8 a.m. Numerous shelves completely devoid of items because of frantic Wednesday shopping; store workers, unfazed, claim it’s easier to stock new items on bare shelves.
it's like being there
8 a.m. Numerous shelves completely devoid of items because of frantic Wednesday shopping; store workers, unfazed, claim it’s easier to stock new items on bare shelves.
» Want more items like this one? Visit the Stopped. Watched. page.
Lost/Found little blue gloves, neatly packaged in plastic bag and duct-taped to fire hydrant with note. [photo]
The Detroit Free Press looks at a dispute between state legislators and the boards that manage Detroit’s two public pension funds. Lawmakers have introduced bills to bring the pension funds under the control of a Lansing-based nonprofit trust, the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System. The article quotes Bob Stevenson, an Ann Arbor-based pension attorney, who says the Bing administration should restructure the existing boards: “Undoubtedly, the Detroit pension systems have been poorly run, but I don’t think the answer in my view would be to transition to MERS. I would find some means to keep these pension plans autonomous.” [Source]
The Eat Close to Home blog puts out a call for volunteers for Avalon Housing’s Edible Avalon project: “Edible Avalon is a great group that’s not only helping to build gardens in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area, they are teaching people how to garden and supporting them through their first gardening efforts. They are looking for volunteers to help mentor new gardeners at their garden sites 1-3 hours per week.” [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
» Text size:
Re: “claim it’s easier to stock new items on bare shelves.”
That’s true. It eliminates the need to “rotate stock,” which can be the most time consuming aspect of stocking, in some cases requiring more time than pricing each item individually. It’s somewhat dependent on the nature of the item to be stocked — getting a label to stick to a frozen orange juice covered with frost (or getting an ink stamp not to smudge on the same) requires not just skill, but also time. [These words come easily to me, because I offered them often in response to the question from the grocery manager: "Dave, why are you so &^%$ slow stocking the frozen food section?]
That has to be balanced against the fact that frozen orange juice does not require the kind of vigilant rotation of stock of, say, produce items. But then again, there’s no door to hold open in the produce section.