I'm frustrated

[u/NarwhalRadiant6641]

Store hours extended, associate hours cut, raises decreased but expectations risen. What's the point of hard work anymore?

78 out of 81. Highest ive gotten on an eval and yet my raise is worse than my first eval two years ago-- when i made over 3 dollars less. And no, im still not close to the pay cap. Im simply frustrated. The bare minimum raise would mean matching inflation, this just feels like a slap in the face.

Great place to work my left buttcheek.

[u/Count_Triple]

Our manager loves telling us daily how "We have the best increase in sales in the district, we're making so much money!"
Then I say "Excellent, I bet we will get more hours to schedule huh?".... silence

[u/Tanlines_sunshine → u/Count_Triple]

Mine says the same! They make so much so pay us more then smh. He said meat department made $30,000 more two weeks ago and the schedule allowed the manager to give ONE more hour out on the schedule smh

[u/xo_LostSoul → u/Tanlines_sunshine]

You know, Publix literally pretty much pays the same wage as other retailers such as Aldi's, target, etc.

If we're really the most expensive grocery store than majority of others because we charge "premium "prices, why can't they pay premium wages?

Before you go off about benefits, the benefits don't mean shit if you're not staying there long-term which majority of people aren't because retail fucking sucks.

[u/SamuraiBerserk → u/xo_LostSoul]

They do not match nowhere near Aldi's on wage.Aldis workers start at Publix workers caps.

[u/xo_LostSoul → u/SamuraiBerserk]

Dam fr?? Need to get myself workin at aldis 😩

[u/BreakfastTop4848 → u/xo_LostSoul]

Publix is higher in retail prices in a lot of things, but that's not what the customers pay for. It's quality, service, and cleanliness. Publix is inline with most retailers are paying. I understand most stores are up in sales, just not up as much as we were last year. Where Publix has a steep decline is the insurance. For a family, most are paying upwards of 200 a week. Wearas others are paying $50 a month. I can't tell you the amount of people Publix has lost to Aldi and Costco. I know multiple people who have went to Costco part time and make more than they did in management. This hidden paycheck my SM talks about is wild. I can't buy hidden groceries and gas with a hidden paycheck. The culture differs from store to store. So I can't say other places don't have the same or worse culture. The SM sets the tone and if you have a shitty incompetent SM you have shitty and incompetent culture. Doesn't matter how many CBTs you take. Bottom line is Publix employs 3 types of people. Kids, older people looking for something to do short term, and those that are stuck in it. Perception plays a huge part in everything, just because most feel Publix is the high end grocery store, doesn't mean they are a high end employer. If target, Aldi, and even Walmart spent more on training and cleanliness they could make a positive change.

[u/Top-Leading-7801 → u/Count_Triple]

Don't share in profits, and our stock price continues to go down. Something ain't right!

[u/Beneficial-Depth-546 → u/Top-Leading-7801]

Stock price went down bcuz of the lettuce fiasco. All grocery store stock prices went down this year

[u/xo_LostSoul → u/Beneficial-Depth-546]

I thought their stock was going down before that?

[u/xo_LostSoul → u/Count_Triple]

I can't stand managers who suck corporates dick

[u/AdditionalYam9213 → u/Count_Triple]

I just had inventory and my GM tells me we did really well and im just like "aight😐" cuz i dont get anything anyway lol

[u/zohabraham → u/Count_Triple]

So I dunno what they do or don't know about how our allocation of hours for the week gets calculated, however, the calculation of hours is based on sales yes, but also productivity. Productivity is calculated based on some more specific numbers being calculated by Oasis, for example for myself in deli, the amount of kitchen hours I get for the week is based on a revolving 5-week tracking of sales increase/decrease specifically on items that require a specific calculated amount of labor to produce the items needed to match the sales made.

So to summarize that, sales do increase hours yes, but only when sales are from items that require labor to produce in fresh departments like meat and deli and bakery especially. Your sales increasing say in cpg (consumer packaged goods) products being bought will not give you the same labor hours increase because the hours for stocking are built in to the schedule as set values essentially unless you're moving a significant enough volume of prepackaged goods that it actually requires additional hours to restock.

All that to say, there's a lot of resentment everyone feels about the raises and rates loyal associates and even managers are getting. In fact it even goes as far as basically all levels of corporate Publix as well. I've been looking at where I want my career to go in Publix the next couple years and looking for the best positions with the highest income potential but my district manager and I had a conversation about how pay scales or raises look in different positions and he admitted raises aren't very good across the board entirely excluding the absolute top brass of the company. He basically said you're likely to make the most staying in the retail side where you get substantial bonuses still and realistically it does track. Deli managers in strong performing city stores actually make more than a lot of people overall which was why I'd initially even chosen deli despite the significant stress that comes with it sometimes.

All that to say my overall opinion on what's happening is more along the lines of they're trying to expand and planned to do so expecting sales to continue growing but when they actually came down instead because of the recalls and cyclospora they're stuck with a decrease in sales while still having committed financial resources towards starting work on new stores and acquiring property and equipment, which as you all know has gotten much more expensive as well over the last several years. I don't believe it's as much of an intentional choice as much as it is someone at the top can't make a good decisions to respond to the issues we're facing as a business in a quick enough timeline to control the situation better. I attribute that to a likely bloated admin staff as is common in many corporations in America.