I just wanted to see what it was like in other divisions/contracts.
How much more than a topped out full time clerk is the lead/manager position in these two departments? Here it is 1.25$ more (average volume without fuel 500k). Compared to the $4.00 more for grocery/produce/drug gm/scan coordinator managers.
It's just a notch above a topped-out full-timer here, BUT you get to skip all those minimum wage years that lead to the top-out if you haven't been with the company long.
Here, front end, grocery, drug gm, scan coordinator, produce all have the same rate of pay. Meat is obviously higher, not sure about Deli/Bakery as they have a different contract.
100k w/o fuel or rx on a small store is pretty impressive. Our 39k square foot store is 13 aisles total including frozen. I was helping one of the remodeled stores open and they're one of the largest at 97k square feet running 34 aisles. That store is a powerhouse doing over 1m/week. I believe the largest volume in the division is around 1.3-1.4 a week. I love the smaller environment though.
100k w/o fuel or rx on a small store is pretty impressive. Our 39k square foot store is 13 aisles total including frozen. I was helping one of the remodeled stores open and they're one of the largest at 97k square feet running 34 aisles. That store is a powerhouse doing over 1m/week. I believe the largest volume in the division is around 1.3-1.4 a week. I love the smaller environment though.
I love the smaller environment too. I've worked in big and small Krogers. At the big Krogers you know the people in your department, a few other people, and the managers. At a small store you know everybody and the store manager isn't always trying to be top in the district/division. The lead and department head premiums may be smaller, but the experience is richer.
My store is probably average then, I think there's about 20 aisles plus the mini pharmacy aisles. It's just that I live in a small town so we don't sell a ton of product like the other towns in the Dayton area.
But I couldn't imagine working in such a big store that you don't even know all or at least most of the employees.
My store is probably average then, I think there's about 20 aisles plus the mini pharmacy aisles. It's just that I live in a small town so we don't sell a ton of product like the other towns in the Dayton area.
But I couldn't imagine working in such a big store that you don't even know all or at least most of the employees.
I went from a ~90 employee store to a ~220 employee store with 70+ in FE alone.
I love the smaller environment too. I've worked in big and small Krogers. At the big Krogers you know the people in your department, a few other people, and the managers. At a small store you know everybody and the store manager isn't always trying to be top in the district/division. The lead and department head premiums may be smaller, but the experience is richer.
That's one of the biggest reasons I am staying at this store for now. I know pretty much everybody even though I work 3rd shift. Granted, I don't know the 15 year old baggers that cycle through a few a week, but all of the regulars I do. I had gone through grocery manager "training" and had applied to a couple other stores. Unfortunately all the other stores in the general vicinity are 20 miles away and huge. So after the first interview, I just decided to stay here and lead frozen instead of take grocery at one of the powerhouses. I'll probably stay here till I decide to get into salaried management or potentially PLM. Plus, it's nice being the only one who can run multiple departments. Lots of OT.
My store is probably average then, I think there's about 20 aisles plus the mini pharmacy aisles. It's just that I live in a small town so we don't sell a ton of product like the other towns in the Dayton area.
But I couldn't imagine working in such a big store that you don't even know all or at least most of the employees.
I went from a ~90 employee store to a ~220 employee store with 70+ in FE alone.
70 in FE? That's nuts. I'm not sure exactly how many we have but its only 2 schedule sheets. Probably less than 20 in FE in total.
My store is probably average then, I think there's about 20 aisles plus the mini pharmacy aisles. It's just that I live in a small town so we don't sell a ton of product like the other towns in the Dayton area.
But I couldn't imagine working in such a big store that you don't even know all or at least most of the employees.
I went from a ~90 employee store to a ~220 employee store with 70+ in FE alone.
70 in FE? That's nuts. I'm not sure exactly how many we have but its only 2 schedule sheets. Probably less than 20 in FE in total.
When I print our FE/SCO schedule, it's 7 full pages, sometimes spilling onto an 8th.
My store is probably average then, I think there's about 20 aisles plus the mini pharmacy aisles. It's just that I live in a small town so we don't sell a ton of product like the other towns in the Dayton area.
But I couldn't imagine working in such a big store that you don't even know all or at least most of the employees.
I went from a ~90 employee store to a ~220 employee store with 70+ in FE alone.
70 in FE? That's nuts. I'm not sure exactly how many we have but its only 2 schedule sheets. Probably less than 20 in FE in total.
No, 20 in FE is nuts. I think my store's FE has at least 60 people. We have around 1100 hours to go around on the front end each week.
My store is probably average then, I think there's about 20 aisles plus the mini pharmacy aisles. It's just that I live in a small town so we don't sell a ton of product like the other towns in the Dayton area.
But I couldn't imagine working in such a big store that you don't even know all or at least most of the employees.
I went from a ~90 employee store to a ~220 employee store with 70+ in FE alone.
70 in FE? That's nuts. I'm not sure exactly how many we have but its only 2 schedule sheets. Probably less than 20 in FE in total.
No, 20 in FE is nuts. I think my store's FE has at least 60 people. We have around 1100 hours to go around on the front end each week.
Yeah my old store had about that many FE hours. New one gets 1500-1600. Marketplace. More elms tasks, more hours.
They're slated to bring I believe 3 marketplaces in my general area by 2017.
But here, I checked tonight and we get get about 340 hrs for FE.
I've helped out in big stores, but never worked in one. Are the hours about as reasonable as they are in smaller environments or is less expected because there are more people to pick up the slack?
My frozen department gets between 72 and 76 per week. Grocery runs about 280 including DSD. Drug GM only has 3 people, all full time.
I have no idea how many hours my stores FE gets but there's no way in hell it's around 1100.
Our frozen guy just said a couple days ago that due to lack of help, he only was able to schedule 64 hours. He actually would have had around 80 available.
Are the hours about as reasonable as they are in smaller environments or is less expected because there are more people to pick up the slack?
In other depts things seem to go a lot smoother in the bigger store, at least for everyone except heads and backups who have to worry about more merchandising and less stocking.
In FE, however, things are much more hectic day in and day out. On the other hand, this store may be an anomaly because other stores with similar sales/hours seem to handle things better.
Are the hours about as reasonable as they are in smaller environments or is less expected because there are more people to pick up the slack?
In other depts things seem to go a lot smoother in the bigger store, at least for everyone except heads and backups who have to worry about more merchandising and less stocking.
In FE, however, things are much more hectic day in and day out. On the other hand, this store may be an anomaly because other stores with similar sales/hours seem to handle things better.
See, this is why I think running smaller stores' departments can be more difficult in a certain regard. Because here, grocery manager puts up just about as much stock as anyone else, except has to do it faster so he has time to do merchandising and other managerial tasks. In frozen, I'm extremely limited in the time I get to do these things, so I typically like to print out everything necessary and do everything I can at home where I actually have time to think. When I run grocery during vacations and whatnot, it's the same way. I find things run smoother that way. You can only delegate so much. I think for a smaller environment you really need someone who cares about the department(and willing to put in the effort) to be running the show, or it would get out of hand very very quickly.
