Is Kroger taking over Giant Eagle
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Either sold or kicking the bucket. There are a lot of financial red flags going on within the stores that either option might happen. More and more the stores are looking like Tops Supermarket right before they went bust and when you got corporate keeping tight lipped on what's going on with the company, you know something is up.
As an employee I have seen this store do a steady slide the past 3 years. All managers do nothing but hide in offices, have meetings about metings, are NEVER there to speak to customers. Customers are VERY VERY angry & fed up with the owner's lack of even caring what the customer thinks. Morale is non-existant. There is NO Team attitude in this store, it's just survival. Staff cuts have been ridiculous and customers are pissed there are no more employees to help them. Please please someone buy this place out. They have let this business become a dirty, messy, pig-sty of a store with multiple violations of food safety. Managers don't even care when told about such violations and just leave them be. I sincerely hope they get blown out of the water.....Greedy slobs.
I worked there for 11 years and they fired me for "policy violations." I was probably one of their top 10% performers as a department manager, They want to cut out long time employees and replace them with younger, cheaper ones. I was bitter at first, but I have eventually moved on. They may have actually done me a favor by letting me go.
I second that motion. Someone come buy this company and kick all the dead weight out. Starting with our lovely CEO
If there are any executives out there reading this from other grocery chains, the time is now to buy GE. The good people there want you to come in and buy the place to cleanse the dead weight at the top dragging the place down. THEY NEED YOUR HELP.
PUBLIX
Agreed. They have it backwards. Their idea of taking a risk is to take a risk not to lose instead of taking a risk to have a YUGE win.
The majors layoffs last fall may have saved them a few dollars, but they are doing nothing different. What they did yesterday, they will do again today, no change in attitude, ideas, or thought processes. That has failure written all over it. There really needs to be a change in direction, attitude, and a commitment to doing things right instead of have baked. Very rarely does anyone stand up and say this is wrong or challenge what is going on. There is nothing wrong with presenting a case because a lot of times they have merit. The culture here does want that to happen.
I'm in the Cleveland area and have heard this as well. Last month they cancelled a bunch of store inventories to save cash. While it may just be a rumor, it goes to show how poorly the company is doing and that employee morale is in the basement.
no, just buying, selling and or merging. typical big company trying to save more $$
I haven't heard anything. Although I am one of the people who is hoping they are sold. I think the company has gone to hell since a certain someone took over, so I say let kroger, wegmens, publix etc. etc. buy them. It can't be much worse and morale can't get much worse