deli associate

stocking associate

produce associate

bakery assistant

baker

Leg Up Farmers Market

Let me preface this with how much I love the place as a customer. The product and the purpose is something unique.

The employee discount is great, most coworkers are awesome people, and the percentage of rude customers is so much lower than so many other retail jobs. 
However, this is not a great place to work and it really boils down to poor management.

Management is unreliable, unreasonable, and inconsistent. 

Schedules come out last minute and hours are all over the place. Yea, it's retail and hours can be inconsistent, BUT for some reason there's no baseline schedule- it's like they create the schedule from scratch every week and it makes no sense. "I've never worked a Tuesday, I'll schedule my Dr's appointment that day" doesn't work here, you absolutely have to remember to put in a request off for anything important. Even when you say you absolutely can't work a certain day of the week, they'll still try to schedule that day at some point. 

Their staffing issues become your staffing issues. They'll hire you knowing your availability, but they'll gradually try to change your availability to suit them. Example- hired for 2 days a week? They'll start scheduling you 3, then 4. Hired for mornings? They'll tell you they need you an evening as a "one time thing" and then just abuse that flexibility. 

It's as though the expectation is that your only life focus should be that store, which is extremely unreasonable. It's highly hypocritical since some managers show up whenever they feel like, leave whenever they please, make themselves the only person privy to certain information and expect a person working 10 hours to have the same knowledge of store functions and product as full timers. It's bananas. 

There is obvious favoritism for certain employees, and it's not based on performance. 

Things that should be high priority often aren't addressed, and things that are inconsequential are treated like a major priority. 

The more you give, the more they expect- and they do not appropriately compensate for taking on additional responsibilities. The expectation is to go above and beyond but the expectations are unclear and ever-changing. There's little acknowledgement of good work, but expect to hear about your small mistake from at least two people or be bombarded with a laundry list of things you're doing wrong one day out of the blue. Management has an oddly passive aggressive way of dealing with employees. They'll never swoop in and constructively coach, but they'll surely talk about you behind your back! 

Also, can anyone else please answer the phone? I feel really bad for cashiers. They're expected to wait on two people simultaneously because nobody else in the place will pick up the ringing phone. Managers sitting directly next to the phone won't pick it up. Baffling.

I've honestly never seen a management staff of a retail store spend more time in their offices than these people. Instead of jumping in to do time sensitive tasks, or even just doing something that takes two minutes they'll go out of their way to tell someone else to do it. "There's a mess on the floor!? Let me walk right past the broom to tell that underling on the opposite side of the store who's already doing something to do it!"

The store manager is largely incompetent, the assistant store manager is all talk, the operations/ hr manager is rude and domineering, and the other manager can't be bothered by plebeian things. I've never in my life worked with a less aware or less people friendly management team. It's truly sad. This place could be great, but management regularly alienates and abuses its staff.

Everyday here you are bombarded with tasks you are unable to keep up with unless you refuse to prioritize breaks or pacing yourself to avoid physical burnout, and even if you manage to avoid pushing yourself, you will still be exhausted by days end. Management refuses to hire enough people to keep the departments running and expect the store to function properly on a skeleton crew. To make things worse they continue to add more tasks to be completed in a given day. The amount of work they want to be done, physically cannot be done until they hire more people which they refuse to do. 
Their current ingenious strategy is to keep the small amount of employees they can hold onto for any given time, push said employees (who have to pick up the slack of not having enough people to help) to their breaking point without regard for if they’ll actually retain said employees. All because they know they can just be replaced with another grunt that will also leave after a few days, weeks or months. The way the store operates can be described as a viscous cycle. 
Employee discounts are a joke, the amount they pay for the amount of work you have to take on in a given day is also a joke. Don’t be fooled by the “flexible schedule” term they use on the application, it’s a lie. They will stick by the schedule that you ask for until you suddenly notice you are taking on more and more work and responsibilities without any proper compensation or recognition of the extra effort you put forth, in fact any extra effort you put in is rarely recognized, to management it’s expected. That’s not to say raises don’t happen, it’s to say they aren’t given to the people who put in the effort to actually make the store better. Favoritism definitely plays a role in the decision making process. For example: raises, who is cut slack, who gets picked on and criticized, who is kept, who is let go, etc.. to that end there is no accountability for when management makes screw ups or just plain bad choices. 
At times it feels like some of the people running the store are completely incompetent and ignorant of their own baffling decisions, and it feels daunting when you have very capable lower level employees who show far more potential to run departments than the ones who have moseyed around in the front offices for many years. 
All the things mentioned are made worse by a very toxic and childish environment, where the number of grown adults who throw around high school gossip and start drama here is far greater than those who are good respectable people(who are typically treated poorly). It’s top to bottom, from management to regular employees, Management touts how the store is a family and we have fun working here, but if they want to become a better place of employment they need a serious restructuring and focus on professionalism and a higher standard of accountability, especially on the management staff. I guess we’ll see how serious they take these deeply rooted issues when sprouts shows up just a few miles down the road. 

Coworkers are supportive and make the job worth going to. Management is condescending, hypocritical, pretentious, inefficient, and arrogant with one set of standards for themselves and another set of standards for everyone else. And they don’t tell you what those standards actually are. 

Scheduling is often wrong and no matter how many different employees have addressed it, nothing changes. The needs of the store as a whole are not taken into account when schedules are written, which is often a few days before the new workweek. They don’t have enough employees to adequately run the store and the few good ones who are there are taken advantage of. 

Communication is nonexistent. The assistant manager will lie to your face, then turn around and lie to the other managers. Good work is rarely noticed or praised, except by coworkers. 

Overall if you’re looking for a summer job or just want some experience in retail or grocery store work, it’s an adequate place to work. You won’t be paid much, but the store itself is a great place. If you’re looking for stability, respect, or long-term growth, keep looking. 

Work schedules are put out last minute.  Much is requested of you as they are short staffed and cannot pay their bills.  There is a 4 person management team that act like kids.  Everything is either laughed at or talked about with the "F" work in every sentence.  Smoking is a huge problem with one of the managers and is never addressed.  This same manager is seen playing video games on their phone while they are to be working.  Coworkers are who get us through the day and you cannot confidentially talk with store management and be taken seriously.  

The highest praise I can give this company is the people they hire. Co-workers quickly became friends and were always helpful. The customers as well are generally very sweet and understanding, but of course, there are bound to be a few bad ones mixed in. The food is wonderful and the company serves a good purpose. 
My main issue lies with the company's management. Schedules come out last minute, making it hard to plan for the future or even the rest of your day. It never seems like everyone is on the same page and communication is poor. The supervisors are quick-tempered, especially with newer hires.
Overall, there are plenty of better places to work, but Leg Up isn't terrible. 

The environment is great, something a lot of people look for in a job, and the atmosphere is always positive. The idea behind the store is something that always grasps people in the best of ways. Tasks are easily understood and able to be accomplished, however, when there comes to be a busy day, the tasks were left to one closing cashier and not every head cashier will help out with even the simplest of tasks. Communication lacks from department to department as well as shifts within them.

It seems things are still a mess at this store. I've spoken to other former coworkers who have said the management is still playing the same games. It's a shame since the store itself is a great place with great products. There is no room for growth, management doesn't listen to anyone but each other (the four who run the place have had over two years to gel into a successful team, but they're all too busy stabbing each other in the back to focus on the good of the store and the other employees). 

Management is beyond unorganized and the drama between the "team" seems to never end. Managers gossip about each other and their employees, and lay off people with little to no notice when it seems they're tired of dealing with you. You're overworked and underpaid and the benefits are awful. Turnover is insanely high- just save yourself the energy and time and don't work here. You can have amazing work ethic and energy and i guarantee they'll squash it. 

Fast paced, overwhelmed, frustrated. I learned about gluten free, Keto, and vegan foods, baking.  Upper mgmt is a total joke.  The culture would be awesome without upper mgmt. Hardest part of job was dealing with upper ngmt.  My favorite thing about the job was my coworkers and customers.

The three mangers that are playing store have absolutely no clue what they are doing.  They are taking a store with a great mission and running it in to the ground.  They lie to the staff on a daily bases never lift a finger to help anyone.  Do not waste your time with this company. Apply to a company that actually cares.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Deli associate 6 salaries reported	$14.08 per hour
Stocking associate 1 salary reported	$14.00 per hour
Produce associate 7 salaries reported	$13.64 per hour
Bakery assistant 1 salary reported	$13.50 per hour
Baker 2 salaries reported	$15.00 per hour

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