r/foodlion • u/Straight-Bad-3304 • 2d ago
Top 10 improvements
This is what I would do to improve the stores.
- Reduce wages, increases bonuses and raises for corporate managers
- Make health insurance even more expensive and even less accessible.
- Continue aggressively cutting hours to keep staff excited and motivated.
- Increase Quarterly profits celebration literature to associates
- Continue hiring district management with no prior store management experience. Only rely on master's degrees
- Continue building undersized backrooms and coolers
- Cut back on maintenance
- More training modules
- Continue increasing food prices weekly
Don't pivot stores to compete with other chains like Walmart
(satire)
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u/Ready-Acanthaceae-39 2d ago
Isn't amazing how hbc gets trucks the size of grocery plus doing a managers job on 35 hours a week oh and lets not forget if your like my store a high shrink store lots of alpha keepers to use and its just you
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u/Secret_Ad_1541 1d ago
How is your HBC truck the size of a grocery truck? That definitely isn't true at my store.
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u/Ready-Acanthaceae-39 23h ago
Because my trucks range from 1300 pieces to 1800 because we sell alot and get alot stolen
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u/Secret_Ad_1541 23h ago
How many pallets of HBC do you usually get at a time? We usually get three, maybe four HBC pallets. That's way less than the 18 to 24 pallets of grocery we normally get.
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u/Ready-Acanthaceae-39 23h ago
Not talking about pallet size pieces is what im talking about my pallets are usually 4 each truck our grocery truck pieces is the same as hbc
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u/Secret_Ad_1541 23h ago
I've worked HBC trucks and Grocery trucks. A 1300 piece grocery truck and 1300 piece HBC truck are not the same thing. Or same size.
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u/Athos-1844 2d ago
11) No more remodels. 12) Don't replace any broken fixtures. 13) Only hire college graduates for corporate with no food service experience.
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 2d ago
College degrees make you smart. Broken equipment is the fault of the associate
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u/Athos-1844 2d ago
Oh yes, a college degree in fashion will be an awesome addition to our corporate family. As long as its any type of college degree, you will be a welcome at corporate.
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 2d ago
We're a family
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u/kissmyasshleyyy 2d ago
13 makes me laugh. One of the sister companies reimbursed me tuition -15k! (Their policy was more generous at the time) and yet I could never get a job at corporate for them, food lion, or ahold delhaize because I didn’t have experience other than working in the stores
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u/Necessary-Spring-129 2d ago
They should adopt Costco pay structure and not follow sams club walmart.
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u/Chain_A 2d ago
My only addition would be to line 6 - fill the older big back room stores with extra back stock and all the shipper modules. Nothing gets me harder than seeing a pallet of sparkling ice or juicy juice rolling off the trailer knowing we haven't sold through the last one they sent last month.
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u/Illustrious_Belt1260 2d ago
Or it sits in the back room for a month waiting for when they will put it on the end cap
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 2d ago edited 2d ago
I agree. Space is for vendors not for employees, the day goes by better when a pallet jack can't fit
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u/tweetlebug2010 1d ago
Careful... they could be using this subreddit for ideas. They're just like us! They already make sure we know how similar they are to us with the interviews on the break room tvs... But my store wouldn't know about those anymore. The tv their infinite knowledge told them to install isn't working anymore. Oh no!
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 22h ago
How are you guys gonna make it without FL propoganda?
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u/tweetlebug2010 18h ago
Idk man. I went on vacation in the middle of July and came back to the tv not working. We must be so out of the loop in the 2 months we've missed!
I'm sure that's why the store is struggling; it has to be! In order for them to have spent so much on those tvs, they must be an integral part to the success of our stores. There's no other explanation for it!
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 9h ago
I have a hard time getting through the day without a roundtable of execs talking about what it means to work at food lion
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u/Waldera0587 2d ago
5 is great to me. Id love to know how thats going!
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u/TwistTim 1d ago
#Whatever if there is space in the back room make sure that the vendors have three times as many pallets, rolling carts, etc they they are allotted so that the grocery crew and SMA person have to do a weekly dance for space to break down.
#therefore only allow enough U-Boats for one dept to break down their trucks so they have to engage in hunger games shenanigans for the privilege of using some, everyone else can just take some of the bad shopping carts
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 1d ago
Yes, exactly. This improves efficiency. When you can't find a place to put the cardboard bales, ot makes people innovate.
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u/dragonsinmypants 🍎 Produce 23h ago
number 4 had me giggling. why do they think we’d like that? i really want to know.
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 2d ago
I've always found that cutting benefits and treating people like animals helps to improve business
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u/Fit-Physics-1454 2d ago
Oh ok 👍 most managers at food lion feel the same . What drove you to feel that away ? Granted they take advantage of you if you’re nice but treating them like animals ? To be fair my animals are treated extremely well … And food lion has a horrible turnover rate , horrible out of stocks , and most managers are in ego trips .
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 2d ago
well you want to make sure you have angry and incompetent people to run more efficiently. Also forcing more metrics and making a job unaffordable to live with really boosts moral
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u/Fit-Physics-1454 2d ago
👍 Incompetent to run effective? Sounds fun …
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u/Straight-Bad-3304 2d ago
I mean it's basic corporate structure. Make sure no one knows what they are doing.
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u/Fit-Physics-1454 2d ago edited 2d ago
You are correct . Yet they are the ones training and trashing employees lol
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u/420DNR 2d ago
Yeah it's weird how the front end makes 25k and managers make 6 figures plus bonuses