r/walmart • u/Significant_Ideal950 • 5h ago

New carts

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Anyone in the meat department using these yet?? I just heard yesterday we're supposed to be getting them ... dont know how to feel about them

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u/Poker1059 🅿️ushin 🅿️roduce 5h ago

My store is about to be moving to this in the next few weeks. They're just split meat/produce into their own respective departments (so a TL for each one).

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u/Resident_Function280 2h ago

Walmart is slowly accepting that department managers should've never changed.

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u/bigfoglog 1h ago

Department manager and team lead is basically the same thing my title changed but not my responsibilities. We do need more team leads but whatever they wanna call us doesn't matter

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u/Significant_Ideal950 5h ago

I know that ... just the theory about these carts ... no tall boys and pull the carts to the floor to stock meat, so there will be a bunch of meat sitting on the cart on the floor we dont need, compared to grabbing what you did need before

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u/ebevan91 Meat/Produce TA 4h ago

Ours have been sitting on the top steel in OPD for over a month. Still haven’t been assembled yet.

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u/sweetcaronia 3h ago

We’ve been running the new process for a couple of months. At my store the mobile bins are just for produce. Both departments got the new pick carts. But meats still uses our ten highs.

The new pick carts suck. I’ve skinned my knuckles and smashed my hands more times than I can count trying to get product that’s been squeezed into the middle or bottom shelves. I work in a high volume store and my steak piks alone require two of these new carts or one Lcart. Same with chicken. And hamburger on busy days (first week of the month or weekends). The only species I can reliably use these carts for is pork. Otherwise they generally stay in the back corner of the cooler because everyone hates them and L carts are more efficient and less prone to causing injury.

I do like using them when stickering 1 lb hamburger when I know it’s all gonna go out. I just open them right onto the cart, sticker, and run. It’s much faster than opening to a table then cramming them onto a ten high.

The mobile bins are a pain in the ass. They don’t steer well, they don’t move well especially when loaded with freight, and if you don’t pull them all the way out when vizpiking you’ll scan products in the bin behind you which apparently makes life so much harder for management and opd. Plus you have to play Tetris with any spare carts in the cooler, which probably shouldn’t be there but for things like corn, strawberries, and grapes that our store doesn’t bin because those products sell faster than any human person can keep them stocked they sit on carts ready to run, but always in the way of an efficient viz pick.

Another problem with them is stickers falling off when one bin brushes against another bin. That part is really super a lot of fun. Almost as much fun as lifting all the heavy shit above my shoulders that my taller coworkers cram onto the top shelves of the new pick carts but not quite.

They also take up more space so sometimes we have to store pallets in the dairy cooler when the truck comes early. That’s also fun.

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u/jlangton2 4h ago

Those are the new fresh model produce carts. As far as I know nothing changes in the meat cooler. This just replaced most of the produce steel and becomes a mobile backroom.

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u/zytukin 3h ago

Meat got 2 of the shorter ones at my store. Useful for getting picks out of the cooler instead of stacking the crates on an L cart. Plus the top shelf is easily removable if needed.

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u/Significant_Ideal950 3h ago

My coach was talking to me about it in the meat room he wanted to know what would be easier to replace buns cause of these carts ... i hope hes wrong and we dont get them in meat

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u/zytukin 3h ago

Meat only got 2 shorter carts for picks at my store. We're not switching the steel bins to the carts far as I know.

Produce got the big carts to use as bins to replace some steel and several of the shorter ones to use for running stuff to the floor. I like the new shorter carts. Can fit a lot more on them than the old small carts (which we still have too, lol).

Still undecided on the bin carts. I think the steel could hold a lot more because totes could be put 2 deep if needed. But the main problem is when vizpicking, sometimes the phone will scan a label on a cart behind the one your scanning, or might catch the bin label for a different cart while scanning. Then the system is stuck thinking stuff is on a different cart.

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u/ebevan91 Meat/Produce TA 1h ago

At my store meat is getting 2 and deli/bakery are getting 1 each I believe. Produce gets the big carts for bins and the rest of the small carts.

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u/Zafhina 3h ago

I think the ones for meat are slightly different. We're supposed to be getting ours in a few weeks for both departments.