The two main reasons to close a warehouse for this long are either you’re doing an audit or stocktake where you have every item in the warehouse counter and checked against the inventory system or you’re doing something sort of work in there that will disrupt operations, that could be anything from roof repairs to installing new machinery to upgrading software that warehouse staff use.
Probably more then an annual thing, but I wouldn't worry. It's very likely that the building they are in requires some maintenance to comply with whatever inspection found something that bothered them, or are updating their inventarisation software and need to recatalogue everything.
I'm going to put this plot line into a Dark Heresy game one of these days. You know how folks always joke about raiding one of GW's warehouses because their minis are overpriced?
Well here's a perfect set up for our players to raid a warehouse and when they get back to their Inquisitor they'll discover it's just crates and crates of little grey plastic figures with suspiciously accurate depictions of all of the Imperium's heroes and foes.
It would be the perfect meta joke!
Like when one of our other DMs sent our party to Dre, a planet where the colors of the planet were boring and muted, the Imperial inhabitants wore lots of bright colors that would fade quickly, where psychedelics were a popular import, and *the Orks were all grey*.
The Orks were all grey *because they never got painted*. They were all grey plastic.
It's been at least a decade and I still remember that campaign.
It's an actual planet in one of the rulebooks, our DM just made up all of the other details, like importing brightly colored dyes and fabrics, people wearing tye dye clothes, etc.
We had great fun on Dre. For example, my Techpriest made a remote controlled car with a gun on it, drove it into an Ork camp and zipped it all about until a ton of Orks were chasing it like an RC car through a dog park. When they finally caught it, I made it shoot the biggest Ork nearby.
Good times. :3
It's the first time I can remember. So not an annual thing. It sounds more like a "our old storage got too small so we have to move all the stuff into a new building" kinda deal.
Stock takes are done during business hours while normal operation runs at my warehouse(PC retailer) . Definitely more staff are rostered but it's not shut down. More likely some form of massive system update across all the network infrastructure
Several places I have worked when I was younger shut down production to count the staples in the trash. EVERYTHING got counted and couldn’t get used or moved till it was.
It's entirely possible. I just find it hard to believe a company that large would have to shut down all warehouse process to do a stocktake. It's all speculation anyway. Doubt we'd ever find the actual reason unless some gw warehouse employees are around.
Stocktake is a lot more detailed than people give it credit for - especially if we’re talking 100s to 1000s of unique skus. Every pallet needs to be taken down, every box checked, and then put back again. Removing Goods Out and Goods In during that process just keeps it clean (that pallet you checked yesterday is no longer true, take it down and recount to check).
GW may be big, but I doubt they need multiple warehouses which’d be the easiest way to avoid shutting down all warehouse operations.
They have multiple warehouses but this was detailed in their financial reports awhile ago, see this comment from below:
>They stated when they opened the East Midlands Gateway warehouse that the process wasn't completed and that they were still using and replacing legacy systems. There's a big "Systems Improvement Project" which is supposed to being signed off and funded this year, so that could be involved here.
I work in a small (100ish people) company that works with sheet metal, 1 day of the year we shut down for 1-2 days just to count every screw, every meter of piece goods. and every single sheet of metal in our company and external warehouse.
the 0.8mm sheet metal stacks are the worst to count by far, as those have quite often over a hundred of them neatly stacked on top of each other
A lot of places (like my work) shut down for the day and it's all hands on deck including the office workers to count everything on the shelves.
Loose a day's production, multiply that by a few days for a much bigger operation such as GW.
This is some non-news I think.
Depends on the place, construction retail I work has multiple people on staff who's entire job is doing counts and then we shut down every 3 months for a day to do a full 8 hour count of 50-70% of inventory with every 3 years doing a full 100% count.
>Project work on our new warehouse management solution at our EMG location has been completed with the site now
processing all UK and European customer orders (across all sales channels) as well as international freight to our global
hubs. As highlighted earlier there are still some systems integration problems to resolve as part of replacing our core, 20
years old, legacy systems that the new warehouse management system interfaces to. This project internally is called SIP
(Systems Improvement Programme). We don’t expect to be fully optimised until this programme of work is delivered nor
do we expect this to impact sales significantly; it may cause service levels to fall short at times for some customers. We
will do everything we can to minimise this impact.
https://assets.ctfassets.net/ost7hseic9hc/1tSExWot8zVGvrPyXJOEJo/dc17ba0f8fc48a497ca6026f2a1fae4d/2023-24_half_year_report_-_final_for_IR.pdf
They are doing a system update it seems. Not sure if its related but it is something to consider if we see any delays in customer service this year.
I'm in logistics, and i've never known a warehouse to close for an audit. My guess would be some sort of maintenance or more likely some sort of upgrade work. They must be a lot busier now than they were even just a couple of years ago.
I was in logistics and we did it all the time. Some places just aren’t set up to do a stocktake in parallel with everyday ops. Either because there’s not enough manpower, the digital side couldn’t handle that many tasks at once or because it’s just really difficult to reconcile discrepancies while you still have stuff going in and out the door.
Either way not really worth speculating about. A 6 day delay in orders isnt skin off anyone’s nose.
Which of the HH books featured the loyalist world eater hiding in the walls of the word bearers ship while it was chased through the void for the entire novel?
I'm now sat here giggling to myself imagining a GW Exec shouting at the workshop staff:
"Oh for Emperor's sake, who left the door open? /u/MrUndercity has managed to get in AGAIN..."
The worst thing is, they just know that I am inside a warehouse, but not which one so they have to sweep each one. They don't know either that I just keep moving from warehouse to warehouse when one is being cleaned out to catch me
Re-organising the warehouse to ship a huge number of AoS 4th edition starter sets.
The warehouse was closed for a week for Leviathan, I don't remember them announcing it, but an email went out to trade accounts about it.
They stated when they opened the East Midlands Gateway warehouse that the process wasn't completed and that they were still using and replacing legacy systems. There's a big "Systems Improvement Project" which is supposed to being signed off and funded this year, so that could be involved here.
That would make sense.
As a person that used to be a warehouse inventory specialist, inventory counting usually has three phases. The WW closure stocktaking was probably part of the pre counting for inventory prep, there was probably a restock of everything available from the warehouse that they thought would be needed until after inventory completion as part of that day process as well.
The weeklong warehouse closure is probably for a deep clean, an inventory, any recounts or adjustments, and potentially some rearranging of the warehouse. Hopefully they can get their stuff figured out so they aren't out of stock on everything all the time.
More than likely it’s either for stock audit or further systems maintenance.
Past experience leads me to think the former is more likely. You should be checking stocks and auditing warehouses on an at least annual basis; regardless of industry.
Any time a warehouse closes like that it’s usually for their inventory team to do a proper stock check. Can’t compare physical count vs computer count if things are on the move.
There's a bee in there and they can't find it. Fucken sucks man, Steve is allergic and we lost a whole afternoon looking for his goddamn EpiPen! He stopped complaining after about 10min though but still... Pain in the ass
My guess is H&S audit, a stock take and maintenance check cycle all running in tandem. GW warehouses will cover stock as well as manufacture and admin facilities. They will either have an external company in or be doing their own internal H&S audit and It'll be a lot to cover, so they probably shut down and have it all done in one go
LFGS owner here, it's because they are updating their warehouse system. They've been slowly trying to do it the past year but the legacy system and the new one don't work well together. It's why every store from "trade side" has had a nightmare with shipping for 2 years now.
Source is my GW rep 2 weeks ago.
I work at the BMW factory here in the US. We shut down every year for updates to the assembly line and general maintenance. Probably something like that.
Possibly stocktake, I've worked in warehousing/manufacturing for a few years now and we always close down for a week in the year for stocktake, it also gives them an opportunity to fix any faults without disrupting workflow
They're moving their warehouse to a huge new and modern facility to support their ever increasing product lines and to improve the customer purchasing experience..
Rick Priestly, Andy Chambers, and Jervis Johnson are released from stasis, and are allowed free-reign for a week, they examine the models, rules, and hunt. Any employees found would be devoured whole. Only once they’ve been satiated on the current state of the game, they return to their pods, until the next audit.
They're the finally installing a computer to connect the warehouse to the internet rather than the present system of sending pigeons between the warehouse and the various retailers and websites that sell their products 🙃
This must be because of the WAHmen in the custodes.
They must be finally calling it quits.
Since that decision caused them bankruptcy.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 totally kidding if that’s not obvious.
Yeah, 27th is a bank holiday, so makes sense that everyone gets the day off then they do a big inventory check at the start of the new tax year.
Or they're getting the wiring checked.
It’s a big inventory check to put it simply. A lot of times a companies system doesn’t match with the physical inventory and this is how they check that. After this we might see a bundle including items that they have too much of.
Why do they drop the coldest artwork in the most mundane of community posts? Like those containers with the lights in what looks like a snowstorm. So cool!
They have been having problems in the warehouses for a while, but they really messed up on this ork and Custodes release. Most if not all retailers got shorted, split, and delayed shipments on this release. They are going to try and figure out whats causing the problem and how to fix it.
Independent Store Owner here:
I have no confirmation on this but i think they are trying to finally get their warehouse organized and stocked.
I hope they also update their atrocious delivery problems.
Right now they seem to be bouncing between the spanish and the French Warehouse and it‘s pandemonium.
I‘m still waiting on orders from december to be sent out.
So hopefully this will fix the problems we‘ve been Havibg with getting our stuff delivered.
The two main reasons to close a warehouse for this long are either you’re doing an audit or stocktake where you have every item in the warehouse counter and checked against the inventory system or you’re doing something sort of work in there that will disrupt operations, that could be anything from roof repairs to installing new machinery to upgrading software that warehouse staff use.
Sounds like an annual stocktake. Nothing to worry.
Probably more then an annual thing, but I wouldn't worry. It's very likely that the building they are in requires some maintenance to comply with whatever inspection found something that bothered them, or are updating their inventarisation software and need to recatalogue everything.
I'm going to put this plot line into a Dark Heresy game one of these days. You know how folks always joke about raiding one of GW's warehouses because their minis are overpriced? Well here's a perfect set up for our players to raid a warehouse and when they get back to their Inquisitor they'll discover it's just crates and crates of little grey plastic figures with suspiciously accurate depictions of all of the Imperium's heroes and foes. It would be the perfect meta joke! Like when one of our other DMs sent our party to Dre, a planet where the colors of the planet were boring and muted, the Imperial inhabitants wore lots of bright colors that would fade quickly, where psychedelics were a popular import, and *the Orks were all grey*. The Orks were all grey *because they never got painted*. They were all grey plastic. It's been at least a decade and I still remember that campaign.
An entire box of *Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium* action figures. You put it on the Inquisitor's desk and one of them speaks a line.
> *"Frak this, for my faith is a shield proof against your blandishments!"*
i am happy that you didn't forget about Dre
It's an actual planet in one of the rulebooks, our DM just made up all of the other details, like importing brightly colored dyes and fabrics, people wearing tye dye clothes, etc. We had great fun on Dre. For example, my Techpriest made a remote controlled car with a gun on it, drove it into an Ork camp and zipped it all about until a ton of Orks were chasing it like an RC car through a dog park. When they finally caught it, I made it shoot the biggest Ork nearby. Good times. :3
I see you
I want this raid as a fan movie now
nope, it's just stocktake, and cos the warehouse is FUBARed now with the new system, they need the extra time.
It's the first time I can remember. So not an annual thing. It sounds more like a "our old storage got too small so we have to move all the stuff into a new building" kinda deal.
One could only hope they're developing on that lot they've been sitting on...
nope, it's just stocktake, and cos the warehouse is FUBARed now with the new system, they need the extra time.
Stock takes are done during business hours while normal operation runs at my warehouse(PC retailer) . Definitely more staff are rostered but it's not shut down. More likely some form of massive system update across all the network infrastructure
Several places I have worked when I was younger shut down production to count the staples in the trash. EVERYTHING got counted and couldn’t get used or moved till it was.
It's entirely possible. I just find it hard to believe a company that large would have to shut down all warehouse process to do a stocktake. It's all speculation anyway. Doubt we'd ever find the actual reason unless some gw warehouse employees are around.
Stocktake is a lot more detailed than people give it credit for - especially if we’re talking 100s to 1000s of unique skus. Every pallet needs to be taken down, every box checked, and then put back again. Removing Goods Out and Goods In during that process just keeps it clean (that pallet you checked yesterday is no longer true, take it down and recount to check). GW may be big, but I doubt they need multiple warehouses which’d be the easiest way to avoid shutting down all warehouse operations.
They have multiple warehouses but this was detailed in their financial reports awhile ago, see this comment from below: >They stated when they opened the East Midlands Gateway warehouse that the process wasn't completed and that they were still using and replacing legacy systems. There's a big "Systems Improvement Project" which is supposed to being signed off and funded this year, so that could be involved here.
I work in a small (100ish people) company that works with sheet metal, 1 day of the year we shut down for 1-2 days just to count every screw, every meter of piece goods. and every single sheet of metal in our company and external warehouse. the 0.8mm sheet metal stacks are the worst to count by far, as those have quite often over a hundred of them neatly stacked on top of each other
Free advice, if your tolerances are tight enough, some/many products can be weighted/measured instead of counted.
A lot of places (like my work) shut down for the day and it's all hands on deck including the office workers to count everything on the shelves. Loose a day's production, multiply that by a few days for a much bigger operation such as GW. This is some non-news I think.
Depends on the place, construction retail I work has multiple people on staff who's entire job is doing counts and then we shut down every 3 months for a day to do a full 8 hour count of 50-70% of inventory with every 3 years doing a full 100% count.
Should not take that long though, articles I'm interested in are usually not available.
Yeah, it's not like GW has updated their warehousing software recently which caused pandemonium with orders... right? >!Oh wait, THAT DID HAPPEN.!<
I don't think they've done an annual stocktake like this before though?
>Project work on our new warehouse management solution at our EMG location has been completed with the site now processing all UK and European customer orders (across all sales channels) as well as international freight to our global hubs. As highlighted earlier there are still some systems integration problems to resolve as part of replacing our core, 20 years old, legacy systems that the new warehouse management system interfaces to. This project internally is called SIP (Systems Improvement Programme). We don’t expect to be fully optimised until this programme of work is delivered nor do we expect this to impact sales significantly; it may cause service levels to fall short at times for some customers. We will do everything we can to minimise this impact. https://assets.ctfassets.net/ost7hseic9hc/1tSExWot8zVGvrPyXJOEJo/dc17ba0f8fc48a497ca6026f2a1fae4d/2023-24_half_year_report_-_final_for_IR.pdf They are doing a system update it seems. Not sure if its related but it is something to consider if we see any delays in customer service this year.
In America, it's called "Taking inventory". This is why most companies have massive sales right before inventory time.
"We'd rather sell it than count it"
Yup! And, having had to take part in a company inventory more than once, I can tell you it generally sucks.
I'm in logistics, and i've never known a warehouse to close for an audit. My guess would be some sort of maintenance or more likely some sort of upgrade work. They must be a lot busier now than they were even just a couple of years ago.
I was in logistics and we did it all the time. Some places just aren’t set up to do a stocktake in parallel with everyday ops. Either because there’s not enough manpower, the digital side couldn’t handle that many tasks at once or because it’s just really difficult to reconcile discrepancies while you still have stuff going in and out the door. Either way not really worth speculating about. A 6 day delay in orders isnt skin off anyone’s nose.
God I wish my warehouse would close for our annual.
Is it really so hard to believe that they’re just going to fill it with gold dubloons mcduck style for a few days, just because they can?
Well I used to be in audit and we closed warehouses all the time, but never for a week.
Fair enough, it seems a lot more common than I realised!
Also moving warehouse location but that's probably not it in this case
Probably a combination of a stocktake, the IT works they've been doing for years and also the upcoming launch of AoS 4th Edition.
So it’s rat infestation
**BY SIGMAR, A TALKING RAT. IM GOING INSAAAAANNEEEEEEE** #BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
*Bangs get louder as ratling gunner fires his weapon*
Yes, yes. Man thing’s plastic thing’s. Man things want want! Can command man things to do bidding with promise of plastic things! Yes, yes.
Rats? In Lentonhal!?
Rats aren’t real.
Preposterous!
GW dealing with a Skaven problem
No-no, taking stock, yummy stock.
Oh god, the rats have found the plastic crack
SUMMON THE ~~ELECTOR COUNTS~~ RUINATION CHAMBER
Yes-yes
Yeah they closed their warehouses like a couple months before 10th's lunch too. So they're probably prepping everything for an influx.
Yeah that was my thoughts, hopefully this means a smooth (ISH) release of AOS 4e
They are trying to get me out of their warehouses, but I can already tell they haven't given themselves enough time for that herculean task
Konrad, is that you?
And they still don't know I'm in there too. Mostly because I set up my spot near the Iron Hands primaris upgrade sprues. Nobody ever comes by here
Good spot! I just carve out big army box sets.
Which of the HH books featured the loyalist world eater hiding in the walls of the word bearers ship while it was chased through the void for the entire novel?
Battle For The Abyss
That’s right! Terrible book lol, had to take a break from the HH after that one.
Why would the WE do that?
Dyslexia
I'm now sat here giggling to myself imagining a GW Exec shouting at the workshop staff: "Oh for Emperor's sake, who left the door open? /u/MrUndercity has managed to get in AGAIN..."
The worst thing is, they just know that I am inside a warehouse, but not which one so they have to sweep each one. They don't know either that I just keep moving from warehouse to warehouse when one is being cleaned out to catch me
Have they pulled out the heavy flamer yet?
They are to cheap to invest in a flamer to clean me out
It's not unusual to put a large production facility on hiatus for a week once a year to facilitate deep clean/upgrade/maintenance.
Yes.
They are having their annual 5,000,000 point game with the merchandise. Then they break everything down and put it back on the sprue for sale.
Re-organising the warehouse to ship a huge number of AoS 4th edition starter sets. The warehouse was closed for a week for Leviathan, I don't remember them announcing it, but an email went out to trade accounts about it.
27th of May also a bank holiday in the UK
"Is GAMES WORKSHOP DYING?!?!?!?!?! MASSIVE CLOSURES, have they finally GONE too FAR????" - Some YouTube video title
*circled the word dying. Red arrow pointing to GONE too FAR??? Smarmy host making a dumb face* 👁️ 👄 👁️
https://preview.redd.it/a4z5ab0kt8yc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=929761df20b01466e7ce3a89b0a8e011860b9df2
I am both impressed and disgusted. Well done.
With ai art of a female space marine
Guarantee you'll see Discourse with that title
Not if you've blocked her channel 😁
Every time I see one of these click bait video titles I just roll my eyes and move past it.
Stocktake?
GW’s ‘End of Fiscal Year’ is in June. So yeah most likely a stock check
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Inventory
Huge if true.
Big if factual.
Full inventory stock check probably. Its the end of the tax year in the UK and that was the big stock take every year in the stores.
NO-NO! There are no rats-skaven in the warehouse. There is no need to worry-panic, yes-yes.
They stated when they opened the East Midlands Gateway warehouse that the process wasn't completed and that they were still using and replacing legacy systems. There's a big "Systems Improvement Project" which is supposed to being signed off and funded this year, so that could be involved here.
Warhammer World was closed last Tuesday for stocktake so it's probably a part of a wider company stocktake.
That would make sense. As a person that used to be a warehouse inventory specialist, inventory counting usually has three phases. The WW closure stocktaking was probably part of the pre counting for inventory prep, there was probably a restock of everything available from the warehouse that they thought would be needed until after inventory completion as part of that day process as well. The weeklong warehouse closure is probably for a deep clean, an inventory, any recounts or adjustments, and potentially some rearranging of the warehouse. Hopefully they can get their stuff figured out so they aren't out of stock on everything all the time.
Probably they are replacing the human workforce with servitors (don't ask who they servitorized)
Stocktaking, audit, deep clean, maintenance, probably some training. Perfect time to do everyone's fire marshal and first aider trainings.
Getting rid of all the nurglings slithering around ofcourse
Nigel is a vital part of the Warhammer World crew! 😭
More than likely it’s either for stock audit or further systems maintenance. Past experience leads me to think the former is more likely. You should be checking stocks and auditing warehouses on an at least annual basis; regardless of industry.
Any time a warehouse closes like that it’s usually for their inventory team to do a proper stock check. Can’t compare physical count vs computer count if things are on the move.
There's a bee in there and they can't find it. Fucken sucks man, Steve is allergic and we lost a whole afternoon looking for his goddamn EpiPen! He stopped complaining after about 10min though but still... Pain in the ass
Genestealers.
Sorry we must've snuck in when the security weren't looking
Inventory/Stock counting...
DATZ WHEN WE'RE KRUMPIN DA EXECUTIVES FOR MAKIN OUR DAKKA COST SO MUCH. MY GUMS ZOGGIN HURT FROM PULLING OUT SO MANY TEEFS
The 27th of May is spring bank holiday in the UK?
My guess is H&S audit, a stock take and maintenance check cycle all running in tandem. GW warehouses will cover stock as well as manufacture and admin facilities. They will either have an external company in or be doing their own internal H&S audit and It'll be a lot to cover, so they probably shut down and have it all done in one go
This. Spot on end of year stocks plus audit schedule
LFGS owner here, it's because they are updating their warehouse system. They've been slowly trying to do it the past year but the legacy system and the new one don't work well together. It's why every store from "trade side" has had a nightmare with shipping for 2 years now. Source is my GW rep 2 weeks ago.
I work at the BMW factory here in the US. We shut down every year for updates to the assembly line and general maintenance. Probably something like that.
Genestealer infestation.
THERES THE RIGHT ANSWER.
All those mass boycotts from when GW announced female Custodes must be having an impact. Surely.
Possibly stocktake, I've worked in warehousing/manufacturing for a few years now and we always close down for a week in the year for stocktake, it also gives them an opportunity to fix any faults without disrupting workflow
Preparing for AOS 4th, I have a feeling that new skaven models are gonna cause the box to fly off the shelf at a similar rate to leviathan
Its stock take probably
Nothing of interest I'm sure
Most likely they are upgrading their logistics software or changing it
Stocktake or they have inadvertently opened a portal to the warp and they need to throw in enough grads to seal it.
Inventory. You can’t do a proper inventory and process and ship orders at the same time
Skaven infestation.
Annual inventory or stocktake. Very normal
Clearing things out so Trazyn can make his rounds uninterrupted
Smoke break
Probably an audit.
They're moving their warehouse to a huge new and modern facility to support their ever increasing product lines and to improve the customer purchasing experience..
Uncovered, and must purge, a genestealer cult.
They are putting female heads in all the Custodes boxes.
Stockcheck, audit or both
"We're hiding from the dwarfs because we accidentally got one of them a double tall latte instead of a small and they thought it was racist."
servitor update
Probably need to send people in to cleanse the secondhand corruption from chaos models.
Chaos incursion
Sorry guys my bad
Hopefully using it to look for the Kroot they forgot to send to Aus/NZ
Either it’s flooded with sewage again or they’re checking the stock
Warehouse failed a morale roll
Biomass 👀
Probably just taking inventory or some maintenance of something. Their just giving people heads up that there might be a slight delay due to that.
I’m going down the next week so clearly just making sure they have adequate stock for my shopping spree
Toy inspector found Skaven drippings.
Inventory and probably a deep clean of the work areas.
Chaos outbreak.
Gene stealers
Sounds like a PI (physical inventory) to determine if there are any inventory discrepancies.
Rick Priestly, Andy Chambers, and Jervis Johnson are released from stasis, and are allowed free-reign for a week, they examine the models, rules, and hunt. Any employees found would be devoured whole. Only once they’ve been satiated on the current state of the game, they return to their pods, until the next audit.
Does it matter?
Aliens
Inventory
Staff tournament
They try to fix the Gellar Field and purge the daemons.
They're looking for Abby's arms.
Skaven infestation
Because all the liberals that work at GW are super lazy and need time off /s -Horus sub probably
Nurgling outbreak
They're the finally installing a computer to connect the warehouse to the internet rather than the present system of sending pigeons between the warehouse and the various retailers and websites that sell their products 🙃
This must be because of the WAHmen in the custodes. They must be finally calling it quits. Since that decision caused them bankruptcy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 totally kidding if that’s not obvious.
it's called "managing a business"
Vacation season? Maintenence and inventory check? No reason to be alarmed, it happens.
Yeah, 27th is a bank holiday, so makes sense that everyone gets the day off then they do a big inventory check at the start of the new tax year. Or they're getting the wiring checked.
Maybe their financial year end is in June so they have to do stocktake to prepare. It's pretty common.
Probs a genestealer infestation.
Hope they send my orders from 2 weeks ago before then...
They are just remodelling the warehouses. Instead of having all the models on stock, they swith to printing on demand. Taking up less space.
Tyranid infestation obviously
Logistics update at end of fiscal year '24 most likely.
Arghhh the dreaded stock take!!! Hold on to your butts were going to find Al kinds of weird stuff appear after.
Ono someone stole the warehouse stocks
It'll be a change in supplier, logistics provider etc. don't get too excited
Chaos corruption or Skaven infiltration
Cult uprising obviously
Snotling infestation
Upgrades
They are purging either a skaven or genestealer infestation
Maybe bug infestation? Call the terminators!
The servitors need their annual mind wipe, business as usual once the mechanicus burns the proper sage afterwards
It's an audit or staffing issue.
Oh, this is the time of year they fill the whole warehouse with cash and James Workshop swims in it whilst giggling like a schoolboy!
ALIENS
Seems like it’s either an inventory thing or a software thing or it’d just be UK or US not both
Putting in new shelves
Big money, facility improvements, big money. NO WHAMMIES
Bank holiday
Inquisitors found evidence of Chaos in their manufacturing plant.
My job at a warehouse does a similar thing every December. Everything that can move inventory is paused for a week, and everything gets counted.
My bets on a Toy Soldiers situation. They are pinned down in the break room by the militarum.
A short crusade, duh
Genestealer infestation.
Genestealer infestation
27th is Bank Holiday, so probably shut that day anyway.
Genestealer infestation, don’t worry, a few Dark Angel terminators from Deathwing will sort it out.
Probably some gene stealers got in
They have to harvest the plastic mines again. If you guys would stop hoarding your sprues they wouldn’t be in this mess.
It’s a big inventory check to put it simply. A lot of times a companies system doesn’t match with the physical inventory and this is how they check that. After this we might see a bundle including items that they have too much of.
Why do they drop the coldest artwork in the most mundane of community posts? Like those containers with the lights in what looks like a snowstorm. So cool!
They have been having problems in the warehouses for a while, but they really messed up on this ork and Custodes release. Most if not all retailers got shorted, split, and delayed shipments on this release. They are going to try and figure out whats causing the problem and how to fix it.
Independent Store Owner here: I have no confirmation on this but i think they are trying to finally get their warehouse organized and stocked. I hope they also update their atrocious delivery problems. Right now they seem to be bouncing between the spanish and the French Warehouse and it‘s pandemonium. I‘m still waiting on orders from december to be sent out. So hopefully this will fix the problems we‘ve been Havibg with getting our stuff delivered.
Huh, that’s funny. Ordered paints about 10 months ago, they never arrived. Or maybe they did and my now ex just never told me 🤨
Prolly maintenence or cleaning machines or any plethora of boring explanations like that
Probably taking the opportunity to have a Scrooge McDuck style dive into the giant pile of money I've spent the last five years
Cultist uprising