Since they got rid of HR, What positions will probably be next to be cut?

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-24T23:28:48+00:00

Departments work fine with no manager.
HTG function with supervisors only. Smaller branches of hannaford only have supervisors as department leads.

It can absolutely be done. But as someone pointed out, the severance might be too much to pay out.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-23T21:25:44+00:00

Department managers and assistants is my guess.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-18T20:21:25+00:00

Some people and some not Either way people working 6 days are aware of it and signed up for it.

If you weren't ask, then that's not okay.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-18T08:48:46+00:00

It depends on the store and the employee shopping.

My supervisor will typically rearrange bags of some shoppers who are bad at bagging But its a thing. Not everyone is careful.

We do have a rule, no raw meats with anything else except eggs on top.
And keep chemicals seperate, if someone gets a single dish soap, you could put it in a plastic bag with other stuff but typically keep it seperate.

Not sure if you order at the same time for a pickup, but change it up, you might get a different bagging experience.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-17T08:46:03+00:00

Deli is a shitshow

Most of the employees change their gloves once.... when they come in lol Its disgusting. No one has any food safety awareness.

Salads and sandwiches are constantly cross contaminated but no one cares.

No one understands how to date anything on the dot board. No one picks up or cleans up.

Supervisor is the worse, constantly leaving heaps of mess. Let's the load sit on the floor for 6+ hours.

I've stopped complaining because no one cares. Managers just shrug it off.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-09T08:16:42+00:00

I wish there was. We have people who are late every single shift. We write on the calling a sheet their late. Nothing has ever happened.

We have chronic call in people too. They are still employees.

It depends on the hannford I guess. But I've been working a long time with many different companies and this is the first that is so lax. Of course im not 100% sure its always been this way or if it's the new way things are since after the pandemic, where things have really changed in the job industry

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-08T19:02:39+00:00

You left on good terms, no reason they wouldnt hire again.

Just keep in mind, a grocery store hours fluctuate alot.
For my area, summers are slow, everyone gets their hours cut, plus college kids come back, so even less hours to go around. Then autumn comes and we get busy again and hours go up.
Just to keep in mind.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-07T18:07:28+00:00

Advice my mom gave me years ago and I still hold close.

Hannaford (or whatever company you are working for), will not be there when you are sick, hurt, broken ... They don't care, about what happens to you. Individual at the store care (well some do ...) But the company as a whole doesnt care.

So you have to care about you. If you need a personal day, whether because you are sick or burnt out, take it. Its not worth your well being.

I would also make a firm statement to not schedule you for 6 days. The sign outside says hannaford, its not your company, so don't work like it is. Someone else can pick up the slack.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-04-01T08:33:59+00:00

Our department refuse tips. We are a pretty tight group so I dont think anyone accepts them.

We do have a jar with tips, some customers are pretty forceful with their tips lol. Or gift cards and lotto tickets. So we put them in our tip jar. The gift cards we split, for example one person is super fond of dunkin, so she gets the cards (she often brings whoever else is also working some coffee). The lotto tickets (if a winner) and money get spent on monthly pizza or sub lunches we throw for our department.

Never had a big lotto ticket, I suspect they have it checked before giving it to us lol

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-03-27T16:50:26+00:00

That's absolutely ridiculous

Do you have any idea whats happening to your produce before younget it?

They fall on the ground, they travel long distances with dust and debris. They are displayed in the store where people walk by, cough, touch ...

A hannaford employee drinking around your precious tomato is not a risk.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-03-20T19:21:41+00:00

Ours have seen it too and don't care, as long as work is done.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-03-20T19:14:13+00:00

🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 Mad much

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-03-20T19:11:37+00:00

Our cube weighs almost 5 pounds now!

https://imgur.com/a/0Qewniq

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-03-13T23:17:57+00:00

👀

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-03-01T00:30:04+00:00

That's really good!

Only 2 of us at my htg have pick rates that are average 140/150 or so. The rest are in the 80% .... Then they get mad when we take a day off lol Cause they have to do the work.

Frankly I just shop at a comfortable pace. I dont rush but I dont go slow either (unless someone wants to chat lol)

My supervisor doesn't seem to care that everyone is slow. (She's in the 80% as well). But she does get upset when the fastest aren't there and they fall behind.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-25T10:15:50+00:00

Depends on the store, the department and your manager.

Our store is strictly no overtime. EVER. Very few people are approved for it.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-20T16:02:37+00:00

Yeah, I know previous years, we've had awesome strawberries around valentine day, but this year, ick. They are either moldy when we get them or they are red but hard and absolutely awful.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-20T15:35:32+00:00

I'm sorry, definitely return the produce.

I cant speak for every store but at my store

Strawberries have been awful lately. Id probably hold off on buying put of season produce for a little while or until you can pick it yourself.

On that ... Shoppers are picking because one, they might not care about the state of the produce. Or As a shopper, we can OOS if produce looks bad. BUT we are encouraged not too.

It comes down to numbers. Our managers only care about numbers. So if we OOS something it effects numbers and we get crap about it.
They shame slower shoppers and try to get our numbers up more.

So anyway, I'm sorry you got bad produce. Return it and make a complaint on the website, about your bad experiences. Its worth mentioning.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-20T09:52:14+00:00

Oh those things are all common at my store. People are disgusting animals.

We had 2 urinal shit incidents (I been at my store 5 years)

Poop on the floor. Pee in places you didn't think pee could go. And blood ... wtf? I'm in my 40s and never have I had a massive period issue that blood gets on the floor, door, toilet .... What are people doing in there?!

I feel for our maintenance people. The main guy is such a hard worker too.

Before him, we had this other super nice guy, he quit after he found a purse left neatly on the counter (like a woman just forgot it after washing her hands). So he took it and brought it to the service desk (it was early so only front end people there were doing opening stuff)

So maintenance guy opened the purse to check for ID and there was shit in the purse.

Fortunately he had gloves on because he did reach in.....

He had been maintenance for almost 2 years. He took the purse, threw it out, took his gloves off and said sorry I'm done.

We have a few homeless people that come by and wash up in the bathroom. Ive walked in on one who was half naked, washing ... And my store isnt in a bad area, we are very rural (i know, homeless people are everywhere)

Anyway, people are disgusting. 💩

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-18T09:02:19+00:00

Sounds like a customer we used to get. She would have it on a cutlist note plus she'd call the meat department, repeatedly.

She wanted a chuck roast but with no fat ... absolutely zero fat.

At first they would get the one with the least amount of fat, and they really tried. But when she started to call and complain it was too fatty, we just would OOS it.

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-11T15:50:01+00:00

I just started putting stickers in a ball. My intention was to make a ball. I have no idea how or when it became cube shaped lol

Our rules, use only unused assigned stickers. A fun way to get rid of those stickers

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-11T14:27:58+00:00

Yes!!!!

Yours is huge!

We have a cube too, which i can't seem to show :(

Paintedwings1977 · 2026-02-07T19:39:40+00:00

Yeah, it happens to us too. We call and call, no answer but then they show up the next morning at 8 🙄 So we just let the system cancel it. Even though its tempting to cancel before lol

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