Subj : Re: Eggs! To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Sep 17 2019 01:20:08 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 07-Sep-2019 08:30 <=- NB>>> Different approaches work for different people... :) BM>> True. Can see where it would be easier to have three or four meals BM>> available at the store instead of bringing them in daily, especially BM>> if storage at home is minimal. Or the kids microwave the employee's BM>> meal for a snack! NB>> Yup... that could be an issue, too... ;) And having a stock at the NB>> store means one doesn't have to think about it every day before NB>> coming in... Richard used to buy a box of individually wrapped NB>> burritos (I think it was) and stored them in the freezer at work... NB>> then he'd always have something available if he needed it... BM> Yes: if they're what I think they are they're Chimichangas (burritos) BM> and we buy the 10-pack here and have for lunch or dinner. That sounds right... :) Haven't bought them for a while, he left that job over eight years ago.... BM> Individually wrapped makes more sense for The Wizard's situation: use BM> the wrapper to microwave in and use as a wrapper to keep the hands BM> clean. Yup. :) BM>> to the 'start aisle' and noticed Pharmacy was still caged (closed with BM>> their security bars up). Half-thinking the 'late' thing from mailing BM>> my letter, then noticed a sign on the cage indicating the Pharmacy is BM>> temporarily located to next to Floral (on the other side of Customer BM>> Service at the front of the store). So yes, check that out while BM>> shopping. Pharmacy is temporarily in a section -- don't recall what BM>> was there originally -- but has to be secure so is a wall with two BM>> small windows that sort of reminds me of the old ice cream or food BM>> trucks. NB>> I'm not sure how our pharmacy kept things secure, I think maybe NB>> behind the construction barriers, actually... they had a working NB>> set-up in the middle of the front of the store, with cash registers NB>> and pharmacist counseling stations and boxes of the filled NB>> prescriptions all right there... not sure where they were doing the NB>> actual work of filling scripts, but maybe that was being done NB>> off-site... BM> I'm guessing possibly a conference room or even a public meeting room BM> was temporarily converted to temporary secure area where medications BM> were stored and on-demand prescriptions were filled. Just guessing. Dunno.... nothing that I know of of the sort anywhere near where either the Pharmacy resides (both before and then after the construction) or the temp setup was... I didn't ask... BM> I haven't peeked in to mine (the temporary Hy-Vee pharmacy) but BM> guessing they have everything in the temporary site from the original BM> site, just crowded together; the original site was roomy. Plus instead BM> of two check out registers just the one window, so that's a bit of a BM> space-savings. Sounds like maybe your pharmacy isn't quite as extensive as ours... even the temp setup had four registers and two pharmacist counseling spots... used to have five registers, and now has six or seven.... but I think a couple of them double as dropping off scripts now... there are fewer paper scripts brought in now with electronic prescribing and renewing being the norm now... BM>> I didn't visit to find out what was going on. The old Pharmacy area BM>> was relatively open -- visually. Effectively physically blocked to BM>> keep customers, etc., from wandering in. LIS the temporary Pharmacy BM>> sort of reminds me of an old food truck as far as the front looks. BM>> Don't know if they're going to be remodelled and returned to the BM>> original section -- will find out eventually! NB>> Yup, when the dust settles... Depending on how much they are NB>> turning the whole store topsy-turvy or not... you might just find NB>> it upgraded and back in the original spot.... or maybe on the NB>> other side of the store.... :) BM> "Stay tuned!" Last week there was construction going on in the old BM> pharmacy area -- presume ripping apart for whatever will be in its BM> place. I'm thinking the new pharmacy will be at the front of the BM> store, possibly where the customer service counter is currently, but BM> that position would not make sense for 'adjacencies': where one BM> department/ section is next to another for a reason (purses next to BM> dresses next to hosiery). ...Will see! Yup, you'll find out eventually... :) One would want at least the OTC meds, vitamins and first aid, etc, near the pharmacy... as you call it, adjacencies... :) NB>>> Have they announced an expected date of completion....? :) BM>> I was chatting last week and one indicated it was going to be a BM>> several-year project and the remodel was only being done during the BM>> day. (When the store where I worked was having a full remodel years ago BM>> a lot was done overnight when the store was closed; Hy-Vee is a 24-hour BM>> store.) NB>> Even if a 24-hour store, I'd think that the work might go easier if NB>> done on the night shift... unless the night stocking would be in the NB>> way of the remodel and vice versa... BM> Overall it would seem so. Hy-Vee does do stocking during the day, or BM> at least when I'm there mid-morning. To me would make sense to do some BM> overnight work: pretty sure Bakery and the various Deli Shops are not BM> open all night. Even when the store is open 24 hours (they recently cut back hours for our store, closing at midnight and reopening at 6), the departments (Bakery, Deli, Meats, Prepared Foods, Pharmacy, etc) closed in the evening to reopen in the morning.... The bulk of the restocking happened during the night shift, but there was always some stocking happening on the other two shifts... BM> ...Quite sure they have it 99% figured out -- there's always a BM> surprise!! I'm sure they have some sort of overall plan.... it would be foolish otherwise.... ;) BM>> I'm sort of doubting the several year remodel (didn't tell him that!); BM>> maybe a year but that's also including the liquor store and banquet BM>> hall areas next door. NB>> The banquet hall areas might account for some of the extra time... NB>> also if they really are doing a complete overhaul, move everything NB>> around to a different spot in the store, sort of remodel.... moving NB>> departments and setting things up in a different spot could account NB>> for a lot of extra time, too... BM> Right. AFAIK it's a 100% overhaul with everything being moved. Even BM> the rest rooms (!): was told those are being moved to the front of the BM> store. My guess is some of the fixtures will be moved and reused: the BM> refrigerated cases were upgraded a couple years ago to have LED BM> lighting on motion sensors: lights one on when a customer approaches. BM> Well, supposed to. Most seem to stay on and a few don't. (Those that BM> stay off may explain the ones that stay on ==> got bypassed because not BM> working correctly.) Sounds like a case of technology being magic-equivalent... ;) ttyl neb .... Ghosts are merely unsubstantiated roomers --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .