I wanted to rewrite this post because my last one had a lot of on-the-fly edits and I think I can make this cleaner.
Here's what we should do:
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Find people in your neighborhood/community who are sick of masks and want a change and invite them to participate. Start a facebook group or get people on a massive text chain or something like that.
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Decide the dates and times you plan to do this. Get people to go in groups of at least 15, the bigger the better. That's disruptive, and frankly, people can go in all day in different shifts and keep it going.
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Decide on the grocery store you wish to target.
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Go in with masks on, grab a cart, and grab all the perishable goods (meat, cheese, milk, eggs, etc.) along with a few other things to make replacing things more time consuming.
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Place your list with the demands on the top of the cart filled with items (it will say "replace your 'masks required signs' with a 'we support your constitutional rights--no masks required' signs and then these actions will stop.")
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Walk your cart to the front of the store.
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Leave it there and go home.
This way we:
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Avoid physical confrontations
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Avoid being identified so we can be charged with trespassing, etc.
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Create real disruption for these business owners forcing them to change.
In the spirit of “don't be rude,“ I am politely labelling you a “glowie."
Absolutely use perishables. They're not going to spoil - it's just going to disrupt staffing. It takes longer to get these items home than it does to call someone up to put them back.
This messes with staffing levels and normie wait times. The food will be fine. The customer service times and restocking increases staffing levels.
Grocery store managers - I'm talking Kroger, randalls, heb, albertsons, publix - are going to be measured on spoilage more than restocking, but will get hammered on “over staffing“ and forced to explain the cost up the chain.
Local, small grocers will value spoilage over staff costs, since ordering and stocking is directly in their control.
Small, non-perishable items would basically be the same as “heh. Leave the cart far away from the door. Heh.“ at target. No impact whatsoever.
I thought a glowie was an FBI schill?
FBI would be only one of the possible orgs, yes.
Ok well. I guess you’re wrong then. Definitely not a Glowie!
I mean, would a glowie say anything else? ?
I doubt you're actually a glowie... just not thinking in terms of who this is intended to influence.vs annoy. Most of the people directly annoyed by this are probably supporters. But, the influence isn't targeted at them. It's at the levels measured on metrics that already annoy the same people you're trying to be polite to.
Wrong target.
And, I say it mostly in jest as a reference to the "don't be rude“ sticky“
My main problem with the "tedious to restock" is that tedious does not equate to immediacy of loss.
If you grabbed 100 cans and tic.tacs and toothbrushes and ibuprofen, that cart can sit there all day. It can be restocked in the restocking shift. It's marginally more inconvenient than forecast retail shrinkage.
Items that can spoil, but are likely to not actually spoil means restocking has to happen throughout the day. That jacks go staffing. It is a greater potential loss than shrink. It raises eyes on reports.
Yes, we'd hate putting back 100 little items. don't think about those terms. Think about explaining an unforecast extra FTE just to deal with restocking for a.month. think about the trade-off of an extra 1600 a month in raw personnel costs vs a few thousand in spoiled perishables.
Non perishables isnt going to add anything other than annoying the stocker.
Got it! You are analyst - I guess? I have never been good at math! But makes more sense what you said!
Not an analyst, in purest sense. In software and software consulting. So, a lot of my history is “how to make efficient the metrics that matter to those paying for millions in software and system investment.“
From that perspective, you know what no metrics.capture or care about? What already-paid-for-time is spent doing.
If I know I'm paying someone $10 an hour to restock and I've budgeted 20h a week to do it (3h a night) for non-perishables that never go bar, who cares if it takes a couple or three days of work to put it back? No $$ difference.
However, if.perishables have to be put back in a couple hours, I might need another stocker, or another cashier. that's an extra person. If it's happening every couple days, that's either an extra hire or more hours or spoiled.inventory.
One hits metrics and bonuses, all the way up (in aggregate) one doesn't.
Perishables hits the ones that.get measured.