Hey guys! I'm a small farmer in ga. Could you please help me learn what I need to do to have my produce put into a local store? Currently I can grow 5 crops so my plan is to market them as small individual 8 oz salads. Prepacked. Being local, my product is fresher then anything trucked in, lasts longer and is a better quality, but I still have no idea what I'm doing as far as getting into a store, or thier requirements. Also... if anyone could help with price points, ( i was thinking $3.50?) And give me a general idea for how big of small an order may be, that would be great! I'd like to be prepared. I'm putting everything i have into this venture. I can use all the help you guys might offer! Thank you so much! Oh! Also the salad is Romaine, Greenleaf, and arugula, kale and Frisée. 60% lettuce, 40% greens.

This has to be one of the worst places to work at. I'm not from the East coast, I came from the southwest and let me tell you certain parts in the meat department is that when breaking down pallets it's mixed with different crap. Deli meats like hot dogs, slice ham etc is part of the meat department like wtf that's two departments in one! The meat department is extremely large as it is not to mention the package of hot dogs, lunch meats and a few items are part of meat which is utter bs. In every grocery store deli department handles that stuff. As an assistant meat manager this is beyond too much to handle. Meat department shouldn't have hardly anything in the back, newer dates are mixed with older product to which the closers are doing that. Everything about what the company does is handled is weird and makes literally no sense. It's nothing like my old job where everything was less stressful and much easier to maintain in a department but Giants is not well maintained in terms of crap you have to do for a small amount of pay. Cut meat for the service case, break down eons of pallets, fill the case floor, seafood case, also I heard Giant's has one of the worst turnouts coming from a grocery store in the US like wtf?! I can see why ppl quit this company.

Hi everyone,

I’m in the early stages of starting an import business focused on sugar snap peas and other similar produce. I already have personal connections with reliable suppliers overseas, but I’ve hit a roadblock: finding wholesalers here in the U.S. who are willing to work with a new supplier.

I’m reaching out to see if anyone has advice or insights on:

1. Are there specific companies or marketplaces that are open to new partnerships?
2. How can I establish credibility in this competitive space?
3. Are there any common pitfalls in the produce import business I should be aware of?

Any tips, resources, or recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your help.

From the store owners to floor supervisors they are all immature. For the sake of not using store terms just in case one of the team members sees this, I'm gonna use language that's somewhat unfamiliar to them but easy to follow.

The way the management is set up, we have PVTs, PFCs, CPLs, SGTs, 2nd LT, 1st LT

PVTs are the one's that stay in their department, isn't trained for any other area. PFCs know a little bit more, have multiple tasks CPLs are in charge of the departments SGTs are in charge of the CPLs 2nd LT & 1st LT mainly do admin stuff.

I'm one of the CPLs I have only 1 PVT appointed under me. The other two CPLs (one recently quit) had no one appointed under them. But one had one PVT appointed under them. The SGT tells everyone else what to do. 2nd LT sometimes asks the CPLs and PFCs things, then when the questions are answered it's reported to the SGT, and the SGT chews out whoever answered the question (refraining from giving that information because of jobsite reprocussions if found out, nothing confidential or against the NDA).

I really don't like the communication system because it's not following the chain of command, the labels of leadership isn't being followed, because it doesn't seem like being given a label of leadership means you're leading anyone.

Training is pretty nonexistant. Best example is when there's a new crew member, they just get put to work. No orientation, there's not someone who trains them. I was hired on to not cashier, few days later they were short handed I got put behind the checkstand and scanned bar codes and pushed random buttons until everything worked. I hate handling money.

The SGT only does what makes them look good, pulls all the CPLs away from their appointed tasks, just to chew them out for not completing them. The recent CPL that quit, I just learned that the SGT had a non work related issue with them, and out of spite, weaponized upper management when the CPL quit.

The 2nd LT always imports a couple members of another unit to assist with this one, but one member from that team claims they have more power than our SGT and it's not directly clear whether he's a CPL or a SGT, they started saying things that seem to pertain to everyone in this team that didn't make any sense. When I expressed that I wanted to chat with them after working hours about an ex CPL, about my thoughts and opinions about that CPL's life off the clock, that person (CPL or SGT) passed the information onto the 2nd LT, whom which chewed out the SGT about my request at a chat, whom chewed me out stating that talking about the ex CPL after hours with said person was not acceptable. Which did not make any sense to me.

I'm just rambling, frusterated, I have spent a fair amount of time self teaching myself the job and faking it until I make it. I just need to make it past the next few months and then I'm back to working outside. Keeping my head down and faking a smile every day really eats at me. Again I used language to mask information about the store to keep team members that I'm talking about them.

I’ve been working at food lion for about a month and want to check my pay stubs online, how? What’s the exact link? Why didn’t food lion give any of their employees this information in the packet? (Well my packets qr code for pay stubs want working)

This company makes stuff difficult, my manager is acting as if they don’t know how to access and print off stubs.

I mean the conveyer belt at one of the registers smells like it is burning, this has never happened before to me since I started working here a couple of years ago.

I saw Walmart at bakery department. They shut all light down and it's connected to meats and hot food department. It's all closed for now.

I saw 6 police officers and fireman and ambulance took one of Walmart staff to hospital. They put victim in tied up bed. They were in bakery back room we couldn't see what happening there. They won't tell me.

Thinking must be serious if need that many cops show up unless police are more aggressive because it's close to holiday.

So get any idea why keep closed? We couldn't order meats or hot food or even ask for special requests on cakes.

We're waay below forecast, even today. Are people waiting to shop? Did they all just cancel and not doing a traditional setup?

Hello! I am interested to find out what tools do you use to monitor spoilage or contamination risks in food storage and production?

So, I made my BF a buffalo chicken sandwich & recall every single detail. There was also ham in the fridge, and I distinctly remember thinking, he prefers the chicken, so I put it back in the fridge.. or so I thought. There wasn’t much bread, & I remember thinking I had just enough to make myself 1 sandwich also but wanted to save mine for later, as a frozen pizza was in the oven & I wasn’t starving. Later, my BF asks for another sandwich & I go to the fridge and the ham is GONE! What ever happened to this mysterious cold cut? It must’ve had a spell cast upon it. My BF also remembers the ham in the fridge. I have no children or pets & us two were the only ones at my homes. Considering it was meant for a sandwich for my BF, he was immediately ruled out as a suspect. We both ran around retracing our steps throughout the day and night checking every crevice of my house & THE HAM HAD GONE MISSING! Much to our disbelief, it had apparently grown legs and found another household to enjoy its deliciousness. I am dumbfounded as to where it went & checked everywhere, even the garbage! This case remains unsolved to this very day, and is unfortunately still an ongoing investigation. I am just curious to see if this travesty has ever happened to another party, & if it has, please share your undoubted horror with me & revive my sanity.

What store has the best pecan pie? I'm getting ready for thanksgiving and I really like pecan pie. I'll get the mini ones from Walmart and I enjoy them but if there's another store I don't know of, please let me know!! I live in Utah so i didn't have access to stores like Kroger, Publix, or Aldi.

How do they compare for groceries (not including things like books, classes and supplements). Just groceries.

In the past two weeks, I’ve purchased a bag of organic potatoes so rotten I had to throw them out, frozen cod I couldn’t even chew and had to throw away from the skin layer, and I was overcharged on two items. Is this the norm for WF now?

Several times in the past few months I've been in grocery stores and seen people with their pets in the store. Some smaller dogs were riding in the shopping cart child seat, one was riding in the main part of the buggy. Two or three times it's been simply a dog walking on a leash. These were obviously not service dogs for people with disabilities. On three occasions I spoke to a manager and was told there's nothing they can do. Some of the higher end stores have signs up prohibiting this. It is against the law. My issue is its dirty. I don't want items going into my kitchen, fridge, pantry that have been contaminated by doggy paws that have been in the dirt or doggie poop that has been on its a$$.

Rant over, I guess there's nothing to do but avoid the less expensive stores that care more about upsetting one customer than about their sanitation grade. Anybody else have this concern?

Edit: originally posted in the North Carolina sub but mods said it wasn’t pertinent to NC where I live.

So here’s what happened: I got some groceries, went to the self checkout, entered my wife’s phone number for the grocery store membership, scanned all the items, bagged them, forgot to pay, and left. I would estimate it was less than $50 of groceries. This was last night. I didn’t realize until late at night after the store had closed

I want to know what course of action would result in the least legal trouble. I don’t mind paying for them if the best move is to go tell customer service today, and to me, that’s the right thing to do morally speaking. But I don’t want to go in and get myself in trouble if doing nothing would result in nothing happening.

Would explaining what happened the next day and offering to pay be me admitting guilt to shoplifting? Would the store be able to see that items were rung up with the phone number entered, but not paid for? If not, I don’t know how the actual price would be determined.

I’m hoping I can just go back the next day, sort this whole thing out with customer service, and move on with my life. Any info and advice appreciated. This is in the United States.

Edit: concluded. Following the advice from a very prompt direct message, I brought all of the items back to the store and explained what happened, phrasing it in such a way that focused on me wanting to fix it rather than focusing on what I did wrong. Customer service told me they had cleared the “slip” that showed the incomplete transaction, assuming someone had left the self checkout to go get an item they had forgotten to get. They were grateful I returned and told me not to worry about paying for the spinach I’d already eaten.

It sounds like I would have gotten away with it if I’d stayed home instead, but that’s not automatically what would happen in these situations.

I admit, I generally prefer self-checkout to minimize my human interaction. I've been shopping at the same store for years and learned a long time ago that 9 times out of 10 if the machine is upset (i.e., "unscanned item") it'll sort itself out after about 15 seconds when it recalculates the weight or whatever. This has never been an issue before: Just wait, it'll figure it out.

Lately, however, staff at my location will not allow me to "just wait." They run over as soon as the light flashes, scan their badge, pick through the bags, etc. and generally create way more interaction and waiting around than I'm looking for and which was the whole benefit of self-checkout for me in the first place. It feels like a training change because the switch was very abrupt and is especially noticeable among newer crops of staff who seem completely allergic to the idea of just waiting for a moment.

Is this it? Do I need to start having my groceries delivered by a drone if I want to be left alone?

Is there a reason that grocery stores will suddenly change their playlists to play only one kind of music? Seems to have coincided with Trump winning the election, is this just coincidence? They have done this before with other genres. They've played hip-hop exclusively for a month (some explicit), 50s music exclusively, rave music, but exclusively that for a while. Is there some motive behind this? Hearing "she thinks my tractors sexy it really turns her on" is bizarre in a grocery store, at least to me, and customers have made comments on it. Anyone else notice this at their stores?

This is something people have been saying on the Internet for years now. They say the same thing about restaurants. And they say this because no body likes to hear a child scream and cry solely because they can't get what they want.

BUT as a cashier at a grocery store, and someone who's worked in the restaurant industry, I would much rather prefer to hear a child screaming and crying all day long then deal with your elderly grandpa/grandma who's being an asshole because they don't understand how things work nowadays.

In my opinion, once people reach the age to be considered a "senior", they should be required to be accompanied by a "handler". Someone who can tell them to shut up and stay in their lane when they start being unruly or rude for no good reason.

I’m applying to Raley’s and they have openings for a “Clerk” and “Courtesy clerk” but the job description doesn’t explain much. If anyone has worked there, what’s it like?

Kroger brand Sugar Free powdered drink mix was reformulated with a different sweetener (strong after taste) about six weeks ago. The Zero Calorie, Sugar Free inventory was stripped from the shelves in one swoop. I would love to buy a case of the original raspberry lemonade. Where did it all go??