Ah, you must be in Cinci area then. I've always wondered what it'd be like to run one of those 2M+ stores. Gotta be a madhouse. Our nutrition is currently very small, being marginally expanded by a KCSD reset. We were only doing about 5-6k a week here. Our contract states you need to be doing at least 10k to warrant a nutrition lead.
Wall to Wall people. There are 4 people In my dept. 2 full time 2 part time. The online shopping
Is a nuisance. About 15 people with these huge carts trying to wedge their way through. always have to help them find stuff over and over. We get 80 to 100 online orders a day.
Nutrition seems like a tough sub-department to run. At the store I'm at, there's only one person that works the department, and we're second in the district with overall sales. On her two days off, management has to stock nutrition because of how short staffed we are... and it has been that way for quite a while now. For the amount of work involved, the pay bonus that comes with being the lead for that department doesn't seem worth it.
I feel bad for my store's nutrition person, she's the "lead" but is really the only person who does it, she does have one helper who does it sometimes in the evenings now, but it does not seem like a fun department to do.
Well, it's a grocery umbrella. So nutrition is a sub-department of Grocery instead of Produce like it was before. If the stores are doing enough volume in Nutrition, they get a lead. Right now, pending further training/policy changes it is being done as Anonymous says. However we have been told that this will change, we just don't have a timeline yet. I have been told that most likely it will move to a daytime job, or if it's a large enough department(more than 2 people) it will be stocked at night, and you will have the nutrition lead working and be trained in nutrition specific things like how things taste, what they are made with, what all of the niche terms mean(ie vegan, organic, GMO, etc) to interact with customers and essentially "sell" the product and be available for tastings, promotional events.
Here, there is only a nutrition lead if the store does over 10k in nutrition sales a week. We're at around 6k and have 27 hours allotted from ELMS, so 10k should be about 1 full timer.
I feel so overwhelmed. Can't keep up. That freaking prime time got me stressed. My nutrition dept. Does about $70,000 a w week
$70,000 a week? How much does the whole store do? My store did $1.5M this past week. Nutrition did $35,000. Bakery (my department) did $20,000. That's up this week due to all the graduation cakes we've had to make. Usually it runs between $17,000 and $18,000.
Out of curiosity I looked at the highest volume store in our division. 1.3M store and did 48k nutrition. I also looked at the most affluential area store that does about 1M a week, it did 42k. This was P5W1
He's in Cincinnati, so my guess is at least 2M. Those stores are a whole different beast to those elsewhere. I looked up a couples truck schedules. Truck every single day for everything just about.
-- Edited by DeltaGrocery on Monday 8th of June 2015 04:08:23 AM
My store did 700k last week and we were under budget (the store manager was still very happy - we aren't a high volume store or a marketplace). I don't think I could handle being in a million dollar store.
