Grocery Store Waging

[Anonymous No.16124613]

What is it like to work at a large grocery store?

[Anonymous No.16124694]

>>16124613
Hell and totally mismanaged. Work there for 2 years before I gave the manager the finger. Some suckers have to stay there forever due to contracts it sucks.

[Anonymous No.16124816]

>>16124694
Grocery stores brought back peonage? Cool!

[Anonymous No.16124824]

>>16124816
tfw you're a vassal to fucking Piggly Wiggly

[Anonymous No.16124958]

>>16124824
>Piggly Wiggly
Every Piggy Wiggy I've been inside smells like mold and decay. They do have real butchers but the meat is whatever grade is the lowest fit for human consumption.

[Anonymous No.16125005]

>>16124613
Hey look megaman

[Anonymous No.16125043]

>>16125005
*rockman

[Anonymous No.16125044]

>>16124824
Based

[Anonymous No.16125068]

>>16124613
Try and get a job at the deli in the store.

[Anonymous No.16125109]

>>16125043
Excuse me, but which country won the war?

[Anonymous No.16125176]

>>16124613
Not too bad if you're not being a clerk. Stocking, and all the other departments are easy mode. Stocking is a good workout as well as working, I lost a lot of weight over the year I was doing it part time.

[Anonymous No.16125178]

Best recept
https://youtu.be/fprRGBAxyXA

[Anonymous No.16125181]

>>16124613
Don't work at the deli

[Anonymous No.16125185]

>>16124694
Who the fuck has a contract at a grocery store?

[Anonymous No.16125213]

>>16125005
>>16125043
who’s the blonde girl

[Anonymous No.16125224]

>>16124613
Usually greatly unmanaged and a clown show. I learned quickly that "departments" aren't really a thing because all the staff is doing shit at every corner of the store. As an employee it's less a regular stream of work but more assessing the overall situation of the store and adjusting your work for the day around that.

[Anonymous No.16125231]

>>16125213
Roll

[Anonymous No.16125248]

>>16125224
depends on the store really
from my experience many years ago in a few different grocery stores: meat, deli, produce, dairy/frozen, and grocery (everything not listed) would be where you are assigned as an employee when hired and would pretty much be where you stayed unless there was a short staff in one of the other areas one day.

[Anonymous No.16125476]

>>16124613
Knock off Dr. Light pharmacist is pretty nifty.

[Anonymous No.16125481]

>>16124613
>18+ please
Giggity

[Anonymous No.16125487]

>>16124613
I worked at Kroger when I was in high school, paid like $7.50 an hour. It was okay, not good or bad.

[Anonymous No.16125493]

Working in Produce or Grocery in a busy store rocks.

You burn a lot of calories and are always busy. No one really bothers you about it looking like shit because it always looks like shit. As long as you're working, you're in the clear to just coast and burn some calories.

[Anonymous No.16126329]

Stocking and warehouse is okay

Managers are literally overgrown children

Deli is Dante's 10th circle of hell

[Anonymous No.16126353]

>>16124613
Weekly paychecks, the only customers that ask questions are usually women, paying the union, banging a cashier eventually maybe a manager if you're good looking or they're pathetic/slut enough, occasionally have to clean up piss and shit because of retards or hobos.

Take up overnight inventory instead. Piss easy job and you don't have to deal with customers, just a lot of rushing to stock and move shit around before 6AM.

[Anonymous No.16126376]

>>16124613
I worked at a local supermarket in the deli for 7 months before leaving for uni. Honestly wasn't a bad job, with somewhat decent pay. My coworkers were cool and the manager was chill as long as you did your job. Hell they even let us eat some of the boars head meats and cheeses if noone was around. It was hard work but kinda fun at the same time. I definitely recommend never getting a job in the front end (cash registers and shit). almost all of them were under the age of 18 and all they did was piss and moan about their hours being too long. they threw fits if they had to work longer than 5 hour shifts. truly pathetic. they are the real cucks of all of the staff.

[Anonymous No.16126607]

>>16126329
>>16126376
Why is the deli particularly bad?

[Anonymous No.16126645]

>>16126607

Hambeasts asking for 2lbs of the thinnest cut meat possible. They aren't happy unless you can see through it. Generally a more customer facing role so more complaints and more assholes making weird requests.

The amount of cleaning and stock rotation involved can also be a bit of a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous No.16126665]

>>16126607
I work in a deli right now, and besides being TERRIBLY managed the work is fine. There's a constant stream of cleanup, and dealing with the express (prepackaged stuff that sits in a cooler.) is kind of annoying, but other than that it's fine.

>>16126645
Where the fuck do you live that that's a huge problem? Shredding stuff is annoying, and people who want plastic between their cheese slices is bad, but c'mon dude. Working the counter is the easiest part, it's balancing that with the chores that's kind of annoying.

[Anonymous No.16126695]

>>16124613
One time I worked at the deli and didn't cook one of the chickens all the way and a customer brought it back later because it was super raw
They tried to tell me I needed to start using the thermometer but I wasn't getting paid enough to care. Now I have a real job, retail is soul sucking.

[Anonymous No.16126732]

>>16124613

Do they really have girls as cute as the cartoon advertisement makes them out to be working there?

[Anonymous No.16126745]

>>16126665

More "upscale" grocery store that catered to people that thought it was acceptable to scream at me for the lack of quinoa in the dry aisles.

Best role I had there was produce. Just had to make shit look presentable, tidy and restock. Was easy money and 10x better than Deli

[Anonymous No.16126761]

>>16124613
Unfulfilling. Moderately hard work. There's always somebody in the warehouse or cool room being fingered, but you never get a turn.

[Anonymous No.16126799]

>>16126732
Yes but only in white areas

[Anonymous No.16127146]

>>16124613
Horrible. Every day getting yelled at by people. Feet hurting due to standing all day.

[Anonymous No.16127192]

>>16126645
>>t., lazy subhuman wagie that doesn't know how to use the slicer.
So what you're saying is you were a shit employee.

>>16124613
It's like working in any large store, except there's food involved. Pay is generally crap but it's getting better. Stocking shelves/warehouse/back of the store work is better than being a cashier, which pays less and is more annoying to deal with.

[Anonymous No.16127256]

whatever you do, don’t take a cashiering job unless as a last resort

[Anonymous No.16127291]

>>16127192

I know how to use a slicer it was just annoying as fuck because there seemed to be so many of these cretins asking for the same thing. Done it for more than 5 yrs. You're right about lazy though

[Anonymous No.16127457]

Hardest job I worked. Rarely any time to socialize with coworkers. You have to clean the bathrooms every hour and that's gross as shit. Going out and gathering carts isn't bad unless it's summertime. If you need a break, find some shit that's out of place or something and take it to the freezer and just hide there for a few minutes. Oh, there's also going to be some cunt cashier that scans everything as fast as possible and throws them at you, getting pissed off because you're not bagging fast enough and it's affecting her work.

[Anonymous No.16127601]

>>16126329
>Managers are literally overgrown children
Lol yep, that's me.

[Anonymous No.16127678]

I did 2 years at a non chain store in high school. I liked the work but all of the long term employees were miserable and apathetic. I did bakery, produce, grocery, and some deli shifts too.

Make sure you get a union job if you decide to go this route. Get those benefits

[Anonymous No.16127711]

Overnight shelf stocking is easy but boring
Store-made product production is either surprisingly enjoyable to completely hellish depending on how much you have to deal with customers interrupting you/your boss being a dick
Checkout, service counters and floor supervising are basically any old walmart mcjob, but if you're working behind a service counter you're not getting away with standing around doing nothing waiting for customers, there's always shit to do in departments.
Management is glorified tard wrangling because it's a min wage no skill job and half your workforce is either 15 year old twatsworking part time after school or 70 year old grandmas that got bored in retirement
Every grocery store I've worked at has basically no concept of seasonal employees or budgeting extra hours, when shit gets busy get used to hearing "just work faster lmao" form your bosses.

Personally the best part of being a grocery store wagie is having maybe 1% more dignity than a full on walmart of mcdonalds wagie. On a shitty day you sometimes find yourself thinking "at least I don't have to flip burgers or have to do a walmart chant"

[Anonymous No.16127739]

>>16127601
Why cant managers get their shit together in stores? Like seriously. Fuck you lazy assholes who think making $20+ is the same as working as $9.50? Fuck off. Fuck you. Fuck grocery stores. You assholes act like you're gods or some shit but I am one more bitchy compliment from decking every single faggot with a manager position who expects for their employees to move a fucking mountain. Eat shit and die.

[Anonymous No.16127779]

worked at a winco and as long as you didn't work as a overnight stocker it's a okay job.

[Anonymous No.16127806]

I worked in a fancy grocery store and it was alright, only problem was that the bakery staff would just fucking disappear randomly at any time past 6PM or so. Fun being a teenage clerk trying to operate a cash register computer for some people wanting cupcakes because the whole desert team just up and left whenever they wanted.

[Anonymous No.16127811]

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>>16127779


This is now an /Adam/ thread

Questions for thread:
>Which of Adam's videos is your favorite?
>Have you ever tried Vidalia onions?
>Have you ever made one of Adam's recipes?

[Anonymous No.16127822]

>>16127806
That's else do you expect a desert team to do?

[Anonymous No.16127860]

>>16127822
Haha zing!

[Anonymous No.16128022]

>>16124613
I only did as a child and it was pretty lame. I bagged the groceries. I told them I had a school obligation on saturdays. "Film club" I said, it was a lie. They pressed and I assured them it takes the entire saturday. Pity.

Most of the managers were krotchy old birds. They had a sweet side but were a pain to be around all day. The overweight black cashiers were all super nice to me(all ages and BOTH GENDERS (2)). The white female cashiers age 18-36 are all intolerable. They hum or whistle constantly and always have cats or a lisp. All male Cashiers are gay except for the one off "uncle buck" type guy whos usually quiet, probably does a fair bit of drinking.

The store manager was one of these "uncle" guys I suppose. He showed me how to clean the bathroom using only a spray bottle of windex and in his words "25 feet of paper towels" by absolutely hosing the bathroom with the bottle and scooting around the 25 feet of paper towels on the floor under my shoe.

I would smoke cigarettes during the cart roundup. Buck caught me but didnt really say anything.

On a cold late night cart wrangle I saw this old lady who just left struggling with her purchases across the street. I went and helped her out and somehow I ended up carrying her groceries another 2 blocks back to her house. She fiddled around in her coinpurse and tried to give me a dollar and I refused. couldnt buy cigarettes with 1 dollar. Ran back to the store in fear I theyd be upset and think I deserted.

Most of my memories of that place are the clock that was in the checkout area I would look at every 5 minutes. Many memories of sad late night walks home. I remember feeling both fulfilled and glad to be doing some regular joe job to get money like anyone else but also my soul was crushed from the fluorescent lighting, shitty customers and bad music.

[Anonymous No.16129306]

>>16127291
poorfags like me ask for the meat cut as thin as possible in order to more sandwiches with it. stop being a lazy cunt

[Anonymous No.16129753]

>>16127739
Feels good to boss chimps like you.

[Anonymous No.16130209]

>>16129306
Stop being a poor cunt first

[Anonymous No.16131022]

>>16129306

>Being poor in a first world country in 2021

kek

[Anonymous No.16131437]

>>16125068
I worked at a Safeway deli. I was the only dude working with a bunch of women and they made me do everything and all they did was bitch all day

[Anonymous No.16131446]

You can tell this board is r*ddit infested since there are 0 image replies

[Anonymous No.16131491]

>>16131446
Thank god the 4chan police is here.

[Anonymous No.16131498]

>>16124613
Dumb anime poster

[Anonymous No.16132102]

>>16124613
Awful and shit. Smells like shit, you get treated like shit, it's shit

[Anonymous No.16132112]

>>16127739
back in the cage

[Anonymous No.16132135]

If you must work retail get a job here, really. Go in and ask for the Captain. No one else there can hire, only the Captain.

[Anonymous No.16132511]

>>16126329
>>16126607
>>16126645

Anon is not lying. Deli is drink vodka in the walk-in tier job. I would go 100% no fucks given NEET before ever working in a grocery store deli again or work a convenience store in E. St. Louis.

[Anonymous No.16132515]

>>16127678
West Coast or Northie because you are not finding unions in most of the USA for retail workers, let alone the soul crushing groceryfags.

[Anonymous No.16132534]

>>16127711
Working BoH in a restaurant is still better. More chance of injury up front, but less long-term lifting, total chaos, pirate crews, booze, drugs, and loose FoH roasties. Even dish bitch is usually 1-6 month gig that gets insta-promotion to the line.

[Anonymous No.16132587]

>>16124613
That store looks nice as hell

[Anonymous No.16132624]

>>16132135
>just go in and ask the manager for a job in person
Maybe this worked 50+ years ago when you started in the workforce Grandpa

[Anonymous No.16132640]

>>16132624
That's how I got my job. Just keep showing up and asking until they break down.

[Anonymous No.16132676]

>>16132624
Literally the only way to get a job there, they have to make sure you aren't too autistic sonny

[Anonymous No.16132698]

>>16132676
That's curly, not larry.

[Anonymous No.16132727]

>>16132587
Looks like a regular Fry's/Kroger. It was nice doing overnight shopping, but many stores changed hours due to the Shanghai Shivers

[Anonymous No.16132732]

>>16132698
Sure is

[Anonymous No.16132793]

>>16132640
>until they break down.

Kek. although from my experience, the only way to apply is through the chain's website. The smaller stores (IGA, mom & pop, etc) are usually the ones that accept in-person applications

[Anonymous No.16133010]

>>16132511
>in E. St. Louis.
Have you considered the problem might be your location?

[Anonymous No.16133088]

>>16124613
overnight stocking/cleanup is the best thing
>hey front and face this series of aisles
>also you can wear headphones and work alone see you in 8 hours

[Anonymous No.16133125]

To all you fags who let me get away with charging organic vegetables as "bananas" at the self checkout, I salute you

[Anonymous No.16133294]

>>16133088
sounds perfect for autists

[Anonymous No.16133641]

Eh, it could be worse.

[Anonymous No.16133664]

>>16124613
>tfw bro got fired of local chinese grocery store because it got shut down by health inspectors, there were rats everywhere even on the meat.

[Anonymous No.16133679]

>>16124613
sucks .
Publix produce manager here . After bonuses I rack slightly over 90+k a year . My meat dept manager makes 100 because of all the OT he puts in.

[Anonymous No.16134367]

>>16133679
I like Publix it's Always clean and people are friendly

[Anonymous No.16134483]

I did reductions and took care of disposals for the fresh foods department at a decent sized store for a few years. It's mindless work and every single day is the exact same. You generally just space out for 8 hours a day and pray to God that nobody bothers you.

[Anonymous No.16134487]

>>16133679
Do you work with Jason Genova?

[Anonymous No.16134685]

I worked at makro (think dutch costco) for a couple weeks. Pay was shit and I had to wear a fugly sweater. Work was easy as dick. I pretended to be Polish so I didn't have to answer customers questions

[Anonymous No.16134705]

>>16133294
Nightshift grocery workers probably have the highest per capita rate of people on the spectrum per worker in any profit driven business sector.

[Anonymous No.16134757]

>>16134705
Nightshift were the most exploited workers I've ever seen in my old store.

[Anonymous No.16135127]

>>16134487
Thank god no . Same state but multiple counties away .

[Anonymous No.16135460]

>>16131437
My Manager and Assistant Manager were both women. The manager sucked balls and was exactly like you described. The assistant actually did her job and did it well. I think that's cuz the assistant was fat and had a lazy eye so she actually had to do things to have merit, while the manager was somewhat attractive and could skate by on that.

I did have a female coworker that refused to slice prosciutto and I had to do it for her. Same lazy cunt also accused me of sexual harassment since I denied her advances. Luckily my manager liked me cuz I actually worked and took my side in this case.

Was totally worth it cuz I was a secret shitter and would slice up pounds of stuff and mark it as a half pound and pay for it, or I would just straight up take sliced meats home with me. You ever do anything like that?

[Anonymous No.16135533]

Kroger was the worst job I’ve ever had. Everyone there treated me like shit because I’m white

[Anonymous No.16135738]

>>16135460
I used to eat large amounts of parmesan in the walk in

[Anonymous No.16135741]

>>16124613
Did 3 years at a local chain in a rural/suburban area. Very cozy. Most fun job I worked.

[Anonymous No.16135768]

>>16129306
>more sandwiches with it
what's heavier? a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?

[Anonymous No.16136431]

>>16135738
Describe your farts during that period >>16135741

[Anonymous No.16137380]

I had to leave my name and number and follow up at Kroger after fucking applying 2 weeks ago to be a stocker/cart cuck wtf bros

[Anonymous No.16137849]

>>16137380
They're heavily mismanaged. Easy work for decent pay if you're union, though.

[Anonymous No.16138234]

Comfy, stocking shelves and enjoying the job, prob gonna stay a while... but women have no concept of personal space or staying out of other peoples way and it makes me scream in my own head when im struggling to balance a big wobbling tray of glass jars onto a shelf and some STUPID BITCH sticks her fucking self right where i wanted to go and makes me hold the 50 pound glass balancing act for 3 FUCKING MINUTES. Nothing pisses me off more then seeing when a guy just got off a long as day of work and some dumb cunt just parks her fat stupid housewife ass in the middle of the isle and wastes precious seconds of a working mans life

You think women drive bad you should see them with shopping carts, or how long they are willing to hold other people up blocking isles with carts or trying to muscle themselves through other people including employees

Ive just never seen so many of them in they're natural habitat to reaize until now just how honorless women are, they are always very polite but god damn are the women especially stupid when you get to observe them all day on they're home turf

Men shop with no problems, make room for each other and act with manners, women stop for entire comversations while people around them have to complete turn around and come down the same isle from another end to get to what they want.

Oh and the workforce is segregated so only men are stocking shelves with me and i love that, keeping the cashier girls separate from us keeps them from seeing our extra freedoms and privileges and bitching about it

I believe women should have the right to work but co-ed workforces are hell

>TLDR
Its a good job for a man who doesn't need to be rich, keeps you in great shape too

[Anonymous No.16138454]

>>16126329
>Deli is Dante's 10th circle of hell

Ayy I love how this is a universal thing.

>>16126607
You get paid the same, less, or only a dollar more than Grocery but have literally 20 times the amount of stress and people screaming at you. People who sign up for Deli are either ignorant and/or uninformed about the job or are fucking masochists.

[Anonymous No.16138477]

>>16133679
How's it feel to be the Manager of a bunch of effeminate gay dudes? Honest question. At the Publix I worked at when I was younger that was ALWAYS what the produce crew was comprised of- including all the other ones in my area. Is it because they couldn't cut it dragging the 3 ton pallets off the truck like the Grocery chads did or something?

[Anonymous No.16138478]

it’s not the worst. i work on my feet, have great bennies, and get paid decently for mid management ($25/hour. in a where i pay 1k in rent.)

it’s pretty high stress however and really depends on the company. like i wouldn’t get those with kroger or wal mart

[Anonymous No.16138525]

>>16135738
what the fuck is wrong with you

[Anonymous No.16138900]

>>16125213
That's my wife.

[Anonymous No.16138996]

>>16133679
how the fuck do you make over 90k as a produce manager working in florida. that doesen't make sense

[Anonymous No.16139010]

>>16138996
>>16138996
it’s not too crazy. my grocery manager makes 75k base and we have a bunch of incentives/bonuses managers get. but this is also an upscale place, in austin, and grocery means all center store minus wine

[Anonymous No.16139514]

>>16135460
Used to work at the meat counter, I would shove whole steaks into my jacket multiple times a week. Worst job I ever had, but I ate pretty well.
I'd also get food from the deli for lunch and just walk away and eat without paying. Never felt guilty, fuck that chain and everyone in that store.

[Anonymous No.16139974]

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[Anonymous No.16139986]

I salute you workers. Most people deserve to eat lead but you serve them their sliced ham with a smile.

[Anonymous No.16140008]

>>16126353
does anyone else work during overnight or are you just alone in there?

[Anonymous No.16140053]

>>16140008
>>16140008
not him but depending on size of trucks could be anywhere from 4-10 (given its just a grocery store.) their base pay is actually the best in our store because nobody wants to work overnight but if you aren’t an actual retard it’s easy and easy to get fast at it. it’s also probably the only position in the store that has a consistent schedule. i just listened to podcasts for 8 hours

[Anonymous No.16140109]

>>16131446
yo momma

[Anonymous No.16140194]

>>16140053
Overnight stocking is definitely the best position in the store, the store I had to work at had the GM work overnights with us and direct everything since every other overnight lead quit after a few months as there was better pay around so there was no need to rush since he would be there from 10 with us to around 8 to open the store before he left/the rest of the managers came. Only thing is that your sleep schedule and lifestyle really gets fucked after a while and took me a couple months after quitting the job to really get everything back on track.

[Anonymous No.16140209]

>>16140008
Jennifer Connelly works there with you.

[Anonymous No.16140297]

>>16140209
fuck you