Foreign Perspectives

One thing that constantly surprises me is just how bad the stock control system is in Metro/Makro.

Despite billing themselves as the supplier to hotels, without fail they run out of hotel soaps in June every year and don’t get them back in stock until September. Hard as it may be to believe they’re even worse with the little shampoos which go out of stock in May or June and usually don’t come back until well into October. They do have loads of the little body lotion bottles though which have been sitting on the shelves unsold since June (I marked one of the boxes way back so, yes, they are exactly the same boxes!).

I’m not just singling out one slippage either. Fanta? Not from June to August. Water? Very limited availability right throughout the Summer.

Don’t these people have automated reordering systems in place?