C&S Wholesale Grocers
| C&S Wholesale Grocers | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private |
| Seat | Keene , New Hampshire, USA |
| management | Richard B Cohen (CEO) |
| Number of employees | around 18,000 (as of 2007) |
| sales | $ 19.45 billion (as of 2007) |
| Branch | Wholesale |
| Website | http://www.cswg.com/ |
C&S Wholesale Grocers ( CSWG ) is a wholesale company headquartered in Keene , New Hampshire, USA. The company is privately held and, according to Forbes, one of the 100 largest privately held companies in the United States. According to Forbes, the company was ranked 12th privately owned in 2008.
The company started with a department store in Massachusetts and now sells around 53,000 different items to 5,000 different retailers from 70 branches in twelve states with a total storage area of approximately 1,700,000 m². Products include agricultural products, meat and dairy products, delicacies, fresh and frozen baked goods, care and cosmetic products, confectionery and tobacco.
The company's customers include Pathmark , Safeway Inc. , Food Giant Stores, Shaw's Supermarkets , Stop & Shop , A&P Supermarkets , Big Y Foods, Target Corporation , Great American, SavMart / Foodmax, Demoulas and other independent retailers and supermarket owners or operators .
Legal proceedings
In April 2006, three former employees and one employee of the company filed a lawsuit in a US district court. In the case, it was shown how the second largest grocery wholesaler in the United States is violating both federal and state law by illegal wage cuts, because all members of the working group are reduced in wages as a punishment due to underperformance or mistakes by individual members of a work group consisting of four to eight employees . Wage cuts also arose because employees were not being paid overtime and working more than ten hours a day. Some employees were not paid the agreed hourly wage, while others were asked to continue working without pay during lunch breaks or after the official end of the shift. The lawsuit was represented by the law firm Sanford, Wittels & Heisler, LLP.
A lawyer for the plaintiff put it something like this: The company is punishing its low-wage workers and at the same time has a record turnover of $ 18 billion. The employees who generate the profits are in fact forced to remain silent about the company's working conditions, as they otherwise run the risk of losing their jobs.
The company denied any wrongdoing and denied the lawsuit any chance of success. The team composition does not contradict any legal or legal agreement. The company, on the other hand, is proud of the self-administered working groups, they are the basis for the successful and committed workforce. The concept of group work has been highly praised in studies by consulting firms.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Forbes list 2008 on forbes.com , accessed December 14, 2008 (English)
- ↑ Class action status sought for C&S suit ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at masslive.com , accessed December 14, 2008
- ↑ Employees of C&S Wholesale Grocers File $ 750m Class Action Suit ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at ecnext.com , accessed December 14, 2008
- ↑ Class-action suit targets C&S grocer ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at masslive.com , accessed December 14, 2008
