Director of Operations Craig T. Leaked some info at a Woonsocket meeting. (I'm a corp nobody but had to run the powerpoint)
FS will be cut back to cosmetics/beauty, healthcare, Hallmark, very limited grocery/candy/snacks. FS Manager will be eliminated. Fs staff very limited with RX manager running the show running rx, fs, and heathlcare hub practices (optical/hearing/diabetics ect) as well as running the bench. They will have full responsibility of hiring, store scheduling, service, and fs planograms, product withdrawls, dsd, ect. This will be scaled back from what the FS manager currently does.
high volume stores fs that are currently doing over 75k/week will have a "Health Leader" aka former SM. That position requires a bachelors degree no exceptions. FS managers were asked last month to update their mysuccess last month to help identify who will be qualified to run the high volume fs.
Shift supervisors will become "Health Supervisors" and be limited to 2 per store. RX Manager required to open and close the store (cash room operations ect) along with the 2 Health Supervisors.
Mass/RI/Conn to start 2nd quarter of 2019 with store remodels being complete in quarter 1. This will start with 60-70% of this markets stores. Sorry no word on severance or final days for store managers