why do grocery warehouses suck

Grocery Warehouses are the best places to find extra pay. (that is, if ur company is structured to pay the driver detention.). Myself, its not uncommon to collect a few hundred dollars in detention pay....for doing nuthing other than being on time for appointment.

 

Most grocery warehouse workers are unionized and unions discourage performing work and finishing things in a timely manner.

 

Wal Marts aren't.

 

Walmart DC associates are the highest paid and least competent workers for Walmart on planet earth.

And they didn't even need a union to get that way.

I dealt with their intelligence on many produce loads that delivered to the store I worked at.

 

FWIW, Walmart drivers were the biggest crybabies, lol.

 

Grocery warehouses are the way they are because they are trucking's biggest customer. Since there is no shortage of trucks or drivers so the grocery gets to call all the shots. No company or no CSR, wants to loose any grocery customer. Way to much business on the line.

They are the big customer, in this day of abundance of trucks, they get to call the shots.

The lumper, that is a whole other issue. As mentioned before it was different back in the day before supermarkets and grocery warehouses. Then paying someone to unload a truck would make some sense. Now the practice is continued because some make out with this division of labor.

The grocery would like the whole dock to be 'imported' multi-lingual labor. They could pay the same price as the farmer for hard work, and treat them like the disposable labor force they are. That doesn't happen because some grocery executives have relatives that need jobs too. Somebody's brother-in-law needs a job and grocery receiving is a good place to put a bum. Of course that slacker does not want to do any work, so lumper's are employed to do the actual labor. The union is used to keep the bum employed and the work of unloading the truck is farmed out to the trucking company. Trucking company does not have the time or the ability to find drivers that can handle a truck and unload a truck in the same shift. So 'lumpers' are employed as sub-contractors of the trucking company.

'Lumpers' are nothing but an attempt to keep everybody happy. The grocery get their cheep disposable labor force. The grocery executives get to employ the dead weight in their family. The union continues to exist with the grocery execs. family and friends paying the dues. The imported labor gets to do the hard job of unloading the truck, but at least it is indoors unlike when they worked for the farm to fill the truck. And to keep this all running without conflicting with labor laws or union regs, the whole system makes the 'lumpers' as contractors of the trucking company. Trucking companies agree just to keep the business of the grocery and they have found the perfect scam keep this profitable for them; they pay drivers by the mile not the hour. That way all the inefficiencies of this scam, can be put on the driver.