Wellington supermarket worker turns stacking shelves into an art form

Pio Fainuu is blowing people away with the way he makes the store’s goods look perfect.
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[@daryldandridge9818]

Last time I tried that, I got pull to the AP room for going too slowly stocking shelves and was given a poor performance for a whole year. Your grocery store must love your employees, I’m jealous.

[@fuckamitheonlysaneone7426]

Brub just move your ass faster

[@daryldandridge9818]

@@fuckamitheonlysaneone7426 You can’t use ass while working. You can squat or sit on your knees. I’m afraid I’ll have to write you up, see me in my office.

[@okd521]

I was thinking the same thing myself

[@coleblove2133]

You were probably really slow at facing the products, honestly. Its hard to master but you really need to move fast and carry on!

[@daryldandridge9818]

@@coleblove2133 Moving faster is something I never consider for the 2+ years I worked for Walmart. Thank you for wise sage wisdom ascended wizard you bestowed upon me. Disregarding the unrealistic time expectations of stocking a 6 meter in 25 minutes, breaking down boxes at the speed of light and when face with overstock it’s considered CAP 2 fault. The obvious answer was to simply “work faster” you absolute genius.

[@mayhemmacy1566]

the only issue is its very time consuming. unless you have the speed then it takes too long to ensure it all looks perfect like that. But I sure do admire it; I love when its perfect like that. So aesthetically pleasing. Everything in its proper place. I love how the light glints off everything.

[@mcheimler]

Problem is co-workers stupid and when stocking the shelf will throw things onto the shelf and destroy all your hard work in one quick motion.

[@momentsformoms9467]

They find a new way to be lazy all the time it’s so aggravating.

[@coolstorybro_cant_wait_4_movie]

He's the grocery manager he needs to set the standard

[@greenmanmars9520]

Or the shift before you then your boss gets mad at you about it!

[@ToastGreeting]

or the customers falcon punch the shelves when grabbing 1 item

[@petersmith9785]

That was my very first job I did when I started working at Woolworths back in 1992. Everything had to be faced up properly and stock had to be rotated. This man is a perfectionist and I give him credit for this. Great work.

[@charliewedge-university]

I unsuspectedly entered this supermarket a few weeks ago and my jaw completely dropped when I saw how tidy the produce was, (I work nightfill at a different supermarket). As we walked around the store and saw the long-life products, I was completely speechless. I was in my OCD heaven 🤩

[@nulzfa5507]

When he's on vaccation it must look like a disaster

[@michalwalks]

OK, now that's a hard section to look good. 10/10

[@treasuretrails]

I just spent 8 hours stocking the shelves on nightfill, I love my job it is very satisfying to stock all the isles!

[@CalvinBiefeld]

How many boxes would you say u cut most nights...For me it's around 200-250 boxes a night.

[@BornAgainOneHope]

@@CalvinBiefeld That’s a decent size load right there. I have the can aisle at my store and have around that most nights but will also have around 280-330 unit trucks as well. Those size trucks are fun to try to get done. Of course the eight hour shift (plus overtime sometimes) time frame does not account for stocking alone as other tasks must be completed such as: Working backstock Checking numbers (inventory) Breaking down/separating the truck Facing/conditioning the aisle. Those three sections alone can account for 2 to 2 1/2 hours of my shift give or take. In other words you don’t purely stock a single aisle for the whole eight hours. We’ve been short handed ever since the pandemic started-a long time to be short-handed-so it’s a very tall order to maintain this standard of consistency night in and night out without eventually becoming burnt out. That’s what I strive to avoid so I can do better at my job.

[@acbundy7033]

@@BornAgainOneHope hey, I'm about to start nightfill in a few days at woolworths. I've never done it before. Would really appreciate if you could give me a idea of what it would be like or any tips.

[@owhat615]

Take pride in what you do ( be a boss when no one is looking)

[@delete6985]

This guy might be one of the most stressful people to be around

[@queenanhle1258]

True. I worked there :)

[@beepbeep9043]

lol they would say thats wasting time. I find organizing so satisfying though I know exactly what he means! Good on him for moving up to managment, he deserves it!

[@ToastGreeting]

The shelf levels are aligned optimally for this sort of face up. It's a lot harder to do this when the shelves are spaced further apart as the bags are loose. Most chip sections in other stores around the world are not like the one at the store shown here. His work is beautiful

[@ghotyolocanisyn2880]

So thats why 40% of my chips are broken when i open the bag.

[@LellooKiro]

I wish my isle looked like this, but it's hard when ur boss puts 3 people working on Saturday noon (one on deli and one on main register) and I am responsible for every single isle, fruit, and veggies isle, running to help on register, i don't have even time to eat, we aren't even allowed to go to our 30 min lunch break, break is max. 10 mins... and my boss always watches cameras, just screaming at us next day for not getting all work done. We also have to clean the whole store, take care for trashes...and we stay 1 hour after closing to make store look nice, and brining everything to front... I just just quit this job. I am everyday on verge of crying.. plus rude customers... :) what a fun world to live in

[@issaissachur8077]

That's so satisfying. Oh My gosh. So perfectly stored. Feels so good. But at the end, I got triggered. Lol

[@thatone7793]

I wish my store here in the US looked even .0001% this good. We could close our store down for two months just to fix the shelves and still not look so nice. Severe understaffing and employees who don't care are the problems. It can take me literally two 8-hour shifts to fix one aisle.

[@ButacuPpucatuB]

This is so soothing 😍😍😍

[@otutitsnileameuQ]

Im a supermarket worker, I wish we had the budget to have a guy dressing all the time...

[@yuranamo]

man I do this for FREE as a customer

[@TheDON914]

Lmao

[@Unknownn858]

You are appreciated

[@carmengracepuentes7953]

Same and when I shop :)

[@BulletAgario]

I do it cause it’s my job lol

[@InfinityShadow20]

Even though I am the slowest where I work, OCD definitely takes it's toll on me and I even get an apology from customers from time to time. Or just a compliment like "This isle just looks so nice I hate to ruin it."

[@crog8134]

I get so annoyed when people say this hahah, would rather that they don’t draw my attention towards the fact that I have to do more work

[@LoneWolf-sp9bk]

@@crog8134 I know that feeling. My OCD demands I go back to fix it and so I do... No matter how much I try to refuse it, I gotta go fix it, once you see it, You can't unsee it.

[@solliskuxxswag]

Great attitude from the lad

[@LimitlessLogic]

Lmao imagine having the time to do that I would just get screamed at for taking to long

[@anthonytomlin904]

This video almost got me written up was told this takes to long

[@heroineson9119]

Bruh my manager would be so far up my ass 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NahkriinKonahriikLXXVI]

@@anthonytomlin904 this store most likely doesn’t sell much so they don’t constantly get shipments and have to stock everything. That’s why they have so much time to do this, that one guy probably faces the shelves full time 😂

[@notkerrystolcenberg]

US stores do not have time for this. He'd be fired immediately.

[@betsybenson6417]

One of my former managers who ran the front end didn’t like me at first but once he saw on how I could pack a cart w/out even breaking a single thing he /myself became fast friends cause he was impressed by what I could do as an artist He’s retired now and I work on the east coast but we had a good if sometimes clashing at times friendship

[@just_th0ughts]

The purple Pams Cheese & Onion chips were my go to snacks till they discontinued it 😔

[@thebunkreport]

Try doing that at Amazon and you would be fired for underperformance in a heartbeat.

[@idk1848]

In most walmart stores you would still get coached and yelled at. This is typical "look how amazing [insert big business]is to work at" bullshit

[@AtticTapes14]

What do u mean

[@thebunkreport]

@@AtticTapes14 What I mean is if you took that kind of time just to straighten out boxes on the shelf you would never be able to meet their work quota.

[@markusgarcia4136]

Love the guy he is so funny!

[@Lucifer9387]

Must be nice to actually have the inventory to stock 🤣

[@fmar.8311]

Ah, this is peaceful.

[@Benjamin-om3ih]

2:56 - you monster

[@pattimiller9157]

It's very satisfying

[@lovetodocoolstuff9309]

Nothing better than lines 😂

[@mrsentinel6815]

Dam I gotta try that technique the chips have always been hard for me to block, they never look good for somereason

[@tribalwestcoastartenterpri603]

This is where I'm starting at I just want to be the best that I can be at my new job

[@zman5908]

Guna have everyone doing this in my store this weekend 😂

[@Biggs253]

Couldn't imagine a FredMeyer looking like that we would just get yelled at for wasting time

[@TheNastyPS]

I'd be getting fired if I was doing this. I have to fucking take all the shit and fucking BLAST it onto the shelves for maximum speed or they'd let me go.

[@weaseltown]

Literally every Publix here in Florida

[@reyesquillo4531]

Can I apply here I'm from the Philippines I'm a merchadiser of San Miguel brewery the largest brewery in the Philippines I been merchadiser for 15 yrs I hope I can help me to be apart of your company.

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Those mowing lines that only work once and if you dont copy the lines it takes a dozen or so times to get it back.

[@nakagoseiryu6921]

Man I'm a Team Leader of Food Dept in supermarket, how did he do it? I want to know!!

[@SniffDaBunda]

There’s not normally enough time to make it that nice

[@Minceontoast2]

When you stack shelves are you timed or something

[@SniffDaBunda]

@@Minceontoast2 you aren’t physically timed on a stop watch but there’s a rough idea on how long you take. The priority is to get products on the shelves. Yes you need to make it presentable but to make it that nice is almost never done as there’s much more important jobs that need doing.

[@Minceontoast2]

@@SniffDaBunda Damn

[@musicmad67]

@@SniffDaBunda We have 5 staff expected to load 10 pallets onto the shelves in a 9 hour shift, including facing up.

[@SniffDaBunda]

@@musicmad67 that’s easy

[@Lia-rr7vr]

Lovely video. I wish it came with subtitles to make it easier for my students of English as a foreign language to be able to follow it. Please add subtitles. Thank you in advance.

[@nikita-fm7ij]

No one has an obligation to make subtitles for you. Perhaps you should find a video that is actually suited to the purpose you have in mind rather than asking for something only you'd benefit from on something that has no relevance to what you want it to be.

[@Lia-rr7vr]

@@nikita-fm7ij Wow, you took your time to write this nasty answer when my post had NOTHING to do with you! I feel sorry for you. Get a life!

[@nikita-fm7ij]

@@Lia-rr7vr 😉 welcome to the internet sweetheart

[@Lia-rr7vr]

@@nikita-fm7ij you need help.

[@horatio655]

The fucking wagie energy is immense.

[@blackwolfll6105]

I used to do this too... All i got was a "That looks really nice!!" from my boss every day 😅🤷🏻‍♂️. This is not news. This is just a guy doing what he was hired for xD...

[@NobodyOwesYouAnythin]

Pride in your job. I like it.

[@michelangelomiguel1596]

Wouldnt work for fillers, managers would clock you for slow work. This eats time.

[@cass2303]

You can still do this fast! It is possible.

[@cass2303]

@Sincerely Respectfully yeah it is I've been in the job for 12 years. It does depend on the night but sometimes it is possible.

[@cass2303]

@Sincerely Respectfully he did the whole store with another team member. Try 40 minutes an aisle that's what my workplace does.

[@cass2303]

@Sincerely Respectfully haha don't do nightfill then

[@cass2303]

@Sincerely Respectfully it's hard work but it's pretty easy.

[@MLFranklin]

@Tim Franklin

[@taniawilliams14]

🥰

[@craigkelly4728]

Can't really do this to that extent given I work produce at my new world and most of the stuff is loose and not prepack so It would be harder but I do my best 👍👌👍👌

[@shereezeelie8157]

Wouldn't the chips be all broken into tiny pieces

[@marlond.melo.3257]

Relate im doing the same.

[@Southern_Pixel]

I dont understand this is incredibly easy. I work at Piggly Wiggly and I have only started working there for a month so far. I'd like to know how he deals with the inconvenient side of fronting though, for me i always have a hard time with cans that don't have a rounded edge top because if you even breath on it it will just fall right off the can you put it on top of, It's like fucking playing Jenga with yourself and you're losing. Plus you could have a perfectly straight shelf of stuff but if the total width of all the items aren't either the same or less than the width of the shelf then you either have gaps or you've got cans or other stuff that has a single item that isn't quite perfectly at the edge of the shelf. Everyone including my supervisors/managers tells me im doing a great job but I'm a perfectionist and this shit pisses me off.😖

[@ToastGreeting]

You can only understand if you aren't seeing it in the perspective of a person who does the same thing. The spacing between shelves makes it easy for the guy in the video, he can do it fast and efficiently. At many other stores, this wouldn't be possible, you'd have to spend your entire shift getting the bags to stand up right and next to each other since there wouldn't be an option to wedge them between the top and bottom of the shelf, then customers taking them or the product getting restocked would ruin the look entirely, unlike at the store shown in video

[@johnwick5894]

Facing up

[@user-ej3iw8lw3w]

i thought that was elon musk in the thumbnail

[@zaydhidalgo8318]

LOL this made it to the news 😂 never mind people all over the world are dying from starvation and disease

[@tona6409]

Probably doesn't happen at this store anymorw

[@FlamingOL]

if im correct ive been to this store last week and the chips look just slightly more neat than in the video so they are keeping up but just not to the standard

[@AtticTapes14]

Start at 1:59

[@SavageWhiteBread]

🕶 😎🙄

[@adrienbeaudry4077]

Glad I don't work there

[@pdxcorgidad]

Lol yeah taking the time to straighten shelves....what a life it must be in NZ.

[@okd521]

OCD lol

[@janeriksvendsen752]

That newsreporter looks like John cena like if u agree

[@kylewheatley8248]

Mines still look better.

[@chandrashekar1467]

Hi All, I am Chandra Shekar from India looking for job opportunity in New Zealand, could you please help get job in supermarket. Please do the needful and Thank you!

[@relaxationnapz2444]

perfect job for OCD

[@martinjenkins6467]

Wish my staff would face up the Shelves like that. But with Aussies Near enough is good enough.

[@solox5853]

aint a busy store and probably has upperclass customers who wudnt make much of a mess, try a ghetto area which is busy, no matteer how much u face it good, it will look like crap in an hour.

[@scoremxcom]

Why do these people talk so funny?