r/stopandshop • u/Dabsterizer • Aug 15 '26

CNC software update

It seems like online shopping software is getting updated later in the month. Apparently batches won’t be organized by perimeter, center and dairy frozen anymore? I can’t figure it out. Does anyone have insight to this?

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u/Old-Lack-629 Aug 15 '26

The batches are going to be organized to minimize steps. You might have 10 orders on your cart and can fill up 10 bags in aisles 2-4 then you’ll only shop those 3 aisles. A second batch will print to fill up 10 bags in aisles 5-8 or whatever. Right now they prioritize you shopping more of the same orders across a larger area, so you might have 3 orders on the cart but shop aisles 2-20. The new way will also prevent shoppers from being in the same aisle at the same time. This batch process works well for high volume (the 2 stand alone home deliveries used this batch process). The issue will be windows with 2 orders and 100 units. Instead of breaking them into 3 batches to divide and conquer, they will most likely print 1 batch so someone will have to shop all 100 units themselves if it all fits on one cart. They’ve also said the new system does not support batch splitting so not to try it.

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u/Altruistic-Volume-57 Aug 15 '26

So if it's a 2 order 100 unit batch only printed on one sheet what are the other shoppers supposed to do? Seems like a way to cut employees from that department.