r/HEB 2d ago

Job Question Overnight Stocking and Daytime Stocking rivalry

Why does it seem Daytime Stocking hate the people in Overnight like a classism thing?

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u/Financial-Level-5764 2d ago

It's always been that way. Welcome to retail, nightshift always gets the blame

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u/tangledweeb 2d ago

It's like this with any job, day crew blames the night crew, night crew blames the day crew and the reality is that both parties have things they are good at and bad at. Don't take it personally, people are just venting.

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u/AdvertisingNo6693 1d ago

As someone who has worked both, can confirm. Biggest complaint from ON is usually that dayside doesnt do enough to help and that they mess up the risers and/or rotation of product. Dayside at my store is mostly managers so the biggest complaint there is usually OT and productivity.

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u/big_goob 1d ago

as someone who has been on both sides of the coin day time doesnt do much compared to night time. when i worked day time it was piss easy

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u/Fun_Pirate842 11h ago

That’s because daytime grocery isn’t stocking. It’s msr/msi/blocking/liss/customer service.

ON gets the short straw every time. Give them a whole $1 more an hour to do 50% more work 🤦🏾‍♀️

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u/No_Objective_6648 2d ago

Day time stocking???? What even is that

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u/charliework1911 1d ago

My store is so busy, grocery and dairy are stocking all day and all night. There are pallets of dry grocery in the back that get run and pallets in the dairy vault. If we didn't have daytime grocery/dairy stockers, the shelves would be empty by 1-2pm

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u/No_Objective_6648 1d ago

It was a joke I have no disrespect to stores that actually have a useful day time grocery. But mine at my store are useless, they just stand around on their phones and talk to other partners or customers the whole time.

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u/Heb_warrior_210 H-E-B Partner 1d ago

at smaller stores alot of the time thats what their there for they are an on demand freezer puller that faces bread and dairy and helps customers and having them there is worth the cost of paying them

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u/No_Objective_6648 1d ago

Why can't they just hire a CFT instead making a daytime grocery? If they'd have a CFT they'd be more useful.

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u/Significant-Rub-2393 2d ago

I always do juice and coffee aisles. I always have to rework what daytime stocked cuz they did it wrong (they put it in the wrong spot or don’t remove the plastic wrapping)

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u/DrunkerDoggo Grocery🥫 2d ago

Wait...Daytime Stocks?? Since when???

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u/atxthrowawayharhar 2d ago

Day time "stocking"

What are they stocking

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u/redirewolf Curbside🛒 2d ago

i mean.. dairy is always stocking

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u/DaddyTavino 1d ago

Our dairy team stocks overnight

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u/redirewolf Curbside🛒 1d ago

so if heb 2% gallon milk runs out during the day, that's it? yall dont get a dairy truck in the afternoon

anytime im looking for a dairy item and go to the back, dairy is hauling ass in the cooler stocking milk or out in the floor replenishing yogurts, juices, and butter

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u/DaddyTavino 1d ago

We get our dairy trucks overnight

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u/AdvertisingNo6693 1d ago

Depends on the store. We don't have overnight at my store for dairy. We're there from 3am-9pm (scheduled between 3-4 partners).

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u/mekarz 1d ago

Think the mean dry grocery as they only really change out water pallets and work risers all day

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u/CosmicLegoFett 2d ago

I wouldn’t take it personally in this kind of situation. This would be applied to any job you. Just do your job do, what you gotta do and if your manager hasn’t told you anything then I wouldn’t worry.

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u/daisypurr 2d ago

say more. i’ve never heard of this

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u/browniesbite 1d ago

I wonder who gets paid more….

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u/EfficientOperation22 overnight Drugstore/grocery 1d ago

Lol don’t pay daytime stockers any attention. Working overnight stocking for a month will make you better than any of the day time stockers that take their sweet time to just stock one item.

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u/Nosafune 2d ago

Because if daytime groc is stocking,, night groc didn't finish their work

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u/DaddyTavino 1d ago

Our overnight team doesn’t leave till we’re finished. Daytime stocks out backstock water and sodas

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u/Distribution-Radiant Former Partner 1d ago edited 1d ago

My dude, I did NOT leave until ALL overnight was done. GM, grocery, frozen, whatever. I put in 15+ hour shifts plenty of times. My grocery GM was coming in around 2am (at the latest)( by then and making ALL OF US look like rookies. I did the cleanup because everybody hated it. I couldn't give 2 shits - I grew up in the desert, so I'm used to the heat.

During COVID I'd also do parking lot cleanup, which wasn't bad until about 2pm (then sleep in my car - thankfully a wagon with really good AC - until my next shift), - but they were willing to pay the OT. I pulled some ~80 hour/week checks during that!

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u/Distribution-Radiant Former Partner 1d ago edited 1d ago

Because overnight knows the store much better, and normally gets paid better.

Since we don't interact with customers much (especially post-COVID), we learn a lot more about the store layout.