Has anyone heard anything about how this will affect Whole Body team members? I have heard that some will be absorbed by grocery. Anything else?
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Some stores have had Whole Body and Grocery combined for most of this year...it's coming to a store near you.
@Anonymous169544 we do about $115k on a slow week and on a good week we do about $130k.... you may not have cuts NOW but later is another story! Have a backup plan just in case! We are all walking on eggshells
I was a SW WB TL who chose option 1. My TMs were absorbed into grocery. Grocery TL doesn't know anything about WB - at all. My TMs will probably be left alone to do their jobs. For now, anyway. There are not specialist in WB, but their pay is not reduced. They will be required to continue doing their job for same pay but no title. My team was awesome. I loved them. One followed me from another store and trusted me. If I would have stayed and not been selected for the new Grobody TL position, I could have chosen a highly paid TM with a salary bridge gap option. No title and still expected to do my existing job. This would have bumped one of my TMs out of the department. My leaving allowed the TM to stay in the department. All of my TMs have a job for now and have not had their salaries reduced.
@Anonymous169108 What are your sales for the week in WB? We have a high vol store where WB makes about 90k week. No cuts yet.
Our store combined WB and Grocery and laid off the WB TL. Only one WB buyer now at my store.
in SOPAC region at a higher volume store we had our labor cut again... so this is our layout (for NOW): TL, 2 ATLs, NO Buyer & 3 to 4 tms have to find another dept. to go to!
In my MA store, Grocery, Front End/Customer Service, and Whole Body were combined. Haven't seen anyone else with this same combo, however.
I am curious about every region as we have not heard much in mine and it may be a sign of things to come. Thank you Anon 168848.
What region? In the South we have combined grocery, wholebody, and specialty if the store sales are doing under a certain amount.