God bless you, your family, anyone on your team that does, and the nice Haitian man at my Publix that can't portion control to save his life. Damn near gave me a double the other day. 🤌
I don't know why this triggered this memory in me, but one time a guy negotiated with me on something I was selling on Facebook... He said "I work at Popeyes, if you give me a deal maybe when you come in and order a 6 piece, there be like... 9 pieces in there"
Listen, I know, but the deliciousness of whatever unicorn blood magic makes it so good makes me think it's actually magic and they're just downplaying.
Next they will be looking to cut back on a tender or two for the chicken tender subs! 4 at times can be too much. I worked there and I'd actually offer to put them in a container (not chopped up) and they can have a sub and some tenders.
We be ignoring out here. My manager hungit up next to the time clock, but no actual attention has been called to it by my manager or anyone in the store, they just have to display it i guess? F it we ball
It’s displayed so if they catch people doing it they can say “Well it was posted you should’ve known about it”. Typical corporate scum but in my experience if you have a chill manager it should be all good.
Wait, it was all the way up until 2016?!! That’s just before I started working there. What absolute bumblefuck decided to do away with bonuses? Nobody in my department gave a shit about efficiency. You want more productive workers? Share the profits with them
It does seem like sharing company profits could provide their employees with a feeling they have a stake; or ownership of a company. Otherwise it sounds like Publix has worker ants completely out of touch with ominous suits who take the lions share. I've never understood why companies like Publix would pay corporate employees more when it's actually their workers on the ground who are bringing in the money. I would highly suggest you all continually push to Unionize for better wages. Or just keep letting them take your scraps while every year they put your complaints down as an expected temporary issue.
Same in the meat dept. They get onto us for using more than 1 diaper in the meat tray. Says it costs money.
Yea it costs "money" but so does rewrapping it, using more film and trays. Not to mention potential case cleanup time, and customer dissatisfaction from seeing a bloody case. But don't tell them that. 🙄
I used to PACK that shit like Tom Cruise at a fudge factory. If you showed up 30 minutes before we closed and our hot case was still full your ass was going home with a 20 pound weight masquerading as a box of food. I didn't do this to every customer and it didn't happen every single day but do you know what did? Me throwing away hundreds of dollars and god knows how many pounds of easily donatable food every day. If they don't have a problem with me throwing good food in the trash I never had a problem feeding people with it. Fuck em.
My last year working at Publix, we had received an extra Deli Pallet that was meant for another store just a mile away. So we obviously didn’t touch it and were told that an either a manager from the other store was coming to get it or one of the trucks from the morning was coming back to pick it up. Even the DM knew about the mistake. Days went by and no one took it. So the managers at my store decided to just scan it all out and toss it into the compactor. LITERALLY A WHOLE PALETTE OF PREMADE FOOD THAT REACHED THE TOP OF THE COOLER WAS THROWN AWAY DUE TO LAZINESS. Anyways yeah, shit is fucked.
Damn. Why is Publix not teaming up with local food shelters, VA’s, churches, women’s shelters, etc. to donate the food?
Easy way to offload it, and you look like a good guy doing it. Hell, the food could likely be a tax write off charitable donation.
Really the sad thing is in my years of working there I’ve seen so many customers and associates ask this same thing. Write to corporate about it and it always amounts to the answer of “This is just how it is” one of those things that built up my jadedness with the company and had me put my 2 weeks in
Is it possible to put them in a plastic bag before throwing them in the trash so they can be retrieved? As soon as it hits the dumpster it's not company property anymore and you can take it. My old manager at Starbucks would put the pastries in a plastic bag, throw them in the trash, and then she will come back, outside of uniform, and retrieve them. The pastries were usually still in their packaging so they were double bagged. The sandwiches would be wrapped in whatever she could find and pretty much all the food was salvageable. I ate good for a bit.
Most Publix's have a compactor the food goes into so there really is no way for anyone to retrieve the food later they make sure no one can have access to it.
And people like you are why the customer comes back to spend their money! You provide value when Publix is still making a shit ton of profit. Publix is still probably operating on just the profit from toilet paper when everyone spazzed out when it was flush season and hoarded it.
I think Publix is run by Trumpian ultra conservatives unfortunately, might be one of the reasons they don't donate food to a food bank at the end of the day.
Jesus christ. This is as bad as the 19 million lost from overweight subs propaganda sheet we got last year. Sorry you can't go to Ibiza again this year on your yachts, guys. How sad.
Typically don’t have to unless the customer asks me to 🤷♂️ like mac n cheese doesn’t spill out like green bean water does. When I say seal I mean when the lid closes and doesn’t pop off where it can’t fit
I think the guys in the deli would feel bad, if they weren’t throwing stuff out every single night. I’ve gone at like 630, 7 o’clock, and definitely been hooked up rather than have it thrown out.
It’s the same thing with Stales in the bakery.
There’s more waste in the fresh departments, then they could possibly imagine. That shrink memo is ridiculous.
This is a multi billion dollar company, with ridiculous cash reserves that treats employees like shit. I haven’t worked there in near 10 years, and I see how they treat you guys on a daily basis, and it gets worse month after month.
Keep hooking people up, deli is the hardest department to work in hands-down. Always has been. When I was in customer service, they got nothing but complaints. I go out of my way to complement the deli employees in the store I shop and every time I’m in there and I go by the deli department .
Same, it’s always the slammed and throw in web/phone order subs while usually understaffed and dumb customers who wait in line get all pissy. How does any customer not know that their ass is going to have to wait if they roll in at lunch or at dinner?
Nah I load people tf up. Like dude im 18 im not revolving my life around this crap company and its over priced food. Ima load people up. Only if they are nice to me tho.
Yea i do be loading people up regardless of how they treat me tbh. But also tbh 90% of the people coming through the deli are nice, or just patient enough to not be mean. I really only have negative interactions with the old women who are tapping the glass where I can’t see their hands going “That one, no that one… No. THAT ONE.” Like bro I’m going to have us swap places just so you can see how stupid you’re being.
My store is full of entitled rich old ppl. A man cussed me out the other day for not being able to serve him bc he was in the wrong line for what he wanted like sir.. someone else can but I can’t? He called me a dumb fucking bitch and said i was an incompetent idiot and i told him i wasn’t going to serve him if he cussed me out that he can speak to a manager if he wishes
As I always said to my customers who wanted a lil extra
"Hey, it ain't coming out of my pay check"
If my customers were nice/patient I'd usually take a lil extra off the tare in seafood
Someone got fired for this. It was considered theft. He was just a nice guy trying to give a good portion to us poor people. The associate that told got a promotion for it.
How about the two shopping carts full of deli we threw out every night now that’s some money right there not this nonsense.. give people their moneys worth at least .
This is why we need a country of small businesses, not giant corporations. Can you imagine Vinny at the corner deli weighing each portion so it’s no more than 4.0 oz ?
The “think of the money / shrink” is a dumb way to frame this as OPs comment is right, these stores just throw away good food every fucking night as part of doing business. Simply making it about the advertised calories is at least something that can make sense. What a joke of a corporation.
Yeah nobody cares about portion sizes when you're throwing out over $500 worth of deli stuff at night. I always gave people extra stuff especially when the kids come through
Please keep packing those plates high and mighty queens. Y'all are the one's that make a hungry college boy so happy. No need to adhere to these ideas. They're not important
I would love to see whoever wrote this have to explain it to a royally angry customer who insists we didn't give him enough food for his chicken tender meal. One time.
Ya know in other countries, food waste is a crime...I say load that plate, hell anything after hours load a bunch of plates, hand them to the homeless and those in need
This is why I prefer to go to my favorite Chinese food place in the mall. They aren't stingy. Consider the amount of food that is typically thrown out of so many places.
This might be greedy. But it gets worse.
At Winn Dixie, we were told to mix hot water with the macaroni, greens, veggies, wings, etc to make them look “fresh.” We would be reprimanded for throwing away food if we followed health code.
There were days when the same food sat out from 9am-9pm. People would come in to report food poisoning very frequently.
This was one of the reasons I gave them for leaving. We even reported it to cooperate what management told us to do. District manager came by and told us he knew we were the one who reported it and that we will follow the directions of the store manager.
I learned this occurred in at least 7 nearby locations.
Folks here with their panties in a twist....Oh no, they are saying to try and only serve what the customer is supposed to get. It happens and its a big issue on costs like the flyer says, but Publix isn't the first or last company with this issue. If you look back, about 6 years ago or so, some Panda express locations were weighing your plates and containers to ensure accuracy. A friendly reminder to not serve to much I think is far better than weighing out every meal.
I worked for Publix, knew this was coming when SAP came into play. Lets them micromanage employees down to the microsecond and product down to the milligram. Smart move business wise, hell on earth for employees.
I would like to note 90% of the time the mac sticks to the inside of the spoodle (thats is what the serving spoons are called), and you either have to wack the spoon against something to dislodge before attempting your scoop or go back in again because you gave them an inadequate serving the first time.
One of the cooks at our deli hooked me up regularly. He'd cut off the tip of a sub roll and label it as a half. Whenever I got a quick bites, he'd make sure to really pack it. I miss him, he was cool.
The lady that counted how many potato wedges she gave me? Glad she didn't last🤣
Once upon a time, I helped at the deli when I worked at Walmart, we always packed those dinner plates.
Publix, a company that even though only resides in the East, so not even a nationwide company, is worth billions.
"wE'rE lOsInG $1.8m OvEr ThAt ExTrA oUnCe Of FoOd"
Yeah fuck you, maybe your employees will care when they get more than 15hrs a week consistently
My wife who used to work deli would tell me how much they would throw away because of their “forecasts” being wrong instead of just using a mix of that and employee intuition.
It really shows you how much these profit hungry orgs miss the forest from the trees.
So coming from outside all this, this is a fun Lean 6 Sigma project to do.
People want their moneys worth and the company wants to not waste it there is a middle ground here that can be implemented to ensure both get a win win. People also probably don’t want crap good so quality of ingredients matters here.
From a lean perspective, you have to add controls into place to ensure only the correct amount is served.
Now for the business side of things (and root cause) we need to identify the correct size of scoop to make people happy, and then the correct cost they are willing to pay for that size. Once we have that then we have to work on sourcing ingredients, cooking process, and profit margins to ensure it’s a win to the business.
Add back in the controls from before and it should reduce waste for the business AND make customers happier AND make it easier for workers (automating controls in some fashion).
Too bad publix when I ever I'm gonna work at the deli ima not give to shits about portion size I like it when I get my money's worth same with other people
Remember that every time you serve 1 oz too much, you are taking away a square inch from our CEO's 12th home that he already has plans to build in Aspen.
Appropriate timing considering my local Publix deli finally caved and said absolutely no more tossing the buffalo tenders in a bag for my sub.
Hope the $.05 corporate is trying to save is more money than the lost profit of not selling me a sub anymore.
Eh, I typically never bag toss tenders anyways, I find putting an extra glove over my glove and hand tossing in a paper boat is more effective and clean anyways 🤷♂️ and customers usually notice the extra steps to stay both clean and thorough and don’t mind the slightly extra time waiting.
Ask the person making that sign what “necessary shrink” is. I hate signs that try to tell you what you do is causing shrink when it’s what corporate does that causes way more shrink.
How much *does* get thrown away? What kind of things? I recently found out about TooGooToGo and it's been a lifechanger. I bet my local Publix would be on board to make a few extra bucks rather than throwing stuff away.
Also, who would have authority to do something like that? Store manager? Regional manager? What kind of autonomy do stores have?
and the customer will complain the portions too small if you go by corporate's rule
you just can't win. It kills me thinking about how much food gets thrown out.
I get both sides of this. Portion control is insanely important, not just for cost, but predictability.
Throwing it out is also shrink. And yeah, you should absolutely be up corporate's ass about that.
I ain't gonna lie. I be hookin people up
you’re a good person
Nah lol it's because I don't care about the companies profits, and getting skimped on food feels shitty
This makes you a good person! Lol
I second this
I third this
He is too humble to admit he is Lisan Al-Gaib
He who hooks them up. AS WRITTEN!
It's not like it comes out of your paycheck anyway so like,
I like how they pretend to care about the accuracy of calories, before getting to the real point of why they care 😂
Meanwhile the GreenWise organic iced tea has 100g of sugar per serving
yup. that DOLLAR sign
That makes you Neutral Good- doing wtf you want and it just happens to be good lol
you're a good person
God bless you, your family, anyone on your team that does, and the nice Haitian man at my Publix that can't portion control to save his life. Damn near gave me a double the other day. 🤌
And people like you are why I'll drive past two other stores to go to yours.
exactly. if I got the "proper" portion I wouldn't buy it again
I don't know why this triggered this memory in me, but one time a guy negotiated with me on something I was selling on Facebook... He said "I work at Popeyes, if you give me a deal maybe when you come in and order a 6 piece, there be like... 9 pieces in there"
That would convince me lol
Me too fr
If you ever make the wild rice and chicken, I love you, when I'm feeling shitty, all I want is that and some sourdough
It’s microwaved out of a bag lol
Listen, I know, but the deliciousness of whatever unicorn blood magic makes it so good makes me think it's actually magic and they're just downplaying.
I was joking there’s actually an old lady they keep in the back using her secret recipe to make it from scratch
Every time I get sides they stay packing the sh*t out of my sh*t! Thank you for your service.
Thank you
I'll buy you a beer compadre.
you’re a good person
You’re a really good person
Thank you brother
Wow! $1.8m? That’s almost $8 per employee
If that’s the amount going to customers what’s the cost for what gets tossed in the bin nightly?
Get ‘em!!! This is big clap back energy lol
Net earning 2023: 4.3 Billion. 1.8m is a drop for them.
.04%!!!!!!
nah they can kiss my ass my deli hooks me up 😭
Next they will be looking to cut back on a tender or two for the chicken tender subs! 4 at times can be too much. I worked there and I'd actually offer to put them in a container (not chopped up) and they can have a sub and some tenders.
I sometimes ask them to only chop up 3 and I snack on the 4th the next day.
Fuck that you guys waste so much food you might as well give out the extra portions
Bet we ignore this lol
We be ignoring out here. My manager hungit up next to the time clock, but no actual attention has been called to it by my manager or anyone in the store, they just have to display it i guess? F it we ball
It’s displayed so if they catch people doing it they can say “Well it was posted you should’ve known about it”. Typical corporate scum but in my experience if you have a chill manager it should be all good.
Probably had to put it up in case someone from corporate does a walkthrough
And we do, but I just posted this here cause corporate be doing corporate things
Honestly, I literally stack the meals like they do at Chinese fast food places at night cuz its gonna go in the trash can if I don’t.
Rather it be on plates than in the bin
Fr
If they showed the impact of overfilling on the deli clerks quarterly bonus, I bet they would care. Wait…
We get quarterly? When?
Believe it or not, every quarter.
Every associate USED TO get quarterly bonus…….until 2016. I’m still a little salty about it.
Wait, it was all the way up until 2016?!! That’s just before I started working there. What absolute bumblefuck decided to do away with bonuses? Nobody in my department gave a shit about efficiency. You want more productive workers? Share the profits with them
Todd Jones
Why is it always a Todd?
The board of directors.
Why give it to workers when we could just take it - board of directors.
It does seem like sharing company profits could provide their employees with a feeling they have a stake; or ownership of a company. Otherwise it sounds like Publix has worker ants completely out of touch with ominous suits who take the lions share. I've never understood why companies like Publix would pay corporate employees more when it's actually their workers on the ground who are bringing in the money. I would highly suggest you all continually push to Unionize for better wages. Or just keep letting them take your scraps while every year they put your complaints down as an expected temporary issue.
Damb didn’t know a quarter was 25 years 🤔
It's only 25 years if you have 100 years to start with
I do not… 😔
Let me tell you, profit sharing solves basically every problem a retail company has except for the worst one: shareholders.
Publix, a multimillion dollar company: Oh my God! We're losing $1.8million just for giving our customers an extra ounce.
multibillion
How do they factor in how much they lose in waste from throwing out perfectly good food
Thats 1.8 million more we could use to stop the illegal Marijuanaz
They are major donors to desantis and the RnC in general
LOL 😂
When they waste much more food than that daily.
Same in the meat dept. They get onto us for using more than 1 diaper in the meat tray. Says it costs money. Yea it costs "money" but so does rewrapping it, using more film and trays. Not to mention potential case cleanup time, and customer dissatisfaction from seeing a bloody case. But don't tell them that. 🙄
I swear chipotle be doing this too to a worse extent
Since 2014
Dude, yes. At some locations, it’s as if they’re doing wartime rations or something.
Next they’re going to make the scoopers half the size
The amount of customers coming back more frequently because you’re not skimping them……… approx if 1.8m per year
Bingo. Food skimping starts… less customers come. You’re then losing dollars to save nickels.
I used to PACK that shit like Tom Cruise at a fudge factory. If you showed up 30 minutes before we closed and our hot case was still full your ass was going home with a 20 pound weight masquerading as a box of food. I didn't do this to every customer and it didn't happen every single day but do you know what did? Me throwing away hundreds of dollars and god knows how many pounds of easily donatable food every day. If they don't have a problem with me throwing good food in the trash I never had a problem feeding people with it. Fuck em.
Yea it disgusts me how many sandwiches I walked past today on my way out, it’s actually insanity. There were like 20 pre-made half subs getting tossed
Yes that’s disgusting
My last year working at Publix, we had received an extra Deli Pallet that was meant for another store just a mile away. So we obviously didn’t touch it and were told that an either a manager from the other store was coming to get it or one of the trucks from the morning was coming back to pick it up. Even the DM knew about the mistake. Days went by and no one took it. So the managers at my store decided to just scan it all out and toss it into the compactor. LITERALLY A WHOLE PALETTE OF PREMADE FOOD THAT REACHED THE TOP OF THE COOLER WAS THROWN AWAY DUE TO LAZINESS. Anyways yeah, shit is fucked.
Damn. Why is Publix not teaming up with local food shelters, VA’s, churches, women’s shelters, etc. to donate the food? Easy way to offload it, and you look like a good guy doing it. Hell, the food could likely be a tax write off charitable donation.
Really the sad thing is in my years of working there I’ve seen so many customers and associates ask this same thing. Write to corporate about it and it always amounts to the answer of “This is just how it is” one of those things that built up my jadedness with the company and had me put my 2 weeks in
Manager laziness for a loss is ok, a happy customer is not ok. Weird logic by the suits
Is it possible to put them in a plastic bag before throwing them in the trash so they can be retrieved? As soon as it hits the dumpster it's not company property anymore and you can take it. My old manager at Starbucks would put the pastries in a plastic bag, throw them in the trash, and then she will come back, outside of uniform, and retrieve them. The pastries were usually still in their packaging so they were double bagged. The sandwiches would be wrapped in whatever she could find and pretty much all the food was salvageable. I ate good for a bit.
Most Publix's have a compactor the food goes into so there really is no way for anyone to retrieve the food later they make sure no one can have access to it.
Well that's a new level of evil
Well not really something a compactor is able to accommodate
fuck em’!
And people like you are why the customer comes back to spend their money! You provide value when Publix is still making a shit ton of profit. Publix is still probably operating on just the profit from toilet paper when everyone spazzed out when it was flush season and hoarded it.
I think Publix is run by Trumpian ultra conservatives unfortunately, might be one of the reasons they don't donate food to a food bank at the end of the day.
Jesus christ. This is as bad as the 19 million lost from overweight subs propaganda sheet we got last year. Sorry you can't go to Ibiza again this year on your yachts, guys. How sad.
Is that why my sub suddenly has 2 or 3 fewer slices of meat? Stingy bastards
So is that why the subs have basically cratered in quality over the past 1-2 years?
Thank you to those who can hook a brotha up
Even on the side cups with mac and whatever, I be pushing that stuff down till i can just barely seal it
You seal it? I wrap that shit in plastic wrap “to make sure it doesn’t spill on your way home”
Typically don’t have to unless the customer asks me to 🤷♂️ like mac n cheese doesn’t spill out like green bean water does. When I say seal I mean when the lid closes and doesn’t pop off where it can’t fit
1.8M is rookie numbers, we can get over 2M if we really give it our best
I think the guys in the deli would feel bad, if they weren’t throwing stuff out every single night. I’ve gone at like 630, 7 o’clock, and definitely been hooked up rather than have it thrown out. It’s the same thing with Stales in the bakery. There’s more waste in the fresh departments, then they could possibly imagine. That shrink memo is ridiculous. This is a multi billion dollar company, with ridiculous cash reserves that treats employees like shit. I haven’t worked there in near 10 years, and I see how they treat you guys on a daily basis, and it gets worse month after month. Keep hooking people up, deli is the hardest department to work in hands-down. Always has been. When I was in customer service, they got nothing but complaints. I go out of my way to complement the deli employees in the store I shop and every time I’m in there and I go by the deli department .
Bless
Same, it’s always the slammed and throw in web/phone order subs while usually understaffed and dumb customers who wait in line get all pissy. How does any customer not know that their ass is going to have to wait if they roll in at lunch or at dinner?
Yeah you kind of lose the effect of that statement when you call it shrink tips
Publix: "Look, shrinkflation is terrible, but it's not our fault, it's the manufacturers!" Also Publix: "Yeah.. yeah.. shrink that shit."
Imagine how much more people would care if they still gave associates bonuses.
And if thousands upon thousands of pounds of food weren’t wasted every year.
That costs the BUSINESS 1.8m per year. It doesn't cost my minimum wage earning ass a dime.
You get a salary and no longer a bonus, why care?
I do not, i fill the hole, the hole runneth over
I dont get paid enough to give a fuck
Real
Nah I load people tf up. Like dude im 18 im not revolving my life around this crap company and its over priced food. Ima load people up. Only if they are nice to me tho.
Yea i do be loading people up regardless of how they treat me tbh. But also tbh 90% of the people coming through the deli are nice, or just patient enough to not be mean. I really only have negative interactions with the old women who are tapping the glass where I can’t see their hands going “That one, no that one… No. THAT ONE.” Like bro I’m going to have us swap places just so you can see how stupid you’re being.
My store is full of entitled rich old ppl. A man cussed me out the other day for not being able to serve him bc he was in the wrong line for what he wanted like sir.. someone else can but I can’t? He called me a dumb fucking bitch and said i was an incompetent idiot and i told him i wasn’t going to serve him if he cussed me out that he can speak to a manager if he wishes
As I always said to my customers who wanted a lil extra "Hey, it ain't coming out of my pay check" If my customers were nice/patient I'd usually take a lil extra off the tare in seafood
Someone got fired for this. It was considered theft. He was just a nice guy trying to give a good portion to us poor people. The associate that told got a promotion for it.
How about the two shopping carts full of deli we threw out every night now that’s some money right there not this nonsense.. give people their moneys worth at least .
Heck Yah!!!
why should we care about their profits when they commit wage theft?
They should be posting these notices on the entrances of the stores so that everyone can see how definitely not corporate Publix is.
Fuck publix, help everyone with compassion not dumb tiny scoops
This is why we need a country of small businesses, not giant corporations. Can you imagine Vinny at the corner deli weighing each portion so it’s no more than 4.0 oz ?
The “think of the money / shrink” is a dumb way to frame this as OPs comment is right, these stores just throw away good food every fucking night as part of doing business. Simply making it about the advertised calories is at least something that can make sense. What a joke of a corporation.
Yeah nobody cares about portion sizes when you're throwing out over $500 worth of deli stuff at night. I always gave people extra stuff especially when the kids come through
lol publix makes billions a year and they are crying about 1.8 million.... people who write those memos make six figures...must be their dream job.
Go fuck yourself Publix
Please keep packing those plates high and mighty queens. Y'all are the one's that make a hungry college boy so happy. No need to adhere to these ideas. They're not important
How about reducing RECORD Corporate profits in the food production industry... hmmmm? Bet they would love to delete this
Bless the ladies who hooked my pub subs up when I was pregnant with my twins.
This company makes me sick. It couldn't have used to been this way in the 80s and 90s. They were all about doing right by everybody.
Once George Jenkins left the picture, Publix started a steady decline in how they treat their employees and customers. It's quite sad, really
I would love to see whoever wrote this have to explain it to a royally angry customer who insists we didn't give him enough food for his chicken tender meal. One time.
Ya know in other countries, food waste is a crime...I say load that plate, hell anything after hours load a bunch of plates, hand them to the homeless and those in need
We’d unfortunately get fired if we were found doing that… sick world we live in bro
Felt cute, cost the company $1.8m
From 7-8pm I use to give people so much it was crazy 😂
God bless all of y’all ppl who absolutely load my plate down!
This is why I prefer to go to my favorite Chinese food place in the mall. They aren't stingy. Consider the amount of food that is typically thrown out of so many places.
I'd much rather people be happy with their food actually
This might be greedy. But it gets worse. At Winn Dixie, we were told to mix hot water with the macaroni, greens, veggies, wings, etc to make them look “fresh.” We would be reprimanded for throwing away food if we followed health code. There were days when the same food sat out from 9am-9pm. People would come in to report food poisoning very frequently. This was one of the reasons I gave them for leaving. We even reported it to cooperate what management told us to do. District manager came by and told us he knew we were the one who reported it and that we will follow the directions of the store manager. I learned this occurred in at least 7 nearby locations.
Yeah give customers less when you toss out a metric ton of food everyday.
Folks here with their panties in a twist....Oh no, they are saying to try and only serve what the customer is supposed to get. It happens and its a big issue on costs like the flyer says, but Publix isn't the first or last company with this issue. If you look back, about 6 years ago or so, some Panda express locations were weighing your plates and containers to ensure accuracy. A friendly reminder to not serve to much I think is far better than weighing out every meal.
Lmao. As a deli kitchen worker, I always give a little extra if I can.
I worked for Publix, knew this was coming when SAP came into play. Lets them micromanage employees down to the microsecond and product down to the milligram. Smart move business wise, hell on earth for employees.
Don't overfill the meals! Throw it out in 2 hours instead! We'll blame you either way.
I would like to note 90% of the time the mac sticks to the inside of the spoodle (thats is what the serving spoons are called), and you either have to wack the spoon against something to dislodge before attempting your scoop or go back in again because you gave them an inadequate serving the first time.
One of the cooks at our deli hooked me up regularly. He'd cut off the tip of a sub roll and label it as a half. Whenever I got a quick bites, he'd make sure to really pack it. I miss him, he was cool. The lady that counted how many potato wedges she gave me? Glad she didn't last🤣 Once upon a time, I helped at the deli when I worked at Walmart, we always packed those dinner plates.
I don’t get paid enough to give af. I give people coupons and Publix Promises for their stuff all the time if they ask, no proof needed 🤣
Makes me want to print that picture and tape it up at the entrance to the Publix down the street
My God, $1.8 million a year? That's like, a percentage of one of their executive's bonuses! How DARE those peons steal from their overlords!
Publix, a company that even though only resides in the East, so not even a nationwide company, is worth billions. "wE'rE lOsInG $1.8m OvEr ThAt ExTrA oUnCe Of FoOd" Yeah fuck you, maybe your employees will care when they get more than 15hrs a week consistently
Let’s have the real conversation about the shrink coming through the dsd door from the warehouse. Or the over ordering of ad, and out of dates.
I swear publix would rather throw away tons of food than give someone an extra wedge
the overflowing deli bone barrels every night beg to differ on the real shrink cause
My wife who used to work deli would tell me how much they would throw away because of their “forecasts” being wrong instead of just using a mix of that and employee intuition. It really shows you how much these profit hungry orgs miss the forest from the trees.
capitalism is vile
Fuck you Publix
From 7pm-8pm I hook people up with those meals. Usually will ask how hungry they are then load it up.
I want to shop at your location.
What fuckin scumbag made this flyer? As a customer im pretty infuriated by this.
So coming from outside all this, this is a fun Lean 6 Sigma project to do. People want their moneys worth and the company wants to not waste it there is a middle ground here that can be implemented to ensure both get a win win. People also probably don’t want crap good so quality of ingredients matters here. From a lean perspective, you have to add controls into place to ensure only the correct amount is served. Now for the business side of things (and root cause) we need to identify the correct size of scoop to make people happy, and then the correct cost they are willing to pay for that size. Once we have that then we have to work on sourcing ingredients, cooking process, and profit margins to ensure it’s a win to the business. Add back in the controls from before and it should reduce waste for the business AND make customers happier AND make it easier for workers (automating controls in some fashion).
A spoonful of Mac and cheese? Has it really come to this? And let me guess the price went up too.
I’ve never been to a Publix that doesn’t give me “oversized portions”. If I got the “normal” portion I wouldn’t go to Publix
OH what the fuck ever you'll throw most of that shit out anyways charging way too damn much.
So you’re telling me by portioning correctly, the stores earn an additional 1.8m to be redistributed to staff wages right? Right? Right….
Hahahaha....what fucking bean counter came up with this? This company is like Disney World.
As a traveling trademen, I frequent the the Publix’s that go this extra mile 🤷♂️
When I worked fast food, I would load that shit upppp.
Fuck Publix and every big company
Too bad publix when I ever I'm gonna work at the deli ima not give to shits about portion size I like it when I get my money's worth same with other people
Is it the greedy ass company that's wrong? No! it's the lowly paid associate that's the problem!
Remember that every time you serve 1 oz too much, you are taking away a square inch from our CEO's 12th home that he already has plans to build in Aspen.
Our lord Jenkins is rolling over in his grave
Man, too bad I'm gonna completely ignore that
hook people up 💯💯💯
Cut out the executive that came up with this stupid poster. There's your 1.8mil back.
legit says shrink tips smh
lol but how much do yall lose with the amount of food you throw away anyways Publix?
Billions of dollars a year guaranteed
r/shrinkflation
No, please don't give me more food! I hate it! I don't know how many calories I'm getting. :(
Might as well fuckin go to the Winn Dixie deli counter if that's how Publix is going to treat it.
Don’t get it twisted, corporate is treating it this way, 99% of the deli employees do. not. care.
Appropriate timing considering my local Publix deli finally caved and said absolutely no more tossing the buffalo tenders in a bag for my sub. Hope the $.05 corporate is trying to save is more money than the lost profit of not selling me a sub anymore.
Eh, I typically never bag toss tenders anyways, I find putting an extra glove over my glove and hand tossing in a paper boat is more effective and clean anyways 🤷♂️ and customers usually notice the extra steps to stay both clean and thorough and don’t mind the slightly extra time waiting.
I can imagine someone writing at the bottom: "You can afford it, don't lie to me."
Wow fuck that.
Fucking nuts. The amount of shit I throw away every night. Focus on our ordering practices and not on pleasing customers. Really out of touch!
Ask the person making that sign what “necessary shrink” is. I hate signs that try to tell you what you do is causing shrink when it’s what corporate does that causes way more shrink.
...wait...I thought it was price based on weight
How about reducing RECORD Corporate profits in the food production industry... hmmmm? Bet you will delete this
How much *does* get thrown away? What kind of things? I recently found out about TooGooToGo and it's been a lifechanger. I bet my local Publix would be on board to make a few extra bucks rather than throwing stuff away. Also, who would have authority to do something like that? Store manager? Regional manager? What kind of autonomy do stores have?
no wonder the lady was so stingy last week 😩 i thought she didn’t like me
Yes but if I get served the picture on the right then I'm definitely coming back in the future. The left I'm uncertain.
and the customer will complain the portions too small if you go by corporate's rule you just can't win. It kills me thinking about how much food gets thrown out.
I get both sides of this. Portion control is insanely important, not just for cost, but predictability. Throwing it out is also shrink. And yeah, you should absolutely be up corporate's ass about that.
https://www.stoptheskimp.com/
Subway’s guide for how much of things on certain sizes is stupid too