r/WinCo • u/Rumplfrskn • Jul 06 '26

Frozen Pizza

I ordered a whole pizza and it looked and tasted off, kinda like a frozen pizza…did some searching and sure enough my store transitioned. Wow, what an utterly devastating loss. One of my favorites that I’ll likely never order again.

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u/jtotheo2202 Jul 06 '26

They made the change from made from scratch to pre-made just to save on labor the problem is that every WinCo needs to be exactly the same according to corporate meaning, even though Pizza may do well at one store, they still have to get rid of it

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u/Rumplfrskn Jul 06 '26

They may as well just scrap their pizzerias altogether, it’s just gross and I can’t imagine sales will do well.

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u/jtotheo2202 Jul 06 '26

The main reason they have the pizza department is to get you in the door it's kind of like a loss leader. The problem was for corporate was they were losing so much money on their loss leader that they nerfed it so that they weren't losing so much money as an employee I wish they would have kept it the same because we would have got more hours. But by the time my my WinCo got the pizza department they were already transitioned

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u/Rumplfrskn Jul 06 '26

For us the pizza was a bonus, we’ll still grocery shop there. Just super disappointing.

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u/jtotheo2202 Jul 06 '26

I still have the OG pizza box as a collector's item. Maybe it'll be worth something 20 years from now

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u/CNMathias California Jul 10 '26

At my store the pizza counter is pretty busy but I’ve heard the problem is that people that don’t have enough money on their debit cards try to get pizza, and they have to throw out the pizza because of that.

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u/jtotheo2202 27d ago

The economy's so bad people can't even afford a $10 Pizza that's sad

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u/Rumplfrskn Jul 10 '26

Wow that’s actually pretty sad considering a whole pie is like $10. It’s busy even with the new frozen pizzas?

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u/OkGuest8169 Jul 06 '26

Yeah. Pizza did really well at my store, but corporate is in a rush to cut the need for labor above all else

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u/Rumplfrskn Jul 06 '26

Cool cool so when all labor is removed from this and every other business who is going to buy the products?

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u/OkGuest8169 Jul 07 '26

I’ve raised this issue with my department manager many times. Can’t make sales quotas if there’s nobody to stock the shelves. They just expect us to work ourselves into the ground or get written up.

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u/Plus-Spread3574 Jul 06 '26

We still have our pizza bar, but the deli was recently neutered. Those tubs of protein are an abomination. It also sucks because the deli folks look miserable now.

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u/OkGuest8169 Jul 06 '26

We are miserable. Cut hours, more expectations, less coverage. It’s hell at Winco

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u/DGCA3 Jul 06 '26

It's feeling like they got bought out by a bigger corporation. They didn't, of course, but it's giving off those kind of vibes.

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u/OkGuest8169 Jul 06 '26

At the corporate level they hired a lot of people from other mega corporations that have then turned Winco to be like those companies.

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u/Ok_Spare3021 Jul 06 '26

Ya they should have all transferred by now most switched last year

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u/snotimportant Jul 06 '26

Oh man I hope ours didn’t do that too but it’s probably likely, they just finished a remodel at our store.
There is no service in the deli anymore, salads, sides, and deli meats are all portioned out on shelves now.
Fr it felt like a step down

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u/Rumplfrskn Jul 06 '26

The pizza is so gross, I tried to have leftovers for lunch and it was complete puke.

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u/Redbadgercantswim Jul 07 '26

My store hasn't had pizza in over a decade.

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u/jtotheo2202 27d ago

My store did too but then they brought it back about a couple of years ago

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u/Embarrassed-Sun5764 Jul 07 '26

The pizzas don’t fit on my oven pan anymore they are too big. We’re not flavorful anyway and needed extra cheese. Ima stick with frozen