My store does 50 grand in dry grocery every day, and we only have 4 employees that work at night on truck nights if they're lucky. 1 guy during the day. Store is always a wreck lol. What do you get to work with?
the last few weeks they have cut hours. We have four per night. 30 hours scheduled. Trucks have been averaging 36 hours or more. It's a nightmare. Snowballing like crazy.
I've been reading these forums for a while but I need to speak up on this issue.
my store does 250k-300k a week in dry grocery sales. on a good night we have 4 stockers at night, but usually its 2 or 3. if someone is on vacation (which happens quite a bit since 3 of us have 4 weeks or more of vacation time) there are 2 people most nights and 3 on the other two.
i'm the backup grocery head at my store and on new years even I was alone, management ended up asking one of the closing cashiers to stay over until the morning baker came in just so I wouldn't be in the store by myself.
this is getting ridiculous and there is frustration from both us and management about whats going on, but no one wants to work anymore so I see the eventual outcome being stores closing down and employees being transferred just so they can properly staff their stores.
They recently closed down a store here and moved to a larger location. They're so short on workers, some of the higher ups are having to work in the store. The woman who normally goes around training bakers on new types of bread is having to do the baking herself. Other higher ups are having to work in the deli. What's really pathetic is these people are the ones who go around to newly remodeled stores to get them ready for "Grand Opening". On this last remodel, they were so unprepared. They forgot to order much of the product they needed. They had to go around to different stores and take a little from each one just so they would have enough for their "Grand Opening".
As far as the stock crew goes, I don't know how many people are on our stock crew but the backroom is a disaster and the shelves on the sales floor are full of holes. What's odd is when they expanded our store, the dry grocery part pretty much stayed the same size. Produce, nutrition, deli, bakery, meat, dairy, frozen, bread, and drug/gm all expanded but they all take care of ordering and stocking their own merchandise. The stock crew either doesn't have enough help or they don't have enough competent help. I know they have the hours because they're offering overtime to anyone who wants to work on the stock crew. The kicker is you have to have experience with stocking. The only ones who have experience with stocking are already on the stock crew.
They recently closed down a store here and moved to a larger location. They're so short on workers, some of the higher ups are having to work in the store. The woman who normally goes around training bakers on new types of bread is having to do the baking herself.
Got an in-store e-mail today. Apparently they're having to borrow bakers from other stores to work at the newly remodeled store. Don't ask me what happened to the baker they had. If they quit, that's one thing but surely they didn't let them transfer to another store or department before finding a replacement.
They recently closed down a store here and moved to a larger location. They're so short on workers, some of the higher ups are having to work in the store. The woman who normally goes around training bakers on new types of bread is having to do the baking herself.
Got an in-store e-mail today. Apparently they're having to borrow bakers from other stores to work at the newly remodeled store. Don't ask me what happened to the baker they had. If they quit, that's one thing but surely they didn't let them transfer to another store or department before finding a replacement.
Maybe they are having a grand reopening and are trying to get the department in order, shelves stocked etc. before corporate comes through to ooohhh and aaahhh.
They recently closed down a store here and moved to a larger location. They're so short on workers, some of the higher ups are having to work in the store. The woman who normally goes around training bakers on new types of bread is having to do the baking herself.
Got an in-store e-mail today. Apparently they're having to borrow bakers from other stores to work at the newly remodeled store. Don't ask me what happened to the baker they had. If they quit, that's one thing but surely they didn't let them transfer to another store or department before finding a replacement.
Maybe they are having a grand reopening and are trying to get the department in order, shelves stocked etc. before corporate comes through to ooohhh and aaahhh.
Their grand opening was weeks ago back in the fall. Don't ask me what happened to the baker they had. Right now they don't have a baker. Luckily for me, I have seniority over everyone in my department and I can refuse a transfer to that store.
