Save on Foods

Today I started at the new Lethbridge Save On Foods and wow, what a difference. At the St.Albert location Save on Foods is known as a high quality, high priced, and very very clean grocery store, and this is part of the reason I love it so much. Almost everybody that works there is reliable (with a few exceptions of course) and you can count on them coming to work in uniform on time and ready to work.

Today I walked into Save on 15 minutes early like i usually do so I can do a produce walk and fill out papers and read the binder to see if there is anything new. I walk up to the front and introduce myself for the first time and the lady looks at the clock and gives me a huge smile. She was shocked I came even a little bit early and told me I would quickly become a favorite if I kept that up. From what she told me most people don't show up until 5 or 10 minutes after there shift starts! That just boggles my mind. Its a job you are getting paid for why would you come in late. The she took in my uniform. There I stood white shirt, name tag, black pants, polishable shoes, and apron, the complete uniform and she told me how impressed she was that I was wearing the appropriate clothing. As I took in the other cashiers I saw what she meant, most of them were wearing jeans or regular t shirts, just whatever. The tills were completely different so I had a bit of a hard time adjusting and the customers are completely opposite.

So in short. I came from a very regulated clean Save On Foods to a Save On Foods where they are a lot more lax with the rules. Where my Save on Foods is high priced, this Save On Foods sells food in the reasonable to cheap range, thus attracting more average people with normal standards (which is a good thing). Basically though, it feels like I am working at Walmart. The store is dirty, the cashiers don't really seem to care and the lineup are long and never ending.

Hopefully after a couple of shifts I will get in the groove. I just need to get used to it.