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Expired Stock Tracking Failure

Store staff lack time and tools to track expiry dates and rotate stock, causing expired goods to reach customers and waste.

In their words

Pilferage by employees, customer shoplifting, breakages, expiry losses, stock discrepancies and inventory leakages are all very real costs

r/IndiaBusiness on Reddit

one of the casuals that works sometimes literally never rotates, and he is open about the fact that he doesn’t rotate

r/coles on Reddit

We had 15 flats and 2 pallets stored in d17 the other day. What is your method of collecting, keying out and disposing or donating?

r/CostcoEmployee on Reddit

The amount of expired food I find in a day is mind boggling, 6 week old sour cream, entire shelves of yogurt that expired 3 weeks before.

r/kroger on Reddit

If it doesn't sell, it can die, and that's just money lost.

r/smallbusiness on Reddit

There's days I pull 60lb or more each of just romas and liquified moldy cucumbers alone

r/WalmartEmployees on Reddit

There were some products on the shelf that were found to have been out of date for 10 days.

r/CostcoEmployee on Reddit

The weekly date audits they make us do are insanely time consuming and STUPID.

r/wholefoods on Reddit

the amount of outdated consumables I have to cancel when packing

r/Target on Reddit

We don't have enough people to do them, and they keep adding more stuff for us to keep track of

r/WalgreensStores on Reddit

We found that our inventory management had been receiving expired tape, but not checking the dates before putting it in our stock.

r/sterileprocessing on Reddit

Every weekend I have to completely rearrange the stock while doing markdowns because the dates closest to the best by are at the bottom.

r/coles on Reddit

Retail and grocery store staff

Where they talk

  • r/coles
  • r/Target
  • r/kroger
  • r/mildlyinfuriating
  • r/WalgreensStores
  • r/CostcoEmployee
  • r/DollarGeneralWorkers
  • r/lidl

Tools they use today

  • Excel
  • Kohl's app
  • KPS
  • McKesson
  • MyTime
  • PDA
  • SAP
  • Spark driver app

Why those fall short

  • claims app only records disposal, does not route food to donation
  • Too many SKUs, no hours, tools are compliance scans not date tracking
  • cashiers don't know how long things should be dated
  • no system catches non-FIFO shipments before they reach stores
  • no time; understaffed, workload too heavy to check all items