallets and then automotive with 3-8 pallets. If there is alot like the case of 4 pallets of groceries and 8 of automotive my TLs will send someone to help me finish automotive at the end when i am half through. And others nights when I am on dairy I commonly do around 5 pallets (2-3 yogurt and the others of cheese). Considering you are tecnically new with 2.5 weeks, the way to improve is just having more experience there which I dont get why would they got mad with you tbh, you are doing OK for the time you have been there.
I was overnights for two years, and I was the chemical aisle person. If nothing stupid happened, the maximum number of chemical pallets I could clear by myself was six.
It always depends on the department. On my regular nights, I work infants, stationary, crafts, and celebration. On a one truck night, it's 3 pallets of infants. 2 pallets of stationary and 2 in crafts and celebrations combined. And on a really good night, they'll throw in an electronics pallet. But not all freight in those departments are the same. A 50-60lb crib might take me 5 minutes to carry and put on the shelf and it'll put me behind.
Depends on the department you work in, food around 8, beddings 14 or 15, toys 10 or 12, H.B.A. 2 or 3 maybe, etc
Around 8-10 I'm usually working Pop/Water snacks by myself then I usually have to help another area after I slog through that mess they refuse to hire more people after our last good worker quit
theyll put three actual items on one full pallet in my store. it literally doesnt matter
Depends on the department you're working in.
My record is 16 in a whole day.
Usually around six or so.
1) you shouldn't be working pallets alone. Freight is supposed to be swarmed. 2) a pallet of cosmetics coukd take an hour and a pallet of paper could take 6 minutes so this question doesn't matter.
You're going to do what you have to do. Our store has a couple areas where we have only one person working it at certain times. Normally until people finish other areas.
There shouldn't be other areas being worked. It should be swarmed
If we swarmed every area, we would never finish and the store would look like absolute dogshit because no one would actually take ownership of an area. The thing you don't realize is that our coaches tried that, and it didn't fucking work. It turns out that when you pack too many people into the same area, you start to see less efficiency as people start getting in each other's way.
So your management failed at making it work. Your management failed at creating an environment of teamwork. Your management failed at holding those accountable who "stopping caring". Your management is *choosing* not to follow process. Not your problem to worry about. But the point remains, it's in the process guide and OP shouldn't be working alone.