Some Pictures of one of my old markets, UNITED GROCERY in 2002
My brother Ken ( the meat pimp ) was the market manager, I was the cutting room manager. We push $30 to $35,000.00 out this market.
Notice the red light over the case, it was one of those flashing red lights. we used to red light items we wanted to get rid of fast. Ken or I would get on the store intercom and tell them about them. We weren't the common intercom voice, we were like used car salesman lol WE SOLD MEAT
It had a nice big cooler
On truck days we never knew what may being forced out from the warehouse, sometimes it was nothing to get 6 to 6 pallets we hadn't ordered
this was a company that bought meat products done for big companies like Wal Mart that didn't take it, when we got it we had a low price set on it but could reduce it to keep from losing it. we rarely had to can anything.
I like the first two pictures. With the coffin counter that you can work from behind. I don't like having to work around customers in front of the counter and/or wait for them to get out of the way like on the other types of counters. I really dislike the 3 and 4 shelf counters. They may look better, but I still don't like em.
burgermeister, I like the first two pictures. With the coffin counter that you can work from behind. I don't like having to work around customers in front of the counter and/or wait for them to get out of the way like on the other types of counters.
burgermeister,I use to be the same way but then I found I could interact with customers better from the front and sell them something they didn't come in to get
kbarker510, You did $30 to $35 k a week? you must of been pushing the meat all over the place
kbarker510, in those days I could still push one fast lol had a hell of a pork man to, I took the red meat, him the pork and pimp fill in the cracks. In those days pimp was fast with a blade to.
we had one hell of a meat wrapper, with the auto wrapper we hardly ever had to help her. only problem she had was she wanted her ass kiss a lot lol she was pimps baby girl lol
Wow you can tell you guys really had to bust it out. Im impressed at how high your fill lines are in the cases. My boss always freaks out when I go just three deep on our top movers. It would be hilarious if he walked in to our case and it was stalked that high, he'd probably wet himself. Our schematics and cutting lists don't allow that anymore.
-- Edited by thenigno on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 09:34:30 AM
That is what i was thinking too. I haven't been able to stack meat that high in a long time. I think 2002 was that year the prices really went up with everything. Suddenly every store I worked at is all about cutting light. "Cut only what you need to fill the holes". The only thing in the back would be an extra tray of ground chuck. I remember when we couldn't keep the grinds full for 10 minutes and we needed a staff of 6 cutters every shift to keep things moving. Now the same markets are operating with one full time cutter/dept manager. One part time cutter and one part time wrapper. This business has gone to ****. Will it ever return to the way it used to be?
thenigno, Wow you can tell you guys really had to bust it out. Im impressed at how high your fill lines are in the cases. My boss always freaks out when I go just three deep on our top movers. It would be hilarious if he walked in to our case and it was stalked that high, he'd probably wet himself. Our schematics and cutting lists don't allow that anymore.
Those were differ days, we live the old A&P rule, Pile it high, Sell it cheap. We didn't have to deal with caseschematics and cutting lists were only used to fill the morning holes. On Fri, Sat, Sun we just needed to be sure there were 15 ready racks load with meat when we left at 6 and 4 to 5 of those would be grind. Other stores sold grind for 1.29 to 1.39, we sold it for 99 to 1.09. on week ends family pack grind tubs would be stacked 5 high, if you didn't by the time you got back from the case you would have to go fill it again. It was a fun time there, ROCK & ROLL
