Tesco Jargon

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Main fill

This is a description used for the main delivery of the day which is usually replenished at night.

Mainbank checkout

A checkout, manned by a Customer Assistant and used by the majority of our customers with a large shop. This large shop is usually a trolley of shopping.

Checkouts

Mainframe

Mainframe is a large data-processing system. For example it processes sales, transaction, promotional and product data.

Mainframe applications

Applications that run on the mainframe. These include HOST, THAF, and SBO.

Managing the law

The process used in-store to ensure we comply with the law and can prove our due diligence around routines.

Mapping

The stock control process which identifies the exact shelf location of every product in store, to allow Dotcom Personal Shoppers to find the products on their picking lists. The location appears on the team pad next to each product.

Stock control

Mark outs

See depot gaps.
Distribution

Markdown

Price reduction applied to a product.

Stock control

Marshalling & tramming

Sorting cages out into store order and/or moving them to their relevant areas in a distribution centre.

Distribution

Mechanical equipment

A piece of mechanical equipment used to move pallets or cages around a depot. Examples include:

Previously known as mechanical handling equipment.
Distribution

Merchandisable unit (MU)

A display cage or box that can be wheeled or placed straight out on the shop floor or shelf, without being unpacked, for example, high-volume products such as milk or baked beans.
MUs stock one product only, are ranged all year round and are re-ordered automatically based on sales. They share the same EAN regardless of case size, are loaded into the same subgroup as the linked product and enable a smaller case size to be sent to smaller format stores.

Stock control

Merchandise plan

A planogram that shows how much of each product should go where on the shelf. Merchandise Plans are developed to get as much product as possible out on the shelf first time while ensuring products have enough space to stay in stock until the next planned fill.

Stock control

Metro store

A type of Tesco store that’s compact and usually on the high street. They tend to be between 4,000 and 20,000 square feet in size. They have a limited non-food range and no petrol station.

Mismatch

A failed price verification (and the associated report).

See also price verification.

Mobile stock control (MSC)

A system which allows you to view or action processes from a handheld device anywhere in a store for departments such as stock control and price integrity.

Stock control

Mod

One complete shelving unit, which is joined to other units in an aisle.

Stock control

Moment of certainty (MoC)

The point of time during the day when a store should be at its fullest.

Mr Robinson Checkouts

See Call Mr Robinson.

Multiskilling

Training and working on another department to your own, most commonly checkouts, to provide support at busy periods.

Multi-purpose computer (MPC)

Store computer with applications for a variety of tasks by different departments. Usually located in the confidential office, at the front end, and on the shop floor.

MyAccount

Self-service login details for all staff. Used to access Inform, Yammer and store apps.

Previously known as MyTescoLogin.