This corporate conglomerate should be completely ashamed to call themselves a "family store". A "store with family core values". Ever since Fred Meijer passed away, it gets worse every single year. If you're full time, you're lucky and may actually make something out of it. If you're just going to be part time, then don't even bother applying to work here because eventually you'll have little to almost no hours that you're scheduled to work. They steadily make new ways to eliminate people while making the ones who still have hours work even harder. For example, literally cutting the greeters down to nothing and then having stupid little meetings that introduce new ideas such as "Customer Experience Heroes" and "Greet Greet Greet". That's just another term for "Greet all customers because we don't have the greeters to do that anymore." A while back they eliminated the electronics team leader position and sort of pushed the department into general GM. There really is no career advancement here unless somehow you're able to really suck up to management and get on their good list. I honestly thought our CEO would be a good guy from the stuff he says in his quarterly update videos, but he's allowing for all of this to happen and chip away at good people who really make the stores what they are. I cannot forgive all the cuts that have been made this year, not for a store that claims they care about their "family" aka the employees. I've never seen hours cut this bad since I started working here. Meijer always tries to pride themselves as being better than the competition but in all reality, they're Walmart, just with a different name. The greed is still there. Management can BS their way through difficult discussions about why their subordinates hours are being slashed down to nothing, but there is no excuse for it. It all boils down to greed. Any of the new programs that they come up with, some of us can't and will never take benefit from and I feel like the more they introduce, the more everyone else suffers because they have to make it up elsewhere. So there go your hours. I'd hate to see parents who aren't full time/management work here otherwise your baby will be lucky to even afford eating dirt. Very sad times because it was never this bad, especially so far after Christmas. Sales are constantly on target or even exceeded so how can you honestly say with a straight face that Meijer is struggling financially? It's not and you know it. But you know who is struggling financially? Those part-timers who work for you and that you've cut down so far that they can no longer live anymore just to drive your profits up higher. Fred would be absolutely disappointed in the people running the company he worked so hard to build up and earn employees respect. I can assure you that he would not be pleased that part time employees who have been here for years only work one day a week and not by their own choosing.
