Let's cause a huge wall of tension between departments and associates. Let's offer fresh associates more money and invest only in them with this certification program. Only put major emphasis on those areas and forget about every single other aspect of the Club that members pay for. Members won't notice our filthy bathrooms or our constant resets which sends them on a hunt for 80% of their items. Leave when they think we've discontinued their favor items when it has actually been up in steel unslotted. No one to ask because no one is on the floor. Long lines at the front end while cashiers argue who is going to get off their phone and check them out.
Have you been to Costco or HEB or Wholefoods? Hope part of the fresh program is about appearance and hygiene because people fixing food shouldnt have doghair all over their clothes.
Maybe the higher paid associates will learn how to stop the constant return of dry cakes and rotting produce. Cooking a whole chicken completely would be helpful when you are being paid $25 per hour. Stacking meat so high its warm on the top should be the first page in the handbook.
I'm not bitter. I know my opportunities are the same as everyone else that wants to apply for fresh now. But to act like all the other areas in the club won't matter to the member is ludicrous. Might as well unionize because this will only segregate areas even more. Ask the girl at Costco folding clothes how much she makes an hour. And she doesn't even have to wear a hairnet.