The structure of the deli here is unique as far as grocery stores are concerned, and each of the stores in turn remains totally different. Beyond pitching in a little to get Walnut up and running, for example, there’s almost no need for Christie to make that hour drive once a week, and she’s mostly exempted from the one-day-a-week edict. Southside continues to try and wrap the department manager and chef up into one individual, whereas Palmyra hasn’t even attempted this.
More to the point of Christie’s current visit, though, and this idea Edgar has, the deli is just one big department that’s expected to pull a 35% margin. But within this there are a whole slew of sub-departments, some of them, like the eyesore of a name Grab & Go, only recently added as a result of that whole tax code dust-up and the finer points it presented. These sub-departments all have different profit targets, too, ranging from anything made in house, which is expected to pull a 50, down to meat at only 25. Some of the unnecessary categories, like seafood, which was at a 30, they’ve dropped entirely, because it didn’t sell anyway and there was no real need to differentiate that trivial amount from meat.
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“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” – Chapter 43