grocery associate

deli associate

cook

clerk

baker

Roche Bros. Supermarkets

A typical day at work consists of stocking products, ordering products and managing inventories, communicating with vendors and customers in person or via email and telephone, producing written marketing materials, managing department finances, tending to any and all customer needs, and generally maintaining quality throughout the department.

I've learned how to better communicate with people from all different educational and ethnic backgrounds.

Management at Roche Bros. is often a nuisance to those who do all of the real work to make the store run smoothly. Strict regulations often inhibit sales and productivity. The managers, by and large, are lazy and will delegate their duties to those beneath them.

My co-workers are generally pleasant, but displeasure with their low wages is often reflected by their work rates. Managers are often unpleasant and offer very little encouragement.

The hardest part of my job is entering the store each day knowing full well that I am horribly underpaid for all the effort I put in. The hours are also very odd; it is quite difficult to work until 10pm one night and go be back at work at 6am the next morning.

Honestly, this job is not enjoyable at all.

Logic is lacking, as is proper management due to unskilled, unprofessional and power seekers obtaining positions they're not qualified for. If you enjoy working nights, weekends and mandatory 6 days per week, you found the right place. The help the promise will never be hired and the few decision-making abilities you have as a department mngr will become irrelevant as the power-hungry store mngrs will adjust your schedule, your teams schedule and refuse to support you when trying to reprimand hostile/slacking employees. They will move them around from department to department in order to avoid dealing with backlash. They assume, and rightfully so, that the department mngrs & asst mngrs work ethic will deter them from letting their departments fall apart.  There are indeed some nice people within the store levels that you'll enjoy working with-typically those that are finishing up their last years of retirement and are "locked in". That being said, the new regime tends to shun anyone with a brain, their own mind or refuses to be someone's puppet. Run, don't walk if you're considering employment beyond front end clerking.

I had the opportunity to work in three different Roche Brothers when I was young and highly motivated, and my world was still very big. Roche Brothers was quick at identifying that and exploited me to their fullest ability, making me a supervisor. I was a good communicator then and thought for sure I could make a career here. That being said, I was young and paid no attention to it. I enjoyed my job, but the managers are awful. They either had family's working there or are keeping their options open (in the Christian sense - which I was unaware of at the time) and love nothing more than to take every opportunity to let you know that. Pay no attention to these suffering souls and just be yourself. You'll be forced out eventually, but you'll leave with dignity still in place, unlike them. Don't fall for the family atmosphere they try to sell, if you want that work at Disney or join a cult. All in all my experience was positive and my complaints are de-minimus. Like any operation, if they see you are happy and motivated they will churn and burn you.

It typical day is like every other day. I do what I'm supposed to do and thats it. I'ts not the worst place to work and I learned to be punctual, respectful and such. The store managers are not the problem, its the department where I work are. Most of them are rude towards their co-workers and even to some customers which is  odd considering they are the managers. The hardest part of the job sometimes is trying to stay calm and collected when you have someone yelling at you for a mistake made by the other departments. Sometimes they do not think about that I am only a cashier, I do not make the weekly fliers, I am just not in charge of that. The most enjoyable part of the job to me is when a customer gives me a compliment. I am not by far not perfect like everyone else but when I get a compliment especially from the elderly it really make my day because it shows me that I am learning to be patient and understanding. I love that feeling best feeling in the world to me.

If you are going to be a full timer at this company you need to understand that you are going to be working 6 days a week, whatever you get scheduled for and have very little say in the matter. If you are liked by your manager you may be able to request certain availability times for some days given a week notice but for the most part your schedule is never going to be consistent and if you are new or not a favorite you are going to get stuck doing all night shifts. The people at my store are great for the most part and I have made good friends with a lot of my coworkers. You accrue PTO very quickly but on pretty rare occasion will your requests actually be accepted unless you are ill or have put in a considerably far out notice. However if you manage to make it as a department manager in this company your work-life balance is much better since you make your own schedule. 

Pretty decent job for high school/college students who need quick money and relatively flexible hours. The pay is minimum wage or barely above it and there's obviously not much room to advance. It's a job to do while in school, not a career. 
As a grocery clerk you consistently need to be making sure items (especially sale items) are well stocked and presentable. When first employed I was assigned to frozen foods every day and it gets very cold in there. This doesn't bother me much but many of the only guys on grocery hated it.
What you need to do for the job is fairly straightforward and easy, but you'll be quite busy most days. Some days are incredibly slow and you won't have much to do. The hours go by quick. Management was great and so were most of my coworkers. Customers can sometimes be a pain. The job requires more work than should be expected of someone paid minimum wage, but it's not the worst.

The store is well kept by every employee. Maintenance workers maintain the store's appearance. Front end workers bag customers' groceries. Employees are usually able to answer questions.  Customers that need assistance are given the assistance (such as unloading carts, giving them larger carts, helping them out of motor carts, etc.).  Managers know how to run the store, and they provide great customer service as well.  I enjoy collecting up cardboard and putting it in the cardboard compactor in the back of the store.  The hardest part is when I stack many carts at a time.

The upper management did not give you any support particularly if you were a full time employee. You always heard when you did something wrong, but never received a compliment from management. There wasn't any team work or comradity. I worked really hard and on my day off, everything would be moved around or changed whether it was the department displays, the schedule or the ordering. No one would discuss these changes with you, before or after they happened. As a manager of the department, it would be nice to have control of changes especially after working so hard. The long term part timers received more support than the full timers which you were supposed to manage. You weren't allowed to think " outside the box" , but you were expected to increase sales. Not a friendly place to work.

In the beginning it's hard to warm up to coworkers and build relationships, but as time goes on the workplace becomes a very interpersonal where everyone knows each other and is willing to help.  The pace of the job fluctuates between downtime and rushes during lunchtime and the end of the (regular) working day.
Though the company is good to work for there is a high turnover rate in the frontend department, which sometimes leads to understaffed conditions.
Overall, this is a desirable company for students due to extremely flexible hours and as a 'first job' or someone desiring a low demand job (depending on the department).

The managers of roche only do what is in the best interest for them. They do not care about their employees or helping to accommodate an employees needs. They expect you to sacrifice personal time with family so you can work every weekend and sometimes overnight for inventory counts as well as holidays.  They will yell at you for taking a day off  while they take two weeks off at a time to go to Guatemala. They expect you to pick up their slack and and cover for their incompetence. Roche only pays barely above minimum wage and will tell you what you want to hear while secretly going behind your back. You are better off collecting unemployment then to work for these greedy self entitled pricks.

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