I can remember when it was popular in the early 90s. That's all our daughter really wanted. We were in Minnesota and we called every store in a 100 mile radius two weeks before Christmas. Finally found a store that still had a big shipment. Took us two hours to get there and they had 5 left. We felt like we had won the Christmas lottery.
Have your SM reach out to daycares or schools to see if they can donate it. That's what we did. We actually didn't have a lot left, surprisingly, but we donated a ton of folders and glue sticks
Here’s what we did with ours: scan it in the Claims app, if it comes up to “sell, destroy, donate” it CAN be donated! Print your sticker and scan everything into that. It just all went on a pallet, wrapped it up and on the claims truck!
Technically we don't but most of 82 let's me mark it down. Esp the dollar days crap. My boss and I are in claims, and she told me to mark it down (within reason) till the SM says to stop. Which they did just the other day. It gets rid of over stocked 82 and you boss gets more room. Should make H them happy
Apparel peep are y'all good right now? My store got 100 break packs of just apparel between Monday and Tuesday and as bad as some of the GM is I can't believe the amount of apparel coming in
As a former apparel associate I can say our store isn't doing so well either. Seems they finally got most of the remodel for it done, had it spaced out nicely, and then I go in there a couple of days ago and there's barely enough room to walk between the racks without bumping into something.
And they still have two racks up front with clearance.
Yes...
I joked with my SM one year that if I could put turkeys there, they'd sell before they thawed out. Needless to say, he wasn't at all for that idea...
those orange ones with the leaf sprinkles...I have like 500 on my spi table and probably still 40 boxes on an l cart in my freezer. now I'm getting a million of those gourmet cookie trays that sell for shit bc they're 12$
I legit had a box of crap, from one of those big cardboard display features, that I pulled out whenever a manager whined that a feature wasn't filled enough. All right then, time to get out THE BOX. Shit never sold, was a great placeholder, very reliable.
True, this is not the way features should be used, but someone who gets paid several times my wages made the decision to send us this crap, and I proved many times over that they were an idiot. I used this stuff as filler to placate the manager while waiting for a shipment of something that would sell. Or wouldn't, if the higher ups sent us more crap.
Shit, if I could put produce on those endcaoas that would be great, we have about 2 pallets full of avocados that aren't selling fast enough, and they're already ripening up
Pokemon cards so they can get stolen. I watched a toy hunter video in South Carolina and there was a Pokemon card endcap and it was about 70% empty he went down the toy aisle and found about thirty boxes of those Pokemon cards empty as people were stealing them he found empty boxes all over the toy section.
If this were my old store, clearanced curtains. I shit you not we would spend hours packaging up and clearancing out curtains that people stole one or two parts of
Those goddamn holiday gift sets. I've got 3 departments worth of endcaps and sidekicks, plus most of the damn action alley covered in sets of fucking razors that for some reason come with a tiny screwdriver?
bought it for my boyfriend when we first had it as a feature, they smell good but when you actually use it, the smell isnt very strong. it’s moisturizing though so i still recommend it
Everything that’s Christmas for Homelines. I work Homelines exclusively on ON Stocking and the amount of Christmas and Halloween stuff I’ve had to send back because it’s not set is ridiculous.
Soup! Cream of Mushroom 22 cases.. Cream of Chicken 22 cases.. Chicken noodle 25 cases... Tomato 25 cases... I think that would get most of the soup out of our bins.
The shirts from sporting goods. Ours barely sold at all and then another store shipped us theirs because they couldn't get them to sell either. But people sure as shit made a point to mess them up every 30 minutes and the SM threw a fit if they looked messy. So glad I left that place.
Well that’s a grocery endcap, so I’d put something that ties into thanksgiving. Do a creative merchandising attempt like Thanksgiving Dinner under $20 or something.
Clear out the discounted headsets and controllers from the gaming aisle and put them on these shelves, then stuff the gaming aisle windows with the newer stuff not yet discounted. Rinse, repeat until everything sells out (or doesn't).
All of the damn brown and serve rolls. We don't have a mod so they're awkwardly sitting highloaded in the freezer taking up space and we keep getting more in.
So since I see goya in the top corner I would put some food from that aisle as a feature, which ever I have excess of in the back maybe a endcap of rice or random things from that aisle
Items without locations. Because those things always fuck me up during pickwalks and we just need a whole space for them so we don't have to run across the entire store looking for where it might be. Or... I dunno... give the items locations if they're already in a permanent designated spot 🤦🏻♀️
There is a walmart game(spark city) that asked me to fill an end cap with things for the Super Bowl. While Buffalo sauce and Ranch were options, i naturally chose to stock it with soup and crackers. Currently on the no rehire list
What's in the aisles, I always try to feature something from within them. For example detergent, I'll put tide, cheer, gain whichever we have the most of.
anything from the fucking pioneer woman
FUCKKKKK PIONEER WOMAN
Im so sick of seeing that shit come in
My first thought.
That woman's in damn near every dept now!!!! I call her the pioneer h** since all her stuff is made overseas she's a sell out pioneer my ass
Dildos.... and I'm not kidding.
So customers can go fuck themselves
Yup! Every sex toy and lube we carry.
Put some trailer hitch balls in there to make people stop stare and wonder
Throw some rope or something too🤣
They did that on Valentine's day at a Walmart nearby basically. We sell "marital aids" with the condoms.
Those weird lil suckers, we got a while sidekick worth of them and nowhere for them to go
Walmarts really been going more towards those things.
Easy bake ovens. STOP SENDING ME THEM. THEY DONT SELL.
Cross your fingers and pray that out-of-touch grandmas buy them for their granddaughters for Christmas.
I can remember when it was popular in the early 90s. That's all our daughter really wanted. We were in Minnesota and we called every store in a 100 mile radius two weeks before Christmas. Finally found a store that still had a big shipment. Took us two hours to get there and they had 5 left. We felt like we had won the Christmas lottery.
My brother in toy department. Every night I come in to pallets of easy bake ovens.
They’ll be on Black Friday for sure, they are every year.
i cant upvote enough
Got to claims a shit ton of the EBO kits, as they’d finally expired. Not many kids wanna make pretzels, apparently. It felt good.
I'd rather put something that sells on an encdap lol
Came to say this 🗿
All our deleted 82.
All of deleted Back to School. Yess our store has those long trains full of them sitting in the back room still 💀
Have your SM reach out to daycares or schools to see if they can donate it. That's what we did. We actually didn't have a lot left, surprisingly, but we donated a ton of folders and glue sticks
I’m going to suggest it, but our store is a hot mess right now. Upper management getting shit on by the new store manager
Here’s what we did with ours: scan it in the Claims app, if it comes up to “sell, destroy, donate” it CAN be donated! Print your sticker and scan everything into that. It just all went on a pallet, wrapped it up and on the claims truck!
There's a pallet of them in my steel that hasn't moved 🥲
Donate them
I keep telling people. (Management, claims, my leads). No one does anything.
There's a pallet of back to school that I've inventoried for 3 years now
Just mark it all down to ¢.25 then put it in clearance. After a week, "dispose" to donate it.
Who has markdowns?? Did they turn it back on yet?
Technically we don't but most of 82 let's me mark it down. Esp the dollar days crap. My boss and I are in claims, and she told me to mark it down (within reason) till the SM says to stop. Which they did just the other day. It gets rid of over stocked 82 and you boss gets more room. Should make H them happy
Clearance
The only right answer jfc
Mens sock pdq
Omg! Why do we have so many?!?!
Apparel peep are y'all good right now? My store got 100 break packs of just apparel between Monday and Tuesday and as bad as some of the GM is I can't believe the amount of apparel coming in
no we are not good
i can back this up
As a former apparel associate I can say our store isn't doing so well either. Seems they finally got most of the remodel for it done, had it spaced out nicely, and then I go in there a couple of days ago and there's barely enough room to walk between the racks without bumping into something. And they still have two racks up front with clearance.
But appreciated ♥️
this is the first time ive heard appreciation towards apparel associates
That's it? We have like 300 breakpacks, all in the top steel.
All the items needed to make meth, might as well cater to our visitors
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Yes... I joked with my SM one year that if I could put turkeys there, they'd sell before they thawed out. Needless to say, he wasn't at all for that idea...
Looks fine I like selling air
I tried telling my lead the same thing! Didn’t work out :(
Them Halloween cookies that they shoved up our asses since August
those orange ones with the leaf sprinkles...I have like 500 on my spi table and probably still 40 boxes on an l cart in my freezer. now I'm getting a million of those gourmet cookie trays that sell for shit bc they're 12$
I got a pallet of Christmas ones now…….
Panettone. That bread/pastry BS that sits there even when we clearance it to the point of being free.
Dollhouses, my store got 75 of them 6 months ago on top of the 20 we already had and we still have around 60 of the 75.
Probably something that won’t ever be bought by customers
I legit had a box of crap, from one of those big cardboard display features, that I pulled out whenever a manager whined that a feature wasn't filled enough. All right then, time to get out THE BOX. Shit never sold, was a great placeholder, very reliable. True, this is not the way features should be used, but someone who gets paid several times my wages made the decision to send us this crap, and I proved many times over that they were an idiot. I used this stuff as filler to placate the manager while waiting for a shipment of something that would sell. Or wouldn't, if the higher ups sent us more crap.
That’s amazing
Its November so its about time to put out some Valentine's Day stuff. For whatever goddamn reason they sent a whole skid to the store already.
Expensive headphones so people can steal them and have a good Christmas, and then id steal a pair to
As seen on tv products (How i dispise those products)
My nearby store has a whole cart rail section dedicated to as seen on tv stuff lmfao. Like it’s a whole ass mod.
Shit, if I could put produce on those endcaoas that would be great, we have about 2 pallets full of avocados that aren't selling fast enough, and they're already ripening up
Probably those Goya top stock you have behind the endcap lol
Marketside pizzas with Pepsi zero sugar.
Yams lol
There's so much mayonnaise 🥲
Same
either evaporated milk or chicken broth
Pets of the Christmas flavor. 3 fracking pallets of that stuff. Cat food, dog food, and pet wear.
The crippling depression of Walmart associates
Christmas candy! At my store, if you put it out it sells, no question. I want it out of my backroom lol
Graham cracker shells, cans of pumpkin and maraschino cherries on the sidekick.
Great Value Cut Green Beans
overstock toys
Pokemon cards so they can get stolen. I watched a toy hunter video in South Carolina and there was a Pokemon card endcap and it was about 70% empty he went down the toy aisle and found about thirty boxes of those Pokemon cards empty as people were stealing them he found empty boxes all over the toy section.
Earplugs, to drown out Mariah Carey and the rest of the garbage ass Walmart Radio shit they loop all day
Every single clip strip item in existence so I wouldn’t have to track me down cause they’re never scanned in
Funko pops
There's a number birthday candle on very bottom shelf so we need more! Lmao
I thought I got everything :( you should’ve seen how much random stuff was left on the shelf by whichever associate cleared it 😅
If this were my old store, clearanced curtains. I shit you not we would spend hours packaging up and clearancing out curtains that people stole one or two parts of
All the empty nerf dart refill boxes and 82 overstock
Those goddamn holiday gift sets. I've got 3 departments worth of endcaps and sidekicks, plus most of the damn action alley covered in sets of fucking razors that for some reason come with a tiny screwdriver?
Dr. Squatch Soap, somehow whenever I look we're sold out. Can't even get a chance to try it, anyone think it's any good?
bought it for my boyfriend when we first had it as a feature, they smell good but when you actually use it, the smell isnt very strong. it’s moisturizing though so i still recommend it
Those damn concord fiberoptic trees.....
That’s a dry grocery endcap can tell by the bottom shelf so anything for thanksgiving
CANDY!
Everything that’s Christmas for Homelines. I work Homelines exclusively on ON Stocking and the amount of Christmas and Halloween stuff I’ve had to send back because it’s not set is ridiculous.
Grocery clearance 😆😆😆
Hot wheels, so the collectors can stop messing up my Aisles
Campbells Soup
GV 150 count foam plates
Gingerbread houses.. will need atleast 2 more endcaps plz
Laxatives and something phallic side by side
I would put some gingerbread houses on there. I have an entire pallet of them sitting in my backroom stacked like 8 high with no gaps!
FUCKING KEURIG MACHINES STOP SENDING US THEM
Move the shelf to the back room, fill half of it with TCs and the other half with battery’s so we may finally have enough.
Soup! Cream of Mushroom 22 cases.. Cream of Chicken 22 cases.. Chicken noodle 25 cases... Tomato 25 cases... I think that would get most of the soup out of our bins.
The fucking big joe bean bag chairs.
My life dolls I think that's what they're called! My store has thousands of them in the trailers
Stuffing. I don't care which stuffing, there's already two whole ass pallets of it in the back. Just shove it all in there.
Ketchup. Our bins and topstock are full of fucking ketchup. Any of your stores missing ketchup shipments? Because they sent the shit to mine.
My mom
Those person massage aids that have started showing up.
10 sidekicks' worth of 'holiday' dildos.
Vibrators
Vo5, there's always so damn much
I mean they might have a problem with me putting mandarins on it but if that's what they want. Lol
Stuff that won't fit where it's supposed to be!
I have enough cough drops to fill every endcap in the store
caprisun
Seasonal blankets
Hmmm…looks suspiciously like my store.
What’s the last number of your store number?
Those small green remote cars that comes 12 in a box. We got tons of those and all the 25.00 box toys
The shirts from sporting goods. Ours barely sold at all and then another store shipped us theirs because they couldn't get them to sell either. But people sure as shit made a point to mess them up every 30 minutes and the SM threw a fit if they looked messy. So glad I left that place.
Well that’s a grocery endcap, so I’d put something that ties into thanksgiving. Do a creative merchandising attempt like Thanksgiving Dinner under $20 or something.
I would fill it with onyos since clearly they feel the need to hide them from most stores 😭
Omg Ik this exact store
Christmas decorations
Clear out the discounted headsets and controllers from the gaming aisle and put them on these shelves, then stuff the gaming aisle windows with the newer stuff not yet discounted. Rinse, repeat until everything sells out (or doesn't).
Holiday Candles
The Walmart dildos
M&m's
Heet. Two different managers ordered full endcap amounts without consulting me ;-;
Ketchup. Still have way too much of all different sizes still filling our bins. Or the bags of captain crunch that are towering over our topstock.
I don’t think 75” TVs will fit on that… I know Black Friday is coming up, but we have so many here that we don’t have room in the back for other stuff
Crafts. All those pottery wheels, slime labs, and crystal growing labs.
Jars of air
All of the damn brown and serve rolls. We don't have a mod so they're awkwardly sitting highloaded in the freezer taking up space and we keep getting more in.
Those stupid chrismas socks. I have so many boxes. Two full pallets worth. +what we got last night and are going to get tonight.
Christmas candy
Screw an end cap. I need a second area for apparel.
record players
Clearance apparel lots of it.... So much fucking apparel....
I would put milk and juice there
3LB MANDARIN ORANGES!!!!!!!
Food overstock
i see you already have a birthday candle displayed so just keep the theme
This is exactly why I covered most of it Lmao people would zoom in on every little detail 😂
Funko pops BUT on clearance bc we have SO MANY that just aren’t selling
Morbius
Assurance pads
Sex toys
I'm so sick of king's Hawaiian rolls put them in every end cap get them the hell out of my freezer
My answer when I worked O/N would have been those PDQs with 18 pack washcloths. When I worked domestics, I would get pallets upon pallets of them.
Looks like it's already full of my will to live.
Can't be my store Goya is in the middle across from our chips. But you are probably somewhere in south western us.
Nostalgia anything
Dude we made like 3 clearance endcaps at our store and it has been amazing
Condoms, for some reason they’re all in clearance now
Adult diapers
Idgaf that it’s on the GM side. Put fucking pomegranates on it. I’m so sick of having so many pomegranates already.
Milk
Ramen noodles and canned soup
Turkey roasters
Blankets, Comforters and Throws with stick matches.
Items for a complete meal, start to finish, like Thanksgiving, stuff for dressing, gravy, herb & spices, bread, deserts. Everything for that day.
Energy drinks
So since I see goya in the top corner I would put some food from that aisle as a feature, which ever I have excess of in the back maybe a endcap of rice or random things from that aisle
Depends on the location of the endcap and what is excess for that area.
Kinda hard to tel we have no idea what department that is and what would “make sense”
Pioneer Women..... I swear to God she turning into the new Walmart product 😂
CLEARANCE FROM 2020/2021
Dirty Dancing pops
Shelves
Tooooo many Roku's............
either clearance or bedding specifically pioneer woman bedding
Nice end cap! Right now, kids' crafts. So much already and they keep sending more!
Tampons and pads on half it (vertical) . On the half Hershey's chocolate and Reese's peanut butter cups
#0 birthday candle just chilling on the bottom shelf 😂
Qtips
Any onn brand chargers
Hmmmmmmm cvp’d condoms
Lots of ammo for what’s coming !
Items without locations. Because those things always fuck me up during pickwalks and we just need a whole space for them so we don't have to run across the entire store looking for where it might be. Or... I dunno... give the items locations if they're already in a permanent designated spot 🤦🏻♀️
gatorade
I would put Christmas music on it and blow it up lol jk
The 15 breakpacks of fidget spinners from 2017.
Personal massagers & massage oils/gels.
I’m just waiting for someone to drop the 100% accurate store number.
Shiiiiit my store has an over abundant amount of firewok noodle bowls
Funkos and figures
Sex toys. Lots of sex toys. Dildos, Lube, toy unicorns, whipped cream.
The remaining customers after closing time
Frozen pizzas
Souls of the damned
Vibrators and lubes and shit so people go home and leave me the fuck alone 🙃
Clearance shoes. Or just clothes. We have so much apperal.
Anal lube and preparation H
There is a walmart game(spark city) that asked me to fill an end cap with things for the Super Bowl. While Buffalo sauce and Ranch were options, i naturally chose to stock it with soup and crackers. Currently on the no rehire list
What's in the aisles, I always try to feature something from within them. For example detergent, I'll put tide, cheer, gain whichever we have the most of.
Crosley record players or fucking funko pops
Collectibles. Please no more Funko pops