To[email protected] (email provided on AWG's website very visibly and publicly(done nothing wrong? nothing to hide from!))
Today at 2:48 PM
I don't know if you are the person to speak with but it has just come to my attention that AWG has acquired Dillon's stores in Springfield, MO. Specifically, I am a customer of 7 years of the one at Battlefield and Kansas Expressway, I believe the address is 1707 W. Battlefield.
Two things concern me the most. First, I don't have a car and this Dillon's is within walking distance for my wife and I. Our experience at that Dillon's is such that we have personal aquaintenceships with most of the employees there. I would be very displeased to find out that the employees become a kind of collateral damage as a result of this transition. I realize AWG will not operate the store but it will be sold to one of your members. I urge you to carefully consider the possibilites, if I find that the employees are mishandled.. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, .. But like I said, I know you aren't the bad guy, the employees are just scared and reasonably so because it's hard enough to find even just a job, much less find one that you can tolerate enough to keep to pay bills, send kids to public schools, and figure out things in life..these days.
The second thing is that at this Dillon's specifically I know they have a relatively new process of selecting certain products to go on to "Manager's Special" which reduces the cost for me by up to 50%! Which is huge and though it makes more sense to me than to rather throw away food (I have been forced to do this working at Walmart) that is soon to expire or is becoming discontinued in favor of new products to fill the shelves, to try to sell them at a greatly reduced price and recoup some of those monetary losses. There are a number of products that my wife and I (college educated) will spend our food stamps monies on ONLY when those products are sold at 50% off. And I promise you with no hesitation for doubt that if the manager's specials goes away we will never again buy those expensive foods we can't afford. Again, not you and not AWG has control over how the purchasing grocer operates their business and I understand that. But I implore you, being at the corporate level, to realize these simple realities and know the facts about our lives because you may be given the option to sell that store,1707 W. Battlefield, to buyer Good or buyer Bad and if that opportunity is presented to you that you would make the decision based on your gut feeling/best guess/pray about it even because although this may be your day in and your day out your decision will affect a great many lives.
This is just my email, like writing to my state senator or my representative, to remind you that you are as human as we are, and we all make difficult choices, choose the way you know to be best.
thanks,
sincerely,
bryan ayres ryder
And if by some oddball turn of fate, AWG or purchasing grocer would like to hear more of my thoughts on smooth transitioning from store name to store name, retaining the same awesome crew of store managers and employees feel free to contact me.
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