Also hilarious to me how they tell employees to return perishible stuff as soon as possible to the cooler. Today, any meat or frozen vegetable found outside their area gets scanned out. Not worth risking a food poisoning lawsuit to save 10$ on a pack of chicken thighs
What even is that?! The person to say hello at the door?!! Jealous, but also not cause it seems boring AF and stocking while store open or closed (like usual for stocking shifts) or doing the register.
@@bethanybergeson4192 ahaha. Yeah with us thats literally everyone in the store. And every cashier needs to be able to do service desk, since it is just a register. I still can't, but my function has recently changed. So i will. Just on the whiteboard it then just says service desk and your name. And you'll get called everytime when there is someone. Else you just stand in the store stocking, like all other cashiers except the main register.
Bethany Bergeson I never realized it either, but the “Courtesy Desk” term is used in the Northeast and New England areas. We always called it the “Courtesy Counter” in my store too. I still refer to it as “Courtesy” when I am in any store, and many people have no idea what I am talking about.
As a part timer I was sent to cashiers school in anticipation of the plaid stamp rollout in 1961for A&P.We had to learn to the right key for produce(green) meats(red) and I believe two different keys for groceries ,one taxable and the other regular groceries. We had to figure the taxes for some items. By the way the produce manager and meat manager were very protective that we hit the right keys for their products since they had to show a profit for their departments.The meat manager would often come up to the register when a large meat order was being purchased.People would actually come in the morning and squeeze the he'll out of the fruit and tomatoes and come back before closing to get a mark down on produce.These people were not poor by any means,just people that gamed the system.Oh by the way cigarettes that was shelved on top of register were 22 cents
Something they missed when it comes to finding perishable food left by a customer in an aisle is to check to see if it's still cold before you put it back in the fridge section. Unless you actually see the customer leave it, you don't know how long it's been out if you end up finding it.
I forgot how nicely dressed grocery store employees used to be. I used to have to wear a black bow tie, white shirt and red apron with black shoes when I worked at Hughes market. I think they need to return to that look. Now you can barely tell who’s an employee anymore. But I guess even the public dresses shabby today. It is what it is.
@@alwillk Dress like a million bucks? That’s funny! If only. I always made above minimum wage when I worked at grocery stores back in the 50s. Btw If you’re doing a good job, you ask for a raise. If you don’t get it. You start looking for another job. The clothes (uniform) I wore was cheap. The clip on bow tie and apron were provided by the store. If you’re making minimum wage, it’s a starting wage for your in experience. I live in LA. The minimum wage has been replaced and is now called ‘the living wage’ lol. It’s currently $17.50 an hour. Most waitresses make $20.00 an hour, plus tips. Many dress like crap and would probably prefer a job provided uniform. But hey I know most people would feel discriminated against or oppressed today if an employer demanded they did. Playing victim is an Olympic sport now. 😂
9:50 "Where's your public bathroom?" "Back here in the stock room. Go through these doors, take a right, go up a flight of stairs and the bathrooms should be at the end of the hall after the breakroom."
I used to work in retail mgt. for years, there is no way this place was making less than 1% profit on the products they sold. A store/chain like that would fold within a year if they were basically making 0 profit on their sales.
The A & P came to Lancaster, Ohio and made my grandpa (who owned a corner grocery store) an offer: Come work for us or we will put you out of business in 6 months. He told them to shove their job where the sun don't shine. He closed his store 6 months later. That was the end of the family's fortune. Thanks A & P.
For the teens and young adults looking for their first job, NEVER consider working a grocery store on intent to making it a career. It's an ok job to your foot in the door just for work experience, but only use it as a temporary income source while you pursue an actual career via college, trading school, etc. I've worked for Jewel Osco for 4 1/2 years as a grocery clerk and it was the biggest waste of 4 years I've ever spent. They barely give you raises no matter how hard you work, you start at minimum or in a lot of cases below minimum wage, you get treated like a child, and you don't move up in the ladder because they want to keep you in that position for as long as possible. I wasted 3 of my 4 years working for Jewel Osco trying to get promoted to dairy manager only to get passed up by someone who's never worked in the store before. Even when the old dairy manager recommended me to take his place as he was retiring, I was passed up by one of the store manager's corporate buddies. Grocery retail is a stepping stone, nothing more.
I would have to agree I've been working at Stop and Shop for 4 years and for a whole year I've been trying to get a slightly better position from getting carts to frozen foods(just to get out of the heat and back breaking work no pay increase). The wages are 30 cents higher than minimum wage but $10.90 really isn't enough especially in my state. The only good thing about S&S is they have pretty generous vacation time. And I've had managers bully me by saying I took an hour break instead of a 15 minute break which is complete bullshit I invite them the look at the security cameras!
@@alexsaab8089 atleast you get breaks,my store managers only "recommend" 30 min lunch.even if the law says two 15 min breaks and 30 min to hour lunch. Also trust me,you don't want to be dairy manager,I seen no more then 4 employees quit that position in less then 2 to 3 weeks. Frozen is a pain if there's only two guys on schedule
When I was 17 I worked at Kroger for 6 months. I quit the same month I graduated. I was so shocked to see how many people had been working there longer than I’d been alive ...and still a checker. It’s as if they were stuck and just didn’t think there was anything else out there for them. Very depressing.
Never check out a friend or relative. Lol Sorry Suzy, you'll have to get your items rung up by Bob. Company policy. Bob: Sorry again Suzy, you'll have to get your things rung up by Pam. Pam: Hey cuz, sorry, we're relatives and it's only us 3 at working the tills until 8pm. Would you mind coming back in about 6 hours?
I'm supposed to be sleeping because I have to wake up early to catch a flight..........BUT I am too busy watching old training vids from decades gone by, oops! It looked like the 80s to me, so I was surprised to see it's from 1992, I was already born haha! Before this one, I watched a training vid from the 60s. Their cash registers were like, completely manual...no auto scanner, you had to ring the amount and product category yourself, and you made change using nothing but your head -- I think the till did give you the total, though ;) People could cash cheques with the cashier to pay apparently (this vid they could too)? Apart from the cheques everything seemed to be in cash too, no cards. Fascinating, how something so mundane as grocery store checkouts has changed so much, even between 1992 and now!
That is a good point-you can see in the part where they show the checkout lanes that there are no credit/debit kiosks for people to pay using credit or debit. It was either cash or check in 92. The credit/debit cards came like 2-3 years later.
These training videos would even be good in today's world. In many stores I walk in now, they look like their back storage rooms, no space to walk or anything. It's absolutely shameful! Thank you for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.
While all of this is pretty funny, there is a certain bit of it that gives me anxiety. It reminds me of starting to work at a job that I knew was dead-end. I remember watching the films in orientation and thinking, even then, that they were cheesy. Everyone in the room did.
Nowadays this training video would tell you how your fully trained and heavily armed security force could possibly save 10% of your stores toothpaste from being stolen.
The example at 17:33 isn't very clear he said lets grab a bag and have them for lunch. People use the term grab some things at the grocery all the time in an honest intention. I understand being this is a loss prevention video it is implied, but still. I would never accuse anyone over that.
The only losses here was the prices the store paid for those items, not necessarily the selling price (marked up). These are separate losses. The store can't make money on something that wasn't sold. The Kmart store I worked at, the shrink was around 2%. However, the general store manager knew how to fudge the numbers by going directly to the distribution center (DC) and get items shipped to the store to sell quickly to get the shrink at under 2%. Example: The general store manager would pay a visit to the DC and find items and say, "Don't throw that stuff away." and have them shipped to the store to sell. OK, the store I worked at was supposed to be an $8 million store in sales every year, it was only something like $6 million in actual sales. A 2% shrink of $8 million is $160,000 loss every year. A 2% shrink of $6 million is $120,000 loss every year. I figured roughly the store was losing roughly $50 every 15 minutes during a given day. Comes to 5.5¢ per second. OK, a bottle of bubble solution in toys would be bought by the store for something like a nickel, 5¢ and then marked up to be sold for 99¢, a 505% mark up. So one bottle stolen would be a 5¢ loss not 99¢. Other "losses" would incur by people packing the items to be shipped from DC, loaded on a truck, unloaded off the truck at the store, then stored temporary somewhere in the stock room, pulled out to the sales floor, unpacked and then stocked on the shelf, and finally rung up by the cashier before leaving the store, to account for the item. Not to mention if the item is returned, the cashier has to put it back in the system and process the refund and then someone has to restock it on the shelf as a "go back". All of these people have to be paid for their work whether the item is sold, returned for a refund, or stolen or damaged. If an item is damaged or returned to store in an unsellable state, there is an area called 605 in the back where this is taken care by a manager for the loss, hopefully the vendor will issue a credit. Once the damaged item is accounted for it is disposed of and recorded. Have a blessed day.
Most stores have a 5,000% MPG the CEO gets big bonuses and kick backs and trip and the don't want the little person to take a freebie from the vender thank God I never work for this greedy food chain
This was the same year that ABC aired the special that showed Food Lion bleaching fish and arguing about whether or not expired chicken could be safely deep-fried and sold at the deli. It's comforting to know the shrinkage issue was properly addressed in these training films.
tommy yaya ++++ you must be too young to remember the open shelves of cigarette cartons and the pack display dispenser at the check out line to serve yourself. that was how i started smoking at age 14 in 1969 and no age requirement of 18 to buy smokes then.i'm still smoking those non filter camels 49 yrs later. you could have sent your baby in to buy smokes for you with a note pinned to it's diaper and the money. the sale would have happened then. junior or suzie crawling a mile for a camel for daddy.
I'm not gonna lie, I'd be the same person stealing a big carton of cigarettes. I'd smoke them & sell them too. If they were that easy, man I'd go crazy cause I would steal more than cigarettes.
Back in the 80’s I worked in the Deli of a well known Supermarket. Upon closing at the end of the evening we used all the top of the line cleaning products to close for the evening. Every night. Boy were they pissed.
I worked at Pathmark in 2007-2011. They got bought out by A&P around 2010 and ran it into the ground. They went out of business in 2016 and closes all stores including A&P stores.
Lol I worked at a Winn Dixie and we had this one chick who worked in the office and would always steal money. She finally was caught she stole over 9,000 in a month that was back in 93
Corporate wants you to prevent shrink, yet they intentionally broke a jar of pickles three jars of jelly and two boxes of cereal for this video
curious
😂😂😂
"Two boxes of Rice Krispies are cut and cannot be sold. As punishment, we have cut off that employee's hands."
You made me gut chuckle 🤭
That seems fair.
There's nothing more Jersey in this world than sneaking a box of Newport Lights into your acid-wash denim jacket at A&P
Cheesegod 😆 I hope his getaway car was an IROC Z
or a pack/carton of unfiltered camels in your inner jacket homemade pocket.
@@mattkennedy3474 With T-tops!
😆
If that were shown today, Trumpturds would cry reverse-racism, because it showed a white person stealing.
Aaaaaannnnndddd now I'm sitting around on a Saturday watching old training vids all day.
no better way to spend a saturday
will you marry me ? We could have some more new babies
Oh my freaking God, it IS Saturday night! * cries *
MWorsa ....I know...this shit is the best
life is good isnt it
Hi I'm Troy McClure, you might remember me from the film "Shoplifting. The store inside the elevator"
youre comment is the reason i love the internet
Aren't you Troy McClure from "Buck Henderson: Union Buster" and "Gladys, the groovy mule"?
@@Menaceblue3 I'm also the Troy McClure from "Alice's Adventures Through The Windshield Glass."
Here I am watching this for fun, when I bet the employees who had to watch this thought it was a total drag
Now let's talk SHRINKAGE, shall we? 😆
Me too! Isn't it strange? Part of the human condition, no doubt. Do you also adore infomercials? I do, especially for things that make food.
I had to watch this in 2014, it was.
i just wanna go home and play Pogs with my friends.,..
They got paid for watching it, you didn't.
Coming home from my job in a supermarket to watch training videos for working in a supermarket is peak life
😂😂😂 That is what we do in the twenty-first century! Forget flying vehicles!😄
🤣
Bro, I have worked for the same grocery store for nine years and I do the same thing.
Its a lot work at food store. Myself i am bagger at my food store.
I did that for 10 years first job out of highschool
It's interesting how 90% of this training video is still common practice in grocery store training. They really had it down to an art 28 years ago.
That's one way to think about it. The other is that they haven't innovated or improved at all.
People shoplifting Tang.. It was a real problem in the 80's.
Aaron Stigall lmfao right
It's what the astronauts drank. 😂
Take some Tang and go! 😂😂
...they were racking it up!
Sweet sweet Tang. How empires rose and crumbled
As a current grocery store employee I love this kinda stuff
I pity you
The way to prevent shrinkage is to keep your package warm.
Thank You, Mr. Costanza. 😒
James B I was in the pool lol
@@luisreyes1963 good one you deserve more likes for that
Only then will you get your hands on that sweet sweet Tang from the thumbnail
I WAS IN THA POOL JERRY
DaThings made a great YTP out of this
Yeah ajaja
This got Best Picture in 1992.
5 bags of popcorn
"If you're unsure about a customer, simply ask Yurf."
This is less than honest.
Also hilarious to me how they tell employees to return perishible stuff as soon as possible to the cooler. Today, any meat or frozen vegetable found outside their area gets scanned out. Not worth risking a food poisoning lawsuit to save 10$ on a pack of chicken thighs
I wish a 25 pound bag of dog food was still $9.99 😂
Same LOL.
Get rid of your dog.
@Donnell0303High quality food for a low quality mutant.
I worked at that A&P in the mid 90's, I was the courtesy girl. Thank you for the nostalgia. 😁
What even is that?! The person to say hello at the door?!!
Jealous, but also not cause it seems boring AF and stocking while store open or closed (like usual for stocking shifts) or doing the register.
+Dutchik It is a misnomer. Basically I worked the complaints desk. It is the person who takes the brunt of abuse from customers.
@@bethanybergeson4192 ahaha. Yeah with us thats literally everyone in the store. And every cashier needs to be able to do service desk, since it is just a register. I still can't, but my function has recently changed. So i will. Just on the whiteboard it then just says service desk and your name. And you'll get called everytime when there is someone. Else you just stand in the store stocking, like all other cashiers except the main register.
Bethany Bergeson I never realized it either, but the “Courtesy Desk” term is used in the Northeast and New England areas. We always called it the “Courtesy Counter” in my store too. I still refer to it as “Courtesy” when I am in any store, and many people have no idea what I am talking about.
Did anyone try and steal your Tang?
As a part timer I was sent to cashiers school in anticipation of the plaid stamp rollout in 1961for A&P.We had to learn to the right key for produce(green) meats(red) and I believe two different keys for groceries ,one taxable and the other regular groceries. We had to figure the taxes for some items. By the way the produce manager and meat manager were very protective that we hit the right keys for their products since they had to show a profit for their departments.The meat manager would often come up to the register when a large meat order was being purchased.People would actually come in the morning and squeeze the he'll out of the fruit and tomatoes and come back before closing to get a mark down on produce.These people were not poor by any means,just people that gamed the system.Oh by the way cigarettes that was shelved on top of register were 22 cents
"Meat Manager" - there's something to put on a resume
Something they missed when it comes to finding perishable food left by a customer in an aisle is to check to see if it's still cold before you put it back in the fridge section. Unless you actually see the customer leave it, you don't know how long it's been out if you end up finding it.
Two steaks back in 1992 18 dollars? Dayum must of been some huge steaks!
Paul Feagans indeed, that’s a crazy price.
These days, you can get a new movie on DVD or Blu-Ray for....More than that!
that’s NJ/NY for ya
it was probably real meat and no plastic steak
RE-L Mayer facts before the world went to shit in every way lol
Steak stealer Steve @ 4:40 is still on the run. Last time I read he's plundering potatoes at the local farmers market.
And humping them sacks of rutabagas.
Joe Oliveira Run Steve Run !The store wants the steak back.
I forgot how nicely dressed grocery store employees used to be. I used to have to wear a black bow tie, white shirt and red apron with black shoes when I worked at Hughes market. I think they need to return to that look. Now you can barely tell who’s an employee anymore. But I guess even the public dresses shabby today. It is what it is.
Yeah there is Nothing like dressing like a million bucks to earn Minimum wage.
@@alwillk Dress like a million bucks? That’s funny! If only. I always made above minimum wage when I worked at grocery stores back in the 50s. Btw If you’re doing a good job, you ask for a raise. If you don’t get it. You start looking for another job. The clothes (uniform) I wore was cheap. The clip on bow tie and apron were provided by the store. If you’re making minimum wage, it’s a starting wage for your in experience. I live in LA. The minimum wage has been replaced and is now called ‘the living wage’ lol. It’s currently $17.50 an hour. Most waitresses make $20.00 an hour, plus tips. Many dress like crap and would probably prefer a job provided uniform. But hey I know most people would feel discriminated against or oppressed today if an employer demanded they did. Playing victim is an Olympic sport now. 😂
9:50 "Where's your public bathroom?" "Back here in the stock room. Go through these doors, take a right, go up a flight of stairs and the bathrooms should be at the end of the hall after the breakroom."
I used to work in retail mgt. for years, there is no way this place was making less than 1% profit on the products they sold. A store/chain like that would fold within a year if they were basically making 0 profit on their sales.
That’s what they want people to think
Yeah I find that hard to believe too
Well, A&P doesn't exist anymore so uh yeah
@@DerangedHermit that figures lol
That’s the first thing i thought too. If this is true how the hell they stay in business for more than a year.
The A & P came to Lancaster, Ohio and made my grandpa (who owned a corner grocery store) an offer: Come work for us or we will put you out of business in 6 months. He told them to shove their job where the sun don't shine. He closed his store 6 months later. That was the end of the family's fortune. Thanks A & P.
homefrontforge - Why did they run him out of business?
That’s a horrible thing to happen to any family business but I would blame his previous customers more than A&P.
roxcyn because capitalism.
What job position did they offer him?
@@RADIUMGLASS Probably knob polisher. That's what those big, insensitive corporations do.
My Mom worked retail for 41 years. No way!
This has so much YTP potential
DaThings made a YTP out of this
OMG. I just smoked some weed and ended up here. Did you see her take that $20? 😂😂😂
It's not too late to report it to her manager! (He's at the cemetery, row 9 plot #6.)
@@CallieMasters5000 🤣🤣🤣
@@CallieMasters5000 🥃
You too?
I blame the damn Pizza Hut video for throwing me into this training hole.
The scene with the falling pickles always gets me.
I don‘t know why.
This is still relevant today. Better than other modern training videos I've seen.
For the teens and young adults looking for their first job, NEVER consider working a grocery store on intent to making it a career. It's an ok job to your foot in the door just for work experience, but only use it as a temporary income source while you pursue an actual career via college, trading school, etc. I've worked for Jewel Osco for 4 1/2 years as a grocery clerk and it was the biggest waste of 4 years I've ever spent. They barely give you raises no matter how hard you work, you start at minimum or in a lot of cases below minimum wage, you get treated like a child, and you don't move up in the ladder because they want to keep you in that position for as long as possible. I wasted 3 of my 4 years working for Jewel Osco trying to get promoted to dairy manager only to get passed up by someone who's never worked in the store before. Even when the old dairy manager recommended me to take his place as he was retiring, I was passed up by one of the store manager's corporate buddies.
Grocery retail is a stepping stone, nothing more.
ElectabuzzKing - Depends on the company you work for.
I would have to agree I've been working at Stop and Shop for 4 years and for a whole year I've been trying to get a slightly better position from getting carts to frozen foods(just to get out of the heat and back breaking work no pay increase). The wages are 30 cents higher than minimum wage but $10.90 really isn't enough especially in my state. The only good thing about S&S is they have pretty generous vacation time. And I've had managers bully me by saying I took an hour break instead of a 15 minute break which is complete bullshit I invite them the look at the security cameras!
@@alexsaab8089 atleast you get breaks,my store managers only "recommend" 30 min lunch.even if the law says two 15 min breaks and 30 min to hour lunch.
Also trust me,you don't want to be dairy manager,I seen no more then 4 employees quit that position in less then 2 to 3 weeks.
Frozen is a pain if there's only two guys on schedule
When I was 17 I worked at Kroger for 6 months. I quit the same month I graduated. I was so shocked to see how many people had been working there longer than I’d been alive ...and still a checker. It’s as if they were stuck and just didn’t think there was anything else out there for them. Very depressing.
@@cherrelle9964 yup someone just retired at my store. After working there for 42 years!
This training video is my personal favorite.
Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite.
Never check out a friend or relative. Lol Sorry Suzy, you'll have to get your items rung up by Bob. Company policy.
Bob: Sorry again Suzy, you'll have to get your things rung up by Pam.
Pam: Hey cuz, sorry, we're relatives and it's only us 3 at working the tills until 8pm. Would you mind coming back in about 6 hours?
then you get a manager to come up and ring them out
Whoops sorry, that manager now considers you a friend
@@zachreese6540 Managers have no friends.
I live in a town of about 2,500 people. If that was the policy at the local grocery, nobody would ever be checked out again.
Here it is, 2022 and SHRINK still happens. People really don't realize how much damage & losses of products still continues even to this day!
I just got off work at my grocery store at 10:30 🕥 at night and here I’m watching this! 🙂
Lol me too... I've been into training videos lately, and i can't help but watch the grocery store ones too even tho I work at one.
Such dedication.
Robert Moore You’re learning some valuable lessons here.
I'm supposed to be sleeping because I have to wake up early to catch a flight..........BUT I am too busy watching old training vids from decades gone by, oops! It looked like the 80s to me, so I was surprised to see it's from 1992, I was already born haha!
Before this one, I watched a training vid from the 60s. Their cash registers were like, completely manual...no auto scanner, you had to ring the amount and product category yourself, and you made change using nothing but your head -- I think the till did give you the total, though ;) People could cash cheques with the cashier to pay apparently (this vid they could too)? Apart from the cheques everything seemed to be in cash too, no cards.
Fascinating, how something so mundane as grocery store checkouts has changed so much, even between 1992 and now!
I start with that front line cash register video then work my way up to these other recommended videos.
Well 1992 was only acouple years after the 80s so not much has changed between that time..
That is a good point-you can see in the part where they show the checkout lanes that there are no credit/debit kiosks for people to pay using credit or debit. It was either cash or check in 92. The credit/debit cards came like 2-3 years later.
“They will be HAPPY to help you correct the mistake.”
Are you SURE about that? 😏
I have been fighting (Shrink) every since l got out of the pool..
If I knew someone was shop lifting I would ask the customer if they needed a basket to carry their items.
Your efforts with regard to loss prevention fit right in with our team concept.
Back in the day before cameras were placed every two feet and you could supplement your minimum wage with "perks".
Well who hasn't swiped a carton of Newports, and stuffed it under their acid wash jacket?
Idk why I'm watching this at 220am for 😭😆
ditto .... I realize how things were, I was 22 sounds crazy, but I miss those times... I was naive
"It's your area. Protect it."
...with your life...
@@VHS_Vampire1988 with minimum wage compensation....amirite?
inyojelly It’s a battleground out there!
With all the security guard payments they’ll be paying you or hazardous pay... yeah right 🤣
I wonder how much shrink I contributed when I worked at a grocery store during High School and College. LOL!!
I'm so bored out of my mind and internet addiction that I bing watch 90s training videos, send help
“Refigeration.” I can’t unhear it.
An employee mistakenly transcends times and space. The gain? Transcendence.
92 was an era of A&P bottom fishing. Throwing store programs out and then abandon. Sad days for A&P.
I miss video styles and professionalism like this.
Hell yeah I’ll take some free chips to ‘sample’ lol!
Lulz!
I'm glad now I can make a valuable contribution to prevent shrink in my own life.
like how?
@@CBFan1000 Viagra and good porn?
One of the oldest grocery companies out there and sadly they fell by the wayside some years ago.
The shrink got ‘em
Shoplifting ideas from back in the day...
How to instantly date your video: tang
Think to prevent shrink - I thought this was a medical video. The search continues.
I'm watching this because my local grocery store is self scan only, need to learn how to be a cashier🤣
Ah yes, Eccentric Severe Tumors is back
“Refigeration” lmao
Unfortunately in most stores if you see a shoplifter we really can’t do anything.
Ewwww they took chicken that had been sitting out at room temperature on the shelf and put it back in the refrigerated area? Salmonella anyone?
You have only have 30 minutes before needing to return it to refrigeration
That chicken has a family too.
The salmonella makes it taste better
It was the 90s. Salmonella didn't exist back then.
The dude cannot properly pronounce "refrigeration". He simply can'y say the second 'r'!! It happens over and over...
@7:20
and there I was just saying that he may have gone on to be a tv anchor. Not if he can't say words with two Rs in them lol
g- dave LOL!!!!
Refigiated
@@Salmagundiii ROFL
These training videos would even be good in today's world. In many stores I walk in now, they look like their back storage rooms, no space to walk or anything. It's absolutely shameful! Thank you for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.
The music, the transitions, the people really did scream the 1990s Just like how i remember it.
I don’t know why I find this entertaining but I do.
While all of this is pretty funny, there is a certain bit of it that gives me anxiety. It reminds me of starting to work at a job that I knew was dead-end. I remember watching the films in orientation and thinking, even then, that they were cheesy. Everyone in the room did.
yep...Im 73, but totally agree.
And here we are in 2020 where it costs $2.45 for a bottle of coke.
Nowadays this training video would tell you how your fully trained and heavily armed security force could possibly save 10% of your stores toothpaste from being stolen.
Why did I just watch this? 😂
Entertainment?
Because marijuana is legal now
I'm asking myself that now and then I remember that it's 2020 and what else is there to do 😂
What s throwback, I rember this store as a child. Also it was just simpler times then.
I was a stock boy at Waldbaum’s (NY) supermarket in 1995. This brings back memories, thanks for posting
Waldbaums! Part of the A&P family. Come share our values!
Waldbaum's man I haven't heard that name in a long time, used to have one in the town next to me.
a shop here used to tape up boxes they'd cut, nothing like cracking open a muesli bar where the wrapper has been taped together
Im like... im taking mental notes for some reason....i dont even work there TToTT
The way he pronounces "refrigeration"
The example at 17:33 isn't very clear he said lets grab a bag and have them for lunch. People use the term grab some things at the grocery all the time in an honest intention. I understand being this is a loss prevention video it is implied, but still. I would never accuse anyone over that.
Happy 5th anniversary of the video upload 💆🏻❤️
Employee takes raw chicken stuck on Little Debbie shelf since last Tuesday and sticks it back into the cooler.
If I never hear the word "Shrink" again, it will be way too soon. 🙉
The only losses here was the prices the store paid for those items, not necessarily the selling price (marked up). These are separate losses. The store can't make money on something that wasn't sold.
The Kmart store I worked at, the shrink was around 2%. However, the general store manager knew how to fudge the numbers by going directly to the distribution center (DC) and get items shipped to the store to sell quickly to get the shrink at under 2%.
Example: The general store manager would pay a visit to the DC and find items and say, "Don't throw that stuff away." and have them shipped to the store to sell.
OK, the store I worked at was supposed to be an $8 million store in sales every year, it was only something like $6 million in actual sales.
A 2% shrink of $8 million is $160,000 loss every year.
A 2% shrink of $6 million is $120,000 loss every year.
I figured roughly the store was losing roughly $50 every 15 minutes during a given day. Comes to 5.5¢ per second.
OK, a bottle of bubble solution in toys would be bought by the store for something like a nickel, 5¢ and then marked up to be sold for 99¢, a 505% mark up. So one bottle stolen would be a 5¢ loss not 99¢.
Other "losses" would incur by people packing the items to be shipped from DC, loaded on a truck, unloaded off the truck at the store, then stored temporary somewhere in the stock room, pulled out to the sales floor, unpacked and then stocked on the shelf, and finally rung up by the cashier before leaving the store, to account for the item. Not to mention if the item is returned, the cashier has to put it back in the system and process the refund and then someone has to restock it on the shelf as a "go back".
All of these people have to be paid for their work whether the item is sold, returned for a refund, or stolen or damaged. If an item is damaged or returned to store in an unsellable state, there is an area called 605 in the back where this is taken care by a manager for the loss, hopefully the vendor will issue a credit. Once the damaged item is accounted for it is disposed of and recorded.
Have a blessed day.
Most stores have a 5,000% MPG the CEO gets big bonuses and kick backs and trip and the don't want the little person to take a freebie from the vender thank God I never work for this greedy food chain
Nooooo you done stoled the moneys
Matt Flynn!
This was the same year that ABC aired the special that showed Food Lion bleaching fish and arguing about whether or not expired chicken could be safely deep-fried and sold at the deli. It's comforting to know the shrinkage issue was properly addressed in these training films.
Make sure you tell every customer to have a nice day
I'm sorry, I'm going to need an acronym to understand what is going on in this training video. what does SHRINK stand for?
That shattered pickle jar got me triggered 😤
My left ear is enjoying this
Skim that till, baby.
When denim was made in America
0:37 - what store had cartons of cigarettes on the shelf? This is always a “behind the counter” sort of product.
You must be young. They were displayed for customers to shop/selfserv. Probably late 70's when they started keeping them behind the counter.
Out of all those smokes, you lift a carton of *Newports*?
"I was in the pool! I was in the pool!" #Shrinkage
Never mind the $1000's worth of merchandise the store throws away daily, it's the guy that steals a pack of batteries that really hurts the company.🙄
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Shrink is so evil. I’m going to enlist to join the fight against Shrink.
I'm going to join the organization for shoplifting.
Why did anyone think leaving cartons of smokes on the shelf was smart? I thought they always had them behind the counter
You have to remember that in the 80's, when this vid was produced, lots more people smoked and cartons only cost probably $10....maybe less!
tommy yaya ++++ you must be too young to remember the open shelves of cigarette cartons and the pack display dispenser at the check out line to serve yourself. that was how i started smoking at age 14 in 1969 and no age requirement of 18 to buy smokes then.i'm still smoking those non filter camels 49 yrs later. you could have sent your baby in to buy smokes for you with a note pinned to it's diaper and the money. the sale would have happened then. junior or suzie crawling a mile for a camel for daddy.
Back then, depending on the part of the country, they would go for $15-20 a carton. That carton of Newports today will cost $120 or more in NY state
I'm not gonna lie, I'd be the same person stealing a big carton of cigarettes. I'd smoke them & sell them too. If they were that easy, man I'd go crazy cause I would steal more than cigarettes.
Back in the 80’s I worked in the Deli of a well known Supermarket. Upon closing at the end of the evening we used all the top of the line cleaning products to close for the evening. Every night. Boy were they pissed.
I worked at Pathmark in 2007-2011. They got bought out by A&P around 2010 and ran it into the ground. They went out of business in 2016 and closes all stores including A&P stores.
Lol I worked at a Winn Dixie and we had this one chick who worked in the office and would always steal money. She finally was caught she stole over 9,000 in a month that was back in 93
Isn’t “Shrinkage” what happens after a man goes swimming in cold water?
Not if he gets an eyeful of Tang