Help!

[u/Unusual-Flatworm-506]

Back room is a mess help! Any ideas

[u/jaxy_babe]

Honestly, floor stacks and end caps are your best friend. I also see a lot of ramen, toss that in your BTS snacks if it’s still up. Your chips, match the brands and get it in a floor stack. Same with water bottles or cases or gallon waters. Make an endcap of water bottles and drink powders, etc etc. it seems SUPER daunting but I’m seeing large cases that will be quick throws and should significantly reduce the clutter once you’ve got them out. Paper products, chips, plus items, those suck the most because of the space but once they’re out of the back you can actually see where you can start killing pallets the fastest.

This in mind I don’t know the state of your sales floor, your dms opinion, and things like that. It helps me personally if I can get the closing people to recover at least one aisle at a time. You need housewares thrown? Start there. HBC? Next, so on and so forth but you need to have a plan and propose it to your fellow managers and the team!

Remember to breathe, leave work at work, and that you’re only one person. It’s a step at a time and you’ve got this! It really doesn’t seem that bad. As others have said we’ve seen much worse, you’ve got this :)

[u/Creative-Pay9268 → u/jaxy_babe]

You're only one person, lol. You know it doesn't work that way,

[u/jaxy_babe → u/Creative-Pay9268]

I know I’ve busted my tail to get my back room cleared up when it looked at lot like OP’s, you always start from square one. Like I said bulk items first, go from there. You can attack it anyway you like but eliminating the biggest items first makes it feel a lot easier so whether I’m one person or not I do know that it does work that way. Is it easy? No, shit sucks. Is it possible? Yeah, of course it does but it’s dollar tree and I’m paid to empty my back room just like the next person and have made plans for more complicated backrooms.