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Firstly, for those who have no idea about what I'm talking about, here is one of many articles discussing it. Brief rundown: Albertsons (#2 traditional grocery store chain in the US) put itself up for sale in September, and is expected to formally announce who won the bidding soon.
This sucks for me, since I work there - first as a cashier, now a "Service Supervisor" (basically, the guy who runs the front end - that is, registers, etc, to make sure everything is flowing smoothly; issue money to registers, pick up cash, keep track of what the cashiers/store is taking in, bag it up and transfer to armored cars, etc.) I was actually looking forward to doing this job for a while - I'm 19, a college student, so it was a good opportunity for me to gain experience in that area - looks good on a resume. But now, no one knows what's going to happen. A lot of people expect the buyers to keep the Jewel-Osco stores (Albertsons owns Jewel-Osco, Sav-On Pharmacy, Acme, and Shaws) since they hold like 40% of the market in Chicago, IIRC and then sell off the Albertsons stores for the real estate, since most of the land is actually owned, and not leased, by Albertsons.
So a lot of people are pretty down here. It sucks for me though, because there's 2 colleges, 2 junior colleges, and about 8 high schools, with all the students competing for jobs in the same area. So not only is it hard right now, but if they do eventually close the Albertsons stores here, that'll add another couple hundred people who are looking for jobs. Not to mention the full-time guys.
Oh well, just my
thread for the month.
This sucks for me, since I work there - first as a cashier, now a "Service Supervisor" (basically, the guy who runs the front end - that is, registers, etc, to make sure everything is flowing smoothly; issue money to registers, pick up cash, keep track of what the cashiers/store is taking in, bag it up and transfer to armored cars, etc.) I was actually looking forward to doing this job for a while - I'm 19, a college student, so it was a good opportunity for me to gain experience in that area - looks good on a resume. But now, no one knows what's going to happen. A lot of people expect the buyers to keep the Jewel-Osco stores (Albertsons owns Jewel-Osco, Sav-On Pharmacy, Acme, and Shaws) since they hold like 40% of the market in Chicago, IIRC and then sell off the Albertsons stores for the real estate, since most of the land is actually owned, and not leased, by Albertsons.
So a lot of people are pretty down here. It sucks for me though, because there's 2 colleges, 2 junior colleges, and about 8 high schools, with all the students competing for jobs in the same area. So not only is it hard right now, but if they do eventually close the Albertsons stores here, that'll add another couple hundred people who are looking for jobs. Not to mention the full-time guys.
Oh well, just my
thread for the month.
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