WinCo Foods Reviews

Pros

Competitive salary; hard work; professional standards;

Cons

Support managers in far to reach areas as you would those with mulitple locations near cities.

Pros

The ESOP is a nice touch and the benefit's are excellent and inexpensive to those lucky enough to get them.

Cons

Extremely short notice on work schedule, must be available 7 day's a week, point's system in antiquated, pay scale is on the very low end, raises are not based on productivity nor great performance but rather based on the hours worked leaving meaning a low producing employee can get increase's as fast as those who truly want to work hard.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember without your employees your stores would be nothing. A more nurturing, friendly and open minded attitude would go along way in having happy, productive employee's. Lighten up on the iron fisted management style and teach management flexibility, humility and to also respect the people that help fill their ESOP thru hard work. Teamwork is preached religiously, however the truth is it is every man or woman for themselves. Perception is a fragile thing and in the end it's all about perception and how workers are treated that turn people into hardworking, long term employees.

Pros

Management supportive and understanding, very flexible schedules, good benefits, comfortable work environment.

Cons

No discounts and lunches relatively short(half hour versus hour at some places)

Advice to Senior Management

Management was great and easy to communicate with.

Pros

Good benefit package with health care and retirement. Managment tries to find jobs you enjoy. Clean store, bathrooms and break room Christmas bonus for extra hard work.

Cons

Constant changes hours with one weeks notice can hinder your social life. High volume of customers at the first weeks on the month means for scheduling you wil be bounced around for hours. Excellent retirement with company stock, but the down turn in the economy is risky. You must wait seven years to cash out. High volume of customers on the first two weeks, which works you into the ground.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees on new products or money makers. Create an employee board with current news on the company or store. Employees in the deli should wash their hands. We could use a suggestion box or employee of the month.

Pros

The benefits are good. Coworkers always pleasant.

Cons

The attendance policy leaves very little room for emergencies. Disciplinary measures are strict and enforced all to eagerly. Once trapped in the point system, almost impossible to escape it. Morale is low among employees because of it. Employees are penalized if they punch in 3 min late. The way the scheduling is done can make your personal life challenging, but thats typical of retail.

Advice to Senior Management

This is a great company that has become too corporate. The rules and company policiies have taken over to an almost ridiculous level. Get rid of the point system or revise it. It is a trap and a tool conveniently used at will to get rid of high paid employees. Stop copying walmart. Get people in the G.O. that have experience in the field. The outs of products that are in season are inexcusable. There is no logical reason to not plan accordinly as to what will be in season and stock up on that Item. The dept managers cannot do their job properly and lose sales in that situation.

Pros

benifits and ESOP are great, pay is above average

Cons

becoming way to corporate heavy

Advice to Senior Management

stay true to the employees

Pros

benefits... and that's about it anymore

Cons

our stores have had a 50 cent wadge increase in the past 7 years, upper management tries telling us how lucky we are to have ESOP, but do to bad upper management decisions, people lost money on their ESOP this year. We don't get bonuses anymore, the company spends money like its the Obama administration. Hourly employees hours are cut, so we never have enough people working anymore. People in the other part of the state make atleast 6 dollars more an hour than we do, and cost of living is about the same. Sales keep going up in our region, but I feel like we keep getting punished because the company overspends and makes bad choices.

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to your roots, and do what made Winco such a good company. We have had people leave recently to go work at Yokes Fresh Market because they pay better and still have that appreciation for the employees doing the dirty work, you guys need to do something to make employee morale go back up or you will lose your veterans and hard workers to better jobs.

Pros

Good medical and Dental/ vision

Cons

They will fire you for ANYTHING.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is two faced. Watch out, don't trust anybody.

Pros

They offer a great benefit package.

Cons

Erratic work schedule and the manage i worked with seemed distant towards me when compared with the other employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Was not there long enough to offer any advice.

Pros

There is a great deal of money to be made right off the bat. And hours based raises guarantee you will get raises. The benefits package is also very, very good! One of the best I've ever seen, union or non-union. The employee stock ownership plan is also very lucrative if you're with the company long enough.

Cons

The compensation "tops out" around $16/hr. depending on where you work, in a part-time position. The hours based raises do pose a problem if you are very good at your job, because you will make less than incompetent people who happened to get hired first.

Can't knock the benefits.

Promotions are hard to come by because it is so competitive, and political. All of the supervisiory positions take at least five years to move into and are somewhat based on seniority.

This is a very unprofessional environment, just make sure you play the politics and make nice with upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Make promotions more performance based, as well as the raise policy. It is set across the company, but should be given wiggle-room for stand-outs.

Good business model, and solid a solid job by management.