I don’t know what's worse, working while terribly understaffed, or the humiliation caused by the fact that Giant Eagle doesn’t even recognize that we’re understaffed all while relentlessly squeezing us to exhaustion!?
They want us to work more with less and that will be the case until the final debacle of this company.
It's ALWAYS been understaffed even before the pandemic-welcome to the convoluted and delusional world of Giant Eagle. When I worked there, boy was it fun running 4-5 departments and coming home burned the he-l out. It just got a lot worse after the pandemic. Laura Karet doesn't care-her main concern is the almighty dollar and that bottom line. She doesn't care that the stores are understaffed-that's one less person she has to give a paycheck to-meanwhile customers are complaining about long lines and they don't like the pain in the rear self-scans that keep malfunctioning and acting cantankerous.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The days of working in a grocery store are over. As a company Giant Eagle has nothing to offer new employees to make it attractive to work at. Pay is well below what other companies are offering. Most companies are allowing employees to switch to the 4 day work week. Giant Eagle is trying to get employees to work 6 and 7 days a week. Working every weekend. You would think Giant Eagle would try and figure out some new scheduling in which employees can get a weekend off a month. Just a poorly run company that doesn’t put its employees first.
Being understaffed is by design.. More profits for the family.
They could fully staff a Market District store with the amount of VP’s they have.