My Personal Experience As A Warehouse Store Keeper.

Life indeed is a lesson, and the truth is that, as we grow old and mingle or associate with different people, we will see new characters from them, which includes good and bad characters. My personal experience as a warehouse store keeper made me to know that we truly learn new things everyday.

I was employed as warehouse store keeper in a company where her goods are transferred from a different state where it was manufactured for them to another state where their major warehouse is located; from there they distribute them to their major vendors for sale either wholesale or retail. It's transported from Ogun state to Lagos state with different vehicle sizes; in this place we have loaders, I mean the people that offload the goods whenever it arrives Lagos, they also load them whenever a customer makes an order.

There also, we have those that drive forklifts; these are the people that are carrying the goods in and out of the warehouse. For example, when there's offload, they will carry the one already offloaded into the warehouse where it's supposed to be, in the same way, their work is to carry these products from one part of the warehouse where it was kept to the vehicle where it will be loaded up, to be taken to a customer's warehouse.

So I discovered that the company has many products that give the same value, but they gave them different names. This is because they want to create competition between these products; the one that is most bought by customers will be made to dominate the market while others follow.

For example, they have 5 different types of seasoning cubes, and 3 out of these 5 seasoning cubes are being taken to their different customers everyday except on Sunday that they don't work. So going by this competition, the marketing department and the company's management know the product that they show produces more which can strongly compete with other companies products that offer the value.

As a business owner, or aspiring entrepreneur, you should learn to create different quality products, push them to the market, allow the products to compete with each other. 6 months should be enough for you and your marketing team to know which of those products are mostly accepted by members of the public, then give it more attention and engagement so it can strongly compete with other companies products that give the same values; if your products give better quality, then you will lead the market.

I really enjoyed it and I am still enjoying it because of the internal competition between the products, is not that the ones lagging strand is not of high quality but outside the company, the ones that are leading are based on likeness and aroma that final consumers are driving from it.

But on the side of the loaders, I noticed that their money is not much; I mean they are not receiving monthly salary but daily payment based on their job; sometimes it will be small; sometimes it will be big, so because of this challenge that their money is not stable or fixed, they hardly allow an outsider to join them to work so that they will be able to get a good amount of money at the end of the day. This is not a selfish attitude because going by the hardship in Nigeria, many people find it very hard to eat well twice a day. Also, the loaders are under contract from another company. They are the ones that pay them daily, not TGI Group where they are working.

Look at some pictures I took for your pleasure.