You have the demand for groceries idea backwards. Demands for produce, dairy, eggs and meats are greatly reduced due to restaurants closings. Warehousing is done primarily by machines.
We'll have to wait and see if some try to return a lot of stuff in the months to come. That happened with Y2K, too. Remember that? We were in the health food biz and had lot of people driving across state lines to get non perishable food to put in a can and bury in the back yard or whatever. Fear ruled. The next year business was a bummer.
Think you're right guy! You get used to hangin' if you hang long enough!
Actually, I don't. People are cooking at home for a change and the demand for GROCERIES is UP. Restaurants don't buy their eggs and produce from Walmart.
I think you are wrong. I work in the meat department of a very large grocery retailer and our prices have only gone up. In fact, during this time of emergency, a lot of our manufacturers have pulled back on their sales. Oscar Meyer, Hatfield and Hillshire Farms all pulled back on their sales.
We have a tremendous food warehouse here, probably over 700,000 square feet. It’s a lights out operation, which means that they use robots to pick food items by the cases.
Hi! If you work in the meat dept., maybe you can answer my question, because no meat man has answered this for me. Why is there no USDA shield displayed on meat packages anymore? My local grocery gets all their meat from Mexico, which i won't buy. But the grocerys that sell American beef (and poultry), why isn't the country of origin displayed on the package? Nothing is labeled choice, or prime or select anymore in the local grocerys. I've purchased meat and found it inedible, and later found it was select grade. There are many levels of select grade, cutter? (Don't know the other grades) butI only want to purchase choice or prime, and don't know what I'm getting because nothing is labeled.
The meat “must” be stamped. If you are not seeing the stamp it’s probably because it’s been trimmed off, or it’s not from the U.S. When we get cuts of beef, pork, chicken, etc., it has either been trimmed or we trim it. If there is no stamp, you have the right to ask where the beef came from (country of origin). Same for eggs. If you go to a local butcher, you are more assured of getting USDA prime beef. We use all USDA prime Angus beef. But, don’t be fooled by that. Not all of the beef is fed to make the meat tasteful.
Distributors deliver to restaurants and stores. From the farm to the processors to warehouses to the trucks to the point of sales. You are avoiding the hoarding that accounts for part of the sales. Also you should know that many restaurants will go to the stores to buy their food if the distributor fails to show. happens every day.Actually, I don't. People are cooking at home for a change and the demand for GROCERIES is UP. Restaurants don't buy their eggs and produce from Walmart.
I am "avoiding" nothing. Your thread topic asks why retail stores (Walmart, Randalls, Kroger) are hiring. The reason is, more people are grocery shopping because they are eating at home. Hoarding? Perhaps. But the bottom line is, more people are grocery shopping because they aren't eating out, and MANY more people are having groceries delivered or using a pickup service. Someone has to pick those orders from the shelves and bag them, keep the shelves stocked, etc. From Forbes... "According to Rakuten Intelligence data for March 12 and March 13 only, online sales at full-assortment grocers grew 325.9% and orders rose 219%. "
In what state would this be?? Corn and string green beans in April??
