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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Would think a lot of it is based on poor management of some stores
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You'd be thinking incorrectly then. Most products in Publix are brought in via automatic ordering system. Publix doesn't call Kellogg's and tell them "We need 20 boxes of this, 4 boxes of that, and two cases of the other thing." The bar codes scan into the system when you buy something, that goes into a matrix, and this very complex computer program lets the vendors know what was sold, how many of each. Then the vendor's computer program figures out which stores in which districts need which items in which quantities, and collects whatever is available to fill those orders.
If something is unavailable, it doesn't get shipped - but the rest of the order does.
I can't speak on behalf of every store in the country, but I can tell you this is basically the same as the system in Staples, and in Party City, Stop & Shop, and Big Y.
Management has very little control over what is actually sent to the stores, with certain exceptions.