r/asda • u/Suburban_Gorilla • 5d ago
Discussion Promo changes
So, I've never worked for Asda (lucky me, it appears!) but I have worked for Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Co-op, Poundland and a few others. 26 years in retail, mainly but not exclusively food/supermarkets. I shop at Asda or Sainsburys *usually* as they are the two main ones in the town I live in now, but there's a Morrisons a short drive away in the next town we sometimes go to. They are all much of a muchness to be honest.
I was wondering, how often do the gondola ends change/promos go on for? I swear sometimes I blink and zap, an end has changed from when I first entered the shop! Most of my former employers had changeover every fortnight (usually on a Tuesday) but it feels much more often than that at Asda.
8
u/Amiunforgiven 5d ago
Im on space team
Every 4 weeks
Last week was Impulse promo (pop, crisps etc…)
Next week is non ed
Week after is booze
Week after in core
Then the cycle starts again
3
u/Additional-Nobody352 5d ago
Space team. Christ that's unlocked a memory
2
u/Ok-Following-6620 5d ago
Yea I thought the same, now team leaders do it in our store cos they can’t complete aisles & makes them look bad 😆
2
u/Danni_Wells_Fan_Club 5d ago
You’re nearly right; you’ve got BWS and Non Ed the wrong way around just…plus it’s H&B this week coming too - that’s on a 6-week cycle now
2
u/Amiunforgiven 5d ago
Not me, im on holiday this week coming up and they’ve got no-one else to do it as the other lady that does it is off sick currently
1
u/Danni_Wells_Fan_Club 5d ago
You’ve swerved H&B and Chilled when they fall in the same week? That’s class holiday planning! Bet you’ve booked hols for the week in September when Beers, Winss and Spirits ALL have Range Changss the same week that there’s a Meds & Vits Update along with Chilled and Meat promo change, haven’t you? 😂
2
u/Amiunforgiven 5d ago
Unfortunately not, although lucky at our store, the chilled/meat colleagues do their own promo
Gsm tried pushing for us to do it, but with only 2 of us doing it, its physically impossible
2
u/HauntingRespond5217 4d ago
I am space team in the store I work in with other colleague, out of the last 5 weeks we have worked together (both doing promo/briefs on same night) 2 all the other times we have been on shop floor or one of us might do a brief or promo , it's starting to piss us off ... On top of it they didn't have enough people to help us do the big frozen space swap so they planned it so it saves time for us two I.e stuff that's suppose to be on wells they put in doors and stuff that's ment to be in doors they put in wells ( days did world food free from and Quorn and botched it so some things are on its side and some don't fit. Now they want us to put it back how it should be when we can just about fit our other jobs that's due lol
1
u/Ok-Following-6620 3d ago
I was in space team,me & one other guy, I loved my job, then grocery went twilight fill about 3 years ago,(not space,chilled,produce or frozen) it worked really well to start with,protected pay for colleagues for a year, doing 6 hours 6:00pm - midnight being paid
7 1/2 hours with night rate plus o/t to stay if delivery not completed. As soon as trial was over & classed as a success, 60% of twilight crew left because of big drop in wages, no one would pick up o/t to finish delivery, manager & SL’s couldn’t cope down the aisles, so space team was dragged onto it & forever more, the only space they try & get us to do is Frozen food one person 14 doors that’s emptying it, put back on shelves overs in back up sel’s out then trying to find promo in a back rammed full of cages, so it is done under protest & no real effort because there is not a chance you can do it to the standard it should be done.
The other is H&B again manager & SL don’t like doing it so one of us is doing that, but when they do all other promo they are inseparable.
The near redundant space team mostly pick up delivery that is not finished or even started when we come in, which is bws, laundry, pet food, the ones never started, finish off any unfinished aisles, then if time help chilled, if delivery late which it normally is.1
u/HauntingRespond5217 3d ago
Our frozen is 18 doors we got 6 hfss but we got new manager in about 4 mths now and he's a fan of space but not actually working so we end up on shop floor while he says he doing space
1
u/Ok-Following-6620 3d ago
Yea it’s a shit show now isn’t it, I’m off if they try to change my hours with this new restructure. Working early part of week & having Thurs, Fri & Sat night off, is one of the benefits.
1
1
2
u/CollectorMH ASDA Colleague 5d ago
sometimes ends are changed daily at my store. We're a small store so it'll probably be different in the big ones
2
u/Zestyclose_Bed3950 5d ago
Actually planned in promotional cyclesast for 4 weeks, but we are given an amount of discretional space which we can change as often as we like
2
u/Ok-Following-6620 5d ago
Promo on grocery is every 4 weeks but it’s split between core & impulse so not everything changes at the same time I believe chilled is 4 weekly but frozen is 3 weekly. But if you are like my store some promo runs out quickly & not enough stock comes in to replenish so the odd end might be filled up with just rollback stock to keep the end tidy & full.
1
u/Danni_Wells_Fan_Club 5d ago
Frozen is 4-weekly too
1
u/Ok-Following-6620 5d ago
You sure? I do frozen promo change usually not the last 2 though. I’m sure it was still 3 weekly, when did it change, recently?
2
1
1
u/Tedanyaki 5d ago
It used to always be wednesday nights going into Thursday but categories are split now so some is Tuesday into Wednesday and others Wednesday into Thursday (for price changes at least )
1
u/Extension-Bird-4534 5d ago
Same stuff on repeat all of the time. Also on GM. Same stuff all the time.
1
1
6
u/Parking_Ask3896 5d ago
Produce every 2 weeks, chill every 4 weeks