pharmacist

meat manager

night manager

produce manager

customer service manager

Price Chopper Supermarkets

A typical day at work is when you greet your fellow employees, and get to run register or bag the customers groceries to help them get out quickly, and also helping the minors sell the alcohol (by manager override). Also making sure the drawers are full of adequate change to better serve the customers, and making sure that the change drawer for the supervisors balances out correctly at the end of the night. I also make sure that everything is organized and utilize any and all resources to make sure the day runs smoothly.  I learned most of my office skills from my driving/dispatching job, where it was a necessity to be organized and able to account for every movement. Wrote daily emails as a dispatcher to let the manager know how the day ran. Within those emails I would let them know who is in fear of overtime, and if any problems took place, and how I dealt with the issues on hand; and if there were events scheduled that came in late or on time. With my supervising skills, I am more able to utilize my known and even unknown skills that I acquired over time by making sure everyone has a break/lunch on a timely manner, even on busy days. Also with the supervising job, I am able to work my organizing skills by doing paperwork; keeping the paperwork up to date, and punctual, and into their rightful binders and proper filing cabinets.

The co-workers help make the day go quicker, with their quick anecdotes or their experiences that coincide with my experiences on the job. The only hard part about my job is the busy times, but it helps make the day go quicker and helps me use my multitasking side a lot more often by helping me split into two, by going from register to register making sure that everything is good. “Running” to the aisles to get proper items needed for certain transactions, and if running register, I make sure that the minors are near by so if it is a must, I can get to them in a quick manner to help them sell alcohol. Or having to run easy scan and the register next to it because a person is meant to leave at a certain time. If they have a small line, I finish their line off  and also run the four registers at easy scan. For my most enjoyable part of the job, its seeing customers smile, and hear them compliment co-workers in which I had a hand in training get glowing reviews. Or hearing that I am sometimes too cheery to have worked in Price Chopper for eight-years. It is a rewarding job, but it doesn’t offer any advancement, which is the hardest part of the job. And when they do offer advancements, the good hard workers watch as the not so hard working employees move forward within the company. But, all in all, I wouldn’t change a thing, just hoping for a better job or position that can better suit my skills, and can truly see how hard of a worker I truly am.

Price Chopper  is a nice store for public use.    They really want to make their customers happy and want them to have a great shopping experience. However, I have found that working at price choppers, fairness is not part of their  vocabulary.     If you are  a hard working person and try really hard, they put it all on you and never say Thank You or " nice Job"   Front end supervisors  use me like a house maid to clean everything, while allowing the daytime crew to toss plastics and bags and let trash overflow and so on.  Like I said, fairness or consideration is not applied with the front end management concerning the  employees. While they will over load one person, they have favorites and  ask nothing of others.   While  I have worked their, I have caught many stealing and saved thousands of dollars. But not once has my manager said " Nice job"   So if your looking for recognition Price chopper is not the place to work .  Management has favorites and expects  a great deal from one while letting others do barely anything. Cleaning and work is not distributed well and fairly. It seems they put too much on one person while not enough on others for responsibilities.     However,  Customer service is number one in their book so that is good about them.  And they are tolerant if mistakes are made unintentionally.  Still while others are allowed to be lazy and do little if anything. others are over loaded with duties and chores.  They  have a  6 star  reward program  for going above and beyond what is expected of you but seldom give enough stars to actually cash them in.    Management  seems to expect of others what they themselves would never do.   They take advantage of those who try hard and let the others  walk free and clear of duties . Human resources is great. They truly want to help.  Pension I think is good and  benefits, well  I think everyone wants more no matter  what  is offered at any employers,  ( Smile) But they are competitive.  The pay is competitive . I find that most management  however walks by you as if you do not exist.  But I guess it's that way most places people work.  In efforts , depending on store, many times you are slighted.  May of the management personal act as if saying hello or Thank You would actually physically hurt them.  So if you work for Price Choppers,  be prepared to work and do not expect recognition for your efforts even if they are beyond your job description. The best part of my job is the customers who make my day worth it all. On the most part my customers  are genuine and very pleasant.The customers are the best part of my job.

A typical day was to verfiy the total apperance of the store - parking lot,side walks, entry, Front End (cashier station - to make sure each station have supplies for the day),Bottle and maintenance room -(to make sure enough supplies to the day), Service service desk, and Bathrooms were cleaned and ready for our guest. This was done hourly each day. I would need to run register,supervisive the floor, ensure breaks and lunches were in complyed to state and company policies. Keep up to date on e-mail, review what the pricing coordinater was doing and needed to complete for the day, check Direcr Connect for time off request, review reports for the Office supervisor (over/short report), reseach over/short in cash and/or coupons, verify reports for Western Union, write documentation and do correction as needed. As needed do hire for Front End and pull applications
for all departments managers. Over site all work paper for all new hires and send to payroll. Coach team mates to improve their knowledge and skills to improve thier ablilies as cashiers, office clerks, and bottle & maintenance clerks.
Verify each day that all Front End team mates were following OSHA and Safety policies.
Review scheduling for the day and for the next day to be ensured to be on budget in line will sales. Get with store manager on any problens and go over documentation done for the day on over/short and/or asbences and policies. Write and send schedule for all fix jobs to the schedule writer weekly in Main Office. Edit schedule for the next week within the budget and give to the Store Manager. This was done as I could but done by the due date and time. Also helped with Super Samples as needed. Do the ordering for the Front End and Super Samples weekly as budget allowed.

What I learned was to be very flexible and doing more than 1 thing at a time. Stop and returning the jobs I was working on and got good it. Never missed a dead time.

Management- It got to the point at there was a gray point- when policies were being waved.

Co-workers - for the most part co-workers (Deptment Manager) and I worked as a team. If some one need a team mate for the day or the week I would help them out - or if they could help me out in order to give the best customer service we could.

The hardest part of my job- was time. Some days we would be very busy and I would need to run register most of the day or all of my shift due to the cut back on budget for Front End.

The most of my job - I think I gave to my self - knowing that I did my best plus every day.

While this company used to be something that stood for it's employees, there has been a very significant change in the last few years. Benefits have been withdrawn from the associates, causing a great reduction in morale. The few opportunities for employment and advancement have diminished greatly as a majority of full time positions have been eliminated. Mass terminations have been more frequent, allowing current employees to be fearful of their future with the company. Many long time employees, managers, and executives of the company are heavily looking elsewhere for employment, as they clearly see a breakdown in the company's ethics and mission. Stock prices have drastically fallen in the last few years, resulting in many retirement plans to become negatively affected. Labor hours and budgets have been cut to minimal levels, causing greater stress on many of the workers. All while the expectations of the company have risen to practically unattainable levels. There is a culture of fear, intimidation, and negativity throughout the company. Many unfair management practices are never addressed, as double standards and personal politics are practiced over proper, ethical, and responsible management practices. A majority of the employees are often fearful of losing their jobs or being reprimanded for any reason. It is a very uncomfortable work environment. Nothing that is done ever meets any sort of satisfactory levels and it is always implied and often demanded that salary employees work very long and unrealistic hours and extra days with no relief or any feeling of completion or finality. A personal life is practically non-existent, as the work life balance is completely lopsided, in favor of the company. It is unfortunate that such a great company at one point has diminished itself into a harbor for such negative and unethical business practices, all while painting a positive picture and wearing a false mask of righteousness on commercials and fundraisers. I do not wish to be part of a company that chooses not to take care of it's employees in a positive and progressive manner and I refuse to continue managing in the abusive manner that they require me to.

I have been familiar with P.C. my entire life, 50 ± years. I am currently a part time employee, about 5 years. During my employment, particularly the last 2 - 3 years the management and over all operation of the company seems to have changed from that of maintaining high customer satisfaction, good community involvement, and positive employee relations to that of making the almighty dollar first no matter how it effects the rest. In my store, which is of medium size and is in a relatively small city, there is a growing customer dissatisfaction and steadily shrinking sales figures. There is basically no community involvement at all. A majority of employees, full and part time who have worked for the company for any extended time, (over a year or two), are unhappy and some even disgusted with their jobs and they would leave if the opportunity were to rise. The primary reasons for the employee dissatisfaction is the major staffing reductions along with demand for greater customer service most of the departments have been reduced to having an absolute minimum number of staff, often only one person scheduled on at a time. This makes it nearly impossible to take required breaks and lunch periods at reasonable times and intervals during their shift. Often, employees are forced to take their breaks (paid) and lunch periods (unpaid) at either the beginning or end of their shift due to not being aloud to leave their dept. UN-manned between the hours of 10 am and 7 pm. The minimized staff has also cut the ability of each employee to do the required preparation, stocking, etc as well as to maintain PROPER SANITATION while taking care of customers. this has also greatly effected the performance of the department heads. Management seems not to really care about how all this affects an individual worker. The company has also instituted a weekly "Mystery Shopper" program for which the graded results are used in annual employee reviews and put in personnel records.

A typical day at work:
Show up, work until it was time to leave. Clock out. 

What I learned: 
Nothing you put things of shelves... On second thought, I learned how terrible people can be at such a simple job.

Workplace Culture:
There really isn't a *culture* because the turnover rate was so high, so ill just talk about my experience in the short time I worked there. At first I enjoyed the simple work, it was easy to do a good job, the manager at the time appreciated my work and diligence. Overtime though it became apparent that while some people did what they had to do others did not, and there was NO repercussions for anything. This defeated any reason to go above and beyond since after the managers I started working with left there was little to no appreciation for anyone. There was only a few people who were there longer than me, and i was not there for a very long time. A lot of managers had problems with the higher ups and left. When they ran out of managers they promoted some random person (it seems) who was and still is completely incapable of doing the job. No exaggeration, this is someone who was mentally a child, would laugh about tampons and regularly failed to do the simple tasks required of them.

Hardest Part of the Job:
Finding it within myself to show up every day and deal with someone who is literally incompetent to the point where he cannot organize boxes by isles. Its literally like that scene from Idiocracy where other people taking the IQ test cant match the shapes. Meanwhile, while fixing their mistakes, remembering that they not only cannot do quite possibly the simplest job but they also are being compensated more than me. Oh, did i mention this manager would lie to everyone's face regularly about things they did or did not do. 

The most enjoyable part of the job:
Honestly while working nights I did have plenty of time to listen to podcasts and audible books and I did enjoy getting caught up. Also returning to some of the classic books I've been wanting to reread.

Been working for this organization for two plus years and worked harder than 90% of the front end. As one of the supervisors for a department of teammates that didn't want to show up for work on a regular basis or do as little as possible during their shifts, I had to take a much larger amount of responsibilities than I felt like I should have. 
The stress level was almost insurmountable especially during the summer, the busiest time of the year for the city and when you had a team that wanted to little as possible, I had to carry most of it on my back.
The hardest thing to grasp about the job is the pay. I started working at minimum wage, but if you move up to a supervisor position, there is no wage increase. So the increase of responsibility doesn't scale with your pay. I requested after two years for a raise after hearing about a one dollar base minimum pay increase, which I didn't get a raise even though new hires were getting paid more, and my pay was raised to the base minimum. 
This communicates to me that Price Chopper as a corporation is only willing to pay their employees the bare minimum unless you have an office position or a manager position. 
It's hard for me to balance with the positives with the mountain of negatives. The hours are flexible, but if you don't have a fairly open schedule, you may or may not get the hours.
The department of coworkers could be good or bad. My front end department is filled with drama that you can't help, but get pulled into regardless of how much you don't want to be a part of it. 
Customers, for the most part, are polite, but if prices are wrong then you are the one they yell at even if it's not your fault. 
The store manager is one of the nicest people I know, but isn't willing to fire those that don't work.

As far as retail goes, much better working conditions than the corner store or the three letter chain. No accountable metrics besides passing internal and state audits. Yet much lower pay and good luck using any of your PTO. Tech pay is also low so there are few (if any) techs that actually are helpful and the ones that are good can't get enough hours to stay. Basically no floater coverage so you have to rely on your partner to cover any days off. Speaking of which, as a manager, it's expected you make only a dollar at most per hour more than your staff pharmacist. No raises to speak of. Company is very willing to let techs go over any minor infraction and HR comes around and smiles and makes nice and says oh we need to find you another tech but never does. No room to actually pay enough to hire an experienced tech. Tech hiring is at the mercy of the store manager and usually is a cashier who voices they want to work in pharmacy. 
I wouldn't be so dissatisfied besides not being able to take a day off and the low tech pay. You can potentially buy up to 4 weeks' additional vacation. Sounds good except no one to cover. So all the other departments get all this vacation and you have it but can't use it. If those issues were fixed, this could be a great place to work. Oh and the vaccinations. I have no techs to work yet we're expected to have all these vaccination appointments. And the health insurance. $3k deductible per person. 

In a typical day of work, I would start off stocking the refrigerators and freezers in my area if they were running low on our products. Depending on how much the meat cutters cut that day, I would sometimes also need to take multiple trips to the trash and compacting room to dispose of cardboard and trash in the work area. Towards the end of my shift, I would start cleaning the floors, meat grinders, bone saw, and any other equipment which had been soiled over the course of the day. After I extensively cleaned all required pieces of equipment, I would sanitize everything with an approved and properly diluted sanitizer. While performing all of these tasks, I would also be helping customers if they needed my help with either meat selection or desired custom cuts. My manager is a good person and I learned alot from him in regards to conflict management. We would have some difficult customers and through observing him, I learned the most appropriate ways to interact with such customers. The others that I worked with were great as well. I worked on average with 4 other people in total, but 2 in a day of work. From them I learned alot about the workplace itself and effective sale tactics. The hardest part of the job was trying to remember each and every cut of meat. I felt that I should try to learn as much as I could about meat, in order to improve my effectiveness as an employee. The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting new people and conversing with my coworkers.

On a typical day at work I see lots of interesting things and encounter plenty of colorful personalities with customers. I am a Front End Cashier, so I deal with lots of different things everyday; anything from coupons to difficult customers. 

This job has taught me patience, and how to deal with frustrating situations. I also have learned about helping others and being a team player. 

The management is excellent, our store managers definitely care about us and the customers. They do their best to make sure we have a safe environment to work in.

My boss is totally awesome, she definitely cares a lot about her Front End Teammates. Personally I love the fact that she is caring, funny, and treats me like I'm a human being with feelings. 

My co-workers are fun and make a difficult job easier to deal with. 

The hardest part of my job would definitely have to be dealing with customers, as they can get quite nasty at times.  And  being the Cashier, I have to bite my tongue lots of times. However, I know that if I have a situation that I can't handle then I need to find my manager/supervisor to help me. 

The one thing I love about my job, is helping other people. There are times when a disabled customer comes in and needs help, and if I am available then I help them shop. I also assist the elderly customers or help someone with finding something. 

I feel that if I can help someone and make their shopping trip as painless as possible, then I have done my job.

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