Are they giving overtime? I am just generally curious how things are going over there. They close at 8pm and supposedly spend all night cleaning and stocking, but when I went in at 7am the other day, it looked like they had just started stocking.
They don’t give overtime, at least not to part-timers.
I ‘m not a stocker and I haven’t stayed there overnight, but as far as I’m aware they do the bulk of stocking around 9 or 10pm, and again at 7am. I would assume whatever doesn’t get stocked by the evening team (cap 2) gets stocked by the morning team (cap 1) or vice versa.
Things have generally been quite hectic, as you can imagine. The first day the government talked about staying inside, we got more customers than we did on Christmas Eve. These past couple weeks bread, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer have been bought as quickly as they’re stocked. Literally I’ll see someone stocking toilet paper, and 45mins later I hear the backroom supervisor say on the walkie “hey, we just ran out of toilet paper.”
This kind of traffic is manageable on holidays and particularly-busy weekends, but having it every day means that the new curfew is needed to allow people to catching up. Without it CAP wouldn’t be able to keep up with stocking, maintenance wouldn’t be able to clean the place faster than people dirty it up, cart pushers would be able to get the garages full until late at night, etc.
I’ve seen people say “why does Walmart close now, shouldn’t they stay open so people can get what they need?” and it’s like, bro, we’d be exhausting ourselves daily AND the shelves would still be empty.
Oh and we’ve also just hired a bunch of people (mostly minors) to help lighten the workload, and while that helps we still only barely keep up.
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