Food Lion in NC and VA. has dropped the sealed fresh prepack beef program(most of it) to go back slicing beef. They also kept the upgrade from Select to Choice. A small victory for journeyman. If they had any sense, they would revert back to slicing pork, too. Pork is easier to disguise as fresh cut, the bloom difference isn't that noticable. Service on the front end is better and there is more room. I doubt the accountants will allow that much longer.
Allen, are they allowing more payroll to cover the cutting needs?
Th meat cutter payroll went to more people up front, not sure if they will keep them, meatcutter payroll will probably revert as it was, which was very sparse, sometimes I worked up to 3 days alone, order, unload, cut, wrap, clean, repeat!
There working conditions were so bad I hired the market manager who worked for them over 20 yrs as my 3 man. When you have grocery ppl running the overall meat dept that is what you get and I doubt it will get any better.
They have not yet dropped it. They are only cutting 3 pieces of meat now. I worked for one of the stores that did. They are still testing stores and my district if one. My store however continues to cut everything which is great for me. We are in fact in the top 15 in market sales out of a little over 1100 stores. The store I worked at before dropped 2 percent in total distribution over last year and the quality is horrible with prepackaged. I actually took a grocery manager position because I didn't think pay moving forward would be worth it. My district manager called about 5 months ago and wanted me to run a market that still cuts so I jumped on it for now. They haven't figured it out yet and it is going to be a while before they make ant rash desicions. In the meantime though I plan the do work and keep these sales high. For my age there's no better feeling then friendly competition and I love putting in work.
They have not yet dropped it. They are only cutting 3 pieces of meat now. I worked for one of the stores that did. They are still testing stores and my district if one. My store however continues to cut everything which is great for me. We are in fact in the top 15 in market sales out of a little over 1100 stores. The store I worked at before dropped 2 percent in total distribution over last year and the quality is horrible with prepackaged. I actually took a grocery manager position because I didn't think pay moving forward would be worth it. My district manager called about 5 months ago and wanted me to run a market that still cuts so I jumped on it for now. They haven't figured it out yet and it is going to be a while before they make ant rash desicions. In the meantime though I plan the do work and keep these sales high. For my age there's no better feeling then friendly competition and I love putting in work.
Thanks for the update Brian-what state are you in?
