Walmart Steals from the Poor...

Go into Expediting most are unload when you get there and can most of the time cut in line

 

With the large number of trucks going into and out of a grocery DC, it really behooves them to go to an appointment schedule with defined rules for arrival times. Helps us too...

WalMart works pretty well, IMO. Except for 2 DCs it's no arrival prior to 1 hour before appointment time. Their lack of any sort of overnight parking really sucks though. A lot of the high-velocity WalMart DCs will allow you to drop a trailer ASAP. The worst DCs (in general) are the one's that are FCFS - then it's a freakin' free-for-all trying to get checked-in, docked and unloaded.

 

That's SOP for a WalMart DC - 2 of them allow you to check-in 2 hours early; they'll usually give you till 10 minutes after appointment time to get to the window. Just hope there's not a line! Only real difference is if they run a bobtail lot, or you just pull forward. Lumper charge is always $50 - unless you happen to have a prepaid load, like General Mills for example.

 

I do alot of cross dock frozen thats free of charge. The meat loads they charge.

Walmart is cut and dry. Follow their rules/procedures and you're usually out in 2-3 hours.

All appts get a confirmation number. You don't have that, you better be finding it.

I did one time have an appt and conf# and it wasn't in the system. I had to reschedule for the next day. But that was a rare occasion.

Alot of Walmarts group the trucks at one appt time and group's them going out. If they get you done early, you still have to wait on 2-3 trucks and you all get called at the same time.

I had one cross dock load that broke down to 135 pallets. It took the woman 7 hours. But I got paid good detention for it.

If you are new to them or anybody as far as that goes, figure out their procedures and follow them. Things go much easier.

 

You should thank God for Walmart.

Without them, you wouldn't have any freight to haul.

Instead of whining about how long you sit at Walmart docks, it would be worse if you were sitting at home unemployed.

 

So exactly how would you handle the 100 plus trucks that can hit a DC in a night?