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Haha! Old girl isn't long for this world.. ain't that the truth.
A&P is ridiculously expensive - and I'm not sure how they're adapting to battle their competitors who are all-around the better pick if you can go to them.
I'm not sure why they didn't lower their prices, either.
I've worked at A&P for over 30 years ... They can blame the unions and labor costs all the want but theres no truth to that at all ... It simply has been very very very poor mismanagement .... It's sad when everyone at store level knows/knew how to fix the problem and the so called " experts " at the top were so out of touch ..... They did however squander away millions of dollars and inflate their bank books repeatedly ...... To bad this isn't China , where the take CEO's and such out behind the building and serve the justice that is due .....
Add Degree Riders to the Management of Any Business and the End Result has demonstrated over and over the take down of countless business in the United States will be assured !!!!!
We are talking about simple business which have no need to become a failure Model. YET; When Universities - Teach and Drill in the Greed Modeling Formulation of Thought Process, its guaranteed within a matter of years when such graduates get into these decision making positions, the business WILL FAIL.
This is very unfortunate, but many graduate and often never work in their field of study, and some graduate without the skills necessary to hold decision making positions. None should be elevated up the ladder based on the label of a degree, it simply is not a functional nor beneficial thing to do so.
Most are taught now, to look at what is the salary, more than they can think about how to learn the business and what can they do to become a contributor unto not just the business, but the employee groups and the customers who make it all happen.
These things do not register in their mentality and the have no concerns for these elements.
It's all about put on the sham smile and find a ways to screw them over when they turn their back...and then wait for their bonus check.
It's purely INSANE !!!!!
Look at the TV commercials today, they are ABRURD , LEWD, AND TRY AND TIE ABSTRACTS TOGETHER AND CLAIM IT IS CREATIVITY. then they throw a half naked person in the middle and call it advertising and good promotion.
Any Business as we've seen that hail the CEO and Executives as the ones who make the business work, is already on a path leading to over-leverage, bad management, and failure is already underway. We've seen the take down of HP, we are now seeing the downfall of Microsoft, We see Qualcomm and many others falling, A&P tells the simple truth of bad choice and lack of understanding of the new generations as to what is business and why is there such a thing as servicing the customer and respecting the employees.
Bring in the Degree Rider and push them quickly up the ladder, and down goes the business, its systemic, but this is what we get for the University sold degrees to anyone they can convince to ower the banks massive sums, while the University focuses on its own business net worth and what more they can sell by promoting a even higher label of degree as a basic standard.
America was built to prosper, by people who had high school education, ethics and values, and much of administration was handled by people with a AA degree or so.
All this Masters Degree and its delusions was not even a factor, unless one invested themselves in industrial components, systems design and maintenance and other fields which needed, specific well earned expertise of people who worked in the field of their study.
Rolling back the system is practically improbably at this point, because the fever pitch of selling degree is now online and global. It's the biggest scheme of the 21st Century and its making billions $$$ in the "Sell a Degree Industry". The end result is we see more and more bankrupt cities, destroyed business and once thriving business fall from great heights where they once had good stability.
They simple start wobbling and whamo --- its gone.
Not only do the new degree riders have no sense of longevity, they job hop and think everything is about the short term spin. They don't have the concept to build for long term sustainability... It is not even a concept in their viewfinder.
I serviced rack space in groceries back in the 60's and left A&P last on my priority list as all I seemed to do was pickup dated goods and leave fresh that sold very little. The manager gave away my rack space to a competitor and I never worried about it thinking A&P would not make it. I think poor management killed this chain and am surprised it took as long as it has.
Look at the Fast Food Industry - How Taco Bell survives is a mystery mostly based on young people and the need for hot oily stuff on crunchy chips.
Others are finding out their pre-processed 'near food" substance is no longer the desired choice of people who become aware of what toxicity they ingest when they patronize these places.
Well, when it comes to food stores, many big chain have shrinking vegetable sections, over priced fruit, and meats that have prices that does not match with what the old time quality standard was based upon. One almost need "steel teeth" to eat some of the so called prime cuts, and other types you have to cook it an extra 30-40 minutes at high temperature, before it breaks down enough to be chewed.
We have packaged "SODIUM" in any variety of simulated food substance one can think of. You have a choice, HIGH SODIUM, OR HIGH SUGAR- and sometimes, you get both in high quanitity.
The store that figures out how to utilize local growers, will probably be the ones that can win, and maybe it has to go back to mom and pop stores, if they can get around the regulations that big box stores forced upon us, to deter local grower from having a market to sell their products to independents.
American's will OVER-LEVERAGE ANYTHING, if it means they can play flaunt excess and build their ego on material imagery. It does not matter if the business is 100 yrs old, the new generation will sell it in 18 seconds, if that's how long it takes them to write their name and date the sales arrangement.
How can this paradigm be changed????
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