So in short, my experience was two-sided, working for BCD (alcohol company under Pepsi which was dissolved), then as a large format sales rep in the front-range of the west we will say.
Coming in, especially around the start of 100 days of summer, there was ZERO support I received as a rep. Most days, your trucks are late, merchandisers get pulled from you, and communication is sorely lacking between you and your superiors. Mine in particular, was a campus hire straight out of college to her role. I think it’s wonderful to give kids out of college opportunities, but when you have no actual on-hand experience throwing cases upon cases of force out Gatorade from pallets YOU forced to my store @ 4A, then how can you really understand your employees? Add all that to having days from 4A-6/7P and 6 day work weeks in the summer, it will absolutely make MANY snap and resign. Most stores can’t stand their major soda reps to be fair to Pepsi, but we were generally disliked and had to really earn good relationships.
Definitely running off a LOT of good help. Sad, I loved working for them in the south.