In his restaurant's case, Lindsey said the three-day workweek allows his staff to plan lives outside of work in advance. The restaurant is just another example of businesses experimenting with non-traditional shifts ever since the pandemic upended the 40-hour workweek.Īlthough the majority of companies have been reluctant to change, some firms, and even some bosses, have urged flexibility as a way to entice and retain workers by offering them a better work-life balance. An opening this fall at the Kendall-neighborhood restaurant drew more than 420 candidates. The result: 100% retention at the management level and a flood of new job applicants. He divided his staff of 38 - 18 store leaders and 20 frontline employees - into two groups and alternated weekly schedules into three-day blocks of 13- to 14- hour shifts. So, early this year, Lindsey cooked up a new recipe for success: overhauling weekly schedules. The popular franchise was profitable and sales were robust but that was coming at the expense of staff burnout. Justin Lindsey was looking for a novel way to reward workers who were "literally working 70 hours a week, week in and week out," he recently told QSR magazine. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.A Chick-fil-A operator in Florida is giving employees a three-day workweek.įLORIDA (KABC) - What staffing shortage? One Miami Chick-fil-A owner-operator has been deluged with applications after switching his staff to a three-day, 14-hour-per-day workweek. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ![]() ![]() US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “The cost of printing and distribution has just gotten too high apparently, and stores want to accustom shoppers to using their online digital resources,” Dworsky said. In 2020, redemptions of digital coupons in the United States surpassed redemptions of the most common type of paper coupons for the first time, according to market research firm Inmar Intelligence.įor stores, personalized digital coupons delivered to customers through their apps represent a more surgical option to reach customers than mass distribution through the newspaper.Ĭompanies also get more data on customers when they download an app and can better track whether customers are responding to the coupons. (CVS) stopped printing them for newspapers but some are still in stores. (WBA), stopped printing coupon catalogs and moved their weekly advertisements online. Kroger is the latest company to discontinue its weekly circular ads. “The loss of the Kroger circulars is a loss for both the paper and our readers,” said the publisher of The Mississippi Dispatch in Columbus, Mississippi. The move also hurts newspapers that rely on advertisements for dwindling revenue. This means that millions of older and low-income shoppers - the people who often depend on promotions the most to stretch their dollars - will be shut out of online deals. Additionally, 24% of adults with household incomes below $30,000 a year don’t own a smartphone, while 41% don’t have a computer. “It also leaves behind those folks without internet access or smartphones.”Īccording to Pew Research Center, 39% of people 65 and over do not own a smartphone, and 25% don’t use the internet. “This becomes inconvenient for shoppers who, up until now, could do easy comparison shopping just by flipping the pages of competing stores’ circulars at their kitchen table,” said Edgar Dworsky, a consumer advocate and founder of Consumer World. It also comes amid a jump in grocery prices.Ī Stanford University study in 2006 found that at least 10% of shoppers chose their store based on the week’s ads, and that shoppers were most influenced when the ads promoted discounts on cereal, chips, pizza, cookies and hot dogs. ![]() The move could deal a blow to shoppers who plan their store trips based on weekly newspaper ads. ![]() Senior woman wearing protective mask doing grocery shopping in supermarket Adobe StockĪs more coupons move online, older and low-income shoppers get left out
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