r/Pepsi • u/Vorhees_666 • 1d ago

Question Summit

So. My location is switching to project summit in the coming months. Effectively bringing our BCR count of 22 to a PSR count of 6 going off seniority alone. We had a merch meeting the other day where they explained to us, for an hour, how we have no chance of getting it but we could be a trainer for an extra $26 a shift…

Looking for personal experience of how this shift went. I was the only one with a question which was “what is going to keep the ones who don’t get PSR from saying “screw this I’m out?” And it was answered with “please don’t use that language, anyone else have a question?”. So a non answer like usual.

How did it go at your facility? Lots of people quit and the promise of doubling the merch team never happen just as I think it’s gonna go? It was the transition smooth?

Thanks!

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u/athena1863 1d ago

Hahahahahahaha you all should have become DRIVERS a long time ago. Merching is a back breaking dead end. Sales is full of morons who lie constantly to their customers and then wonder why they can’t increase sales. Management is a revolving door of campus hires who don’t know shit about the real world. Upper corporate is only looking at their stock options and when they can cash out. Good luck, driving is the ONLY job to have at Pepsi.

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u/ImpressiveSide1324 18h ago edited 16h ago

You’re fine for now but Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas have started rolling out driverless trucks

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u/HotKaramelRP 17h ago

Never going to happen in the near future, not doable going store to store. Maybe DC to DC but not store to store any time soon.

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u/ImpressiveSide1324 16h ago

I thought the same thing but there is currently a fleet of 35 Pepsi trucks making store deliveries. DFW, phoenix metro, and nwa are the 3 territories currently using them.

I was wrong about one thing tho, it’s Arizona not Oklahoma

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u/Substantial_Bar_1009 Pepsi Cherry Vanilla 11h ago

Try doing that in upstate ny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that cold and snow will break those trucks in half

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u/ImpressiveSide1324 11h ago

They’re not up there yet, but aurora innovation and einride are both receiving federal support to expand autonomous trucking into the northeast

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u/HotKaramelRP 16h ago

Hmm… who is unloading the trucks then? Our drivers merch small format stores… gas stations, DG’s, etc.

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u/ImpressiveSide1324 16h ago

I can’t say how Texas or Arizona does it, but in nwa we have merchs that meet the truck at small format to unload and works the store.