It was over 1200
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It’s has to be more. I don’t know the numbers myself but from the posts I’ve been reading and what I’m hearing out in the field, it’s closer to the 2,000 mark.
Hundreds in Marketing, SRS completely dissolved, hundreds in recruitment, hundreds in IT and how many more for Area Leaders? Franchising department was scaled back, as well as zone merchandisers, market managers and some ZVPs.
It took one source to disclose 880 to CNBC (seems they were the first to publish the article) and all the other media outlets rolled with it without really substantiating the real number of people laid-off.
One thing I know about 7-Eleven is that they are not transparent, most especially with franchisees. For example, the accounting issues are so complex that it is near impossible to perform check and balances, we just have to “trust the system”.
The transition from Riversand to Oracle/Cloud was a disaster. Items in item master dropping off in the system and nothing rang up correctly. Products once marked as carried now uncarried or even disappeared completely from product assortment. They created an “ItemTriage” department to fix their mistakes and that was also a disaster. Now, the rollout of Store Check In Simplification process is such a terrible idea, especially since we know that the level of service with McLane has been absolutely terrible. And now what? We just have to trust that the items are all there? Sure, there’s the “swell allowance” but we know it doesn’t cover the items missing. I literally can go on and on regarding the failures of this company… more specifically, the failures of Joe DePinto.
When they said 35 in October I knew this to be about 10% of the real #.
It is not just Ohio and Texas. People all over country were eliminated.
It seems to be higher a number of layoffs from what I am hearing
Someone should ask that question during the townhall tomorrow.
I wonder if the chat box function will be open or if there will be a Q&A at the end. I highly doubt it, another attempt of a cover up.
Talk about an undercount...