Grocery(Liquor, Natures Market, Dairy, Frozen and Dry grocery) has the highest workload. 40-50% of store sales. That is where the action is.
Meat does about 10% of store sales. The higher wage was probably based on when they did their own meat cutting and needed special skills. I am sure the newer contracts have knocked the higher wage down since everything is being dumbed down.
How hard grocery is depends on if your grocery manager is a day manager or a night manager in my opinion. In some stores, i feel like the grocery manager (that works days) doesn't really do much and most of the grocery work is done by the night crew.
How hard grocery is depends on if your grocery manager is a day manager or a night manager in my opinion. In some stores, i feel like the grocery manager (that works days) doesn't really do much and most of the grocery work is done by the night crew.
Good insight. I am a night manager. I wouldn't trade our day manager for anyone. We get along well and he is always on the move. A lot of work does need to be done overnight so that is why nights seems like more work. As for his crew on days, I haven't decided. They have claimed to pull down pallets of slow movers only to half fill the shelf and put the pallet back up. It is a pia to pull down slow mover pallets(20 minutes each) and they only want to half fill an item? I think they spend a lot of time as CCs. A coworker goes in 30 minutes early and says the closers always seem to be on 30 minute breaks before we start.
All i got to say is definitely not Drug/Gm. I am a backup gm manager and we are always getting screwed when it come to hours and help. We constantly do more in sales that the meat department (atleast at my store), however we get over 100 less hours than they do. Then with a minimal hours we are always the ones being called to help in other areas of the store. Between running registers or bagging groceries, we are struggling to get our trucks done each day.