Winseer:
Carryfast:
Sand Fisher:
Yesterday Morrisons RDC Bellshill, 40 units parked up 50% subbies hired in. 25 drivers or so any one time, sent to cabs to await phone calls. Stood 7.45 hours awaiting a load eventually went out at 2145 to Edinburgh. Load of ambient. Told they couldn’t pick the stuff quickly enough.
All we keep hearing is RDC this RDC that.
When it’s the supermarkets which are deserted of customers with empty shelves no one restocking them because there obviously is no stock to refill them with and not a truck anywhere to be seen on their unloading bays.
While elsewhere someone is talking about taking reefer containers to the docks.That confirms what I’m saying.Nothing in the shops no panic buying because there ain’t anyone there and nothing to put on the shelves.There’s obviously ‘something’ getting in the way between RDC and shop counters.
You did see the photos I posted in that regard.
What are you “carrying fast” exactly? - Fresh Air?
Plenty of stock in the warehouses, plenty of sideways-shifted drivers to cart it about, and plenty of working kit to facilitiate that.
What there is NOT plenty of - are pickers, it seems.
Warehouse staff shortages make logistics and supply chain automation an imperative | Warehouse & Logistics News
This three-year-old article - shows how far back the “problem” goes…
They didn’t implement any “Robot” programme neither, since the price of electricity is at all time highs.
EE pickers? - Going home in droves, now that their previously sent-home wages “Don’t buy so much in the old country, now the pound is so weak, and weakening further”…
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the near future - full time drivers get pressed into services as pickers, for at least as part of their regular (former) driving duties?
How can it be pickers when what’s needed is a cage full of pre pack meat/fish/bacon/butter etc etc.Pick what in that case.Roll the cage off the truck take it into the warehouse line it up with all the others then take it out to the aisles.That’s how it’s usually done and that’s usually what I’m surrounded by at that time of day and other shoppers all dodging between the cages taking stuff off the shelves as the stuff in the cages is put onto the shelves.
Instead of which no trucks,no cages,no shelf staff,empty shelves,no customers because they can’t be bothered with the wasted trip.
While first the script says panic buyers clearing the stock faster than it can be taken from truck to warehouse to shelf.
Then when they are shown a deserted shop, with no shelf stackers, no cages anywhere and no trucks in the unloading area now it’s supposedly pickers.Pick what when it’s just a case of taking a loaded cage out to the shelves and then putting the stuff in it on the shelves.The same obviously applying at the RDC transhipped from the trunks to the shop distribution trucks.
The proof being ironically in this case the two pallet loads of bog roll and myself and just one other customer there being told to take as much off the pallets as we wanted and us laughing about bog roll but no butter etc etc etc.So obviously a truck had turned up at some point with just two pallets of bog roll on it and nothing else.So not surprising that would all be gone in no time in the morning.
While we all supposed to under lock down to keep us apart but then the government says there is no shortgages but keep making repeated trips to the supermarket because bulk buying means panic buying.Yeah right.
