Very disorganized and very unprofessional. Definitely not the place to build a management career imo.

1) Fire out management personnel whose positions are redundant.

2) Redundant positions include administrative positions doing no decision making at all but simply data entry work and phone answering. Just imagine doing your payroll and answering phone and earning 50 grand a year.

3) Hire competent people up to the grassroots. don’t Hire just anybody..

4) Don’t discriminate your employees. Union employees and non-union employees but all working for Loblaws are not treated equally. Though union employees have some benefits, loblaws have to shoulder some too.

5) Don’t say as if you don’t care. In one of the ask galen forums, when we asked how he can be able to bail us out of our losses because of the stock decline (we have invested our earnings via an employee stock option plan), the simple response is we have DONE SO IN OUR OWN FREE WILL. While it is a fact, how rude and insensitive response coming from CEO to a hapless employee.

6) Hire managers and employees with ethics and good manners. If they don’t train them to have one.

Loblaws is a fine chain. All the other grocery chains have their problems also. It takes time, guts, planning and changing to make the masses happy. At the end of the day Loblaws has to make their bottom line to exist. Loblaws could leave all the competition behind and increase their bottom line in one swoop.
Sell local food stuffs and get into the Canadian greenhouse business to produce on a huge scale all our needs in Canada. Eventually with the uncertain weather and climate conditions that are occurring now and in the future, everything will have to be under greenhouse control and not subject to greenhouse effect and its expensive wrath. Let’s create our own Canadian suppliers locally for our Canadian market with total profits, and all capital remaining within.
The Canadian consumer is ready to buy and support themselves even if they have to pay more now, because for sure they will pay less in the future as well as secure our food source. Farming will be on a new Eco and controlled scale that will catapult Loblaws into strong and congenial national supermarket. Who ever steps up to construct this evolution will be able to feed Canadians faithfully during the oncoming uncertain global harvests.
Purchasing general merchandise is available from safe law abiding Canadian and American manufacturers who don’t pollute or unlawfully employ one dollar a day human beings. The $2 item now, they will charge us $15 as the sole remaining manufacturer left in the very near future. G2, buy the $4 item now and put more of us to work.
Chapter 5 next time.

Loblaws is a fine chain. All the other grocery chains have their problems also. It takes time, guts, planning and changing to make the masses happy. At the end of the day Loblaws has to make their bottom line to exist. Loblaws could leave all the competion behind and increase their bottom line in one swoop.
Sell local food stuffs and get into the Canadian greenhouse business to produce on a huge scale all our needs in Canada. Eventually with the uncertain weather and climate conditions that are occurring now and in the future, everything will have to be under greenhouse control and not subject to greenhouse effect and its expensive wrath. Let’s create our own Canadian suppliers locally for our Canadian market with total profits, and all capital remaining within.
The Canadian consumer is ready to buy and support themselves even if they have to pay more now, because for sure they will pay less in the future as well as secure our food source. Farming will be on a new Eco and controlled scale that will catapult Loblaws into strong and congenial national supermarket. Who ever steps up to construct this evolution will be able to feed Canadians faithfully during the oncoming uncertain global harvests.
Purchasing general merchandise is available from safe law abiding Canadian and American manufacturers who don’t pollute or unlawfully employ one dollar a day human beings. The $2 item now, they will charge us $15 as the sole remaining manufacturer left in the very near future. G2, buy the $4 item now and put more of us to work.
Chapter 5 next time.

In the old days. I would love going to Loblows with it’s neat products that were at least available and did not disappoint, but now they advertise but it’s nowhere to be found & staff are very unhelpful, like in Home Depot, they always seem to be walking away from you in a hurry. I dislike going to Wal-Mart because of various issues including the usual bland stuff, but alas, many Loblows shelves have a little tag “Sorry this item is out of stock” not sure why they would call attention to the fact that their inventory systems have failed again. Also it seems like the staff get the training at the LCBO training school on how to be surly and think that you are encroaching on their time. Finally I find that most of the staff are young adults (not that there is anything wrong with that), what happened to the older people that used to work there, do they get put to pasture after reaching say 45 at least they used to be so helpful, I certainly hope that this is not part of the new business model. Wake up G2, unless you want everyone to have “ Memories of Loblows”