I'm 19 and I'm currently the grocery department head at Kroger Central in Terre Haute, IN. My crew tends to stock our trademarked brands and many other brands as well. But these merchandisers (we call them vendors) stock their respective products on our shelves. Just like this Coke Vendor, he will stock and replenish all Coca Cola products in the store. But a lot of our vendors are much less motivated and productive. They destroy and take up most of our back room where we unload the trucks. They almost never fill coolers or displays with their products. They tend to use up our skyshelves (where we put extra items that are full on the shelves). And they are more-often-than-not rude and ignorant in their work ethic. So major kudos to this guy. We need more merchandisers like him everywhere!
I don't know where you live.. But the opposite seems to happen at the stores I work at.. Store employees talking more than working, they take down vendor displays with little or no notice, they make unrealistic demands last minute with no prior communication.
WisdomRL pretty sure it is. I am an ASM at a DG and most of the time I have to check in these vendors but that’s it they stock their coolers and displays.
I think it's a bit crazy how the Driver has to stock as well. That's the part i wouldn't like at all. The people working at the Gas Station should be responsible for stocking what they've ordered.
wow,,, having to stock all the coolers is horrible. these stores are taking advantage of you giving all this free labor. they have workers, they should stock their own shelves and coolers
@@james11h As somebody doing the same job he is, I care. It would be so much nicer if the people working at the stores were the ones to stock their own coolers. Just because we get paid hourly doesn't mean I want to spend 12-14 hours a day out doing it.
Bro I used to work at a gas station that got deliveries like these. The stuff he's doing at 3:36 is honestly what the gas station/convenience store employee should be doing.
The reason that he’s stocking the shelves is because he’s a merchandiser. The store employees stock some items, but some vendors stock and rotate their own items. I used to work at a grocery store and we had some vendors that would deliver and stock their products.
The job wouldn't be so bad if the store staff actually stocked their own shelves. I'm not about to kill my back and feet...I got my CDL to drive not unload and stock shelves!
I like how you are very positive and enthusiastic. I've seen a few different vendor drivers coming into our backroom and they all have that blank facial expression and are quiet with everyone. You however seem like a genuine driver who loves what he does. I respect that. :)
In Australia, drivers only deliver the stock. It's the job of the store employees to keep the coolers stocked. It's not the drivers job to do the stocking.
Bullshit job and pay, I’m a delivery driver for coke in Ottawa. 14 years this coming June, too many overpaid managers in this company. That’s why we make peanuts, for wages. And because we’re union managements treats us like shit. GPS in the trucks, treat us like a bunch of fkn kids, they act like the own the company. Poorly ran company. Rant is over. Think I’m gonna make the switch and head over to GFS.
I delivered for Budweiser in San Francisco for 10 years and also did 7up for 6 years. I’m now a garbage man and love what I do. Big ups to all beverage delivery drivers 👍🏽🤙🏽🙏🏽
@@duckbrew I average 40-50 n hour for straight time. But only thing bad pay wise is I don't work much ot at all but I love it. I would rather have the free time.
I thought the same thing. I always see the employees of the station stocking it, but someone else in a different comment mentioned he's a driver merch. So he does both and gets paid a bit more than just a driver who delivers.
israel pinto lmao dude this is the easiest job . I’m pretty sure he gets payed decent just to stock. Shit ima over here climbing 80 feet towers and were probably getting paid the same
go into a walmart or target or kroger in the early morning i mean like 6 am and many times you will see people stoking shelves that are not in the stores uniform. they are the vendors for the companies. like coke and pepsi, and frito-lay and mike sells. all the bread guys ect. they bring the product in, stock the shelves and put what wont fit up as backstock. then they write an order based on how much backstock they have and the stores sales volume for the next delivery, many times the next day. I worked for frito for a few months and i promise the jobs are much harder than these videos make them seem. and many times with long hours. also the part he kind of skips over in this video is just getting into receiving. I've stood out in the pouring rain for 30 minutes at 4 am to get into a walmart before. product in boxes getting soaked while i wait. there are certainly route you can get that are easier and days that just go well, but guys with senoirity take them and for every nice day theres usually many bad ones. lol the job gave me more stress than i cared for so i left. more power to this guy he's happy as shit lol.
For all the people thinking you can do half the effort / work and keep all the pay, you'll get less far in life than this guy. Take pride in the work you do and don't expect others to do your work for you. If you just left the products in the isles and didn't take pride in your work, people would notice and people would report that info back to your bosses. You'd find yourself either dead ended with less pay or fired ("let go") within 6 months. Where as this guy, This guy has a future in the company, Possible marketing opportunities, brand deals, public facing operations. The options are endless. Long story short, Show respect Get respect.
1. Deal with the stress of driving 2. unloading/loading 3. rotate stock in store 4. customer service 5. Working in the elements I'm sure this is easily 14-16 hour work days.
Hey Hi there. I did that in McAllen Texas. My delivery was big grocery stores only, now it’s done differently. The position was called Bulk Driver. We started delivering at 4am every morning 6 days out of the week. Sunday was my off day. I worked for 20 years till I hurt my back during a stop at Walmart. I eventually went through 2 surgeries and couldn’t return back to work. Loved my job and had great benefits.
Anyone who says this job is easy has never had a RD pallet of 12packs fall over, roll everywhere, or have full pallets fall over in those HOT trailers during a 15hr day and it shows
Iron Razor Yeah unless you have a high traffic route with little to no parking and most of the stops wanted it all in the basement. Gotta love the bar/restaurant areas. I eventually went to line haul
I lasted 8 months with Coca Cola the company made the job harder than it needed to be when they took the cool lifts away. That gave me the push I needed to get the rest of my endorsements now I deliver fuel.
@@danielfuentes7979 cause those that don’t do the work are making all the decisions. And now most of them have retired or went on to other positions within the company
In the stores where u just drop it, there are workers who workes for the Coca Cola to travel around the markets and stock it. Or the company pays the store to do it.
I worked for Coke back in 2000-2004. I ran sideload. Averaged around 25 stops a day at around 700-800 cases. Those electric pallet jacks really have made it easier to deliver. Plus it looks like the orders are pre built for you guys. Very nice. Just happened 20yrs too late I guess, Lol I’m over at FedEx Freight now since I left Coke. 17yrs now n life is good. Coke chowed me how to really drive and grind n work though. Once u do that job u can pretty much my do anything. #brandflow
It is pretty rich that the companies do all the merchandising on top of delivery. You would think that if this were the case, we’d be charging extra for the product given the labor that goes into stocking it. Maybe then the driver-merchandisers would get paid more.
It's pretty common for companies like this (Coke, Pepsi, Lays, etc) to do the merchandising as well. I worked for Old Dutch chips and we had to stock the shelves because convenience/grocery store employees are usually kids on minimum wage who couldnt give 2 fucks about how the shelves look, so we did it ourselves to ensure product is rotated and sold before expiry (big retailers will have deals where the suppliers picks expired product up and refunds them for it).
I worked a while at circle k and the fact that you stock up the drinks yourself gets some mad respect from me. I've never seen a single delivery guy do that for drinks
