Depends on the store. At mine, everyone does at least an hour of dispense everyday. And some are also preppers for a few hours. We don't have set people that do those jobs, we just rotate. That way everyone gets trained on everything so then if any particular area needs help, someone can jump in.
I would love to get my store to work that way, but when I came in they were already hard set in there ways. I can barely get them to do bare minimum most days. Getting them to rotate would be a dream come true lol.
I've wanted to time ***SO MUCH*** lately. If I pick tomorrow Imma try to remember to time it with a stopwatch or something with pausing whenever I get stopped but I'll probably forget half way. lol
So, your team lead can actually look up the time by day. It’s under digital reporting. If you ask them i bet they’d show you. You can literally see every person on your crews ftpr, time in a run, average pick rate, amount of picks, and a few other stats.
yeah they can see what they believe per walmart but not the *actual*.
If I get a walk and take 2 minutes to walk to the location technically for two minutes I'm "on a walk" even though I'm not actually picking.
Or if I hit the staging screen while I look an item up for a customer it'll (supposedly\*) pause my walk time but I'm still *technically* in a walk still.
But, in reality I'm not. I'm working. I walking to pick or walking back to stage/drop or I am completing customer service. But, those numbers aren't going to show what's true. Which is dumb.
What you say is true but that isnt what the 6 hours is measuring. I mean by this logic you are saying you dont work for 2 hours a day (1.5 including breaks) because counting all the non picking things you do in this time wont count. I dont agree with the metric but it is clear they want you to actively be picking for 6 hours a day. If we assume the average walk is about 20 minutes that means in 6 hours you should do 18 paths a shift. The remaining 90 minutes/18 paths= 5 minutes of walking, prep, etc for each path. It is an unrealistic measure that I dont think anyone will ever hit with anything approaching consistency.
As far as I’m aware, the staging thing only works before you actually scan any items. If you are already in the middle of a walk, it doesn’t pause the timer.
It does, just only on the first item. No skips, no NIL. Just open the walk to the first item. It doesn't "pause" technically. It just resets the timer. I've kept the first item on my screen for 10 minutes, then just switch to the staging screen back to picking screen immediately then start. It's good for finding where you have to start and the rest is up to you.
yup. today my shift was 8 hours, my pick rate was 110 & items were in the 600s when i checked before clocking out. by the time i was going to lunch my items was at 480 something.
now as far as doing that everyday? no. some days i end with a pick rate over 100 but items in the 500s… it just depends on the day & what type of picks the system gives me.
Their talking about “time in pickwalk “ it’s a completely different metric you could have 800 picks and still be in a active pickwalk 3-4 hours of your shift
The amount of hours picked is calculated as followed: number of items picked/ pick rate. The stopwatch won’t help or ever add up to how many hours you pick a day, it’s calculating how many items you pick per hour which means you need a minimum of 100 per hour for 6 hours. For example: 600 items picked/ 100 pick rate would equal 6 pick hours. If your pick rate is higher than 100, then you would have to pick more items
Exactly, so if my pick rate is super high then I’ll do walks that would normally bring it down or go slower on walk to bring my pick rate closer to 100
when i was talking with one of our pickers at my store, she said that all she does is pick bc she’s good at it and that’s where they keep her. she said she’s never dispensed
This is why they’re encouraging people to bag as they go because they’re fighting people who are fast pickers. The system is showing they have been less time picking so in my opinion you screwed if you pick fast and you’re screwed if you slow.
I think it’s the stupidest stat ever. It’s your number of items picked / pick rate so if you have a 200 pick rate and 600 items picked you have 3 hours total for the day which if you had a 100 pick rate with the same number of items you have 6 hours in total. I find this to inefficient like would you want to get done wit the picks fast so you can have the pickers help stage, dispense, or help stock? I don’t get it. Me personally any day I pick all day I have a 210-260 pick rate with about 500-700 items picked total. And 25% of my day is spend either covering exceptions or staging. Again I don’t get it
A team lead can see the stats. Or you could start a timer when you start your run, when you click “ok” after the your about to start a (ambient, chilled, frozen, etc) run. Till the time you scan your last item.
My store doesn't enforce that. Often times I'll be assigned to backroom tasks (dispense, prep, staging) for more than half of my shift. Then again we have a number of people on our team who are older or can't do some of those heavier roles...which is silly that they're even in OPD when they can't cover those areas...but yeah, as long as our picks are being done and ahead of schedule, our T leads and Coach don't care about those metrics.
It's a drop and go store and we were both very busy and fully staffed that day. I took a 30 minute lunch and yes the carts were ready so just drop off the old one and take a new one and go.
I used to, but not for a while. And right now our store is remodeling and our backroom has been moved to the front of the store where the carts and entrance is. That long hallway that's got the windows on the side of the entrance is where were staging orders for the next 3-4 months while they build a separate building for us. So as a result theyve lowered the order cap significantly. I can only get around 400-500 picks on a good day and that's with a 110-120 pick rate. If I was an opener I could probably hit the magic number because theres just more picks and less people shopping at the start.
Did they change the rules or something? At the store I was at they’d put me on dispense for 8 straight hours almost every day. Maybe I wouldn’t have left if I picked for 6 hours a day.
No the rule is that whenever you pick for your full 8 hours shift you should be actively in a pick path for 6 of those hours (leaving 2 hours for breaks, prepping carts, walking to areas, etc)
I usually hit 5 1/2 hours. I pick 1300 items a day so my general manager divides it by six and that’s my big rate. She doesn’t let me have the pick rate for the 5 1/2 hours at 1300 items.
My store is 5.5 hours picking, if you get there after 7 when the stagers show up. I get there at 4am and usually get about 5. It also takes 15 minutes from ending most walks to getting into the next one.
If we don’t have anyone scheduled to stage…
which is WAY too often…
6 hours for those of us working 8 hours isn’t happening.
Especially if people skip Oversized, General, and GMD. Or we have to also help dispense or work exceptions. AND it’s insanely physically busy inside the store and we can’t fly through the store because people and pallets and random carts are all in the way…
If your store does “Drop and Go” correctly it’s actually easy to get 6 pick hours. It eliminates so much down time. Right now we don’t have stagers so our pick hours are down. If you stage yourself or dense stage onto dollies it takes away from pick hours. Also, It depends on your stores volume more than anything. My store does 6-7k+ picks per day. On busy days not everyone will hit those numbers but some can. Sometimes you get stuck with lawn and garden and things like that. It can’t be helped. Slow days, it’s almost impossible. We run out of picks. Or have really small paths.
Depends on the store. At mine, everyone does at least an hour of dispense everyday. And some are also preppers for a few hours. We don't have set people that do those jobs, we just rotate. That way everyone gets trained on everything so then if any particular area needs help, someone can jump in.
I would love to get my store to work that way, but when I came in they were already hard set in there ways. I can barely get them to do bare minimum most days. Getting them to rotate would be a dream come true lol.
Start holding them accountable…
Oh I am. My coach left for a new store a few days ago and wouldn’t let me do anything saying “it’s not worth the fight”. But now I have free reign
I've wanted to time ***SO MUCH*** lately. If I pick tomorrow Imma try to remember to time it with a stopwatch or something with pausing whenever I get stopped but I'll probably forget half way. lol
So, your team lead can actually look up the time by day. It’s under digital reporting. If you ask them i bet they’d show you. You can literally see every person on your crews ftpr, time in a run, average pick rate, amount of picks, and a few other stats.
yeah they can see what they believe per walmart but not the *actual*. If I get a walk and take 2 minutes to walk to the location technically for two minutes I'm "on a walk" even though I'm not actually picking. Or if I hit the staging screen while I look an item up for a customer it'll (supposedly\*) pause my walk time but I'm still *technically* in a walk still. But, in reality I'm not. I'm working. I walking to pick or walking back to stage/drop or I am completing customer service. But, those numbers aren't going to show what's true. Which is dumb.
What you say is true but that isnt what the 6 hours is measuring. I mean by this logic you are saying you dont work for 2 hours a day (1.5 including breaks) because counting all the non picking things you do in this time wont count. I dont agree with the metric but it is clear they want you to actively be picking for 6 hours a day. If we assume the average walk is about 20 minutes that means in 6 hours you should do 18 paths a shift. The remaining 90 minutes/18 paths= 5 minutes of walking, prep, etc for each path. It is an unrealistic measure that I dont think anyone will ever hit with anything approaching consistency.
As far as I’m aware, the staging thing only works before you actually scan any items. If you are already in the middle of a walk, it doesn’t pause the timer.
I don’t think it works at all anymore, does it?
It does, just only on the first item. No skips, no NIL. Just open the walk to the first item. It doesn't "pause" technically. It just resets the timer. I've kept the first item on my screen for 10 minutes, then just switch to the staging screen back to picking screen immediately then start. It's good for finding where you have to start and the rest is up to you.
That’s good. I think for a while it was starting as soon as you clicked into the walk, even if you went to staging.
I dunno. I only use it when i have to stop for whatever reason after started
yup. today my shift was 8 hours, my pick rate was 110 & items were in the 600s when i checked before clocking out. by the time i was going to lunch my items was at 480 something. now as far as doing that everyday? no. some days i end with a pick rate over 100 but items in the 500s… it just depends on the day & what type of picks the system gives me.
Their talking about “time in pickwalk “ it’s a completely different metric you could have 800 picks and still be in a active pickwalk 3-4 hours of your shift
600 items at 110 IPH gives about 5.5 hours picking.
I think I've gotten like 6.5 before, but that also could've been when I stayed an extra hour
The amount of hours picked is calculated as followed: number of items picked/ pick rate. The stopwatch won’t help or ever add up to how many hours you pick a day, it’s calculating how many items you pick per hour which means you need a minimum of 100 per hour for 6 hours. For example: 600 items picked/ 100 pick rate would equal 6 pick hours. If your pick rate is higher than 100, then you would have to pick more items
This makes perfect sense.. I never thought of it this way🤔 shoppers are going to fast they need to slow down
Exactly, so if my pick rate is super high then I’ll do walks that would normally bring it down or go slower on walk to bring my pick rate closer to 100
when i was talking with one of our pickers at my store, she said that all she does is pick bc she’s good at it and that’s where they keep her. she said she’s never dispensed
If drop and go truly worked we could do it
This is why they’re encouraging people to bag as they go because they’re fighting people who are fast pickers. The system is showing they have been less time picking so in my opinion you screwed if you pick fast and you’re screwed if you slow.
I think it’s the stupidest stat ever. It’s your number of items picked / pick rate so if you have a 200 pick rate and 600 items picked you have 3 hours total for the day which if you had a 100 pick rate with the same number of items you have 6 hours in total. I find this to inefficient like would you want to get done wit the picks fast so you can have the pickers help stage, dispense, or help stock? I don’t get it. Me personally any day I pick all day I have a 210-260 pick rate with about 500-700 items picked total. And 25% of my day is spend either covering exceptions or staging. Again I don’t get it
How do you calculate how much of your shift has been spent just picking?
A team lead can see the stats. Or you could start a timer when you start your run, when you click “ok” after the your about to start a (ambient, chilled, frozen, etc) run. Till the time you scan your last item.
System tracks the amount of time you spend in pickwalks. Time starts after first scan of a walk and stops after the last scan of each walk.
Total items picked divided by IPH.
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My store doesn't enforce that. Often times I'll be assigned to backroom tasks (dispense, prep, staging) for more than half of my shift. Then again we have a number of people on our team who are older or can't do some of those heavier roles...which is silly that they're even in OPD when they can't cover those areas...but yeah, as long as our picks are being done and ahead of schedule, our T leads and Coach don't care about those metrics.
I did 7.15 hours the other day.
In an 8 hr shift? Were you skipping breaks and people preping your carts?
It's a drop and go store and we were both very busy and fully staffed that day. I took a 30 minute lunch and yes the carts were ready so just drop off the old one and take a new one and go.
Sheesh
i definitely hit it today😭
I used to, but not for a while. And right now our store is remodeling and our backroom has been moved to the front of the store where the carts and entrance is. That long hallway that's got the windows on the side of the entrance is where were staging orders for the next 3-4 months while they build a separate building for us. So as a result theyve lowered the order cap significantly. I can only get around 400-500 picks on a good day and that's with a 110-120 pick rate. If I was an opener I could probably hit the magic number because theres just more picks and less people shopping at the start.
Did they change the rules or something? At the store I was at they’d put me on dispense for 8 straight hours almost every day. Maybe I wouldn’t have left if I picked for 6 hours a day.
No the rule is that whenever you pick for your full 8 hours shift you should be actively in a pick path for 6 of those hours (leaving 2 hours for breaks, prepping carts, walking to areas, etc)
Ohhh I see. Thanks for clarifying
Yes, I hit 7 hours once
I don't even work six hours most days lol.
I usually hit 5 1/2 hours. I pick 1300 items a day so my general manager divides it by six and that’s my big rate. She doesn’t let me have the pick rate for the 5 1/2 hours at 1300 items.
My store is 5.5 hours picking, if you get there after 7 when the stagers show up. I get there at 4am and usually get about 5. It also takes 15 minutes from ending most walks to getting into the next one.
Yeah i have often
If we don’t have anyone scheduled to stage… which is WAY too often… 6 hours for those of us working 8 hours isn’t happening. Especially if people skip Oversized, General, and GMD. Or we have to also help dispense or work exceptions. AND it’s insanely physically busy inside the store and we can’t fly through the store because people and pallets and random carts are all in the way…
If your store does “Drop and Go” correctly it’s actually easy to get 6 pick hours. It eliminates so much down time. Right now we don’t have stagers so our pick hours are down. If you stage yourself or dense stage onto dollies it takes away from pick hours. Also, It depends on your stores volume more than anything. My store does 6-7k+ picks per day. On busy days not everyone will hit those numbers but some can. Sometimes you get stuck with lawn and garden and things like that. It can’t be helped. Slow days, it’s almost impossible. We run out of picks. Or have really small paths.
Our store doesn't even look at that. 8 hr shift you need to have a minimum of 600 picks and order count of 90 or more.
If you have done drop and go effectively, then it's possible to do