This is not as far-fetched as most of you might think. I am a truck driver. A couple years ago, I delivered to a Ralphs stores distribution center in California. LA area I think, but it might have been San Diego.
They have a policy that no case of product can be over 70 lbs. They will refuse anything over 70 lbs, and put it back on the delivery truck.
To do this, they lift, carry, and restack the over-70 cases on new pallets...
So, in order to avoid handling 70 lb cases, they handle 70 lb cases.
This is what happens when special snowflakes start working in warehouses.
Now, if only they had some sort of devices that were either battery or a propane powered that could be used to lift those pallets full of heavy cases in transport them around the warehouse instead of lifting them.
This may be the case, but if so, it seems more than a little short-sighted to design conveyors to be incapable of carrying a weight that a reasonably healthy adult male can lift easily.
Especially for products like fresh meat which can be very dense and highly variable in weight. (My example was a load of fresh packaged meat.)
So, you might be right, but if so, it just means they were stupid in a different way, LOL.
Might be some legal or union thing with the 70lbs. UPS considers anything 70lbs or over to be Overweight, they charge extra for it, and you are supposed to notify them in advance
All assault tuna should be banned. Nobody needs to be able to buy a case at a time. Just buy a can and reload.
Ahahaha. Cases maxed at 10 cans...no more high capacity boxes...
This is not as far-fetched as most of you might think. I am a truck driver. A couple years ago, I delivered to a Ralphs stores distribution center in California. LA area I think, but it might have been San Diego.
They have a policy that no case of product can be over 70 lbs. They will refuse anything over 70 lbs, and put it back on the delivery truck.
To do this, they lift, carry, and restack the over-70 cases on new pallets...
So, in order to avoid handling 70 lb cases, they handle 70 lb cases.
This is what happens when special snowflakes start working in warehouses.
Now, if only they had some sort of devices that were either battery or a propane powered that could be used to lift those pallets full of heavy cases in transport them around the warehouse instead of lifting them.
I know, right?
If it was a DC then it is more likely that the conveyor's wont support that weight. I say this as a maintenance tech at a DC myself.
This may be the case, but if so, it seems more than a little short-sighted to design conveyors to be incapable of carrying a weight that a reasonably healthy adult male can lift easily.
Especially for products like fresh meat which can be very dense and highly variable in weight. (My example was a load of fresh packaged meat.)
So, you might be right, but if so, it just means they were stupid in a different way, LOL.
Might be some legal or union thing with the 70lbs. UPS considers anything 70lbs or over to be Overweight, they charge extra for it, and you are supposed to notify them in advance
You say this but stores did start to limit cans of goya when people were buying too much. Toilet paper and germ-x too
Seems like they could help by limiting tuna for the time being
Listen, no one's looking to take away your tuna cans. All we want is some Common Sense Tuna Reform.
Tuna lines are a good thing
Don’t even think about it, scumbag! We’ve got you surrounded and we’re all packing albacore.