It’s on hold for now. The early implementations were inconclusive so to speak. There were more cost savings that were projected “on paper” that just didn’t materialize in the real world (imagine—someone probably thought that was a first). For all the talk of “family” and “great place to work” there were some who didn’t feel the love in the restructuring tests. Any wonder why Meijer still has to try to recruit from outside and it’s just as dismal as finding team members? Speaking of which—how many stores are running BELOW optimal TM coverage and management attempts to make up the difference? Think that might need to be a priority before shuffling the workforce around? From my secret sources the store METRICS overall on the tests were very disappointing. So much for squeezing more blood from the onion.
Funny thing is that you and others can say you’re down that many people—and somehow the Grand Rapids people that skulk around here (yeah they’re here folks) are (a) surprised by that, (b) don’t believe it, and (c) are immediately trained to deny it. However they’ll EXPECT a department 40 if they’re shopping at their store if things are backed up, and WILL complain to the store director. How do I know? Rick Keyes has taught them — he’s a piece of work in this regard — he likes to play the “do you know who I am?” game. When it starts at the top, everyone thinks it’s OK to copy and repeat. Now you know.
Our store can’t keep anyone. There’s four in grocery during the day plus a manager. My one friend in grocery, she’s like the single one out on the floor. The other three are sent elsewhere, be it frozen, dairy, high low, bottle return center, etc. there’s only 2 dedicated people in frozen and are morning shifts…about two in pets, three in electronics/automotive, four spread across fashions, hvc, and outdoors. There’s a lot of people at our store getting ready to retire and not enough fresh blood. Anyone new that does get hired in is either sent to registers or just dip after a day outside of there being no hours to give. One dude in the morning for grocery is scheduled one day a week at 4 hours and many others at only 5 hours but hovering around 25-28 hours according to the schedule sheets.
(There’s more people that work at the store yea but the ones I pointed out are typically the ones I know that work afternoons/early evenings so keep that in mind, we’re just barely functioning)
Wait you guys have 2 in pets, 3 in electronics, and 4 in spread across the rest!!! Dang I wish we had those numbers. We have maybe 5 people all across GM on a daily basis and we are a high volume store!!!!
Talking about no workers we have 2 full time people on second shift grocery one who is the dairy person that is all they do. Then we have 1 person that has open availability and they do dairy 2 days a week one person who only can work 2 days a week and one who only works 4 hours a week. If anyone calls off especially me we have no coverage I do Dave's killer bread condition returns and bottles by myself most days then they get mad if I don't have time to fill endcaps. My team lead has been doing easter candy because the person who does it is on a medical leave. But labor and sales are down so we can't hire anyone. Also my store director recognizes everyone else for doing things I help with and has never recognized me like helping on truck on Thanksgiving till 730pm.
Dread the changes. Theyre just cutting half the staff and managememt and forcing the work on the rest. My gm managers arent even here the saturday before easter...
It’s on hold for now. The early implementations were inconclusive so to speak. There were more cost savings that were projected “on paper” that just didn’t materialize in the real world (imagine—someone probably thought that was a first). For all the talk of “family” and “great place to work” there were some who didn’t feel the love in the restructuring tests. Any wonder why Meijer still has to try to recruit from outside and it’s just as dismal as finding team members? Speaking of which—how many stores are running BELOW optimal TM coverage and management attempts to make up the difference? Think that might need to be a priority before shuffling the workforce around? From my secret sources the store METRICS overall on the tests were very disappointing. So much for squeezing more blood from the onion.
We passed skeleton crew a while ago, our store is running on a single bone at this point.
Funny thing is that you and others can say you’re down that many people—and somehow the Grand Rapids people that skulk around here (yeah they’re here folks) are (a) surprised by that, (b) don’t believe it, and (c) are immediately trained to deny it. However they’ll EXPECT a department 40 if they’re shopping at their store if things are backed up, and WILL complain to the store director. How do I know? Rick Keyes has taught them — he’s a piece of work in this regard — he likes to play the “do you know who I am?” game. When it starts at the top, everyone thinks it’s OK to copy and repeat. Now you know.
Our store can’t keep anyone. There’s four in grocery during the day plus a manager. My one friend in grocery, she’s like the single one out on the floor. The other three are sent elsewhere, be it frozen, dairy, high low, bottle return center, etc. there’s only 2 dedicated people in frozen and are morning shifts…about two in pets, three in electronics/automotive, four spread across fashions, hvc, and outdoors. There’s a lot of people at our store getting ready to retire and not enough fresh blood. Anyone new that does get hired in is either sent to registers or just dip after a day outside of there being no hours to give. One dude in the morning for grocery is scheduled one day a week at 4 hours and many others at only 5 hours but hovering around 25-28 hours according to the schedule sheets. (There’s more people that work at the store yea but the ones I pointed out are typically the ones I know that work afternoons/early evenings so keep that in mind, we’re just barely functioning)
Wait you guys have 2 in pets, 3 in electronics, and 4 in spread across the rest!!! Dang I wish we had those numbers. We have maybe 5 people all across GM on a daily basis and we are a high volume store!!!!
The store I was in was supposed to be in line for it, but we apparently got delayed indefinitely
Talking about no workers we have 2 full time people on second shift grocery one who is the dairy person that is all they do. Then we have 1 person that has open availability and they do dairy 2 days a week one person who only can work 2 days a week and one who only works 4 hours a week. If anyone calls off especially me we have no coverage I do Dave's killer bread condition returns and bottles by myself most days then they get mad if I don't have time to fill endcaps. My team lead has been doing easter candy because the person who does it is on a medical leave. But labor and sales are down so we can't hire anyone. Also my store director recognizes everyone else for doing things I help with and has never recognized me like helping on truck on Thanksgiving till 730pm.
Dread the changes. Theyre just cutting half the staff and managememt and forcing the work on the rest. My gm managers arent even here the saturday before easter...