Game Plan

Game Plan

n. The weekly plan, as determined by the GROCERY MANAGER, assigning slots in the FAST-WALL to various VENDORS, as well as PRODUCTS to DISPLAYS on END-CAPS, 3-WAYS, WINGS, and so on.

Gang-Lift

Gang-Lift

v. To lift multiple ITEMS at once—as from a CASE—by using two hands to squeeze the first and last ITEM towards one another, so that intervening ITEMS are held in place by friction, and all may be moved together as a single unit: “Gang-lift Cheerios® to throw half a case at once” —n. Any lift so made.

NOTE: The beauty of a Gang-Lift is it's fast. Two grabs may be all it takes to empty an entire CASE. Squeeze down low, as contents tend to settle. Thus, the bottoms of BOXES are generally firmer than the tops.

Candidates? General MillsTM breakfast cereals are CASED on trays with banded covers specifically to enable such rapid handling. Then there's elbow macaroni, boxed macaroni and cheese, dog biscuits, and so on.

TIP: Corner Rip? If a CASE is too tight, and you're sure it'll all GO, rip open the CASE'S corner to create enough space to easily slide your hands down into the CASE on opposite sides.

Caution: Be gentle—don't squish, bend or disfigure anything! Also, watch out for slippery ITEMS that may squirt out like a deck of playing cards out of a bad shuffle, forcing you to play “52 Pick-Up” with the whole bunch. Better to reduce the number of units you lift at once.

Get It Up

Get It Up

n. See MAKE IT GO.

Gift Card

Gift Card

n. A plastic, limited-use debit card issued by the STORE for certain fixed amounts and which may be purchased by anyone from the CUSTOMER SERVICE DESK. Once activated, Gift Cards may subsequently be used at any branch of the STORE to pay for purchase amounts up to the face value of the card, either all at once, or incrementally on several occasions.

NOTE: In some circumstances a STORE Gift Card may be awarded by STORE management. For instance, at present, as part of a STORE loyalty incentive program, a Gift Card worth $25 is awarded weekly to the winner of a random receipt drawing among ASSOCIATES who enter their CHECKOUT REGISTER tapes showing current purchases of $50 or more using their personal BONUS CARD. I've won it a few times. It's nice!

Also, a few other times I've been awarded a $5 Gift Card by a FRONT-END MANAGER as a small token of appreciation for helping out in ways above and beyond the call of my usual duties. Again, very nice!

Of course, nowadays, there are many, many kinds of Gift Cards, for many, many other stores—and even for online services, like iTunes. You'll find such third-party Gift Cards on racks beside the Pharmacy, for example. Like STORE Gift Cards, they can be purchased and validated at any REGISTER or at the CUSTOMER SERVICE DESK.

For more about Gift Cards, see, e.g.,:
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Glue Board

Glue Board

n. A type of moth trap. Also GLUE TRAP.

NOTE: Glue Boards are typically secreted somewhere near dog food, which is notorious for harboring moths.

Glue Trap

Glue Trap

n. See GLUE BOARD, above.

Go

Go

v. When the entire contents one or more full or partially-full CASES completely fits in the available space or SPOT on the SHELF: “It'll go,” or sometimes “Make it go.” See also HIDE, JAM, LAY-IN, MAKE IT GO.

Grocery

Grocery

n. 1. You know: a STORE where you can buy food and stuff. 2. The NON-PERISHABLES DEPARTMENT: (Page) “Grocery, please take the call holding on 801.”

NOTE: Up until about a hundred years or so ago, a Grocery was a tavern, or place to procure liquor! Wow—our INVENTORY sure has changed!

Gun

Gun

n. A special hand-held BARCODE SCANNER that is Wi-Fi connected to the STORE'S computer, and which can be used to obtain PRICING, INVENTORY, or other PRODUCT information, or to place orders for PRODUCTS, update INVENTORY counts, etc. Typically used by DEPARTMENT or STORE MANAGERS. See also BACK-STOCK, INVENTORY, NEGATIVE ORDER WORKSHEET, OVERSTOCK: “Put that in the gun.”

NOTE: There are some things you just can't say over the STORE'S PA. Like “Garbage”—we call it “CODE-G,” remember?

Well another no-no would be “Gun,” as in, “Price Control, please bring a Gun to aisle 5.” Now, stop and think. How does that sounds to CUSTOMER ears? A GUN?

Caution: Funny? Not if someone drops dead of a heart attack. Better call it something else. For example, “Price Control, please bring a hand-held stock Scanner to aisle 5.”