Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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Have you been to the new one? There are literally people driving up from Alabama to shop there.
My FIL brings up stuff from there allll the time when he goes hunting. Every bit of it is expired. He gave us some breakfast sausage that was over three years old.
I have not, but it’s on the list the next time I am in that area.
They went away from that about a month or so before Covid. Probably would have kept it longer in hindsight if they knew the shutdown was coming and aisles online was going to explode because of it.
A guy in front of me came down from Iowa City and bought over $700 worth of bacon for he and his buddies. Filled up the back of his van.
Randy is no longer the CEO, Jeremy Gosch is. It's kind of a mess, they had co-CEO's for awhile after Randy stepped down too.
Hy-Vee ditches dual-CEO plan, leaving Jeremy Gosch as its top executive
Board chair Randy Edeker said last year that the job was too big for one person. But after briefly having two CEOs, Hy-Vee will again just have one.
www.desmoinesregister.com
Randy actually stepped down as the board of directors chairman this past summer too and retired. I completely agree that the company went down some bad paths with Randy at the top of leadership. Ron and Rick great leaders and the company did dabble in some of the stupid ventures of adding non-grocery stuff to the stores but it was pretty short lived when it failed in their pilot stores. The crazy thing is I think Hy-Vee is still expanding their market and opening new stores in markets they have not had stores in before so they are still profitable enough to grow despite their flaws.
So Hy-Vee tried the following:
-Selling shoes
-Selling designer clothing
-Attaching a Hy-Vee fitness Center
-Branding their own restaurants
-partnering with a celebrity when their branded restaurants failed
-Paid Patrick Mahomes a ton of money
-Tried to film a Bachelor-style reality show in their stores (seriously, who green lit this…)
Before realizing that people only want reasonably priced groceries with helpful, cheerful employees like they had been doing for the previous 50 years??
EVERYONE knew this yet some moron CEO somehow got away with trying all of that BS. And now they have to beg for people to come back. LOL.
-Selling shoes
-Selling designer clothing
-Attaching a Hy-Vee fitness Center
-Branding their own restaurants
-partnering with a celebrity when their branded restaurants failed
-Paid Patrick Mahomes a ton of money
-Tried to film a Bachelor-style reality show in their stores (seriously, who green lit this…)
Before realizing that people only want reasonably priced groceries with helpful, cheerful employees like they had been doing for the previous 50 years??
EVERYONE knew this yet some moron CEO somehow got away with trying all of that BS. And now they have to beg for people to come back. LOL.
I'll call people lazy for a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. I rarely use it myself, but it's a LOT more efficient than going & shopping yourself, and costs nothing extra when you pick it up. Something like $5 or $10 (plus tip) to deliver, but they also regularly have 10-20% off codes that can offset part/most of that. Plus you likely save by shopping online vs in-store as you don't grab as many impulse items.
Employees shopping online orders is probably about 278th on my list of inconveniences in a given month.
Here's the thing with the HyVee's near me and the self checkout and I don't want to sound bad but both stores near me have employees with special needs working those areas. I've always appreciated HyVee and how they employee people with special needs but a known area for theft maybe isn't the best spot. When it's busy, the Mills Civic self check is busy AF so I can see how stuff would be easily missed.
i thought i read where they said people want to interact with the checkers or some sh*t.
b*tch i dont want to talk to anyone, let me get in and out (giggity) without talking to a soul.
Think of a place like Home Depot. High dollar small package items have to be walking out the door all day.
Sorry, I was told a couple months back that eggs would be .99 again.
Have you been in Home Depot lately? They have pretty much anything worth anything behind cages now. All the power tools, batteries, electrical stuff... locked behind cages. Just another reason to shop online and get it delivered.
