You recognize this if you have also been a shelf filler
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: you recognize this if you have also been a shelf filler.
Starting work earlier and working an extra hour, unpaid of course. Filling FIFO, and if your supervisor doesn't see it, just stuff everything into that section. Customers wanting ginger cookies, cauliflower pizza and gluten-free coconut sprinkles, and you have to go look for it for them. No, shelf filling is not an easy side job. Instagram account @vakkenvulmemes knows exactly how it (doesn't) work.
Have you never worked in a supermarket and just do your shopping without stopping to think about how it is that those shelves are filled, that there are no expired products in the dairy section, and why everything is so neatly arranged on the shelves? Then this Instagram account is a revelation: this wonderful world lies behind your shopping round.
FIFO filling
The wonderful world of FIFO filling (First In, First Out, a way to ensure that no products from 2007 are left to rot at the back of a shelf), of facing (neatly placing everything with the label facing forward at the front of the shelf) and of hauling and dragging in the warehouse opens up for you.
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Pointless search
Do you know the pain of boxes that cannot be opened without damaging the packaging, of the pointless search for a specific type of cookies (you know they are out, but just to be sure you dive into the warehouse to check for that one customer) and the grumbling about carts and mess by customers who do not understand that the shelves do not fill themselves, then you will find a lot of recognition on this Insta account.
You are not alone! Everyone experiences the same! And when you get a call next time in the morning asking if you can start a few hours earlier, you immediately think: there’s a good meme in this.
