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<cutting 1,270 jobs from its New Jersey facility according to a public notice Friday. It had 5,202 workers as of March 31. Doesnt that seem like a lot of emplo
by losteverything 9y ago
<cutting 1,270 jobs from its New Jersey facility according to a public notice Friday. It had 5,202 workers as of March 31.
Doesnt that seem like a lot of employees?
I know an average walmart non supercenter store has around 210 total employees.
There tasks must be very labor intensive
- pavel_lishin 9y ago> There tasks must be very labor intensive If these are the folks doing the food prep, almost certainly. Have you ever used something like Blue Apron? All the ingredients have to look good, and be packaged into little individual servings - think two cloves of garlic in a vacuum sealed bag. Times six for the five other ingredients in the bag, many of which are probably more fiddly than "put two cloves of garlic into bag, and place into vacuum sealer." Times, say, five thousand packages that have to go out and get delivered tonight so people can make their dinner.
- losteverything 9y agoSo.. Their orders won't decrease 24% The remaining employees will have to work faster and harder.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoOr the quality of their product may suffer. Or they've come up with a way to automate or 'outsource' garlic-bag-stuffing.
- VLM 9y agoMost likely once the garlic guy is fired, the recipe selections will no longer include garlic-lime chicken, or situation extremely similar to this.
- thesmallestcat 9y agoWhat is extreme similarity? Identity?
- VLM 9y agoGarlic is simply too common in most cooking to eliminate, so the outcome will be extremely similar with obscure ingredients like lemongrass or papaya or thai chile paste.
- doingmyting 9y agoThis was what I wondered as well. How will they keep up with existing orders in the interim if they are running with only 3/4 of their worforce? Go on a one day hiring spree like Amazon? None of what they're doing adds up for me.