It was ok. - Anonymous employee Acme Markets Employee Review

People, environment, flexible working our

Nothing to add from my perspective

Okay Insurance (Dental, Vision, Health) provided through the Union. PTO and Sick time is good, depends on average how much you work through. You get 1 to 2 float holidays to use, but PTO and Holidays must be scheduled 2 weeks out, and it can be denied for whatever reason. There's a 5-10% associate discount on store and some name brands, as well as the occasional free item corporate throws to us.

Terrible management. Every store director I have come across has been mentally unstable in some way. Not a single one knows how to talk to their employees. I've personally been yelled at and berated in front of customers by my SD. It's also very cliquey. Often times they just let whoever do whatever they want and there's no consequences, but they'll fire someone immediately for sharing their discount. Also, if management doesn't like you, they'll just pay you less. I had a PM lead who was doing the manager position but wasn't paid to do so. Unrealistic expectations. If you're an FEM or some sort of management role, or even just a food service department, they will work you to the bone and give you less and less. I'm talking one person running deli during prime rush hour with a crowd of customers impatiently waiting. Front End managers got it pretty bad too. You're expected to juggle everything perfectly. Survey scores, produce scores, handling bank visits, coaching cashiers, dealing with customers, stocking items other departments are too lazy to stock. helping other departments, pulling paperwork, dealing with grocery trucks if no one else is there, running the desk, covering gaps, ordering and keeping track of supplies, counting all of the shopping carts everyday, etc. Genuinely, I was expected to run through the parking lot and check all of the light poles for rust, loose screws, and cracked concrete foundations. Scheduling is awful. The "Flexible schedule" they advertise is for them, not for you. You HAVE to have weekend availability. If you're someone who does a side job or something on the weekends, they WILL deny your requests off. All requests can be denied for whatever reason by whoever touches the schedule. If you put in a specific availability, chances are they'll deny it from the get-go or schedule you by it for a week or so, before doing whatever they want. There's no help. They'd rather hire kids that they can abuse than adults than have an open availability who can work. They hire and keep special needs courtesy clerks who quite often don't do their jobs or do the bare minimum simply for the tax cuts. Not to also mention, if you're hired as a cashier, chances are you're being taken to work another department without the proper training- seafood, deli, it doesn't matter. Rude customers. Often times they abuse refund policies and when you try to do the right thing and explain that's not how it works, they'll just berate you until you crack or call corporate to get you in trouble, OR call your supervisor who will bend over immediately and give them what they want. And god forbid you happen to be doing something at the very moment, they'd rather scream across the store for your immediate help than just wait a few seconds. Holiday hours. The stores are pretty much open on all holidays. I think the only holiday that's volunteer only now is Christmas. You are also FORCED to work holidays, and if you call out, you are issued a write up. Promotions and job opportunities are a common sight, but rare to actually get. Often times someone will leave and they will post a job on the internal company sight that you can apply for. They'll deny you on a store level and won't even tell you why, or come up with some excuse because they secretly want you to do something else. But they won't tell you that directly at all. Benefits can be ripped away at a whim. Part Time associates have to work a certain amount of hours to meet the threshold for Part Time Benefits. If you work more than that, you are put on a Full Time plan. If hours are cut suddenly, you are kicked off the Full Time plan and you have to work all over again just to meet the Part Time plan requirements. The Union will not even let you know it's happened. Ask me how I know.