clerk

front end associate

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food clerk

food service manager

Lazy Acres Natural Market

Good to great products (that are overpriced) and some good people, who unfortunately, are not the ones managing the place. Store employees can be extreme catty and cliquey. If they promote you, they do it in an underhanded way where, despite excellent work output, they can eliminate your job, gaslight you to believe it you knew that it was only temporary from the beginning, and beg you to quit so they don’t have to fire you and get out of paying unemployment, a situation they entirely created. HR is insidious and never admits fault in the wrongdoing they create. In the store, shift managers play favorites.  Managers fully admit that they won’t hire anybody on the floor in the store full-time and they won’t stick to a regular schedule making working another job or having regularity in your life very difficult to impossible. They pay next to nothing, and this combined with the wacky, irregular scheduling, which can shift wildly by the week (16 hours one week, 30 hours the next, if you’re a favorite), which means they own how much you make from each week to the next. Despite touting a willingness to allow for physical accommodations, manager look down on you if you need to sit down for 30 seconds while no customers are around.

Decent place to work at. Store Manager won't talk to you unless he's mad at you so that's good I guess. Assistant Store Managers are supportive. Would prefer more stores in San Diego county and a larger corporate office for more room for growth. But they do pay for tuition for a Retail Management Certificate. Department managers get a quarterly bonus, but it's only $500 that's taxed when you get it. Seems to be a high turn over in certain departments with those departments always seeming to be short staffed. The hiring has gotten better over the years. Decent raises are tough to come by even if you constantly meet your goals and contributions but it may vary from store to store. 

Absolutely terrible place to work. Management does not care for their employees and treats them all as replaceable pieces. Severly underpaid, understaffed, and overworked. If one were to speak to any operations managers about a raise or advancement you would effectively get laughed at.

No proffessionalism, no communication, and no investment in their employees well-being. I have never been a part of such a poor working environment where every employee is miserable for 8 hours. Absolutely no incentive to work hard, unless you cinsider getting one 25 cent raise per year, with no real sit-down review acceptable. 
Absolutely laughable work environment. You would be better off working at any other grocery chain, as you may recieve some semblance of respect.

I love this job, nothing but good things to say about it. I've had many grocery jobs in the past and this is by far the most enjoyable to work. I'm a grocery clerk and I find enjoyment in the questions some customers have and when we actually find the exact item they're looking for it is satisfying to see their excitement. I really like the management, they are not intimidating and very helpful and all are easy to talk to. There are a lot of cool employees there and everyone jokes around with each other making the environment fun to be around. I would say the hardest part of the job is trying to find the specific items customers are looking for in the grocery department. I like everything there is about this job, I know that seems crazy but I have no negative things about Lazy Acres.

My first experience with this company after being hired was not receiving my 1st paycheck until I had been there for 4 weeks.  This happened to myself and probably a dozen new hires.  I was told that this was common at Lazy Acres. They have weekly paydays so those checks were 3 weeks late.  I actually got my 2nd paycheck before the 1st one.  Had to keep following up to get paid.  There was no urgency on the part of management to correct the situation   

They are super disorganized on the corporate / regional / and store management levels.  All of the extra headaches and work created by the incompetence of upper management is added to the stress and workload of the department managers.  I saw more turnover (good people who started the job with the best of intentions) leaving because of frustration.

The company seems promising when you first start. Then, you begin to understand why so many fellow employees are so unhappy. There is so much inconsistency and contradiction amongst management. There is lots of scheduling issues throughout all the departments. Yearly reviews and raises have to practically be begged for. I would say that overall company morale and how they care about their employees is low. You don’t feel appreciated. 
They are also very unfair about how they schedule specific employees during the holidays. They don’t rotate employees during holidays. It’s almost as if they don’t care you have a family to go home to. All the while, the same employees and managers get their holidays off or they are off early.

It was usually a hectic work environment, usually busy. We frequently ran out of products and materials. Management was bureaucratic; the immediate managers were decent, but store managers and beyond were pretty terrible depending on where you worked. 
Customers could be tough and you'd need patience a lot of the time. Tips were okay, you'd get tipped out once a week, amounting to about a dollar per hour you worked. 
Shift quality was hit or miss depending on who you worked with that day, but hours were also relatively flexible.

Help customers pick out wines; provide information regarding various wines; keep department stocked; I learned about all kinds of different wines; foreign and domestic.  The manager was ok, he was very easy to talk to.  The store was an organic specialty type store, with all kinds of interesting products.  The hardest part of the job was having to do inventory once a month, which meant getting up at 3:00 AM to be at work by 4:00 to start inventory before the store opened to customers.  The best part was getting to take home wines that we tasted(we did regular tastings once a week).

I accepted a position as a department manager and took a huge pay cut, (20% less than advertised when I applied) since there weren’t many work options during the pandemic. I had to negotiate to that pay cut because they initially offered me less during the interview process. It’s unfortunate that there are many underpaid employees working at this company because many of us were furloughed and needed to work during the pandemic. After I left the company, they advertised the position with the same pay rate that I had applied to, so they’re not being honest about their compensation. 

I worked at Lazy's for 6 years. I stayed for a long time because the job was easy enough and I loved my fellow employees and customers. The management, however, did not seem to understand ADA (at the time, at least) and I was not allowed to drink water and had to ask to use the restroom. My 'raises' consisted of MUCH less than $1- each year and I was talked about at manager's meetings about how some people thought I was "making up" my disability. After the manager at the time had left, I felt even more ostracized, and I finally quit because the one thing I liked there was gone (the feeling that I was wanted and appreciated). 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Clerk 88 salaries reported	$19.64 per hour
Front end associate 41 salaries reported	$19.60 per hour
Cook 32 salaries reported	$21.92 per hour
Food clerk 40 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour
Food service manager 25 salaries reported	$25.14 per hour

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