Warehouse Store Definition. A retail market, meeting the following criteria shall be subject to the Southern California Food 4 Less Warehouse Store Agreement’s wages and working conditions:
1.2.1.1 A newly built, acquired and/or converted store of a size equal to or greater than forty-five thousand (45,000) square feet. In the case of acquired or converted locations, the Union will not unreasonably deny the Employer’s request to allow the application of a warehouse format to a location smaller than forty-five thousand (45,000) square feet. Such request will be evaluated based upon business conditions, location, competition and other relevant considerations. This provision shall have no application to Food 4 Less stores subsisting or under lease on the effective date of this Agreement.
1.2.1.2 Absence of service departments offering products or services of a nature typically offered by supermarket-type operations, except for those expressly authorized by the Union such as tortillaria, prepared and/or hot foods and service meat and/or emplaced pursuant to Section 1.2.2 hereof.
1.2.1.3 Warehouse-type racking utilized in at least eighty percent (80%) of the grocery department.*
1.2.1.4 “S.K.U.” count not exceeding seventy percent (70%) of conventional supermarket subject to the Southern California U.F.C.W./Ralphs Retail Food and Meat Agreement (1995-1999).
1.2.1.5 Seventy-five percent (75%) of grocery department* items displayed for sale in cut cases.
1.2.1.6 Checkstands shall include two (2) “takeaway lanes” for customer bagging.
1.2.1.7 Employees will not bag groceries, except in emergencies and in situations where the customer is unable to do so.
1.2.1.8 Every-day low pricing - acceptance of double coupons is prohibited.
1.2.1.9 Signage and decor on the walls of the warehouse store must be paint, styrofoam, plastic lettering or of other simple and inexpensive material only. Floors must be cement in future newly constructed locations.
1.2.1.10 The Employer will have thirty (30) days from the receipt of written notice from the Union of non-compliance with any of the provisions listed in this paragraph to achieve compliance with such provisions. *Frozen Foods shall not be considered to be part of the Grocery Department for the purpose of meeting this criterion.
Warehouse Store Definition. A retail market, meeting the following criteria shall be subject to the Southern California Food 4 Less Warehouse Store Agreement's wages and working conditions:
1.2.1.1 A newly built, acquired and/or converted store of a size equal to or greater than forty-five thousand (45,000) square feet. In the case of acquired or converted locations, the Union will not unreasonably deny the Employer's request to allow the application of a warehouse format to a location smaller than forty-five thousand (45,000) square feet. Such request will be evaluated based upon business conditions, location, competition and other relevant considerations. This provision shall have no application to Food 4 Less stores subsisting or under lease on the effective date of this Agreement.
1.2.1.2 Absence of service departments offering products or services of a nature typically offered by supermarket-type operations, except for those expressly authorized by the Union such as tortilleria, prepared and/or hot foods and service meat and/or emplaced pursuant to Section
