A question for those who work in retail or supermarkets….
I’m curious for some input from anyone who works in supermarkets, grocery stores, or other retail establishments, which use a POS system.
How does your store conduct annual inventory?? Using pencil and paper? Through the POS? Tracking inventory from receiving through sales??
Our store is approaching THREE YEARS with an installed POS system. And yet, twice a year, they have all the employees take clipboards with sheets of paper and pencils, and count how many items we have and the price.
But not WHAT the item is - so if there are 5 cans of soup on the shelf selling at 2.99 the employee writes down 5 x 2.99 and moves on. The managers then spend half a day sitting with a calculator, multiplying rows of numbers and adding them up. At the end, they get one big sum of money we have in inventory. But no idea WHAT we have. FFS it’s ridiculous, methinks!!
So…. comments are appreciated!!! Thanks