You all heard it here first major changes coming in 2020. We are not leaving dsd but major structure changes coming. End of the SR era.
Folks Kroger and Food Lion no Reps in store is the beginning of the “Test”
SR’s will have option to become FTSSR.
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Sounds that way.
They're wanting to hire more full timers and get rid of sales reps
Didn't age well? I looked at the date of that post........right before that covid thing. Alot of things didn't age well the last couple years.
We are not going any where. Super territories are coming and we will obviously be adjusting routes and the way we work but dsd will remain.
This didn't age well. 2022 and SRs are still around. Keebler made this move and share jumped just in time to sell the company. Then sales and market share plummeted and the new owners lost a ton of money. Anyone paying attention would be a complete mo--n to follow that same model.
Then again, Mondelez keeps raising prices to meet numbers due to lower unit sales. Ummm....we are entering a recession after panic buying from a pandemic on top of free money being sent to the lower class. What the he'll did they think was going to happen. Market share is now dwindling due to two price increases in the same year. A smart company would take advantage of the lower incomes and drop their prices to sell more units and push the competition out. But after closing so many warehouses and production plants, there isn't anywhere to make or store enough extra product. We can't even manage to fill our basic products when unit sales are down as it is! Mondelez needs a desperate change at the top with someone/people who understand and can maneuver through these unprecedented times.
History shows that every time Mondelez does a “test” in an area, whatever they tested came to reality. It’s just a matter of time until DSD reps are let go. I’m surprised they are still around. Not only does this reduce expenditures, it will be done on behalf of the stockholders who want more of a ROI. And it eliminates more than sales reps and merchandisers, it eliminates truck drivers to every store. Now all they would have to do is ship directly to the customers’ warehouse and let the customer ship to its own stores. This procedure alone will boost the stock price almost immediately. It’s simple math.
Yep we just are notices in Virginia. Told next two weeks is when sales reps will know if they have a job or not. After 01/29/20.
We have no clue to whats going on yet...
Has sales rep been cut in yall territories and what happend to rest who stayed?
You were right! Got an email today
Yes, there are rumors, that's why people are on this site. Clearly, people are trying to figure out what all these red flags mean. Why are YOU on here Naysayer?
Mmmmmm.......2020 almost over and still here.....lol
Good luck on your guessing. We will be here for awhile. Still not even rumors of us exiting yet.
Anyone that thinks DSD is here to stay is in for a rude awakening.
Happy 2020!! We will be here celebrating 2021 in dsd also!! So much for y'all's conspiracy theories lol!!!
Same here! They are overworking everyone!! Big A$$ weekend sales at the big K!! Never enough help. Shelves get wiped out. Management calls!! They want pristine service!!! Good luck with that!!! They're just trying to get that final push out of everyone then the bottom falls out next year!!! DM and RMS are nonexistent!!
Wow, what area are you in that you can slack off like that??? In my area they are working some of us to death, and I do mean some. Others don't do anything, while some are on a chain gang. I have to do 1 1/2-2 people's jobs a day. Lots of order writes, merch hits, and loads. NO TIME to sit around doing nothing. Ideploy says it's a 6 hour day when it's really 10+. Just goes to show you how this company operates. Some don't do much, others have to do too much. Any question on the reasons for the failure of Mondelez, and why they are going warehouse? I think not!!!
Not soon enough!! It’s gonna be interesting getting a new job that entails more than watching movies on my iPad, in the parking lots of my accounts! Been a great run! If my DM ever stepped foot out of his house, he’d notice!
Stop teasing us!!! When is this big announcement ever going to happen?????
Lazy order writers and pt merchandisers staying lol!!!! Good luck with that mondelez!!
I saw a gal taking a picture of a spice display. I asked her about her role. She takes pictures, and enters data. When DSD ends, and it will, that's what a few people will be doing. We're done, it's over, the only question is when. I'm so excited, I'm going to get my life and soul back soon!!!😁
Why are posts being deleted?
That’s laughable! “Retailers don’t have time to stock nabisco products”. OMG! We are less than 5% of what’s already warehouse in their store! Come on now! Of course they do! Hire a couple of overnight clerks and boom!
I guess subway doesn’t have time to make sandwiches either 🤣🤣🤣
DSD is coming to an end! Wise people have embraced this and been preparing, others like yourself....reality will be a rude awakening!
For who? Not retailers! It sure is for Mondelez, they load the living crud out of stores to achieve sales objectives! Sure doesn’t help retailers, which is why retailers have been setting up to eliminate dsd.....-and Mondelez is next! EDI and CAO are being utilized for a good reason, and it’s not to continue dsd!! Figure it out!
People really need to quit overthinking things! DSD is ending! Why in the world would they have CAO and EDI in accounts? Yes, your boss is covering their butt, they don’t want people to exit before they are ready!
Not happening. Mondelez isn't staying in dsd to merchandise shelves. Sales is where the money is
Just today boss told us some changes are coming, but DSD is here to stay according to the higher ups/headquarters. Someone asked if any reps will be losing their jobs, and he said no. But the managers lie constantly. I still think there is way too many red flags to believe there aren't MAJOR changes coming.
I had a Safeway store employee tell me today that Kehe/Jyve are throwing Nabisco and Frito Lay in the Seattle area. Can't verify if this is True. Last week the Kehe/Jyve employee told me they are throwing Frito Lay product in the Seattle area. Something is going on, but honestly, who knows what is true? I keep hoping info will slowly start trickling out.
May want to go back to where you got your info and ask again! No, we aren’t retaining the highest paid reps to merchandise, sores will do that themselves. We will lose a large number of SKU’s and then pay a slotting fee for the SKU’s we still carry in the sets. In and out will be kept on shippers which will come through warehouse as well! Mondelez isn’t a merchandising organization for goodness sakes, we are a selling organization, and when we can’t sell, we won’t! Not that hard! DSD is indeed ending, and has been! Retail is evolving and so are we! The profit isn’t in merchandising, it’s in incremental selling! Goodnight people!
Contracts between retailers and Mondelez are up in 2020. There will be changes. Mondelez will still deliver products because the retailers warehouses don’t have room for 250 slots to store Mondelez product. Sales force will be cut down where Mondelez employees will continue to merchandise the product. All high paid merchandisers (sales reps) will become merchandisers and will loose their company car. With stores writing orders Mondelez will not have to pay any type of bonus to field reps. I am hearing April of 2020 with HR holding conference calls end of February. Company is hoping with the ending of the pension many long term employees will retire to help with eliminating employee layoffs.
If u people are spinning out of control this bad now every time your company changes something- imagine what you all will be like when you actually get your notice. Sounds like a bunch of you screaming THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!! Deep breaths, make the most you can while you can. Dsd is going away, but you all might be a couple yrs away yet.
Retailers have been planning the exit from dsd for years! Kroger has had this in their forecast for years, to eliminate dsd! Absolutely no other reason for EDI and CAO except to prepare to go warehouse! All warehouse companies are EDI. So hard to imagine people believe the excuses being thrown out!
All of this time frame of DSD ending makes sense. Let's not forget the pension accrument will be frozen on 12/31/2019. No more money put into the pension. They gave a 10 year notice of the pension enfing. Sounds like they are getting all of their ducks in a row to oust field sales and merchandisers.
Any body listen to our joke of a ceo on the live linked? Like he really cares about the employees.
funny i still work for nestle until 11/15 just got and email sayimg mondeles is looking for good nestle employees fro sales and merch positions. i dont think i will be applying. i will just be covering for those who leave when dsd ends
Merchandisers and reps will be gone in early 2020! Been the timeline I’ve said all along! Likely everyone gone at the same time! They can cut merchandisers hours....not reps!
EDI will be locked in January. Bye buh lazy reps
Kroger is already edi just not locked
Kroger going EDI the 1st of the year!! Reps are done!!! Merchandisers will stay on
What are the kroger changes to merchandising you guys keep mentioning ?
Totally agree on the RMS comments. The girl in our area doesn’t even take care of the coaching of PTSR’s or FTSR’s. The DM handles all the SR’s and merchandisers, and the RMS sits on her computer ALL day and the RDR lets them get away with it!! Talk about a waste of money!! That RDR also never leaves her home so none of us are surprised. It drives all of us nuts that they want to cut us, the people in the field instead of the RMS and even some of the DMs that just sit at lunch or in their “home offices” all day long.
RMS role is a joke. My RMS never comes out of the office. When he does come out he spends about 10 minutes with me telling me how wrong I do things. DSD here to stay lol. My RMS needs to go back where he came from and stop kissing the Regional Directors a–. She likes him so he is the angel boy.
Glad none of these Kroger changes affects my team. Be more for me to do. Haven’t received a phone call or seen my sales rep in months. I get a text with instructions. He hasn’t been to a couple of stores in months
Quit asking your boss questions!!! Really bad move!
All of the said upcoming changes feed directly into the end of DSD! With the timeline to the end of DSD contracts being 2020, just 90 days away, the writing is on the wall!
Easy shift will be the only remnants of a Sales rep and merchandisers will be eliminated. Eventually a broker will be taking the pictures.
For over 18 months we have seen changes, yet some people still say,”business as usual”? Far from it! In two of the largest retailers we sales reps are no longer writing orders, the cornerstone of DSD! Guess those people are waiting for DSD to end, until then they will live in the state of denial! 🤣