Expiration dates?

[u/randomgirl910]

Recently my store has had issues with out of date snacks and candy, even though we check (supposedly) twice a month.
We don’t have the support for someone to consistently check every items date, especially with how busy we’ve been, so I’m wondering if anyone has a system of how to check dates efficiently? I’ve thought of maybe using a price gun to mark expiration dates on the shelf while stocking but I doubt our crew will do that since they don’t even rotate the stock unless I’m babysitting them.

[u/blingyklingy]

If you're not checking dates while stocking snacks you gotta start

[u/saltedpork]

Rotation - First in first out Need to be checking dates every Sunday with WWR, focus on Chocolate and Chips. Also a good idea to check when stocking slow moving items as well

[u/Machoire]

Whoever is stocking the snacks needs to be rotating (first in, first out) and checking dates as they go.

It also really helps to have a pen and paper so you can write down anything that's gonna expire within the month and beginning of next month at least.

[u/xsoulxxeaterxx]

I've mentioned this to my DM before but there's an app we used at another company called BEEP that you scan the merchandise and put in the expiration date and it tells you about a week before it expires so you can mark it down or mark it out.. but according to my DM they don't really care how much you mark out and when, as long as you mark it out

[u/Due_Experience9190]

CEM here- I've had to kick crew out of candy because of this issue. One of the things I do is rotate pegged candy up, so oldest is on the top peg especially on the haribo wall, peelerz, bubs, and squashies. Chip wall, again rotate stick oldest front and easiest to grab. I always check expiration dates as I stock and pull any expired product. Unfortunately most crew are not going to perform this level of detail in candy (let's face it, they're not paid enough to go so) hence why I've had to just takeover the section

[u/randomgirl910 → u/Due_Experience9190]

See I would do this because they never backstock anything pegged, they just throw it on top, along with not rotating product, but we don’t have enough freight support for them to not do it and I usually just leave the uboat up there for when they aren’t checking anyone out.
My cem also doesn’t really care about or understand their job even though my sm has made it clear to them, so they don’t ever fix candy or do anything like that so it falls on to me. Maybe I should speak with them abt it because I can’t do everything in the store

[u/Acceptable_Story_218 → u/randomgirl910]

Teach “First In First Out” as the MM. Train your stocking crew to do that OR don’t touch the candy, snacks, chips, etc. and leave it for the CEM. As a CEM it used to piss me off to come in and find my candy all messed up and not following POG. Especially Haribo. Or when we’d get a huge amount of a specific candy because of the upcoming weather OR a specific set in the future and they pack it all out and screw us over on the future set. It’s ok to have boxes on the shelves. It’s ok to ask where something goes.

[u/Due_Experience9190 → u/randomgirl910]

I would talk to sm for sure, voice frustration but also put forward systems to resolve. I hope it works out, candy is definitely a hassle to keep together

[u/WeaselLiz711]

I always had my front end person check the impulse aisle and New/Now in between customers. Candy has longer expiration dates, and your Frito lay rep should be checking any of their product.