I see that HyVee has hired a consultant company to help cut dead weight at corporate office. Another team is going to do a study at store level to see what job are really needed. This consultant company is hired to reduce labor cost and to make the company more Effective. I know the first group that is going to get hit the hardest is area supervisors. Next will be HyVee store management team. Good luck on the results.
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Hy-Vee actually just extended its layoffs to the subsidiaries and cut a lot of jobs over this past weekend. It is super unfortunate that this is the path Hy-Vee is choosing to take to cut expenses.
HyVee might be in its worst Shape in over 90 years of business. Dude you totally nailed when you said the stores are going to sh-t. It’s so true they are going to sh-t. Way under staffed. Lots are full of grocery carts and trash. HyVee is falling apart. HyVee current leadership is right on par with Joe Biden’s leadership. It’s funny how this current leadership will do everything to fix the problem but we all know the real problem is the leadership. With that being said HyVee will be gone not this year but in the next 5 or 10 years.
To corp person that wrote stuff is all bs. Check your unemployment check with state of iowa. You be canned after super bowl and v day. This is toxic company. With very over paid top leadership. All have to do is ressearch eagle foods and econo foods to see clear future of hyvee. Both once proud companies. Now dont exist. You cant lose 30 percent on dollar on ad items, spend millons in stupid promotion and cut staff where no one can even keep parking lot clean anymore. ALL I SEE AT HYVEE IS FULL CARTS CORRALS, LONG CHECK OUT LINES, AND EMPTY SHEVLES AND TRASH ALL OVER PARKING LOT ON WEEKEND. THAT RIGHT STORES TOTALLY JOKE ON BUSIEST DAYS. FIX ABOVE HYVEE YOU MIGHT LAST 2 MORE YEARS. YOUR SELF INSURED AND SELF BANK SCHEME IS ABOUT TO COLLASPE LIKE ENRON DID. GOOD LUCK TO 80000 EMPLOYEES LEFT THERE
We use the most expensive form of advertising, TV, to advertise items we lose incredible amounts of money on and have literally no dollar-ring up value. Consequently, customers come in just for those items and promptly leave with only those items in their basket and on to our competitors for their deals. It's the way people shop at the moment. I'm no genius but it doesn't take one to figure out we're wasting huge amounts of advertising dollars on massive loss leaders alone. We're better off going back to a hi-lo weekly digital and print and and laying off the TV a bit. Did someone forget how to blend an ad? Get the store directors involved with the ads again. They live the store day to day and understand it. So, what's the knee jerk reaction? Cut labor on already short staffed stores. C'mon, man fix the source!
The funny/sad thing is, HyVee has no clue on how to fix it. None. I worked for Eagle Foods for 23 years and HyVee for 15 years. Eagles went out of business. HyVee is following the same exact path.
HyVee lost 25 million last month. If HyVee doesn’t get rid of randy E soon they will become the next bed bath and beyond. I know HyVee top leaders think this can’t happened but it’s headed in that direction. Here we go again with big changes because of inventory results.
I would hope that a consulting company would address the marketing budget first. Let's make the Hy-Vee shopping experience great in lieu of talking about how great Hyvee is. Hy-Vee can't continue to underpay and underappreciate it's retail help and expect to survive. Customers now pay more at Hy-Vee and get less. The $25m Hy-Vee lost in January was probably the advertising budget for Indycar Weekend.
Being irresponsible with company resources is reckless and affects thousands of people's lives. When did we decide we couldn't compete with Walmart, Fareway,etc. and go the way of a sideshow?
I don’t work there anymore, but this is my opinion. If this is really true, it seems id--tic that they would actually trust or pay and outsider determine a better way to run the company. A consultant company, who has never actually done the job, couldn’t possibly understand all the complexities of the business, nor thoroughly determine what jobs are actually necessary. If a consultant company truly knew how to make money running a grocery business, don’t you think they would be doing that instead? Seems like a scam to me, or just another 3rd party trying have a piece of the cash, or a great way to drive up costs. They have to be smarter then that. Who says what the consultant company suggest is truly what is best? Doesn’t Hy-VEE have experienced leadership to determine this? Or maybe they have already been canned, too.
Since some jobs take years of knowledge to fully understand, how would an outsourcer with zero hands on experience be able to effectively determine the true value of a position. It just isn’t possible. It’s nothing more then an uninformed opinion. It’s kinda like asking a dairy manager to find ways to cut costs in the bakery. Who says we need flour to bake a cake!
If true, the company is going to have some pretty big surprises. Although I doubt it’s true, but sounds like nobody really seems to know.
Let’s all remember back to March of 2020. Not one of you had a clue what was coming. HyVee was behind the scene planning on how to cut the labor budget. Planning on how to fire staff at all levels. I don’t remember them asking the employees if it was okay to fire and cut labor. They won’t ask or tell us what they have plan in the near future until they are ready to execute the plan. Not surprise about them hiring a consultant company.
No one knows the firm that's been hired because one hasn't been hired. Seriously, if you THINK you know ... then post the name of the firm. You can't, can you? Because you are making cr-p up.
At this point I know I cant trust HyVee top brass. I do believe HyVee is looking for anyway to become more profitable. Whoever doesn’t believe hyvee isn’t looking for way to improve is an id--t. Dude look at January inventory results. Here comes some more knee jerk reaction from randy. Doesn’t anyone know the firm they have hired?
If in fact an outside firm was hired to do some study, you can bet your bottom two cheeks someone within the company will be getting paid very well. Fits perfectly with the nepotism seen at all levels of hy-vee.
Inventory JANUARY can be summed up for the company in 1 word…. ROUGH … Hold on as the ride is going to get extremely bumpy with major changes forecasted.
Hiring an outside consulting firm would mean admitting they have a problem they don't know how to fix... That will never happen. A couple more race cars should fix everything.
This is just more B.S. from from the hater crowd. Nobody's been hired to look for ways to cut costs here at the corporate office or anywhere else. Why do you continually come on this site and post bogus information? Do you derive some sort of thrill from spreading untruths? Go away, if you haven't already. Coward.
Amazing,More ways to sc--w over employees.Terrible Company.