Overnight Walmart Supercenter workers: How many people work each department?

[Jeff7]

I'm at store 2641, and we've currently got a bit of a shortage of people, at least I think it is one. I'd just like a bit more perspective.
I don't know what our sales are anymore, as I'm not at the 10pm meetings they have - I'm there 12mid-9am, ICS team. They were usually $200K a day though, and they kept increasing. I'll need to find out again sometime what they are these days. It's a pretty nice store too.
But at night, ESPECIALLY on weekends, it is shorthanded, as in less than one person (average) to a department. So my question: at your Walmarts, how many people are in each department at night to stock it?

 

[EyeMWing]

That's the only time I go willingly - after midnight on weekends. 1 register, about 5 people working together as a single team to stock the entire store 1 department at a time starting with the food. There's also one person in Electronics.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
That's the only time I go willingly - after midnight on weekends. 1 register, about 5 people working together as a single team to stock the entire store 1 department at a time starting with the food. There's also one person in Electronics.

Wow. The only time people work as a team in our store (usually) is over on grocery - 2-3 isles at a time, slowly going from isles 4 and 5, up to isle 9, cereal. The General Merchandise side, it's 1 person a department, with a few exceptions. Toys, Health and Beauty, and Housewares have 2 people each maybe 3 days of the week. Otherwise it's one. Some nights we have 10 people on the GM side for 3 trucks.
Not looking forward to the Black Friday stuff coming any week now. 4+ trucks a night.:Q

 

[murphy55d]

It depends on the department. Usually there is at least 1 per on the GM side, and some departments have 2(housewares has 2, household chemicals 2, paper goods 2, pets has 3 or 4, HBA has like 4 but thats because theyre all useless). (i'm in store 2049 btw, altoona PA) I work in the dairy, we have 3 of us who come in at 10, another person who works at 10 on Fri-Sat-Sun, and a 1am person nightly. Our store sales are usually 300-350k. Sounds like a bit higher volume than the store youre at.

1 person in produce, 3 people in frozen food, 2 per aisle plus 2 floaters in dry grocery. we are well covered, i'd say.

this of course isn't even counting the 12am ICS people who come in. there's about 5 of them, who just go wherever they are needed.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
It depends on the department. Usually there is at least 1 per on the GM side, and some departments have 2(housewares has 2, household chemicals 2, paper goods 2, pets has 3 or 4, HBA has like 4 but thats because theyre all useless). (i'm in store 2049 btw, altoona PA) I work in the dairy, we have 3 of us who come in at 10, another person who works at 10 on Fri-Sat-Sun, and a 1am person nightly. Our store sales are usually 300-350k. Sounds like a bit higher volume than the store youre at.

1 person in produce, 3 people in frozen food, 2 per aisle plus 2 floaters in dry grocery. we are well covered, i'd say.

this of course isn't even counting the 12am ICS people who come in. there's about 5 of them, who just go wherever they are needed.

2 ppl per isle in grocery? Nice. Some nights there's only 5 people for that entire half of the store, and maybe 2 ICS people. On good nights though, there's about 1 per isle, and 4 ICS.
GM side, good nights, 2-3 ICS people (GM ICS consists of 3 people at this point, myself included, at least 2 of us there on any day), and 2 people in most departments, but it goes according to freight of course.
I used to be a regular GM side floater (though I like the term "drifter" better😀), but ICS there usually just stocks anyway, so I went for the extra money several months ago and went ICS. Same work. More money. Tough choice.

 

[moshquerade]

you planning on a heist? 😛

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
you planning on a heist? 😛

Nope. Heck, if I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have to go anywhere else. You work at a place a year, you get to know the (numerous) holes in the "security" there.😛

 

[ReiAyanami]

Sprawl*Mart

how many ppl work at the piano department?
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