After the meeting, many Team Members were excited, energized, and invigorated. They like the path being charted.
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Nothing makes a grocer "different"
This type of thinking is stale, naive, out of date, out of touch.
People buy good groceries at the best price available.
Get with it.
The last two posts make all of the sense in the world. The moron talking about not being a Debbie Downer must have their head up their you know what. That or they drink way too much of the koolaid. Any time you want to sit down and play poker with that attitude from left field, let me know.
Rubbish! Town Hall meetings are always meant to paint a rosy picture to keep naive employees like you smiling. Company is being run into the ground. Too much overhead, high prices, quality that is diminishing, and very sloppy operations. Open your eyes.
We can't win a pricing war. We need to focus on what makes us different. But the thing is, what makes us different is the very thing that's slowly being taken away. Quality and customer service. When we lose that, we lose customers. When we lose customers, we have to raise prices to make up that loss. When we raise prices, we lose more customers. That's whats happening here.
The baby boomer generation that cares about the quality and customer service is also losing spending power. We're now seeing millennials, who care about cheap prices and convenience replace them. We have to do something because it's simply a war we can't win.
I know, since all companies ideas are brilliant. Give me a break. Even Apple had "Ping" .. meijer tried a small formart for inner city and closed 3 of the 4 in Chicago within a few years. Every single company, even successful ones, comes up with dumb ideas that don't work.
Oh yeah, now I remember the successful yellow GE savings squad:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sL51nA1jeDA
Invest in lowering prices. That is a joke, right? Laura has been touting lower prices ever since she took over from dad and here we are today.
Just a little memory refresher. You remember the "yellow" shelf tags to show the "lower priced" items? You remember the "yellow" clad people they had doing "price reduction squad"? How did that pan out?
Lol. This is the type of person who will always remain miserable because instead of focusing on doing a great job, they criticize others and have absolutely no qualifications to do so. Actually, if you listened to the last town meeting, she did address the price issue and said we are going to invest in lowering GE prices. Remember, aldi, Walmart, kroger, have incredibly more buying power and we simply cannot win a price war. If you didn't know, there a ton of Aldi in Europe. Doesn't make any sense to try to be the lowest price, but we do have to give up some margin and she admitted that.
While shop n save got wiped off the map pretty much by Walmart, GE thrived. We need to take the same approach now-- what makes us different? And then captalize on that. I'm a store employee just like yourself, and I see most of my colleague complain and whine and they are unmotivated and lazy and perhaps if they tried to be excellent instead of getting out of work and complaining about manangement GE would be doing even better.
But I'm sure you're very qualified to understand a simple business concept like buying power. Read a book. Become infomed. Be excellent at your job. Quit complaining. No one is screwing you over.
Aldi moving into Pittsburgh Mills. Moving in on Queen's hometown.
Excited and invigorated? Lmao. You must be a corporate propoganda consultant. Lord knows we can't do anything without consultants and nepotism at the top. Simply put, the wind bag talking about beating Aldi and/or Walmart by "playing in the white space" where they can't compete like Getgo/Fuelperks! is clearly off his or her rocker. Admitting to the entire company that we cannot compete with them by going after pricing is like having one foot in the grave. What is the biggest complaint from your friends or family about GE? PRICES ARE TOO HIGH!! And we are going to address everything but that. Way to go leadership team! Avoid the obvious and dance around the real problems. If you had any talent you would figure out how to compete. Because that is what the customers are demanding. So get with it!!
LOL. that's exactly the path. The one she's been talking about for how long yet the company is still in trouble. Bottom line is the supermarkets are what the company was built on and if they don't succeed the company won't. A few years ago the story would've went Getgo and MD Express. Going back even further it was GE Express. All these great ideas are supposed to "save us" yet the company continues to be in rough shape
What path....the one right down the toilet? Oh I forgot, the rest of this year will be pretty rough but GetGo, online ordering and fuelperks plus will save us all.