Does anyone else that does Pick 5 have a sale for it. We have one once a month with 6 items for 19.95. Its alot of cutting to keep up with, They got there moneys worth out of me today.!
My dear, you wouldn't have liked to have work for me then lol When I retired I had a 118 pick 5 meat items in my case, that was every day 7 days a week
i had it advertised at another store every week but we never did anything different with it. it was always 5 for 19.99. . I asked if we could just scrape the program..not because I didn't believe in it but because my manager was a complete nitwit there. her idea of pick 5 was garbage. like 3 day old grinds, pork ears, feet, and maw that isn't for everyone. the whole section was green and disgusting looking. I tried to build a process where everything I cut some of it would go into pick 5. and the meat just flew out of there but she kept turning it around and just using it for a dumping ground for outdated garbage. It really ticked me off . i could never agree with anything she said. ...we had a good sized meat case here...but NO family packs, no thick steaks. garbage for pick 5 she liked to use the BIGGEST LONGEST trays she could find to put 2 little steaks in. why? to fill up space so she doesn't have to cut too much. she was soooooo slow...all she ever did was brag about how so long she has been in the business and how good she is...but take my word for it. this was an amatuer. The owners tried to say I just had problems working with women. That is so not true. My current boss is a woman too and she is one the best cutters i have ever worked with. i worked with alot of cutters and I can only think of 3 who really impressed me and she is one of them. well anyway I tried to turn things around..went to the owner..nothing worked out. I eventually got so fed up I walked out and never went back...sorry i am rambling but the subject touched a nerve.
We have a large variety Leon 7 days a week not sure a count but I may get you one! This sale is a added on bonus they run once a month so instead the customers are grabbing up about average 18 packages at a time. It gets crazy!!
In my last market which we did a big food stamp business they would walk down the case talking to someone with them and just reach in and pick up 5 in a stack, never look at them, just toss them in the buggy. my case was stack in 5's so they could just take a whole stack at a time.
I've seen many carts just full of pick 5 meats on the first two weeks of the month. I had store manager come to me one Sat and told me one cashier had checked out a order with 20 pick 5's meats and a few other meat items, came to a little over 430.00
Wait till you pick 5 your hamburger !!!!! lol
-- Edited by apcowboy on Wednesday 27th of July 2011 05:33:06 AM
We just started it. The portion cutting is hard at first. A little time consuming. The problem I'm having is hitting the target weight and making the steaks/chops attractive. Some of our cutters are just hacking it up any old way just to hit the weight.
Added to our regular ad loss leaders, it is a lot of work. But like I tell the other cutters, "you ain't gonna find a meat clerk to do this kind of work." It will be interesting to see what it does for our gross % this month.
We just started it. The portion cutting is hard at first. A little time consuming. The problem I'm having is hitting the target weight and making the steaks/chops attractive. Some of our cutters are just hacking it up any old way just to hit the weight.
Added to our regular ad loss leaders, it is a lot of work. But like I tell the other cutters, "you ain't gonna find a meat clerk to do this kind of work." It will be interesting to see what it does for our gross % this month.
Monkey, I bet your sales per customer increase and your gross percentage drops. The more you sell at a lower margin the lower your gross will be. But the more customers you bring in the more they may be buying in other depts.
If it's worked right, your gross should be around 28 to 30 percent. I don't know what your company is looking for as gross goes but most companies are fine with 28's lol
target weight should give you a 1.25 to 1.50 off each package
Leon we hit a 29 to 30 gross every month. The portion cutting is tough but as a corpate store we have updated sheets every month to reflect company wide cuiting test and our weights change when prices change. We cut all beef and pork that carry as our regular item hamburger and patties. beef we have cubed steaks, bottom rd , chuck steaks , eye of round steaks mock steaks, bottom rd roast and english roast, stew meat. We do carry some top sirloin they are tough. Right now the weight is .50 and its hard to make a steak that thin and still fill up the tray. But they are still buyin them! Our pork chop weights are .90 per pack for boneless 1lb for bone in. We have chicken and sausage and a huge variety of frozen, hot dogs, bob eveans and such. Our area Buehlers is the only stores that do a pick 5 and do it well. Some of our stores that is most of there meat business. We have a 24 foot service case as well as a good 30 feet of pick five. Not counting the same space on the other side for our regular cuts and middle meats. Adding a sale to this makes it crazy but a creates lots of sales. Its like a game for me and my boss we scour the sheets to find the highest gross item and push the hell out of it!. I wish you all good luck with your P-5. Taking some time for a a good cutting sheet and list of items your going to do will help get some consistany for your cutters with the weights and stuff.
Our company expects a gross of no less than 32.25%. 6 years ago I would've told them they were crazy, but we're cranking it out and hitting our budget. I've worked many pick 5 stores in our company, and Leon, you are correct. It's amazing to see people shop pick 5's with Foodstamps. Blows my mind.
I have never heard of pick5 sale can you explain how it works. Those are great grosses!
You have a items in your meat case or its own section marked P-5. The customer gets 5 packages for 19.95. You have to keep your cost of each package at a about 2 to 2.50 a package or some higher or lower to even out to make money. Cutting the fresh meat you have to cut potions that line up with that also. Its a great program and a great savings for customers. I saw at save alot they had some frozen items already saying P-5 so maybe some of the distribtors have a some type of program... Not sure about that. Im in a corpate store that does there own thing. Hope this helps answer your question. Leon has alot of experience with P-5 and he could answer you better if you have more questions.
We get that gross without Pick5 here in Poteau, Okahoma, but I've ran a market that dealt with it. I like cutting for it, but I won't buy any. There really isn't any savings that I can see. But folks will buy anything with that monthly check.
Well I feed a family of six and I plan my meals around it and I save money on it. I gotta be thrifty with 4 kids to feed. Its all in what you pick out and if the sales are a better deal you go that way. But I think its a great program. When they run 6 for 19.95 like they do at our store its a great way to stock the freezer. Im also not on food stamps or welfare just a good old blue collar meat cutter...
Same here...half the product I put in the counter I cannot afford Lol. I've never been able to run a 6 for $19.95 sale! People here would go crazy for that kind've deal. I've just seen that most places will have product much cheaper per pound in their sales counter than in the pick5 section *I did take in consideration per/pound after the pick5 deal*. But the Frozen/processed Meat section's pick5 is fantastic! Lots of good deals there. I don't disdain the program.....It has brought many of our markets from the Red to the Black on our P&L's, but I just can't see the fresh meat deals in it. I definitely have an issue with *repackaging* older meat into a pick5 package. I've seen it done, and I think it degrades people's view of that particular program. When I ran my last Pick5 we cut ours with the same exact fresh meat that we had in our sales section and marked both down accordingly...no repackaging. I hope you have further success with it! I know it's slowly incorporating itself into many of our stores around here. It seems to be a good program to have!
Thanks for the info on the pick 5.I have another question for anybody that has used a hollymatic bulker 120??? I am looking to purchase one for my business and wondering ,anybody used one and if so can you pass on your opinions??
I can't remember the brand but I used to work with something similar. It worked well when we first got it but then it started to become inconsistent. It wouldn't break the meat at the designated weight. You'd set it for a 1 or 2 pound portion and you'd end up with 1.5 and 2.5 sometimes 3 lb portions. Sometimes it would attach the paper underneath, sometimes it wouldn't. Sometimes it would just stop working altogether. So, we'd just end up doing it by hand. It ended up being quicker that way. But that was about 15 years ago so they may have come a long way.
