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I took a pay cut changing companies but within a year I was promoted to a Evening Manager. It is a hourly manager but I still got to move up pretty quickly. I met a lot of awesome hard working but under paid employees. If you work hard, don’t complain and try to learn different positions as they come, you can move up. They have a Leadership program and you have to go through your manager then two other interviews before program starts. It is how to move up to management or a department head lead/manager. If you want to truly move up with the company, make it be known. I had several employees that would be awesome leads if they believed they could actually do it. Don’t be scared to get thrown in and learn as you go. Lot of computer training when you first start and everyday you do a review on something on the gnome application. There are some really awesome hands on trainers and others kinda let you figure it out until you do something wrong. They are usually short handed when they are hiring so sometimes training becomes a hit or miss. The company wants everyone to have good training but it slips through the work loads of getting stuff done before days end. If you get a good team, the job is easy but bad apples ruin it for everyone. Managers care about their employees as far as if someone gets hurt or I. Hospital they check on them etc. but sometimes they leave work for the next shift along with their own work needed to get done which causes a bad cycle until we can get caught up again. The number one complain from other employees is not enough hours and low pay. This is from front end cashiers. Front end clerks only get 1.00 more and deal with whole lot more than cashiers. Grocery Stockers are paid too little but at least get 5 days a week/40 hours if you want to work it, but still considered part time. If you have a full team, it’s not hard. There are Inventory specialist (own team)  pricing (1-2 person team) and receiving (own team) they get paid little more but it’s all on you so need to be able  to work alone and still get job done without messing up. Unless you have experience, it’s hard to get into those positions. Deli department doesn’t get paid enough for the work they do and always short handed because of this which makes it extra hard for the rest. Bakery department isn’t hard but you stay busy all day and pay isn’t great and you probably get part time hours, Meat department has best chance for best pay but you have to go through a meat cutting course and if you don’t have experience you will have to be a meat clerk and they don’t pay them good and then if you are a good worker they don’t want to lose you as a good clerk so hard to move up from there. I went in after 10 plus years experience and worked as a meat clerk  part time Bc they needed help and ended up moving out of department to move up in Front end. They kept promising the clerk he could get into the meat cutter class but after a year he finally end up quitting. Meat manager get paid more than Evening manager.  Salary managers work 40-50 hours. Managers get PTO, 4 plus weeks vacation pay and bonuses. I was hourly manager and still got bonuses. Expect part time unless you get into a department lead position . It’s good for people who are in school or need certain hours because you can pick you day’s etc if part time and will work with you if possible if full time , just depends. Overall good experience but I just think they should pay the good hard workers more money and open full time positions for those people. They lose good workers because they go and look for better paying jobs. I loved my coworkers, my team, and my managers. Made good work buddies while I was there and only left because I wanted to travel. Good luck future department heads and Managers! Make your life how you want it, don’t be afraid to learn and advance! 

I work there as a service associate. I am a VERY polite, friendly, smiley professional and SMART woman with a college degree, and a long history in a high paying professional career.
Since I moved to a rural area I have been unable to find work in my field and was forced to take whatever work I could find. This place is a machine. A well run, friendly sweat shop of slave labor. PERFECTION is demanded and expected. But the truth is, the pay is INSULTING for the high demands of physical work, appearance and not stop performance that does NOT allow one to use the bathroom or stay hydrated on a normal level. I'm REALLY fast, and incredibly FAST at learning and remembering. I'm one of the lucky ones...I am already hyper and happy. I'm already overly willing to please and a people person. AND IT KILLS ME there!! They are happy and friendly because you are FORCED to be, everyone is FORCED in a VERY friendly manner to be disgustingly perfect, shiny, and friendly. I do enjoy the friendly and happy, but the unspoken "BE PERFECT, and KILL YOURSELF for us or in an instant we WILL fire and replace you" paired with "WE DON'T CARE HOW FAST, SMART OR TALENTED YOU ARE, WE WILL ONLY PAY YOU SLAVE WAGES and NOT TELL YOU IN YOUR INTERVIEW THAT YOU WILL ONLY MAKE $8/hr" is shameful. Seriously. The 9 hours of non-stop computer based training was bad enough, and it is part of a huge plan to compete in a huge way and the system IS necessary to deliver what they are delivering...and for the end user..the customer..well worth it...its all understandable...until YOU are the one going home after running dehydrated, exhausted, with aching back and feet SICK of being SUPER FAST AND FRIENDLY for many many hours at a time..and making slave wages..with ZERO energy left over for your own life, kids family....if your 18...great...20..sure...25 in college..you bet...the REST of us..FOR  GET   IT. NOTHING will motivate you to job hunt like this one. They will use you until there is NOTHING left. The promises made, are for more work with PATHETIC pay. I cannot see ANYONE staying there with a brain any longer than you absolutely have to. The talk about how important the staff is and how you can "advance in your career" sounds very much like a pyramid scheme more than honest care. Maybe farther at the top its better..but down here..the water is cold, lonely, poor and exhausting. I feel bad for my nice coworkers as much as myself..especially the ones too afraid to try to get something better. They are awesome folks who deserve BETTER. With all that said, the management is doing the very best they can and they run at the same insane pace and set as great an example as they can. The help each other attitude is very appreciated and despite all of that, I'm very grateful that I was given a chance to get this job as I was in need in a big way. I also have a great deal of respect for the quality in every way this high expectation for perfection offers the end user. In the end..the thing I will achieve most, is losing a lot of fat I built up from being unemployed for so long, and I will forever shop there for their polite professionalism and service. I will NEVER take a grocery shopping experience for granted again AND Walmart could take some LESSONS on how to do it RIGHT with quality and standards!!

I loved working for Winn-Dixie back in 2006. The director was awesome. He was very strict but always fair. If you worked hard he would bend over backwards for you. After going back to college and nearly at my graduation I decided to return to Winn-Dixie. I started at the one on 231 in Panama City, Fl. I have never in my life seen such a childish, hateful, crude, rude, and down right nasty place to work. The whole store changed Directors, half of the crew quit, and the few that stayed are horrible and miserable. They try to make your life miserable as well. The whole store is not run by the Director. He is so worried about having to work that he literally makes your life a total wreck by pushing you harder than if you were in boot camp. The store is ran by three people.A person up front, and pricing person and the back door person. If you're in their click, you are alright and your job will be kept. If not, they warn you upfront, you will be fired. I was thrown into a situation that was so horrible I walked out the first day. I was called and asked to come back and well, I am very stubborn so I made up my mind to make things better. WRONG! I messed up my ribs, wrists, bruises on top of bruises, and that still was not enough, they wanted more. I was place in the General Merchandise area. The place has been put off for over a year and merchandise was up to the ceiling. The manager who walked out and the assistant who also walked out, had not put up stock in ages. Instead they crammed it in boxes and it seemed as if it was going just fine. Well, it took me 4 weeks but I managed to get the boxes cleared out some. You could actually see inside the cage. Then when I asked for help, I was called a selfish person because the new Director was sorry, and would not get off his butt and do anything. RIGHT. Now this is what I heard everyday, all day long. There was trucks coming in, the shelves was not stocked, the merchandise was stacking up, and well, it was not enough. The Director made me feel ten feet high. He actually came out and helped me. WRONG! it cost me my job. I did not do enough work. Yet, they hired another person, she was trained for a week, and the trainer came to our store and well, she was overwhelmed herself after 19 years of being the General Merchandise Manager and the trainer. She stated that there is noway that one person could do all of that work alone and that I did a jammed up job of what I'd done thus far. I went into work after killing myself, giving it all, putting my christian life, my college work, and my family life on hold trying to do what I could to straighten this out, and all I got when the new girl, whom is very sweet, and is a GREAT worker, came on board, was my hours cut to 12 hours a week. The one manager who would at least speak to me said that was Winn-Dixie way of getting rid of you. They would not fire you unless you stole something. But, if they wanted to get rid of you, they cut your hours and no one would tell you why. I didn't fit into the click, and therefore, when they said she is out, then guess what, I was voted out. And this Director didn't' even know how to check in vendors, and had to be trained by the back door person. The back door person has been there some 16 years, and well as she said....she is the boss, operator, and princess of that store. I laughed, but she proved herself right. This has been my month working for Winn Dixie

As the title would indicate, working at Winn-Dixie has been a unique and somewhat turbulent experience. Even so, I would highly recommend it to anyone starting out in retail/customer service.
I've worked at W/D for 4 years. In that time, the company was purchased by Bi-Lo, who was in turn purchased by Southeastern Grocers. The two acquisitions were palpable even at a store level. Procedures, training and even uniforms were constantly changing. Recently, things seem to have become fairly stable, so I'll look at the company as it is today.
A typical day varies widely based upon the position you've been scheduled for which, at times, can change on a daily basis. Even if you've been promoted, expect to perform your previous job regularly until the store hires someone new. This can be a valuable learning experience, and the flexibility can be refreshing when compared to a typical monotonous retail job. But if you don't like change, Winn-Dixie is not the place for you.
My co-workers are generally very nice people, but many of them have little to no experience in customer service (and, in some cases, no work experience at all). As a result, the learning curve is longer than it should be, and our customer experience can be negatively impacted. I would recommend that management reach out beyond their own career website to find more experienced candidates, or have a training program tailored directly to a new hire's previous experience (i.e. a week of training for someone with no experience, and 1 day of training for someone with several years of experience).
Management at my store are some of the best people in the field. They are easy to reach directly even for low-level employees, and they do their jobs very well. However, it seems that at many times there are more managers in the store than cashiers, which leads me to the hardest part of the job.
My store's front end, like many other stores in my district, is run on a skeleton crew. I understand that there are not that many hours on the payroll, but there is no reasonable explanation for having one cashier on an extremely busy weekday afternoon. The hardest part of this job is, by far, being the only cashier working and having a line of 10 customers piling up at your register with no end in sight.
One of the biggest qualms people seem to have with the company are the lack of hours, but in my experience, you get as many hours as you work for- in other words, if you do your job well and genuinely care about it, you should have no problem getting more hours and even the occasional promotion.
Overall, working at Winn/Dixie has been a positive experience. I was hired here when I was 14 years old, and I'm proud to be nearing my 4th anniversary with the company. I've learned a lot of things that I one day hope to apply to my own business, including the value of good customer service and the importance of open communications between low-level employees and upper management. W/D has a low turnover rate even for minimum-wage cashiers and baggers, and I can see why.

A typical work day for me consists of first coming in and assessing my department. I look see see how well the previous workers have left the department and look too see what they have and haven't done. I then begin my work by working everything in my back-stock section by section and making sure that the products are in top shape for the customers satisfaction. MY main focus is to make sure everything is filled and presented nicely. Throughout my shift I answer any customer inquiries and make sure that everything is up to their satisfaction.
My second focus is to make sure my work area and backroom is clean and clear for the next person to work with. The management at my workplace needs much improvement. There needs to be more leadership and more team work. My co-workers are nice to me, but they are not helpful at all. It seems like everyone thinks they are doing all the work therefore they believe they are entitled to not help out or leave unnecessary work for the next person who comes in which routinely is myself. If I ask them to complete a simple task they do so with remorse and complain the entire way through. I have brought it to others attention, but there fails to be any follow through with it. The hardest part of my job is trying to complete everything with the lack of help. I am a very calm person and easy to work with however it appears that my trait is not shared with my peers.
I enjoy working my department and building my displays. The satisfaction I get when my section is filled and looking well is great. I also like helping customers, it's important to help them out and make sure they have an enjoyable shopping experience. I come in and completely everything in ample time and I've actually been told I make it look easy when it's not.
I have learned that retail is a great job and I am very good at what I do, but I shouldn't be in this position getting paid the amount that I am receiving. I should be in a higher management position and should be making an actual salary, but what I have come to find out is that I should be in a different industry. Grocery, retail, and sales have been a great starter for me and it has definitely taught me a lot about working with of people and provided me with very crucial management experience, but I am not ready to expand into other industry areas such as healthcare, human resources, and administration. While it can be fun working at Winn-Dixie I don't believe it is a company I can see myself growing or moving up within. There just isn't enough benefits and compensations with make it worth the time and hard work.

Although my department's manager is great to work for, the job is so fast paced, physically demanding, and low paying that I can't morally recommend this job to anyone. Not to say every position is this way, but as a Center Store Associate (fancy name for a Stocker), I have had to deal with constant threats of losing my position along with the expectation that I finish all of the day's work, even when down 2 or more crew members. I understand the push to get everything done, but when the company doesn't want to spend the money to hire new people, the veterans become upset and end up leaving, causing even more of a hardship on those who remain.

Enough on that though. I guess I should describe exactly what it is I do. As CSAs, We off-load incoming trucks of merchandise pallets (Typically between 10 to 30, depending on the season), sort said pallets onto carts, and stock the shelves. In the midst of this, we help customers find products, and occasionally get called to the front to help the understaffed Cashiers and baggers.

The hardest part of the job is by far the stocking of merchandise. It's not particularly all that 'hard', though it does take quite a physical toll on you after years of the work. The most enjoyable, (and quite often frustrating, but more on that later) part of the job is the customers. Helping them find products, or just conversing with them while going along your daily tasks helps give you a confidence and energy boost while you work, and helps make the job feel far less monotonous than it is.

The downside of customers is that, at the end of the night, while straitening the shelves and 'blocking' them forward, you often find all of the discarded bags and trash that they have left throughout the store. More often than nought, we have had cart loads of stolen, or damaged items found throughout the shelves.

Unfortunately, I not only worry about my job security at this job, but my well being as well. Not because of the physical demands, but because of select clientele we've had over the years.  Though most have been nice, we've had a few major incidents occur, and seemingly at an increasing rate. This may be due purely to location, but we've had customers leaving backpacks full of bricks, to a customer drawing a gun on our seafood department over crab legs, to a pool of blood found outside our front door around store closing. 

I wish I could recommend the store, and this job, but I just can't. Though other locations might be better off than mine was, I can't give my review without stating what I've experienced.

A typical day at Winn Dixie for me would start,if I opened,by turning on and heating up all the required equipment and start cooking and unwrapping food that was to be prepared for the day.I would also check for shrink to be scanned and thrown out. And then if things were being ate up quickly we would prepare more of that type of food and then just before the evening rush we would make fresh food for the hot case and lower the price on the older food and put it out of the hot case island,just outside of the department. If I was their for the closing shift I would help cleaning everything and shutting everything down around 8pm and then once it was 9pm and no new customers needed anything it was time to go home.

Winn-Dixie was were I learned all my customer service and food handling skills because this was my first job. I learned how to run slicers,fryers,ovens, how the processes of food in the workplace are done,how to change stock,the procedures to clean the department to inspector passing qualifications.I take a lot of what I have learned from Winn-Dixie and will hold onto these skills for the rest of my life.

My co-workers were great.My managers were fun and made the long work days go by fast.We worked hard and got a lot done as a team.At one point we were done to only 4 workers in the department and we came together and made it through and worked hard to get everyone of the customers taken care of and made sure they were happy with their orders.

The hardest part of the job was learning everything about running the department because it was the first job I've had and it involved a lot of equipment but once I was shown how to use everything properly and learned the time it took for all the foods to be cooked and the numbers for each of the deli meats and cheeses to be rung up I learned how to do it fast and make sure a customer was taken care of in a quick but happy manner.

The most enjoy part of the job was for one because I finally had a job and helping make money for my famil,for two was because I got to meet a lot of diffrent people from the town I lived in and many of them became familiar to me as regulars on certian days each week and it was fun to check up on them each week and ask them how their week went,and third my co-workers,all throughout the store,were fun and we all got along great and it made the work days fun and go by fast and made going to work amazing.

Carts stack up, you still have to collect garbage from the whole store, they need you to help by cleaning floors and potential spills, but there aren’t enough people bagging groceries... Your plate is always full, your name is constantly called on the loudspeaker, and the hope for a break won’t come until your 30-min. lunch mid-shift. (Even still, on most days, the supervisors from when I was employed there would secretly wish you wouldn’t take breaks, because that means they have to do your job for thirty minutes.)

I’m usually good at managing time, stress, juggling tasks, and taking care of things in order... However, when you are tasked as a bagger, you are the go-to for random chores that occur. In my time, the managers rarely helped with the extras: clean-ups, or groceries that needed to go back to the shelves. The cashiers did all they could, the stock people did great at storing the shelves, and there weren’t any customer interactions that were bad...

No, my largest complaint from the time when I was working there: the leadership. It can be easy to blame the little guy for things not going right, and once or twice, I was asked to “step it up" for being the only bagger on a hot, Florida summer day with three full corrals of carts, and needed to attend to anxious customers inside to help bag groceries... I don’t like shifting blame, but when I jog out of the store to grab 16 carts at a time on a bad leg and I see two or three managers lounging in the back, I feel my labor & time isn’t honored or appreciated. 

My average day was not very average, while the tasks were the same every time, they varied in volume. Oh, did I mention, there were no electric cart pushers like you see in other grocers. This is all done manually, which is okay, if you have a team working together. Nevertheless, expect that your body will be TIRED in this position. 

If done right on the management side of things and if the season is right, I’m sure some may absolutely love this job... I really hope they changed it up some since I left. As for me, it was a learning experience and I pay less attention to the managers as I did when shopping, in order to show my respect for each bagger I see from now on...

I have been employed with Winn Dixie for 22 years and I started when I was a teenager.  Since that time I have been able to learn the deeper details of the retail industry and many departments.  Meanwhile, I paid through all of school working at Winn Dixie and they were flexible around my school schedule. 

Overall, I think that Winn Dixie is a good starter job for teenagers and young adults, but that is starting to not be so ironclad of a sentiment.  This is because they used to give teenagers and young adults more hours to compensate for less hourly wages.  Since that is not the case anymore Winn Dixie is not able to hold and compete for young workers. Meanwhile other companies may offer less hours but the pay is way better.

A typical day of work is clocking in and working on gnome training module for the day. Then checking in with your department manager on tasks needed to be done first.

What I learned working at Winn Dixie is customer service interactions with customers which is important.  It is important because communication is the most emphasized trait that is coveted in the rest of the business world.  People pay thousands of dollars to take courses on communication and public speaking.  Meanwhile working at your local Winn Dixie for a month will give you a crash course on both skills in a hurry!

Workplace culture hinges on management which is why do your research before applying at a store.  Talk to employees and observe how the business is run during weekend sales.  That is the best way to tell how a store operates when things matter the most.  

I have worked with 7 different store managers during my tenure and I have only encountered one bad store manager who is treats workers poorly for taking time off or maternity leave.  Unfortunately one bad store manager can make a negative impression on many people which is a shame as I have learned a lot working with dozens of managers and store managers throughout two decades.

Hardest part of the job is having to deal with shortages of product due to warehouse mishandling.  This is where communicating with customers is integral with building trust with them and resolving issues. 

And finally the most enjoyable part of the job is interacting with the regular customers that come to the store and are excited to speak with you!

Working at Winn Dixie was supposed to be a little part time job I had while in college, turned out to be one of the worst experiences of my life (aside from meeting new people who also feel the same about it that worked with me) 
Let's just start out by saying the management here is awful, run by someone who married their way to the top. Management is useless, the only way to move up is to be equally as useless. Slackers are rewarded, while hard workers get treated like scum. They play favorites, and one day they are nice to you the next day you no longer exist.
Second, the benefits and pay clearly lack. People will work so hard to further themselves and still be looked down upon by management and even upper level service associates or leads who like to think they are just as high as management. No pay raises, and might I just add what is even considered a benefit for working at Winn Dixie? Oh nice 5% employee discount.. thanks! :)
Third, the drama. Never once have I had drama like this in my life, every week their is a new story or new gossip to be spread. It's like they have nothing better to do with their lives than to personally victimize every employee in the store with lies and rumors. Power thirsty people will take it to a new extreme and create hostile work environments and use it against someone they may not favor or have a personal relationship with. Certain lead associates that will remain nameless will even use that power to cut your hours, if they are chosen to make the schedule. This can not only affect your mood and well being but also affect the weekly paycheck you receive. Another example of drama here is management telling what should be confidential information regarding the personal situations of employees, to other employees. 
Last but not least, some of the people that come in Winn Dixie are the most awful, disgusting, impatient, rude, and impolite people you will ever see. There has been several occasions of being creeped on, talked inappropriately to, and put in several uncomfortable situations here at Winn Dixie.
Working here will really change your perspective  on a lot of things, but you may meet a lot of other great associates or even managers. Maybe the reason for bad experience is the place and time I worked for the company, maybe others will have better luck.

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