Could they not have given you a pressure washer or something to just blast em as they passed?
Question to Retail workers/Supermarket people.
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Easier to just employ some kid to do it, they can get told to run errands as well!
Only two jobs I've walked out on, that one, and another was 'telesales' for a window company which was actually cold calling pensioners with some discount window BS to try and get an appointment for a salesman to go in hard sell. They gave me a load of leaflets to hand out on lunch, so I binned em and went home.
Soldato
Bread crate surely?What are these "technically" called in the UK? (Dont say grey box)
Does the word "kolle" refer to them in anyway?
Im pretty sure tesco uses them at least.....
I assume they are standard among Food shipping across Europe?
Commissario
First ever job I got was a ‘component cleaner’, had to get suited and booted in protection grass and pressure wash plastic components as they came off a production line. I did the morning, went to lunch which consisted of me going to the Personel woman and telling her I didn’t want to do it any more.
A week later I started work in a factory assembling high powered professional photographic flash equipment (Bowens) I could already solder well before I started there but it really developed my skills. I enjoyed that job, it took proper skill and the team I worked with was great.
One I wasn't aware of until we did some work for Sainsbury's was Danish Trolleys - then I assumed it was referring to some kind of thing for moving cakes/confectionery and stuff, didn't realise it is an actual type of roll cage (well not really a cage in this case).
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Why would supermarket delivery drivers use cardboard for a crate that might be used thousands of times.
Soldato
Mate, I aint worked there for like 10 years. Stop hitting me with this technical jargon .
Danish trolleys? Roll cage? Confectionery? Cake?
#Cheesefest bestow your knowledge upon me and help me understand!
Soldato
I had to Google Danish Trolley as never heard that term. On seeing the Google results, we use these for plants.
Soldato
Yes, trays or more often crates. Funnily enough, green tray or green crate... as ours were... green...
Ok it seems like i need to talk to a manager because you floor workers are simply too stupid to comprehend what i, the customer, want.
Please can you call your supervisors.
I can't imagine a logistics manager or warehouse coordinator ordering 10000 "blue boxes" or some of them "bread crates" and getting a standard product.
Listen, I'm not blaming you, you're just doing your jobs but I'm really going to need everyone to raise their games.
(This was a joke incase ....)
Please can you call your supervisors.
I can't imagine a logistics manager or warehouse coordinator ordering 10000 "blue boxes" or some of them "bread crates" and getting a standard product.
Listen, I'm not blaming you, you're just doing your jobs but I'm really going to need everyone to raise their games.
(This was a joke incase ....)
Soldato
There'll be box to tick next to a picture of the item, they don't have to know what it's called, and probably care even less.
Because there's the cost of the driver standing around while you empty the crate to consider. Not just wages but the opportunity cost. Say you take 6 minutes to unload and check everything. That's 6 minutes that the driver is standing around doing nothing and 6 minutes that the driver could be using to deliver to other customers. With cardboard crates the driver has to wait while you check the delivery but doesn't have to wait while you unload them. Time is money; it's just a case of how the costs align.
Soldato
Guess how most people will check their delivery...
Soldato
Totebox sounds soooo American.
Nesting crate with bale arms, very descriptive
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...
Hence the saying 'barge that tote, lift the bale'.
Soldato
In some countries for online supermarket delivery, the customer takes in the totes of groceries and gives the driver the previous delivery's totes. On the supermarkets' records, they know how many totes each customer has. If a customer requires an additional tote, they pay either a one off charge or another tote is added to their subscription.
In days of free bags, it was quicker for drivers and customers to grab the bags.
That dramatically increases the number of totes that the supermarket has to both buy and manage. And dealing with losses and breakages and accidents must be an embuggeration.
Yes, I remember. Sensible drivers brought the totes to the customer's door and then the customer could lift out the bags.
Costs and logistics and reliability. Cardboard robust enough to carry crates of beer, bottles of milk etc is heavy and space consuming at both ends. Will also dramatically lose strength if it gets wet from produce or environment.