Feel like Whole Foods/Amazon is there iirc. Not everywhere, but they have the tech in the wild I believe. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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Feel like Whole Foods/Amazon is there iirc. Not everywhere, but they have the tech in the wild I believe. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Not sure how we're defining "struggling financially" here. In danger of a major business failure or bankruptcy? Almost certainly not. Cash crunched? Perhaps, they've made some moves that suggest they are.
The pandemic was an absolute godsend to the grocery business and the moment things returned to relatively normal conditions, Hy-Vee was in full panic and cost-cutting mode, flailing around even worse than they were before. Something is clearly amiss.
They are doing ok. Would be A LOT better if Randy didn't make some horrible operational decisions over the past decade... The fast and fresh stores are carrying a lot of weight and about the only strong performer right now
Wouldn't more pockets make it harder? I'd have to remember which it's in. I don't recall ever pulling my phone out and thinking "I hope it unlocks".My bad, I forget that for some people it's a lot easier
I bet their revamped plan they're coming out with in "mid-April" will be super beneficial to the employees when it launches in mid-September.
I have seen it at a WF IIRC in Seattle.
A lot of Amazon integration there where people will go pickup their groceries, walk thru an open turnstile type of thing, go to their Amazon locker for any other online purchases and walk out.
You gotta be dry shaving me! All of the moves they've made over the last 5 years screams financial trouble.
The hyvee in my small rural town just put in all self checkout. Small rural towns in Iowa are full of older people and they aren’t happy. I’m friends with the fareway store director and he said they’ve never been busier because people don’t want to self checkout a weeks worth of groceries even if they are capable.
The workers at hyvee also hate it because of all the complaints and extra work for them with having to check ids for alcohol and get cigarettes.
It would have made sense to put 1-2 self checkouts because it would be easier for me with a few items but I won’t go in their ti shop for my family anymore.
The workers at hyvee also hate it because of all the complaints and extra work for them with having to check ids for alcohol and get cigarettes.
It would have made sense to put 1-2 self checkouts because it would be easier for me with a few items but I won’t go in their ti shop for my family anymore.
The Fast & Fresh change over never made sense to me, but maybe that's just based on the locations I've seen around CR. They were converted over from HyVee gas stations so many of them are either next to an actual HyVee or near by.
The only bad part about the Hy-vee one is you had to go to an area when you were done, scan a QR code and sometimes wait for an employee to check you out. Sometimes nobody was around the self checkout area, it seemed like 1 person was in charge because nobody else knew about it. The actual scanning was very easy.
Fareway is killing it with their small and mid town market strategy
Which is hilarious because they are doing what Hy-Vee did 20-30 years ago... Hy-Vee turned their back on rural Iowa and Fareway is cashing in.
10000% Randy would rather host Marky Mark for the weekend than focus on A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle..
I guess we had different experiences. I found it faster to just scan everything at the end.
One thing Fareway did that amazed me. I wasn’t feeling well and Seven Up was on sale if you bought three 12 packs. Didn’t really want three but went ahead and did that in online order. When I picked it up I noticed they had texted about something being out of stock. They only had one Seven Up left so they only charged me the bottle deposit and essentially just gave me the free one as if I bought three.
Fareway pickup also does a bunch of free samples of stuff and always errors on the side of taking care of the customer. They are so good at it. Never a wait, never a mistake.
