Thread regarding Giant Eagle layoffs

This is what the Iggle is.

This is what the Iggle is. The morale in the stores has been rock bottom for five years. The training and the hours cuts have led to angry customers who hate to wait. Instead of making what they had strong they expanded their empire too large and too fast.

The business is run by people who couldn't handle the job they ask of their front line workers. And every single cashier and store level manager has seen the writing on the wall for a long time. Mismanagement, nepotism, cronyism, politics, and regional managers doing unethical things to squeeze bonuses have created this toxic culture.

People from corporate don't listen to the employees because they don't respect that maybe, just maybe, employees who ring and bag and stock and cut meat might know their customers more than consultants and outsiders. Tone deaf, these people will be hurt the most, along with the customers.

Repost from: @K7Ih7PZ-1vjz or www.thelayoff.com/t/K7Ih7PZ

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Your point would be valid except how do you justify Bonus equal to a years pay every three years if the sales are not there??How many part time minimum wage clerks could we hire ? Perhaps that's where the changes should be made

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@anq you are off, but that's ok

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Post ID: @2ldx+K8jAJOi

You pick a grocery story chain, pick any, and you'll be able to say the same thing...

Go to the coveted Whole Foods board here on this website, they have 1000s of messages and they all sound like yours.

Try Safeway, on this website, the story is the same:

-Greedy execs

-Angry customers

-Unhappy Employees

-No training

You name it. The story is the same. The fact is, it was good while it lasted. America fell in low with the grocery store and now they do not love us any more. Habits change. Customer preference change. And the pie is getting smaller and there is more competition, so we squeeze each other out - we compete and try to survive, but that does not change the fact that the pie is smaller. Many will fall as this great grocery store game plays out over next few years.

We were happy when there was enough cash flow to make everyone happy, to pay for that training or that extra cashier to make lines shorter. But there is no more money to do that and that's why we have to cut.

I know it's painful, it's not just and many careers will get ruined by this - and I am sorry about it. But, at the same time I do understand powerful macro trends that shape our lives and careers and I do realize that our ability to change things for the better is minimal at best.

2017 and 2018 will be very painful, get ready for it and let's hope it's not going to be as bad as I am predicting it.

God bless.

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