Maverik lay-offs

[DSMCy]

Just to piss people off more Krause put a new Lambo or Ferrari in his garage recently (he owns several).

Not sure if he still does, but he used to occasionally ride a Vespa into work in the summer. That was back when KG was on Westown Parkway in WDM

 

[Cyched]

Consolidation may kill the economy before AI does. Soon all restaurants will be taco bell.

With AI powered bots making my chalupas.

It’s a brave new world.

 

[RoseClone]

Not only this, many Kum N Go stores in the DSM metro are being sold to Mega Saver and will not be a Maverick. At least 2 or 3 in Ankeny, Polk City, and a few others.

Altoona

 

[NickTheGreat]

My wife has a friend who worked at Krause when the Kum & Go sale happened. She never lost her job, but left willingly, seeing the writing on the wall.

I'm going through a bit of a midlife crisis myself, but I just want a sports car. Mine won't cost hundreds of people their jobs.

 

[Jer]

Consolidation may kill the economy before AI does. Soon all restaurants will be taco bell.

Well the sump pump, hoses, and toilet factories will skyrocket.

 

[HFCS]

That new Casey's logo is a god damn monstrosity.

Built in logo advantage no Kum in the title though.

 

[Nor'MidWester]

Hy-Vee and Casey's acquires stores all the time and rebrands them. It's just business.

Hy-Vee feels like a company that is always trying to be bought out by a larger grocer.

 

[wxman1]

There are a LOT of “under the radar” mass layoffs over the past few months. (or done in monthly waves or creative wording to avoid the various notification requirements)

We are waiting to see if my employer keeps up with it's trend of quarterly layoffs this year.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

The DSM market seems to be losing so many corporate jobs. Maverick, WF, F&G, Nationwide. I'm sure I'm missing some others. And like someone else mentioned, if the companies do smaller layoffs they can avoid the WARN act.

Just wait, Insurance companies are dropping like flies...

 

[VeloClone]

Consolidation may kill the economy before AI does. Soon all restaurants will be taco bell.

 

[CycloneDaddy]

We are waiting to see if my employer keeps up with it's trend of quarterly layoffs this year.

Every 2 weeks at my place of employment.

 

[CYdTracked]

Hy-Vee feels like a company that is always trying to be bought out by a larger grocer.

I'm not so sure about that. They ran Albertsons out of the Des Moines market pretty quickly around the early 2000's when they tried to enter the market here and that is probably one of the biggest national chains in the US. Hy-Vee bought out a lot of stores in the Kansas City area when they first entered the market there and seems to be expanding the number of markets they weren't in before over the years too.

 

[KennyPratt42]

Hy-Vee feels like a company that is always trying to be bought out by a larger grocer.

The last numbers I saw Hy-Vee was the 17th largest grocery chain in the country (Walmart and Costco are at the top of the list). There really aren't that many that have a similar type of store that are bigger than Hy-Vee. I think the list would be Kroger, Albertsons, Ahold Delhaize ( which has Stop & Shop and Food Lion), Publix, H-E-B, Meijer, and Wegmans.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Middle management will be the first to get axed as the economy cools more and more. AI will make it a blood bath for a lot of those types of positions.

 

[CascadeClone]

Middle management will be the first to get axed as the economy cools more and more. AI will make it a blood bath for a lot of those types of positions.

I hear this a lot, but it can't be just CEOs and cashiers. The trick with middle management is that good middle mgrs are critical to success, but there are a lot of trash ones.

Also support services like IT, accounting/finance, HR tend to build little empires in big companies and that's where a lot of mgmt bloat tends to be. Meanwhile the operations and line management folks get squeezed like crazy. At least that has been my previous experience at a major aviation electronics manufacturer based in Cedar Rapids (who I won't name).

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

I hear this a lot, but it can't be just CEOs and cashiers. The trick with middle management is that good middle mgrs are critical to success, but there are a lot of trash ones.

Also support services like IT, accounting/finance, HR tend to build little empires in big companies and that's where a lot of mgmt bloat tends to be. Meanwhile the operations and line management folks get squeezed like crazy. At least that has been my previous experience at a major aviation electronics manufacturer based in Cedar Rapids (who I won't name).

Ya they always squeeze the least likely to fight back. HR is a whole other can of worms. That's a societal issue IMO.

 

[JEFF420]

Bayer has done the gut of middle management. It’s supposed to be a ground up corporation now.

 

[somecyguy]

Consolidation may kill the economy before AI does. Soon all restaurants will be taco bell.

Not sure it matters that much since over 80% of restaurants get their food from 3 national suppliers.

 

[Nor'MidWester]

The last numbers I saw Hy-Vee was the 17th largest grocery chain in the country (Walmart and Costco are at the top of the list). There really aren't that many that have a similar type of store that are bigger than Hy-Vee. I think the list would be Kroger, Albertsons, Ahold Delhaize ( which has Stop & Shop and Food Lion), Publix, H-E-B, Meijer, and Wegmans.

Oh ok. It's just the vibe I get from them. I thought Publix or some other company was looking into buying them a few years ago but maybe not.

 

[cycloner29]

Bayer has done the gut of middle management. It’s supposed to be a ground up corporation now.

They had like twelve levels of management and have cut it back to five now.