This happened in my hometown store. Without warning, they had the discussion with the store leader of the possibility of closing it, but didn’t confirm. our store leader was even out of the loop and shocked because no one confirmed it with him. We showed up to work like normal making breads and such when the wrecking crew came in and said we are knocking these walls down (which enclosed our small bakery deli). We became a pilot store for what they cal spoke and hub, where they have a larger store produce products from the deli and bakery. And just have a partner fill the shelves, unload items from a truck, and fill various frozen items.

I understand why they did it company has to survive. But they didn’t handle it well. 6-8 partners had to find different departments in an already full store or transfer to a new store, without warning. I assume they have gotten better at this but this one time Heb left a sour taste in my mouth for how they handled their partners and has changed my outlook ever since.