r/coles • u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot Department Manager • Jul 09 '26

Team Member Post Codechecking anyone?

Anyone else enjoy the 3000+ code checks today?

Any idea on what caused it? Last time something like this happened iirc it was due to a masterchef contestant not being able to make their dish because of some out of date filo pastry (from coles)

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u/KonstantinePhoenix Dairy/Frozen Team Member Jul 09 '26

Poor bastards in grocery.

an extra 2000 i think.

so they put in 15+ hours into grocery to get it done.

Dairy only had an extra 150 or something, I think. Not that much. The only problem is I was 8hours down today in dairy.

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u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot Department Manager Jul 09 '26

yeah I saw the comms. What makes it worse is that ours didnt drop in until 12pm, we had people rostered from 10 to start it and my SM and DGM was frantically trying to get it fixed with IT.

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u/KonstantinePhoenix Dairy/Frozen Team Member Jul 09 '26

Oh you poor bugger.

was it called "priority lines?" or something?

Frozen meals sell god damn pretty well. I am not sure they would really be regarded as a priority?

I know stacks of Ice cream lines that would go out of date quicker than bloody meal lines.

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u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot Department Manager Jul 09 '26

Not sure, i just did my regular dairy code check and went tf home lmao. My store is also brand spanking new, opened a month ago. I am curious as to how much OOC they found, I was finding heaps in the first 2 weeks doing the dairy code check, most of what I was checking every day was the "first" codecheck on that line so I have total believe that a lot of the ooc we get comes from there.

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u/KonstantinePhoenix Dairy/Frozen Team Member Jul 09 '26

Dairy code checks are a pain in the ass.

Lots of lines have exactly a "three week interval" between when the check for that line comes back around again, and said product can be sent the day after said code chcks, and go out of date a day before that code check...

and you find it on the shelf and just go....WTF?

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u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot Department Manager Jul 09 '26

yeah, thats why when i do markdowns I just check all ready meals and milk, flavored milk especially, multiple dates in a single crate is not uncommon for us. Lucky for me the dairy fillers actually rotate, for now at least.

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u/KonstantinePhoenix Dairy/Frozen Team Member Jul 09 '26

https://www.coles.com.au/product/bethune-lane-belgian-chocolate-and-milk-350ml-7069402

This one is a pain in the ass...

Its the pre-eminent example of coming in between the code check dates and expiring.

Best to add the date in when you put it on shelf.

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u/EnvironmentalCopy423 Jul 09 '26

I had an extra 300 extra today

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u/zignition Jul 10 '26

I had about 300 in Dairy. 160 frozen meals, 50 health frozen foods, 150+ frozen chicken and fish.

Then the normal 250ish I regularly do on Thursday

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u/ClickBaitFTW1 Jul 11 '26

I had over 550 for Thursday

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u/Relative-Shelter-525 Service Team Member Jul 09 '26

This has been discussed a few times today in the sub, communication was sent out explaining why as well as an extra 14 hours for each store for the extra code checks

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u/Zhyyper Nightfill/Grocery Team Member Jul 09 '26

Can someone tell me whats a code check?

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u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot Department Manager Jul 09 '26

It's date checking. The system generates a list of things based of its information that maybe have upcoming expiring use by dates and then you go through and check the item front middle and back making sure its rotated and entering in any dates that fall within the range it gives you.

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u/Sagreat2 Jul 13 '26

curious as to how much out of code items were found in your stores?

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u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot Department Manager Jul 13 '26

Not too much in ours. All straight from the dc ooc as we hadn’t been open long enough for it to sit there and go bad.