A grocery store isn’t just made of ice cream and discount sales. They are real businesses with real business problems. Below are the most common problems faced by grocery stores everywhere — and how to solve them!

4 Major Problems Faced By Grocery Stores

1. Inventory Loss

Grocery stores deal with fragile inventory every day, such as fruit prone to spoilage or boxes and cans that are vulnerable to damage. In fact, the inventory shrink rate at grocery stores is more than double that of retail stores across the board.

Grocery store inventory must survive the perilous journey from the manufacturer to the store to the shelves to the hands of the consumer. This includes loading, transporting, unloading, storing, and stocking—all of which leave goods open to expiration, theft, loss, and harm.

Partner with us to protect every corner of your store. 

2. Injury to Employees

You may not think of a grocery store as a particularly dangerous place to work. But consider all the potential hazards: rolling equipment, messy spills, heavy lifting, sharp cutting tools, and high stacks of products, just to name a few. In the backroom, things move faster, the equipment’s bigger, space is tighter, and the pace never lets up, all day and all night.

One study even revealed that 83% of non-cashier grocery store employees reported a musculoskeletal disorder over a one-year period. 

Don't leave your people exposed — create a safety plan. Our backroom safety solutions are engineered for the relentless demands. McCue backroom protection products make safety easy.

3. Injury to Customers

Grocery store customers are exposed to many of the same dangers as employees. Some of the risks to customers include jagged edges on carts or shelves, slippery floors, and items falling from shelves.

Grocery stores can take a big hit when customers are injured. Defending slip and fall injury claims cost grocery stores some $450 million every year.

Let's fix that. Implementing Sales Floor safety measures means safer floors and better business. Prevent damage from stocking equipment and shopping carts to cases, displays and refrigeration units.

We provide polymer fixture bumpers for light-duty protection, corner guards and floor rails for larger impacts, and queuing systems for organized traffic flow.

4. Property Damage

Grocery store floors, walls, shelves, and display cases take a beating from the everyday use of rolling machinery. Add on top of that the millions of shopping carts used by consumers that scrape, scratch, and scuff infrastructure, and you’re left with some costly and recurring maintenance expenses.

The risk of damage extends to the property of customers as well. Stores have been forced to pay for cars damaged by runaway shopping carts in their parking lots.

On a very serious side, unprotected storefronts can mean total destruction to your store and, worst-case scenario, people get hurt. Crash-tested CrashCore Bollards stop moving vehicles and save lives. 

Keep your parking lots and sales floors safe. Chat with an expert to analyze your store's unique operations, and implement secure safety solutions to protect your people and your business. 

The Grocery Store Solution

At McCue, we strive to provide solutions to these grocery store problems.

Through our offerings of bumpers, bollards, cart corrals, and other safety and protective equipment, a McCue grocery store is a safe grocery store.

Contact us to see how you can eliminate problems at your grocery store!

Sources:

AZ Central: http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/supermarket-shrink-24950.html

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23192489_Supermarket_workers_Their_work_and_their_health_particularly_their_self-reported_musculoskeletal_problems_and_compensable_injuries

Lighthouse Enterprises: http://www.lighthouseenterprises.us/Hurricone/Slip%20n%20Fall.pdf

NJ.com: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/bamboozled_sams_club_shopping_carts_damage_car_com.html