Giant Food as a supermarket chain may refer to:
Giant-Carlisle or Giant Food Stores LLC, a subsidiary of Ahold
Giant-Landover or Giant Food LLC, also an Ahold subsidiary
Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York
Giant Food, owned by Royal Ahold, has announced it will open a new fresh food distribution center in Howard County, Maryland that should be in operation by the mid-summer of 2003. Giant expects to hold formal groundbreaking ceremonies this summer.
Giant's current perishables distribution center, which opened in 1957, is located in Landover, Md., adjacent to the company's corporate headquarters and employs 550 associates. Giant said it expects all of the center's regular workforce will be offered job opportunities when the new distribution facility opens next year. Giant will maintain their Landover administrative headquarters in Prince George's County, Md.
The new fresh food distribution center will be designed to serve all of Giant's current 187 stores and provide for the company's continued growth. The new fresh food facility will distribute produce, meat, deli, and seafood.
Giant Food CONFIRMS Company Policy is to SICKEN ALL CUSTOMERS with SECOND-HAND SMOKE, by stationing SMOKING employees near ENTRANCES.
I have sent over 20 complaints about Giant Food Employees smoking around the entrances to Giant Food by filling out comment cards, entering them on their web site, or calling the corporate offices. NONE of these has stopped the employees from smoking at the entrances. One time, the assistant manager was even standing at the open door, blowing smoke in the faces of customers entering the store.
I tried to shop at Giant today--the Mapledale location in Dale City. At approximately 2 pm today, one Giant Food employee walked past the front entrance on the right hand side of the store, apparently hiding a cigarette in her hand. She stopped about 20 feet from the door and continued to smoke. A second Giant Food employee soon joined her and lit a cigarette. They stood there for a while, then started walking further away from the door (toward the Health Club). The first employee was white with short dark blonde/light brunette curly hair. The second employee was black with short hair.
I did shop at Giant on Feb 12. I was in the store, and walked near the front door, and smelled the strong stench of cigarette smoke. Someone had apparently been smoking at the entrance just then (about 1:15 pm). A black female employee who I believe is the assistant manager was near the front door inside - she may have been smoking outside. When I left the store at about 1:45 pm, after I got to my car, a white female Giant employee with long blonde hair lit a cigarette about 20 feet from the entrance. A black female employee was with her. This may have been the same woman I saw today. They soon walked further from the entrance.
I CANNOT BE EXPOSED TO SMOKE. I CANNOT AFFORD TO GET ANY SICKER THAN I ALREADY AM. CONTINUING TO HAVE GIANT FOOD EMPLOYEES SMOKING NEAR THE STORE ENTRANCES JUST CONFIRMS THAT Giant Food Company Policy is to SICKEN ALL CUSTOMERS with SECOND-HAND SMOKE. THIS IS INTOLERABLE.
At Giant, you’ll find the recipe for success. Whether you’re looking to further your professional career or secure your first job, Giant offers a variety of opportunities for talented individuals who are eager to join a motivated, friendly, and diverse team. Giant provides all the ingredients you need for a fulfilling work experience - competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package and growth potential. Our associates are the most valuable resource within the Giant organization and we endeavor to treat each associate with dignity and respect.
Since its mid-November opening, the new Giant Food in Burtonsville Town Square has kept some old promises, added new features and appears to be a hit with customers. While Store Manager Dave Eyler did not share any specific data on sales figures (due to company policy) his opinion is that customer traffic flow has been consistent and few complaints have been received.
“Really the only complaint we get is that some shoppers feel a bit lost in this store compared to the old one,” Eyler said. “Just like when we opened in November, we’re still happy to take the time and physically walk a customer to the location of an item if they are feeling lost.”
During the store-opening celebration, management touted the creation of 85 new jobs and a focus on customer service, and it appears that both promises have been kept. Eyler said that closer to 100 positions are currently filled and that employee retention has been very good so far.
A Comment Box is located at the Customer Service Desk, with submitted notes going directly to Eyler, he said. “I take these comments very seriously, and we do our best to act on them. One thing you may notice since the store opening is that the produce section has changes. We moved things around and opened up the walkways because customers told us it was too difficult to navigate the way it was.”
Other things have changed in the past few months as well. A computerized kiosk has been added to the deli area, so customers can place their orders while shopping for other items; Aisle 9 now features a large selection of bulk items, including nuts, candy, granola and grains.
“This is very nice to see here at Giant,” said shopper Sarah Mullin. “I usually go to a health food store to get bulk granola, but now I can do it in just one trip.”
Other customers seem to be pleased at the expanded selection of the new store, but not necessarily the new location.
“I enjoy the organic aisle of the new Giant, because everything is in one aisle. It's almost like an express Whole Foods and I can quickly get shopping done,” said Hasaan Brown. “I miss the old Giant, but the new one suits my tastes better. Although it stinks that I can't hit Starbucks and Giant in the same strip mall anymore.”
Each industry has different tools at its disposal to cut turnover, Burchman says. Among stockbrokers, his company found, hiring the right people in the first place is more important than any kind of incentive firms could pay to keep brokers.
At UPS, the giant package delivery company, truck driver turnover was cut when some of the responsibility for loading and unloading trucks was shifted to loading dockworkers.
"In most companies, turnover realistically can be reduced by as much as 50 percent, even if some managers don't believe it can be accomplished," said Jim Kochanski, another principal of the firm. He said that managers should be creative in thinking of ways to attack the problem. One call center company, for example, put trailers containing what in effect were portable call centers on college campuses so that students working part time didn't need a car to get to their jobs.
Negotiators for Giant Food, Inc. and Safeway, Inc. and Local 400 of the Food and Commercial Workers recently signed a 4-year labor contract that retains fully paid health care benefits for about 20,000 grocery workers in the Washington, DC, area in exchange for delaying wage increases payable under the new contract. The accord was expected to serve as a pattern for an additional 8,000 grocery workers, 1,000 at Super Fresh stores in the Washington, DC, area and 7,000 Giant and Safeway workers in Baltimore, MD, represented by the union's Local 27. Local 400 coordinated bargaining with Local 27.
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Terms of the agreement provided wage increases of 25 cents an hour in the first year of the contract and 35 cents an hour in each of the last 3 years. The top rate for assistant managers was $15.25 an hour at the expiration of the previous contract; for clerks, $12.65 an hour; and for journey-level meatcutters, $14.64.
Health care terms included continuation of company-paid health insurance premiums; establishment of a rehabilitation program for employees and their dependents for carrdiovascular or cerebrovascular accidents, closed head and spinal cord injuries, and neurological disorders; coverage for periodontal work at the 50-percent level for employees and their dependents; extension of orthodontia coverage to all employees; and an increase in employee copayments for prescription drugs, from 50 cents for each prescription to 5 percent of the cost if the drug is purchased at Giant or Safeway, or 10 percent if purchased elsewhere.
Other changes in health and welfare benefits included incentives to induce early retirement, up to a 50-percent increase in pension benefits for full-time workers' credited service before 1987 and a 100-percent increase in severance benefits for future service credit in excess of 20 years; a change in retirees' monthly copayments for medical benefits, from $171.95 for all retirees to a range of $15-$213, depending on an employee's age and years of service.
Other terms include a "most favored nation" clause that gives Giant and Safeway the option to incorporate in the current agreement any provision the local union negotiates with a competing grocery that is more favorable to the companies than the one currently in force in the Giant/Safeway agreement, and a maximum 35-hour work week, up from 29, for part-time employees.
Giant-Carlisle or Giant Food Stores LLC, a subsidiary of Ahold
Giant-Landover or Giant Food LLC, also an Ahold subsidiary
Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York
Giant Food, owned by Royal Ahold, has announced it will open a new fresh food distribution center in Howard County, Maryland that should be in operation by the mid-summer of 2003. Giant expects to hold formal groundbreaking ceremonies this summer.
Giant's current perishables distribution center, which opened in 1957, is located in Landover, Md., adjacent to the company's corporate headquarters and employs 550 associates. Giant said it expects all of the center's regular workforce will be offered job opportunities when the new distribution facility opens next year. Giant will maintain their Landover administrative headquarters in Prince George's County, Md.
The new fresh food distribution center will be designed to serve all of Giant's current 187 stores and provide for the company's continued growth. The new fresh food facility will distribute produce, meat, deli, and seafood.
Giant Food CONFIRMS Company Policy is to SICKEN ALL CUSTOMERS with SECOND-HAND SMOKE, by stationing SMOKING employees near ENTRANCES.
I have sent over 20 complaints about Giant Food Employees smoking around the entrances to Giant Food by filling out comment cards, entering them on their web site, or calling the corporate offices. NONE of these has stopped the employees from smoking at the entrances. One time, the assistant manager was even standing at the open door, blowing smoke in the faces of customers entering the store.
I tried to shop at Giant today--the Mapledale location in Dale City. At approximately 2 pm today, one Giant Food employee walked past the front entrance on the right hand side of the store, apparently hiding a cigarette in her hand. She stopped about 20 feet from the door and continued to smoke. A second Giant Food employee soon joined her and lit a cigarette. They stood there for a while, then started walking further away from the door (toward the Health Club). The first employee was white with short dark blonde/light brunette curly hair. The second employee was black with short hair.
I did shop at Giant on Feb 12. I was in the store, and walked near the front door, and smelled the strong stench of cigarette smoke. Someone had apparently been smoking at the entrance just then (about 1:15 pm). A black female employee who I believe is the assistant manager was near the front door inside - she may have been smoking outside. When I left the store at about 1:45 pm, after I got to my car, a white female Giant employee with long blonde hair lit a cigarette about 20 feet from the entrance. A black female employee was with her. This may have been the same woman I saw today. They soon walked further from the entrance.
I CANNOT BE EXPOSED TO SMOKE. I CANNOT AFFORD TO GET ANY SICKER THAN I ALREADY AM. CONTINUING TO HAVE GIANT FOOD EMPLOYEES SMOKING NEAR THE STORE ENTRANCES JUST CONFIRMS THAT Giant Food Company Policy is to SICKEN ALL CUSTOMERS with SECOND-HAND SMOKE. THIS IS INTOLERABLE.
At Giant, you’ll find the recipe for success. Whether you’re looking to further your professional career or secure your first job, Giant offers a variety of opportunities for talented individuals who are eager to join a motivated, friendly, and diverse team. Giant provides all the ingredients you need for a fulfilling work experience - competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package and growth potential. Our associates are the most valuable resource within the Giant organization and we endeavor to treat each associate with dignity and respect.
Since its mid-November opening, the new Giant Food in Burtonsville Town Square has kept some old promises, added new features and appears to be a hit with customers. While Store Manager Dave Eyler did not share any specific data on sales figures (due to company policy) his opinion is that customer traffic flow has been consistent and few complaints have been received.
“Really the only complaint we get is that some shoppers feel a bit lost in this store compared to the old one,” Eyler said. “Just like when we opened in November, we’re still happy to take the time and physically walk a customer to the location of an item if they are feeling lost.”
During the store-opening celebration, management touted the creation of 85 new jobs and a focus on customer service, and it appears that both promises have been kept. Eyler said that closer to 100 positions are currently filled and that employee retention has been very good so far.
A Comment Box is located at the Customer Service Desk, with submitted notes going directly to Eyler, he said. “I take these comments very seriously, and we do our best to act on them. One thing you may notice since the store opening is that the produce section has changes. We moved things around and opened up the walkways because customers told us it was too difficult to navigate the way it was.”
Other things have changed in the past few months as well. A computerized kiosk has been added to the deli area, so customers can place their orders while shopping for other items; Aisle 9 now features a large selection of bulk items, including nuts, candy, granola and grains.
“This is very nice to see here at Giant,” said shopper Sarah Mullin. “I usually go to a health food store to get bulk granola, but now I can do it in just one trip.”
Other customers seem to be pleased at the expanded selection of the new store, but not necessarily the new location.
“I enjoy the organic aisle of the new Giant, because everything is in one aisle. It's almost like an express Whole Foods and I can quickly get shopping done,” said Hasaan Brown. “I miss the old Giant, but the new one suits my tastes better. Although it stinks that I can't hit Starbucks and Giant in the same strip mall anymore.”
Each industry has different tools at its disposal to cut turnover, Burchman says. Among stockbrokers, his company found, hiring the right people in the first place is more important than any kind of incentive firms could pay to keep brokers.
At UPS, the giant package delivery company, truck driver turnover was cut when some of the responsibility for loading and unloading trucks was shifted to loading dockworkers.
"In most companies, turnover realistically can be reduced by as much as 50 percent, even if some managers don't believe it can be accomplished," said Jim Kochanski, another principal of the firm. He said that managers should be creative in thinking of ways to attack the problem. One call center company, for example, put trailers containing what in effect were portable call centers on college campuses so that students working part time didn't need a car to get to their jobs.
Negotiators for Giant Food, Inc. and Safeway, Inc. and Local 400 of the Food and Commercial Workers recently signed a 4-year labor contract that retains fully paid health care benefits for about 20,000 grocery workers in the Washington, DC, area in exchange for delaying wage increases payable under the new contract. The accord was expected to serve as a pattern for an additional 8,000 grocery workers, 1,000 at Super Fresh stores in the Washington, DC, area and 7,000 Giant and Safeway workers in Baltimore, MD, represented by the union's Local 27. Local 400 coordinated bargaining with Local 27.
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A taxing situation... [Derived headline]
1996: the year in drug store retailing
Merck/Medco sues Rite Aide over boycott
New York unions rally demanding justice for 70,000 California strikers
Terms of the agreement provided wage increases of 25 cents an hour in the first year of the contract and 35 cents an hour in each of the last 3 years. The top rate for assistant managers was $15.25 an hour at the expiration of the previous contract; for clerks, $12.65 an hour; and for journey-level meatcutters, $14.64.
Health care terms included continuation of company-paid health insurance premiums; establishment of a rehabilitation program for employees and their dependents for carrdiovascular or cerebrovascular accidents, closed head and spinal cord injuries, and neurological disorders; coverage for periodontal work at the 50-percent level for employees and their dependents; extension of orthodontia coverage to all employees; and an increase in employee copayments for prescription drugs, from 50 cents for each prescription to 5 percent of the cost if the drug is purchased at Giant or Safeway, or 10 percent if purchased elsewhere.
Other changes in health and welfare benefits included incentives to induce early retirement, up to a 50-percent increase in pension benefits for full-time workers' credited service before 1987 and a 100-percent increase in severance benefits for future service credit in excess of 20 years; a change in retirees' monthly copayments for medical benefits, from $171.95 for all retirees to a range of $15-$213, depending on an employee's age and years of service.
Other terms include a "most favored nation" clause that gives Giant and Safeway the option to incorporate in the current agreement any provision the local union negotiates with a competing grocery that is more favorable to the companies than the one currently in force in the Giant/Safeway agreement, and a maximum 35-hour work week, up from 29, for part-time employees.