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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1010253" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Part of the <em>cost</em> of running a retail store is the receiving, processing, storing and distribution of inventory within the store.</p><p></p><p>In order to do this properly, you need (a) adequate dock and storage space and (b) an adequate number of trained employees to handle the freight that is being received.</p><p></p><p>WalMart is simply trying to <em>shift</em> this cost back onto the various trucking companies by intentionally understaffing a receiving area that is totally inadequate in size and storage capability. Instead of having a receiving area that is open until 4:00 or 5:00 with adequate numbers of available docks and employees to process the deliveries....they have a ridiculously short "window" of time in which they will deign to receive deliveries (like from 8:00 to 1:00), and then require the drivers to <em>wait in line </em>for the "privelege" of using the <em>only</em> available dock.</p><p></p><p>This allows them to understaff the receiving operation, because the burden is being shifted back onto the delivery drivers to wait until help and dock space become available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1010253, member: 14668"] Part of the [I]cost[/I] of running a retail store is the receiving, processing, storing and distribution of inventory within the store. In order to do this properly, you need (a) adequate dock and storage space and (b) an adequate number of trained employees to handle the freight that is being received. WalMart is simply trying to [I]shift[/I] this cost back onto the various trucking companies by intentionally understaffing a receiving area that is totally inadequate in size and storage capability. Instead of having a receiving area that is open until 4:00 or 5:00 with adequate numbers of available docks and employees to process the deliveries....they have a ridiculously short "window" of time in which they will deign to receive deliveries (like from 8:00 to 1:00), and then require the drivers to [I]wait in line [/I]for the "privelege" of using the [I]only[/I] available dock. This allows them to understaff the receiving operation, because the burden is being shifted back onto the delivery drivers to wait until help and dock space become available. [/QUOTE]
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