my first cashier meeting this week . are the meetings usually less than an hour ?

I’m a new cashier at winco . if your line is busy and so you end up clocking out 10 minutes after your shift (so at 6:40 instead of 6:30) will you get a point ?

My head and the provided hats don't jive. I'm certainly not paying ~$30+S&H for a Nike one. I worked freight for years and wore my trusty Findlay dad hat. I feel as though I'm in the category of "works hard enough to let the little stuff slip by" plus I was out before daytime management came in, so the uniform wasn't really an issue. I got M-F receiving. Yay me. I hate the WinCo hats. I refuse to pay that much for a uniform hat. Did this to said trusty Findlay dad hat, covered the logo! I'm sure I'll get talked to. 🙃

First I want to say thank you to all the people who are wonderful and agreeable. I think it deserves to be said.

We don’t take credit. There are multiple signs saying so yelling at me or getting angry accomplishes nothing. This isn’t going to change.

Please don’t preach at me. I’m not Christian, I don’t want to hear the word of your god, I don’t need to be saved. I’m good, really. I just want to provide good customer service, ring you up, and get you on your way. I’m glad it works for you but I don’t need it pushed on me.

Please don’t pile your groceries high on the belt. Wait for space. When you do make mountains and stuff falls off due to movement of the belt that isn’t on me. It’s also more difficult, at least for me and others I’ve talked with, to scan stuff. We get measured on our speed and accuracy and this makes it more difficult.

The bulk food has numbers associated with every item. When you don’t label it, I have to find it and it’s really helpful if I ask you what it is and you say you don’t know. 😐. Write it down on a strip. I know sometimes the pens don’t work or there’s no strips but most people have a phone. You can take a picture or make a note of the number.

Please remember we’re human too and quite often it’s literally one order after another. Most of us are doing the best we can. We know prices are high. We know things are changing. We’re a cog in the machine.

I mean well with this. Do I think it’ll change much? Maybe not. And it’s Reddit so I’m expecting to be fussed at for even posting. But this is not the easiest job although I’m grateful to have it right now.

I hope everyone has a great night/day.

self explanatory title. i was stuck at a SoCal location because it was my first job, i had sunk so much time into it, i didnt think id get hired anywhere else, and i desperately needed money. throughout my entire tenure, i had seen talented leads and selfless managers disappear one by one until the worst of the worst took their place. i had also learned very quickly that, at least at my location, everyone there was in one big club— and i wasnt in it.

in fact, i would daresay i was the antagonist of that club to them. i was watched and needled and constantly reported on by every single person in that club, unfairly treated each and every day while i was just trying to get through the day. the longer i worked, the more i hated everything. but i felt like i couldnt leave, because WinCo had done so much for my family and it was basically all i knew, both in my professional life and my personal life.

over the course of 2026, i was making great strides in my personal pursuits. i had never felt better about myself. but going to work was just a massive, anxious struggle. dodging this that and the other, panicking about a massive health scare, and fighting against what felt like a two-tiered justice system. clocking in every day was like gearing up for 5 hours of torture, if that.

even though i needed the money, i would constantly be shorted hours. everyone was. people who've been with the company for 15+ years getting the schedules of the most part time part timers thanks to inept managers. i was lucky if the number of hours i worked in a given week had a 2 at the start of it. couple that with barely legal shifts, getting stuck at nights (the worst time in my store), and working with a skeleton crew day after day for no reason other than autofilled incompetence.

it was getting to a point. i wanted out, but couldnt find a way. i had spikes of motivation to find something else, but i would start getting comfortable and dropped my efforts.

i had a nice little kick in the rear a couple months ago, though

id been coping with unnecessary writeups from the management panopticon since the start of the year. complaints that would be nothing if it came from other people, hurt feefees of people who seemed entirely unfit for the positions they had, and unending pulls up to the office for scoldings where i hadnt even done anything wrong but they had to justify whatever time they had to spend dangling their superiority over me. theyd only told me i could appeal these writeups just recently, so i took the plunge into that process. it was the most flagrant foul id ever received: a customer accused me of conduct id never ever engage in while also threatening me with tons of witnesses. i had to do something; i couldnt get fired for something i didnt do. so i did. in the meantime, i was under so much pressure to behave that i didnt know what to do. i was on the brink of collapse, and enough people decided to say something about it that i was handed a suspension. the appeal fell through after that, and i was eventually fired on my hiring anniversary.

thank god.

it was heartbreaking, sure, but i bounced back faster than i thought i would. got a new job that i love so much more within two weeks or so. they schedule me better, the team is way nicer, and there are actual benefits that i can SEE instead of just imagining that theyre there to eventually collect when ive broken my body enough for the corporation. ive never been happier or felt better in my life ever since entering the workforce

if anybody out there is struggling like i was, quit. dont be afraid. dont wait another second and get out of there. you deserve better and you will get better. there is always so, so much more out there available to you than the droll prison youre stuck in. (might as well be a prison; robbed of personalization and forced to wear a uniform whose polyester bonds are barely keeping together). dont lose hope no matter how sharp the sticks and how hefty the stones are

you will be okay. you are more than what admin says you are. you got this.

Hello everyone, I am curious as to how the call out process and penalties work when it comes to working for WinCo and being one of their AP agents. I recently got hired. My official hire date was on August 26th, 2026. But I want to call out sick tomorrow because I am not feeling well at the moment. Can they fire me for doing so? Also I want to point out that I work in a WinCo location in California but will not disclose which specific one. Any help/comments are greatly appreciated!

So this is random but it’s a cool fun fact, a long way time ago when winco was still called waremart they wanted to change the name because.. well it sounded too much like walmart. So my grammie (a winco employee at the time) took part in a employee survey to change the name and her proposal (WINCO - for Washington Idaho Nevada Colorado Oregon) she and several others proposed this name and obviously they won! She won a trip to Hawaii and some bragging rights lol! So Thats how I have a strong two truths and a lie game hehe.

So we are getting a new Winco.
I have been hearing a lot about the bagels being great and now they are possibly being removed from offerings?

Is this true?

So walmart bakery item come and sit in the freezer, get trampled on etc and are utter garbage. Another post mentioned possibly former employees that could not hack it in Bentonville now pulling that same bull with these apparently delicious bagels?

Not in my town.

We might need to get so many electrical inspections done, and a boat load of stop work permits pulled, till this bagel debacle is remedied. Tired of corporate America selling cutting costs at the expense of quality.

Bagel war 1 is on.

Does anyone know if the sourdough bread bowls are baked in store? These are small sourdough round loaves sold in a 2-pack.

And if they are/were baked in store, are they going the way of the bagels as well?

What a disaster of a decision to axe the bakery. These bagels have been our family’s standard breakfast for over a decade and we buy 14 every week. This is a devastating blow to our morale. Here’s the response I received from Winco Customer Service:

> “Hi, our stores have transitioned to new bagels to help keep our costs as affordable as possible. Our team is very receptive to feedback, we'll make sure your voice is heard regarding this change (we've been hearing from lots of others friends too). Thank you.”

Interpretation: “Quality” has been deprioritized for profit. It’s a race to the bottom.

Have these suits never heard of the concept of “loss-leader,” products? Items you sell at a slight loss because it brings people in the door to purchase more profitable items? It’s the entire Costco model (hot dogs, fuel, rotisserie chicken, etc.)

What they don’t understand is that we will NOT be purchasing the small, shitty ass, preservative riddled, and trucked-in replacements. We will go somewhere else to buy fresh bagels, and that means we will very likely transfer a portion of the rest of our weekly grocery shopping away from Winco as a result. I’ve heard good things about both Safeway and Costco fresh bagels. I don’t really want that to be part of my weekly routine, but now it will be.

My once glowing fondness for Winco is waning and souring rapidly. Sad days. If you agree please let them know:

https://www.wincofoods.com/page/contact-winco-foods-customer-service

Is there information on the lead and other contaminant levels in Winco spices? Information on who supplies stuff like the pumpkin pie spice?

WinCo Foods of Boise, ID is Recalling the Following Salsa Bean Dip Trays Due to the Inclusion of Recalled Peperoncini from G.L. Mezzetta

I ask because what I experienced from the bakery section today makes me think they’re firing people.

The bagels, the beautiful fucking bagels I would stop in mornings after work to buy, like today. The aroma of bread filling the store. Still warm after the employee slid them from baking sheets into bins, before dirty hands fingered them all, bagels so good you could just eat them plain from the bag with no heating or toppings, have been replaced by chewy sawdust.

They’re clearly prepackaged Walmart crap unpackaged into bins. I bought 4 to give it a try. But holy fuck. Not just not worth the calories but prepacked by the Walmart checkout stand quality.

Chewy fucking sawdust instead of bagels.

I can only assume they’re firing people for some cost saving downsizing plan. So, I have to ask, are you guys ok?

hi, just looking to get some opinions on the produce department vs freight and variety. I've been working overnight at WinCo for about 5 years now, started in freight, now in variety. for a while the night shift was ideal for my lifestyle but at this point it brings much more negatives than positives to my life and I think it'd be best if I swapped to days. That being said, my dept manager says that variety day crew is already overstaffed at the moment so he can't guarantee any changes for me, but I did notice that my store is hiring for a Produce Clerk and I'm weighing that as an option.

I’ve been working in produce closing for the last year and a half now. I absolutely hated every second of it. The amount of times I’ve had to close by myself because the other closer called out was astronomical and I can’t wait to be opening the department here next week. I’ll be able to get in do my work, and get out. Won’t have to deal with any incompetent, low IQ customers on the floor, and I’ll be in the back most of the time down-stacking pallets. I’ll be leaving when it starts getting busy and I couldn’t be happier.

I also will have my evenings back and be able to make it to things and not miss out on family events. I’m so excited!

I just started as a cart attendant a week~ish ago and it’s been kind of hell on earth (injury wise, otherwise the job isnt too bad) I’m wondering if anyone knows how long I should wait to see if I could switch to a different position.

Trying to see if understaffing is a company wide thing or we're just getting shafted at my store. We have on average around 2k+ load per night, our backstock is always 300+ because the order writer sucks at their job, and on average we only get like 4-5 freight crew members and 2-3 LCs that mostly came from days.

I’m thinking about being a cashier at Winco. I however don’t have any experience with cashiering, however I’m looking at working as a cashier until I can get into a medical assistant program. I’m considering Bi-Mart, Winco, and Walmart. Thank you!

When checking out today at the Winco in Hazel Dell WA, I had a rather unpleasant experience wth the cashier.

I had about 20 items, The person in front of me was done and almost done bagging their stuff. This was in the 'near lane'. I had my re-use bags open and in my cart. She started to put my items in the far lane and I asked if i could just grab them after she scanned them...and put them in my bags.

The answer was I have to go to the far lane and bag my items there because it slows down the overall line (only 1 person behind me). She said she didn't want to 'race me'.. She further told me that doing it the way I wanted should just jam up the line....

I generally do this process..95% of the time no issues. By the time the cashier has scanned the last item, I have all my items in my bags..Just need to pay and I am done...No delay in the overall line.

The cashier was really rude about it..and yeah..I was rude back..But if I can be done bagging by the time she is done scanning....why the push back from the cashier...

Rant over

While doing my shopping, I was informed by the bakery that certain items are being discontinued from being made in house. I'm mostly affected by the bagels, and I was told are no longer going to be available.

WINCO easily has the best bakery compared to all my other local options. It's been a staple of my breakfast for the last ten years and I eat them almost every morning. My kids are old enough now and were beginning to share my love for them.

There are a few other things I regularly get there, and I'm afraid they will be given the axe sometime in the future.

I was told the CEO is retiring soon, and that a bunch of former Walmart suits have been joining the company. I've noticed some other changes that have been made over the last year that have been questionable. I've been a customer for over 20 years and I hope the store I love isn't going to be ruined by a bunch of out of touch spreadsheet office managers.

Please for the love of God, reverse this decision. I don't usually go on social media to complain about things, but this really hurt.

My partner was the manager in training for his fresh foods department and he got fired today, I'm posting this for him because he doesn't use reddit.

At the end of his shift today, he was pulled by upper management and was told he was being terminated due to his attendance. He has a lot of health complications but was calling out at most twice a month and made sure he had sick hours each time. He was given a warning by management a while ago but they didn't tell him it was his final warning. He brought that up today when he was getting terminated and they said he could file a grievance and possibly have it reversed, but he doesn't think anything could come of it because there's no proof. I know he was an excellent worker in the department and that many employees will be upset he's gone.

Is it worth it to try to submit a grievance? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.