Question to Retail workers/Supermarket people.

Armageus said:
Yep Chep pallets are essentially rented and you are charged for them, hence wanting to get some empties back when you deliver full pallets in, to ensure your balance remains constant
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And apparently if you end up with a balance thats higher than your agreed contract, chep when they find out, will swoop in and take all the ones you shouldn't have away!
 
With the used totes, we put them on a board which is used by pump trucks and FLTs and when full, taken back to the depot along with the empty roller cages.

Most food comes in SLP - shelf ready packaging. Just rip off the top of the box, along the perforated lines or remove the plastic (in things like cans, jars)and put on the shelf.

Cardboard and plastic gets bailed and taken to the distribution centre and recycled elsewhere.

Always get roller cages with dodgy wheels with heavy stuff and brand new ones with bulkies - crisps, household paper (loo roll, kitchen roll, tissues), nappies. Think the DC workers do this on purpose.

Love using supermarket terms to others who never worked in a supermarket or retail.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I've never seen them in grey. The 3 main supermarkets, Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco have theirs in green, red and blue respectively. Dark primary colours, like wheely bin colours. I think 'pallet' would be the right word as it's to do with shipments and it's larger than a box.
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is that like the bloods and the crips... supermarkets marking their territory with creates instead of bandanas?
 
mid_gen said:
Giving me horrible flashbacks to the 4 hours I spent in a traywash place when I was a kid. Noped out of that job at lunchtime!
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I can beat that. I did a job for 1.5 hours of folding a piece of cardboard and sticking it onto another piece of cardboard to slip in a free sample of washing liquid. I said to the team leader, I needed to visit the loo. Left. More fool the temp agency who paid me 2 whole days :D

It was fiddly work for something that was going to be binned within seconds of the person removing the sample.
 
Then get DC workers who decide to put heavy stuff on top of eggs and other delicate things. Had the joyous task of taking eggs out of the boxes so got boxes of intact eggs. Most were just cracked no egg escaping. Management got the cost of a case of eggs.

Still don't know why the cases of eggs are in flimsy cardboard which are not taped down. Customers do not ask or talk to any shop worker putting out eggs as witnessed at another supermarket where the staff member got distracted by a customer and bottom of case came away - 200 eggs smashed onto the floor.
 
ok crap temp jobs eh :P

I worked in a magnet factory for a week.. Compressed metal rectangles about 15mmx6mmx2mm thick (ish)
I had to stack by hand with tweezers into a metal box/shoe for the next step in the process... I never even found out what they were used in.
It was about 1000 in a "box" i dont think i even finished 1 a day. Got paid for the week and went to Uni after that.

I worked 4h in a Rice packaging plant putting boxes of saffron into 25kg packets of rice that went past on a conveyor.
It was so noisy you couldn't even talk to the guy nearest you... Utterly ****. Gave up at lunch never went back.
 
Totebox sounds soooo American.

Nesting crate with bale arms, very descriptive :P

I was hoping they would only be supplied by 1 company but yeah, it seems there's a lot of suppliers/manufacturers.

Our ones at work have black, red, blue or green bale arms depending on the size of the box... cool story...
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I've never seen them in grey. The 3 main supermarkets, Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco have theirs in green, red and blue respectively. Dark primary colours, like wheely bin colours. I think 'pallet' would be the right word as it's to do with shipments and it's larger than a box.
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Asda use grey ones, at least here in NI.
 
Maybe someone at the supermarket pays to bail and release the plastic back into the wild ?
 
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Armageus said:
I work for a transport company (and previously worked in a packhouse) and all I've ever heard them called is Trays.
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mid_gen said:
Giving me horrible flashbacks to the 4 hours I spent in a traywash place when I was a kid. Noped out of that job at lunchtime!
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I know somebody who drives trucks for a supermarket and they're called trays. I sometimes hear stories about them having to wait in tray wash with a load of trays before they can do their next job.
 
Efour said:
ok crap temp jobs eh :p

I worked in a magnet factory for a week.. Compressed metal rectangles about 15mmx6mmx2mm thick (ish)
I had to stack by hand with tweezers into a metal box/shoe for the next step in the process... I never even found out what they were used in.
It was about 1000 in a "box" i dont think i even finished 1 a day. Got paid for the week and went to Uni after that.

I worked 4h in a Rice packaging plant putting boxes of saffron into 25kg packets of rice that went past on a conveyor.
It was so noisy you couldn't even talk to the guy nearest you... Utterly ****. Gave up at lunch never went back.
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The traywash I was at. I was stood on a conveyor belt, the trays came past, my job was to poke the labels out the side. Poke. Poke. Poke....some manky filthy trays.

Stuck to baling on the farms until I got a proper job after that!
 
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