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\nDOUBLE COUPONS<\/strong>
\nDouble coupons are coupons that are doubled in value at the register by certain stores. There are a handful of stores in the area that double coupons, including Giant Eagle, Buehlers, and Dave’s Supermarket. They double coupons of .99 and less 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So for instance, a .75 coupon will double to $1.50 off. Internet coupons work too. The cashier just scans the coupon and it will double. <\/p>\n

If it wasn’t for double coupons, I wouldn’t shop at Giant Eagle. The doubles allow me to save 70% and more every time I go shopping there. Without the doubles they aren’t any different than most other stores.<\/p>\n

Kmart doubles at times too. They are doubling coupons of $2 and less this week ($2 coupon will double to $4 off). They are called Super doubles since the coupon amount of $2 is doubled instead of .99. There is a limit of 5 super doubles with a purchase of $25 or more.<\/p>\n

Some coupons do say ‘do not double’ and their UPC barcode usually starts with a 9. Some start with a 5 and they end up doubling anyway.<\/p>\n

Kroger’s started ending their doubles a few years back region by region and they said they were lowering prices which were found to be short-lived or untrue. A site called BringBackDoubles on Facebook was started to try to sway Kroger to change their mind. It can be found at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bringbackdoubles<\/a><\/p>\n

Giant Eagle tried to end doubles years ago, but we consumers led campaigns to bring them back and they did. They realized how much doubling meant to savings, especially to an area like Cleveland that has some of the highest poverty rates in the nation. Thankfully, they kept them and I’ve been a loyal customer ever since.<\/p>\n

Walmart ran ads in newspapers that showed how their savings were around 10% to 20% less on certain items and Giant Eagle decided to lower their prices to keep them from stating as such as easily. Walmart hasn’t run the ads recently as the prices at Walmart have gone up and Giant Eagle’s have gone down. Any store can find 25 items that are priced 10% or more less than another store out of their thousands of items, so it was really deceptive to make it seem like you can save that much on all the items. A 10% or 15% savings isn’t all that much when you’re comparing non-sale prices too. Plus they didn’t take into consideration sales (Walmart doesn’t have “sales”), double coupons, Fuelperks, e-Offers, and other benefits that Giant Eagle had over Walmart. It really wasn’t that much in savings anyway as a double coupon can save and additional 10% to 40% or more off an item. Giant Eagle should have exploited those differences to show how much more can be saved at Giant Eagle, but they didn’t. They need funny TV ads that will stick in the consumers minds.<\/p>\n

I noticed at Giant Eagle that they are advertising their eOffers next to the items that are offering them, but many customers don’t bother with the eOffers. Why? Because, again, Giant Eagle needs to do more to connect them to customers. By that I mean teaching them what they are. Have the cashier mention them to each customer as they ring them up. Same with double coupons. Before long all the customers will equate all the savings that Giant Eagle offers as being superior to other stores.<\/p>\n


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\nWAL-MART AND THE ECONOMY<\/strong>
\nBig changes at Wal-mart! Look for the changes to affect other stores too and the economy. Approximately 500,000 full-time and part-time associates at Walmart US stores and Sam’s Clubs (Walmart owns Sam’s Club) will receive pay raises from $7.25 to $9.00 in April. On February 1, 2016 pay will increase to at least $10.00 per hour for those making less than that amount. They are also increasing pay for their department managers to at least $13.00 an hour this summer and at least $15.00 an hour early next year. <\/p>\n

How will Walmart increasing pay affect other businesses? It will. A lot. As the biggest employer in the world, as Walmart goes, so do other businesses. The change will not only affect Walmart, but any company that pays at or near the minimum wage as others will be forced to increase their pay at the risk of losing workers to competitors. Many large retailers like Gap, IKEA, TJ Maxx and other employers have already bumped up their pay scales or plan to besides Walmart.<\/p>\n

There are a few reasons that motivated Walmart to make the move, including poor service ratings, decreasing sales, poor worker morale, a shrinking workforce, more competition for workers, and high turnover. The low wages can even lead to “shrinkage” as employees steal from the store to make ends meet. Better pay will lead to better employees that are happy to work there and it will show in how they interface with customers. Improved customer service will increase sales. I’m sure Walmart analytics found that the combination of low wages and high turnover was costing them more than just increasing the wages. Costco’s average wage is $20 and their stock keeps increasing and people love to shop there, partly because of their great customer service. <\/p>\n

Many states have already increased their minimum wage to $9 or more. Some may say, get rid of the minimum wage and let supply and demand affect wages. The problem with that theory is that they are expecting businesses to do the right thing. Greed and power do funny things to people and companies. We wouldn’t have lawyers if everyone played fair. And that’s why unions came to be and helped level the playing field. However, unions are seeing their ranks go down and during that same time wages have gone down or stagnated. If companies tilt too much and cause an imbalance in pay fairness then the low paid will feel they have nothing to lose and decide to start a union. Unions were making some inroads at their stores and strikes at Walmart have hurt them. The increased number of strikes at some stores during Black Friday might have given pause to Walmart that they may be at that tipping point. Unions have also suffered through greed and power and that is why they are also hurting. Just like Walmart will still have a stigma that they are greedy when they made billions in profits is why unions will have a hard time removing the stigma of some of their negative aspects even if they have changed. On the other hand unions have helped workers by bringing about many worker benefits including Paid vacation, Social Security, Overtime pay, the Occupational Safety & Health Act, minimum wage, Holiday pay, breaks at work, including your lunch breaks and Military leave. If companies are pro-active in aiding workers, then there wouldn’t be much of a need for unions.<\/p>\n

Their new CEO also made some other changes for workers that are a step in the right direction that will improve morale. He realized that sometimes companies have to give rather than take. Just watch any of the Undercover Boss shows and you will see how many times the CEO is oblivious to how tough it is for workers and then shower some singular workers they interacted with on the show with cash and vacations because they found out how tough their lives are by getting paid diddly. The problem is if those same workers knew they were talking to the CEO they wouldn’t have told them half of their travails had they know that they were talking to the CEO because they would have been afraid of losing their job for telling the truth. That is where the show makes TV gold. When the fear of losing your job isn’t there, workers will communicate all that needs to be done to make the company successful. Just like any relationship, honesty lets people choose their path on whether they want to make things better.<\/p>\n

What the new CEO at Walmart is planning to do is to offer some associates fixed schedules, allow them to see their schedules 2.5 weeks in advance, and through new software allow associates to pick open shifts if they want to work more hours. We’ll see how things go, but all this is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Is there another reason Walmart is making these changes? Yes. Walmart was in a bit of a death spiral. Walmart has had six straight months of declining same-store sales and it didn’t look like things would get better. Many people are turned off of Walmart because of the way they treat workers, by their switch to China-made products, and because of their behemoth nature infiltrating small towns that killed small mom and pop stores, so they have to woo customers back. Many people stopped shopping at Walmart, including myself, because they didn’t value their workers enough even though they made billions in profits. It was getting so bad that Walmart lost many lawsuits for cheating workers out of pay they earned and by not paying woman the same as men in similar positions, amongst other lawsuits. <\/p>\n

The changes will also help them financially as the very workers and demographic that Walmart caters to kept them from spending money at their stores because they had less discretionary income to spend at their stores. People went to even cheaper alternatives like dollar stores or no-frills stores like Aldi. Walmart even had to implement a “price-match” system just to keep from losing more customers. If you ask me, the store with the lower priced items deserves the business and not the one where you have to waste time price-matching items.<\/p>\n

They issued an “urgent agenda” memo to its store managers as reported by the NY Times last year. They said they wanted to boost sales of “chilled and fresh” food and to make sure they discount aging meat and baked goods to maximize chances of selling them before their expiration dates. They plan to open smaller format stores instead of supercenters. Look for other changes too as they try to figure out how to increase sales. <\/p>\n

Walmart had cut an average of 50 people per supercenter and were only hiring part-time or temporary employees. It lead to lower productivity and weak same-store sales. But they cut labor costs, so that should make things better financially they though! Needless to say, their poor results showed that didn’t work. A baseball team plays better with 9 players on the field rather than 5. Sure, you can still play baseball with 5, but things work so much easier when you have a full team.<\/p>\n

Turnover and inexperience hurt Walmart too so the increase in pay was made to stem those issues too. For instance, they found that mostly part-time crews can stock, on average, 300 cases in an eight-hour night shift, while day-stocking crews are lucky to be able to stock 50 to 60 cases. There were issues with day stocking conducted on Saturdays and Sundays, coupled with eliminating Saturday-night stocking altogether in many locations. They found productivity could be much higher, but with so many temporary and inexperienced part-timers, the blended productively rate settled at roughly 40 to 50 cases when in most cases, a veteran day stocker could stock on average 100 cases on the shelves per shift. So it’s like getting two workers in one when you have an experience stocker!<\/p>\n

The stores have been tasked to improve the customer experience. Walmart was rated the lowest again this past year by the American Customer Satisfaction Index survey (http:\/\/www.theacsi.org\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&catid=&Itemid=212&i=Supermarkets <\/a>). With empty shelves and slow checkout lines being two major problems impacting customers at under-performing stores they needed to make changes. To fix these problems Walmart is working on improving its inventory efficiency and they are planning to open more checkout lines then ever before during peak shopping hours.<\/p>\n

Walmart has also implemented some other changes. The company also says it will also improve its staffing levels and start observing how associates interact with customers through a “secret shopper” program. <\/p>\n

Wal-Mart also recently rolled out a new app called Savings Catcher, which helps shoppers compare prices on merchandise and then pays them the cost differences on a gift card. About half of the receipts that the app has processed so far have qualified for a refund because it found lower prices at different stores.<\/p>\n

Instead of “everyday lower prices” they will go with dynamic prices to keep up with Amazon. They will switch to more company owned gas stations. They will try to increase booze sales and possibly even their own liquor stores. They will increase the amount of Walmart Express stores, a smaller format store at 10,000 to 40,000 square feet.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen lots of “now hiring” signs at retailers and restaurants, so the competition is increasing for workers, albeit mostly low-wage workers. As baby boomers retire the market will not have enough workers to replenish the ranks. Many near-retirement age workers have also given up looking for work. Less workers are keeping a job just to get health insurance now too due to the Affordable Care Act and it shows with the decreasing worker participation rate (percentage of those wanting to work) dipping to around 63% from a record high of around 67% prior to the Great Recession. So it would be wise for companies to do more to keep workers happy. <\/p>\n

Then again lots of seniors are still working because they don’t have enough saved for retirement. Many students that have graduated from college aren’t even working jobs of which their degree entailed. As the economy picks up they will move into more white collar jobs.<\/p>\n

A factor that puts a twist in hiring and keeping workers is that the Millennial generation isn’t as loyal as previous generations so companies won’t be able to keep talent around like they used to. They expect promotions and at most companies there aren’t many promotions given as the more loyal baby boomer and Generation X stay on the job thus diminishing openings for promotions. Many companies expect workers to pay their dues before they get a promotion too, so that combination will keep Millennials moving from job to job. Many Milennials saw how companies treated their parents by not being loyal to them so they know they have to look out for numero uno. They are more idealistic, so they realize they are their best advocate. <\/p>\n

There is a twist with the wage increase that will affect other workers that make more than the increase. Some workers that got paid very low wages even after working years at Walmart will get around the same amount as other workers that are just starting. With a 3% raise each year after starting at the minimum wage of $7.25 a worker will earn $10.03 after 11 years. How would you feel if someone else just off the street got paid the same after 11 years of loyal work? So how they handle those situations will be telling. <\/p>\n

There are some companies that pay around $10 an hour for skilled workers so they will need to change their pay scale too. One person I met at one of my classes was an unemployed machinist and he said he was only offered around $10 an hour even though he was an experienced skilled machinist. Yet many companies wonder why they can’t find enough machinists. Too many companies got comfortable paying workers low wages when the economy tanked, even while corporations made record profits. This move by Walmart is a game changer and will set off a domino effect of pay increases to the lowest paid workers. Look for more stores to increase base pay.<\/p>\n

The economy tilted the way of the stockholder these past few years as the stock market went from a low of 7,062 in Feb 1, 2009 to over 18,000 today, an increase over 155%. Earnings increases for the most part didn’t go to the workers, but instead went to increasing the price of the stock. Corporations sat on record amounts of cash, so the money is there. This $1 billion investment in workers helps fix an imbalance. Walmart took a 20 cent hit on their earnings with the move.<\/p>\n

Their worker’s pay was so low that too many of their workers qualified for government assistance because of their poverty-like wages even though they are the biggest company in the world. The other good thing about this is that the U.S. government won’t have to subsidize Walmart workers because their pay is so low. Many qualified for government assistance, but the increase will lower that amount. Walmart is doing the right thing and some people will start to change their negative perception about them. <\/p>\n

I applaud them for their move as too many companies have been making record profits and haven’t invested the money back into their workers even though productivity increased substantially yet they didn’t see their pay increase along with it. Since 1979, median pay has stagnated while productivity has increased over 60%. Since 2000, while productivity has increased nearly 23%, the hourly wage of the median worker rose just .5%. Americans earning the lowest wages (those at the 10th percentile) actually earned less in 2011 than the lowest earners in 1979, so it’s no wonder the working poor are struggling. In context the top 5% of wage earners saw their wages increase by 37% while the top 1% increased 131% during that same period.<\/p>\n

Companies that don’t respect the hard work and time put in by their workers will eventually see their company go downward because their workers won’t feel appreciated thus causing morale issues that leads to lessened productivity. High turnover follows. Until the company culture changes and the focus is put on keeping workers happy by being fair about wages then the company will suffer. A happy workforce will lead to stock success as Costco has shown.<\/p>\n

You’ll hear rumblings and fear-mongering of price increases, but that might just be a smoke screen. The lowest paid workers will pump their money back into the economy right away, so businesses will see a boost in sales activity.<\/p>\n

Another reason prices shouldn’t increase is because Walmart is using their massive profits on their workers rather than their stockholders. It will affect the stock price and bonuses for execs that get stock options. Walmart stock dropped around 3% after the announcement, but has gone up since then so stockholders know the move was anticipated and won’t do as much harm as some so-called experts might say.<\/p>\n

Should they increase prices to make up the difference, it could backfire because there are competitors that will beat them in price causing them to lose more business. And again, the same workers getting the increase in pay will be spending much of it at their stores. Low income workers pretty much spend all their income while stockholders don’t. Walmart stock remains around a 5 year high, so stockholders are getting a sense that they are making the right moves.<\/p>\n

What remains to be seen is whether they will still not have enough workers at their stores by trying to cut costs by hiring less workers to make up the difference. They were rated the worst retailer for service again this year, so that would be a mistake. If they are now able to retain workers with better pay, I’m sure the workers will work more efficiently and be more productive with the improvements.<\/p>\n

Good luck Walmart. You are finally learning you can’t cheap out your way to success.<\/p>\n

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\nGrape Tomatoes – 10 oz – .99
\nBaking Potatoes – 5 lb – $1.29
\nOranges – 4 lb – $1.79
\nRed Grapes – $1.19\/lb ($2.38\/2 lb)
\nChicken breasts – $1.79\/lb<\/p>\n

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