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Originally Posted by Zarley
“Sobeys’ system is to only stock product three deep, whereas Safeway had much deeper inventory and would pay staff to keep shelves replenished. Long-time Safeway shoppers like me have been forced to move to Save-On or Superstore. We didn’t want to leave, but did so because of all the changes made to Safeway.”...]
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As someone who used to work in the industry for a long time, that's just plain stupid inventory management except for only the slowest of stores. The one I mainly worked was was considered medium volume, and we still had out of stock issues even with every day ordering. (Average store count was around 300 daily). And we're talking stuffing the shelves on most high movers.
The bit about adopting new procedures and processes is definitely true as well. Albertson's parent company acquired the US Safeway a year or two ago and the switch to a lot of new "Albertson" ways sucked and hurt the stores. I don't think it's as bad as the Sobey-run Canadian ones, but still worse than you might remember.
Happy I'm out of that field now.