Yep. Wahlburgers, selling exercise equipment, and pallets of bath bombs appear to be hugely successful and popular decisions.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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Go with the Walmart method.
Have one lane open for traditional check out. Only one lane. Make sure that one lane is worked by someone who couldn't be more removed or unenthusiastic about the job.
Makes the self serve seem pretty good
I think it really depends on the size of your order, and i think it comes down to bagging more than scanning. After all scanning and bagging *used* to be a 2 person job.
And honestly, the luck you get with the bags doesn't help. Sometimes they can be kind of a pain in the ass to open up, and that might be even harder for older people.
I imagine some people also don't like feeling pressure to move quickly from those behind them. When its a cashier, that's on them not the customer.
Layoffs and cutting benefits are often signs of a booming business.
It's when they switch over to 1 ply and stop filling the soap dispensers you know they're really thriving
Yeah, reading the hyvee subreddit, it sounds like it isn't just the discount either, but the perks+ membership and free meals for employees on weekends. Neither of those have the 'fraud' excuse.
Meanwhile they'll complain about not being able to find employees while paying low wages and slashing benefits, and probably lobby for state help with that.
I think they've been selling undeveloped lots that they planned on building stores too.
I do the shopping for an 82 year old woman who doesn’t have a credit or debit card. She pays me back with a check. She has neuropathy from cancer treatment and can’t stand very long. The local Hy-Vee, only store in town, does not have drive up. They will wheel crap out for handicapped but it takes them a long time to come to the front of the store. She gives me a list for when I go to Fareway and Walmart or else buys a few things at Casey’s. I can’t shop for all of the even older people than me in town.
You guys really need to realize that 90%of the stuff I post on here is in jest.
CycloneErik
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You're right there. Gotta include the words "No onE wAnTs to WoRk anYmoRe."
Hy-Vee thread still going strong.
Noone witnesses the lagesse of the poverty industrial complex in action than grocery employees working their buts off and witnessing the obvious abuse of the SNAP/EBT/foodstamp programs.
Cue Bono tears.
Noone witnesses the lagesse of the poverty industrial complex in action than grocery employees working their buts off and witnessing the obvious abuse of the SNAP/EBT/foodstamp programs.
Cue Bono tears.
You have kept posting about SNAP. We have noticed. Can you not cave this thread and just start up a thread about that if you're that concerned?
OK.
I said "witness" twice too. bad writing style.
Anyway, I love HyVee workers....thanks for what you do.
It's a shame one side can't keep things out of the cave.
Great. I look forward to your SNAP thread in the correct forum.
When I worked the hy vee in ames. They sold milk from a local dairy farm that was sold in a glass bottle. The bottle had a $2 deposit. People would use like $20 of their food stamps and dump the milk in the parking lot. They then brought the bottles back in and used the deposit refund to buy cigarettes. they soon did away with allowing the food stamps to be used to pay for the deposit on these. The parking lot smelled like death on hot days.
Someone I know and trust has seen their financials and said they have more current liabilities than current assets... That explains the need to sell long assets like they've doing recently.
MSP expansion has to be a billion dollar egg to the face.
MSP expansion has to be a billion dollar egg to the face.
They also axed a couple of huge stores they were planning on building... I used to work for a supplier of Hy-Vee they are definitely operating like they are in debt up to their eyeballs.
