There is some speculation that there could be some cuts after the holidays. Maybe someone has more insights?
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"Goodbye wholebody and specialty. Hello "center store" (combining departments)"
The Market Team concept failed as sales grew but judging by the recent Category Manager product shifts I imagine that each of these teams will be responsible for items they've never had to focus on before. Perhaps a shift in all non-food items from Grocery to Whole Body.
As a buyer (prepared foods) I am doing the job of an ATL and TL. I am constantly left there without them to run the dept while placing orders and putting up the truck. It sucks but I have also proven that there is no point of having them both there when neither of them do their jobs.
Roles come and go all the time ISE went away but is making a come back under a diffrent name. SSS was part time then made full time. Team combinations came and went. This company has no idea what its doing at store level 30 years in.
I think SSS will go away.
Teams can print their own tags, Teams already are responsible for sales changes.
Other grocery stores have support people (like SSIs) that go out on calls for scale maintenance, computer, printers, etc.
definitely see ASTLs being thinned.
What exactly are they supposed to be doing anyways?
My guess would be
- Trimming regional (good riddance)
- ASTL thinning -- More shift leads (why pay 80k + when you can pay ~21 dollars an hour)
- Buyer consolidated with ATL
- Goodbye wholebody and specialty. Hello "center store" (combining departments)
- I think SSS will be moved to the admin team to support with random responsibility's that slip through the cracks due to all the changes (aka new store b***h).
Mainly I think the gravy train is over for regional and ASTL's. You're going to have to do more than sit in chime all day pretending to work for your 6 figures.
A lot of stores are operating on skeleton crew right now. Hard to imagine reducing store staff. Layoffs may occur at corp level though.