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Wegmans is a family-owned grocery store chain. NYTimes noted it can actually claim a "cult following".
The Center for American Progress reports
It manages to have a huge selection while offering prices that can compete with Walmart, but that it does it while treating its employees well.
The perks start with pay, which for hourly store employees is a little more than $33,000 a year on average. By contrast, Walmart has admitted that more than half of its employees make less than $25,000 a year.
[...]but that's not what makes the company famous for employee satisfaction, landing it on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list every year since the list began. It also offers generous benefits. It pays about 85 percent of the costs of health care coverage, including dental, for its full-time employees and offers insurance to part-time workers who put in 30 hours a week. It offers 401(k) plans with a salary match of up to 3 percent of an employee's contribution.
And it has a scholarship program[...]
Wegmans also offers more work/life balance than most retail jobs.[...]
These benefits aren't just altruistic. The company generates $7.1 billion in revenue and is profitable. "When you think about employees first, the bottom line is better," the company's vice-president for human resources has said. The company boasts a 5 percent turnover rate among full-time employees, compared to a 27 percent[paywall] rate for the industry. That comes with a cost, as it often eats up about 20 percent of a worker's salary to replace him.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday May 17 2015, @01:02PM
Also, Wegmans, along with Giant Eagle and Sheetz are the three biggest movers in lobbying the PA government to pull its ass out of Prohibition. (currently unsuccessfully)
One of my first trips to the US was to PA and I remember spending 10 minutes wandering around a GEagle trying to find the beer section. I thought my friends were joking - a supermarket that doesn't sell alcohol just seemed too weird. My next trip was to Salt Lake City though, and that helped put it in perspective...
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(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday May 19 2015, @12:28AM
Wow you visit all the fun places... :)
Though we are moving in the right direction now. Wegmans and Giant Eagles in PA are now technically "bar/pub/restaraunts". I mean, grocery stores always have ready to eat food anyhow; so they just put in some tables, an extra set of registers to get around the blue laws (no alcohol sales after midnight), and bam, complete end-run around the stupid laws. They even have taps and growlers to go. Best selection and prices on craft and belgian beer too.
Convenient too, there was a big storm passing through while I was shopping; so I had a seat and drank a Rodenbach while I waited for it to pass.
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