Thread regarding Hy-Vee layoffs

Any fool that helps these id–ts out during the coronavirus should remember all of us that begged to keep our jobs and were told no. Have some respect for your loyal friends and family/coworkers. Let them fall on their faces. Randy Edeker can stock shelves!!!!!

The Directors knew about some of these changes back in Jan or so Ive heard. Not anywhere near this extent but some of the employee's or a a certain group of costly employee's being cut down to save costs.

I think the poster two spaces below me is referring to a company that would be easy to discover, if you know what I mean, k? They also happened to be named after two different people, if you get my drift. I too worked for them, and I have also seen the exact same parallels. Shore up the yes-men. Have problems keeping things in stock. Close/sell earning assets and cut high quality workers to shore up the bottom line temporarily and increase the share value until the best assets have been stripped away. Change from a highly respected retailer to a joke full of people with no ideas to improve the situation.

I'm not saying Hy-Vee is there yet, because there are still LOTS of great workers and there are still good people at the top of the company, but the herd is thinning. The top needs to learn that complete control is a recipe for disaster. You MUST have differing opinions and you MUST be willing to accept the fact that some of your ideas are not good ones coughmarketgrillcough. Just start listening to other voices and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, don't sell. Keep fighting.

We had the same scripted meeting and I do mean scripted.

I’ve been in a couple of corporate chain places. I’ve been in successful ones and I’ve been in a HUGE big name retailer that is very well known. Infamously, they’ve been sinking deep down for years and are pretty much all but collapsed at this point.

My experience with Hy-Vee in these recent months has felt eerily reminiscent of those years with that other failing retailer. The difference here is, Hyvee hasn’t failed yet. Numbers are down across the board and they do the usual corporate c-ap to try and fix it. Eliminate positions, magical switcheroos, and the famous ask everyone to do more with less.

It was a huge point brought up in our store meeting: increasing productivity. There’s definitely an argument to be made for increasing productivity, sure. But that doesn’t solve your problem. I’ve solved this problem in my previous employment experience. You need to drive more foot traffic and these clowns up at the top have no idea how or they don’t think it’s plausible.

Maybe they think if they just wait it out and trim the budget now it’ll eventually come back. Not how it works. If you leave the customers with a bad taste now, they’re not coming back.

I’d love to share my PROVEN ideas with an actual person but I can’t. So rather than just being all talk, I’ll say this for you corporate goons reading along.

Increase your foot traffic. It’s not difficult but it is a lot of work. Work on integrating each Hy-Vee into the community MORE. Helpful smile and every aisle? That’s fantastic but totally useless until you use every grass roots marketing tactic you can come up with to drive more people in the building.

Helpful smile in every aisle? Until you cut your employee base? Until you stop providing services that are worthy of our customers dollar? This is asinine.

Sponsor local fun runs and 5k’s. Do a customer appreciation day where you grill out for people FOR FREE. You become a member of the community and people want to support you. They want to come in. Then when they’re in they see what amazing quality and exceptional service we give and that keeps them coming back.

It s—s. Yes because you have to spend some money. Stop blowing it on useless c-ap that isn’t what the consumer wants. Stop making baseless guess and check later tactics to see if it’ll work out.

Exactly, which is why this is so frustrating also to the employees that are left.

I'd say he is telling the truth. Hy-Vee is not going bankrupt, not being sold. But profits are way down from where they've been in the past. The question they aren't really addressing is WHY. Layoffs are a short-term solution to what is a more systemic problem they don't seem to be addressing.

What store area? Seriously? Not today cops!

What store area