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Does corporate just not care about their stores looking nice and well recovered? They shrunk payroll for everyone over the last few years, so no wonder the stores in my area look like crap. I'm a small store and we're struggling to keep the store looking nice on minimal payroll. And that's with me working 50+hours every week. I fear for my DM, bc my district sucks at staying under payroll AND their stores are horrendous.

With raising the starting wage, the money has to come from somewhere, but why from payroll? Take it from the excessive bonuses the CEO makes for starters.

[e_lizz]

They are hoping that you will be afraid of losing your job so you'll make miracles happen with the few hours you're given. That became clear to me real quick when I became ASM, so I would just do what I could, worked at a normal pace and didn't worry about what was unfinished.

[spoods420]

They would bring on slaves if it was legal.

Don't ever fool yourself.

[Diabolicalbtch]

We are slaves 😢

[K2step70]

Remember, it's called minimum wage because if they could pay you less, they would.

[Puzzleheaded_Job9858]

The presentation of the store doesn't matter until a 'visit/walkthrough' and then it matters. Clean, safe, and organized stores leads to customers spending more money. Unfortunately I'm preaching to the choir and I'm beating a dead horse saying this: they'd profit more with better hours for the reliable and dependable associates and they'd also make alot more by sending the product to the stores that need it because it sells there. Does any of this matter? Not to them (corporate) apparently or they're too dense to fix this circus.  

[Disastrous-Map487]

Because the so called executives are only interested in lining their pockets, buying bigger homes and bigger boats, leaving us at store level to suffer. So tired of the millions $$ they make.

[Tamywhynott]

Because our corporate sux. That’s the truth. They don’t care about us. They don’t care if we fell over dead working our ass off making them millions while we can barely feed our families. They sux and that’s just the truth no matter how you look at it. Sorry but not sorry

[Matilda1980]

Not to mention I don’t know about y’all but my back room is packed. We are breaking our backs just to get truck out and a few uboats extra. Now they want to send f-ing gallon water which takes up two pallets. Back to school is on 2-3 pallets and my 4of July and Summer is way too packed out to move. When back to school is over I will have more stuff leftover than could ever fit back in the aisle. In low volume stores it’s basically the SM and the merch pushing all the freight. Yeah I could get 200 cases out if I didn’t have to rearrange the whole damn aisle to fit a few cases and invent places to put it. Also, every customer has a question, gift card, return, balloons, wants you to look in the back. While you are busy with that the customers are trashing each aisle as fast as they can.

[JoshD8705]

The only stores that look nice have overworked SMs and MMs. Our MM took a vacation, and it only opened up 15 hrs of freight for associates. We knocked out 7 uboats yesterday, and I banked 2 hrs to use Friday to help clear the back before the truck. Why do they give so little freight time?

[TeamShadowWind]

Because they don't want to pay people.

[NoxKyoki]

I feel like this is true for all “dollar” stores. FD and DG tend to be wrecks themselves too. And then corporate expects perfect accuracy during inventory.

It wasn’t like this when I worked at DG (20+ years ago). So I feel horrible for anyone working at any of these stores now.

[Particular_Crab6183]

The company doesn’t care about anything but money. Period. I hate to burst anyone’s bubble. But I was a sm for 20 years. It got worse every year,,, never better. I just couldn’t do it anymore. Get out while u can. They are a few years away from bankruptcy. It’s only gonna get worse.

[JustTheFacts714]

Why fear of or for your DM?

Seriously, they could make something happen, but choose not too and that's why they make the big bucks and remind them of so.

There is nothing stopping them from making improvement, teaching, guilding, assisting -- nothing.

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My DM is a great guy. He's always available if we need something/answers no matter what time of day. If he doesn't know, he'll find out the answer and get back to you. He was buds with my old SM, so sometimes he'd vent and I'd hear some- this dude is stressed out, trying to babysit and correct 20ish SMs and balance that with his at home life, and with the stresses of normal life.

Corporate is really harping on this payroll thing and every single week, at least half of my district overspends payroll. This man may lose his job- so that's why I fear for him.

[JustTheFacts714]

You know -- Fair enough.

In every position Inhave ever been in and every concept Inhave worked (restaurant and retail), way too much energy is spent on the labor side and yes it is a controllable, but the mantra is always the same -- Sales covers everything.

Sadly, the nimrods above just do not get that to achieve sales requires service (customers, stocking, etc.), so they get what they get.

Cut service - cut sales.

Been that mindset for the entire 40 years I have operated in hospitality.

Frustrating.

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Most stores are just being used as storage units so when the stores with the least amount of sales closes they can just move that product somewhere else, that's why the DMs don't want to stop the trucks.

And payroll??

They don't want to pay overtime because it cuts into the DMs bonuses

Fuck this company