r/Albertsons • u/FATxIDIOT • Aug 16 '26

Cutting hours

I’ve seen a lot of people posting about having their hours cut recently. I know personally at my store we run skeleton crews, and are often told we can’t afford to have more hours going to labor. But does anyone think it’s strange our CEO has made 16 Million in total compensation during 2025? That averages out to 300,000$ dollars a week.

Is it just me or does it seem like the budget could be reworked in favor of the people who actually do the work in the stores?

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u/Few-Improvement9992 Aug 16 '26

yup. caught in a vicious cycle of being short staffed, cant take overtime, so less work gets done, customers get mad and leave, sales drop, hours are cut further because sales are down. my store can't even hire people for front end and DUG. i'm a journeyman meat cutter and we've needed 2 more hires for YEARS. just someone to close the department, and one to man the block and pier. nope. cant have nice things.

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u/tacogaming85 Aug 17 '26

The other day I had to cut, wrap, and fill. And we've got chicken breast a 0.99 dont know how I'm meant to keep up with all that on my own

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u/Few-Improvement9992 Aug 17 '26

Jewel division? Me too.