Employee of the Month - Debbie Moya

December 2013
Volume 5, Issue 3
Employee of the Month - Debbie Moya
Hats off to Debbie Moya, Grocery Receiving Dept. for being selected as the Employee of the Month. Debbie does a great job
and her supervisor, Kirk Collins, credits her with being the
“heartbeat of the department.” Debbie coordinates the deliveries
and purchase orders coming into Dry Grocery. Kirk says they really appreciate the precise work she does and her positive attitude. Debbie has completed 9 years of service.
Randy Arceneaux, President and CEO presents the
“Employee of the Month” award to Debbie Moya.
Debbie is single and has 3 adult children, Aaron, Josh, and Angel.
She likes to read true stories, work puzzles, and considers herself
as being “crafty”. She spends her spare time playing games on
her phone and hanging out with her family. Debbie has 2 dogs;
‘Kasey’, a Bull Mastiff, and ‘Forest’, a Pit Bull. Debbie’s all time
favorite food…Little Debbie Snacks. PLEASE SEE EMPLOYEE ON PAGE 7
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#806 Davenport Grocery - Wichita Falls, TX
1596 - Anthony’s Foods, Meeker, OK
DAVENPORT GROCERY
Marker Dedication Ceremony
10:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 26th, 2013
212 Farris Street
Wichita Falls, Texas
Davenport Grocery Receives Two Awards for
Decades of Service to Their Community.
A Dedication Ceremony was held in Wichita Falls, Texas to honor Davenport Grocery
for their 87 years of continued service to their Community.
Several dignitaries were there to present the awards to NaDonna Norriss, owner and
granddaughter of founder R.D. and Ora Davenport. Robert Palmer, Chairman, Wichita
County Historical Commission was Master of Ceremonies. James Frank, Texas State
Representative presented the Texas Treasure Business Award. That was proceeded by
the unveiling of the Texas Historical Marker by Barry Mahler, Wichita County Commissioner-Precinct Three accompanied with NaDonna. Family friends, and customers
were a welcomed sight to this event.
We wish Davenport Grocery the very best for many great years to come!
Lloyd and Toot’s Davenport
Ora and R.D. Davenport
RALL D. DAVENPORT ( 1905-1998), A
NATIVE OF ARKANSAS, AND ORA L.
DAVENPORT (1905-1997) MOVED TO
WITCHITA FALLS AROUND 1920 AND
SETTLED IN THEIR HOME AT 3RD AND
SEYMOUR STREET (NOW FARRIS
STREET). RECOGNIZING THE NEED
FOR A GROCERY STORE, THE
DAVENPORTS DECIDED TO CONVERT
THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE INTO A
STORE IN 1926. AT THAT TIME, THE
AREA WAS STILL IN THE OIL BOOM
AND THE STORE SERVED OIL FIELD
W O R K E R S AND R A I L R O A D
EMPLOYEES. THE ORIGINAL HARDWOOD FLOORS REMAIN AS WELL AS
THE ORIGINAL COUNTER AND AN
EIGHTY YEAR OLD SOLID OAK MEATC U T T I N G B L O C K. FOR M A N Y
DECADES, DAVENPORT GROCERY,
HOME OF THE HOT LINKS, HAS
SERVED THE COMMUNITY.
THE
DAVENPORT FAMILY CONTUNIES TO
OPERATE THIS THRIVING BUSINESS.
Story lead courtesy of Jeff Griminger /
Tri State Baking Co., Photos courtesy
of Dale Thompson / New Accounts
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NaDonna Norriss, Owner
The Texas business Award Program recognizes
the accomplishments of Texas businesses that
have provided employment opportunities and
support to the state’s economy for at least
50 years.
Marker funded by :
Barry Mahler
Wichita County Commissioner
Wichita Falls, Texas
#1394 Reyman’s Grocery - Holly, CO
Same location since 1940.
Holly, Colorado gets a New Store
Opened September 2013
Passion, tenacity, compassion and hard work are pillars of the success and longevity of family-owned Reyman’s Grocery of Holly, Colorado. Founded in 1940 by Art and Hazel Reyman, Reyman’s Grocery exemplifies that “small town America” is alive and well and the
pioneer spirit lives on.
Kent and Pearl Reyman took the reins of store operations when his folks retired and in 1985,
became members of the Affiliated Foods family. Rearing their children “sacking groceries”,
Kent and Pearl passed the business to daughter Tracie Kalma and husband Jess in 2009.
The Reyman family has served the Holly community in the same location for more than 7
decades. For a long time, Kent and Pearl had visions of a new, larger and grander supermarket to serve the community and insure future family generations of Reyman grocers. Jess
and Tracie shared those dreams and opened the doors to the new facility in September of
2013.
The new store is truly a family affair. Several months ago, the family gathered for a holiday
and discussed ideas for the new store. One of the sons sat down and sketched the design on
paper that became what the store is today. The stonework rock came from the family ranch,
through which the Old Santa Fe Trail meanders. Some of the outside accent lighting
came from the old train depot in town.
Congratulations to the Reyman’s and
Kalma’s for providing a beautiful and
modern supermarket and we wish them
another 70 plus years of success.
Courtesy of Dale Thompson / New Accounts
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Pearl Reyman, Tracie and Jess Kalma, Kent Reyman
AFI’s Warehouse Incentive Program
At Affiliated Foods, when we hire a new order selector there is a working standard that must be
met in the first 60 days of employment. The Warehouse Management System calculates time
for each store order based on Engineered Labor Standard. This time standard must be met at 100%
by the first 60 days. Once the selector achieves 100% of standard and keeps that standard or above,
they become qualified order selectors. This process helps orders to be pulled in a timely manner.
Perishable Qualified:
Christian Leija
Oscar Machado
Miguel Vasquez
Joseph Jamarillo
Carlos Gonzalez
Rocco Rohan
Joshua Fernandez
Charles Lee
Erick Mejia
December 2013
Above and Beyond…
HBC Qualified:
Sarah Gilley
Angelita Davis
Patricia Flores
Zenaida Torres
Perishable Top Pay:
Mario Marquez
Jesse Washington
Adam Ochoa
Tyrell Warnke
HBC Top Pay:
Estela Smith
Ana Bustos
Meleaha Farrow
Courtesy of Jimmy Ross / Director of Warehouse Operations, David Trimble / Assistant
Director of Warehouse Operations, Enrique Barreras / Dry Grocery Supervisor, Ralph
Telles / Perishable Supervisor and Israel Guajardo / HBC Supervisor
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#1722 Lowes / Denver, CO
Lowes Apple Contest 2013
Apples, apples, apples...everywhere, apples! This is just one of
many displays entered in this year’s Lowe’s Apple Contest.
This Apple Display is from #1722 Lowes #122, in Denver, CO.
The produce manager is Marco Prado, and is “Very creative when
building displays”, said Tim Taylor, Lowes Produce Director.
Courtesy of Tim Taylor
Plains Dairy’s Thanksgiving Meal
Courtesy of Mary Reed / Plains Dairy
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EMPLOYEE: December Employee of the Month...cont. from page 1
She doesn’t care what kind it is, she loves them all.
The most influential person in Debbie’s life has been her mom, Reba. She was a
hard worker and took care of her family. Debbie is still trying to live up to the examples she grew up with. Debbie plans to continue working at AFI and someday retire
and enjoy life.
She will receive an additional 250 safety bonus points and a designated parking
space for the month of December. Debbie selected gift certificates from Buns Over
Texas. Congratulations and many thanks for doing your BEST, Debbie!
The following employees were also nominated this month. Congratulations to all!
Rodolfo Ochoa Chavez, Alan Cruz, Thomas Douangpanya, Amy Hood,
Tim Marshall and Salvador Prieto
Employee of the Month for December 2013
Debbie Moya
Courtesy of Rita Koontz / Human Resources
Spotlight On the Warehouse
Newcomer of the Month:
Adam Ochoa
Adam works in the Perishable Shipping Department under the supervision of Ralph
Telles. He has been at AFI since October 15th, 2013. He is an Order Selector.
Adam has been willing and eager to learn since the day he was hired. Adam achieved
his qualifying pay the very first pay period, and top pay the second pay period. He has
great work quality as well as speed. We are very glad to have Adam
aboard the AFI team!
Courtesy of Jamallh Clark, Recruiter
A Christmas Message from #896 Village Market, Hatch, NM
ON BEHALF OF VILLAGE MARKET STORE # 896 , HATCH NM
WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL AFFILIATED MEMBERS AND
THEIR FAMILIES, THE AFFILIATED WAREHOUSE EMPLOYEES
AND THEIR FAMILIES, A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR.
FROM ALL THE EMPLOYEES AT VILLAGE MARKET
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AFI Bakery / Deli News
Merry Christmas
Are you making your list and
checking it twice? Santa will know who is
naughty or nice! That is right folks it is that
time of the year. Let’s look at our departments and use effective signage on all your
products, include product name, price, description, and if the product is on sale let the
customer know about the savings.
Kretschmar Spiral Recipe Ham AFL #
03443 is a December Deli Featured item.
The cost on this delicious Kretschmar product is only $3.41 per pound, t he deal will
run from now until January 3, 2014. This is
an unsliced product that comes in a great
package and can be displayed whole in the
package for gift giving, sliced and offered in
party trays. At the cost of 3.41 you can afford to sample and let your customer taste
this seasonal product and still make a great
profit. Let’s show our customers what we
have and let them choose.
Push your Reser’s salads they are all back
in stock, keep on pushing party platters and
offer a variety to include cheese, meat,
chicken wings, and assorted trays. Don’t
forget about tamales they sell very well
around this time sell them hot, cold,
by the each, half dozen, and full dozen let your customer choose by suggesting, offering ideas and sampling
the product.
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and lets
have some fun. Happy Holidays!!
Thank You , Bobby
December is the second best sales month for
the bakery. For the Christmas holiday you can
do a lot better if you make plans to sell a lot
more. Plan ahead and you will have increases
in your sales; have your plan according to your
projected sales and make a nice display with
cookies, cookie platters, cream cake platters,
pies and dinner rolls. Get creative and decorate
your bakery for the holiday, put some streamers
and make your display look good and attractive
and go for sales. This is a very great month for
bakery products so go for those sales.
Continue providing the best customer service
possible; customer service is the best advertisement you can have. Make a good effort and
take care of your customers and it will pay off.
Commodities are getting out of control, please
pay attention to the order guide and your invoices. The majority of the vendors are getting
price increases so; therefore, we need to set our
prices according to those increases, if not your
profit will go down.
Also this month you need to start working on
sugar free items; we have a good variety of
those items.
In addition you need to start preparing for those
New Year’s Eve parties, so toward the end of
the month start preparing a nice New Year’s
display with cookies, cream cake cookie platters, cookie platters, decorated big cookies and
cakes. Again, get creative use party hats,
streamers, and anything else you think will
look nice on a display and go for those sales!
Please read all the newsletters I send every
month, because they provide merchandising
tips and product information that may provide
some help to you in reaching your sales goals.
Again, we are here to help you in any way we
can with merchandising tips, promotional
items, product information, and technical support. So please do not hesitate to call me when
you need help with any of these. Happy Holidays to everyone!
Jaime
Here is something for you to think
about to improve your bakery.
Cupcake and Custome Cake Trends
Posted by Letitia from Stratford, CT, US on
September 15, 2010
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the last year, a 3 percent decrease, and 1.3 billion packages
of wheat bread, a 5 percent increase. White bread isn’t dead.
Some consumers want healthier
breads but are focused on price.
Hi, Thank you for contacting CSM.
Consumer shifts to premium
breads and value pricing has
A-Cupcakes and Custom/ Specialty cakes are
sliced into sales at some breadcontinuing their double digit growth in the
Grocery channel and will continue to become
makers. In the last decade, several major changes have occurred
popular. The cupcake craze started several
years ago in Manhattan with a company called in the industry, including the
Magnolia Bakery and has continued in LA with popularity of low-carb diets (until
about 2005), and the era of baka cupcake company called Sprinkles. You see
ery consolidation that began in
cupcake shops across the US. There is a new
popular trend towards offering a cake on a stick 2004. Consumers now want
or in a shape of a ball which is becoming exwhole-wheat and whole-grain
bread at low prices. Excerpt:
tremely popular. It is smaller than a cupcake
www.chicagotribune.com
and is bite sized. I would certainly explore
offering this in your new bakery. Best of Luck
but I think it’s a brilliant idea. Excerpt:
www.supermarketnews.com
Q-Where do you see the cupcake and custom
cake trends going? There seems to be more
cupcake bakeries opening than any other bakery. I’ve been doing some researching because
I would like to open one in my town.
WHEAT SURPASSES WHITE IN SLICED
BREAD SALES
Whole grains are the hottest trend in sliced
bread, with whole wheat edging out soft white
bread in total sales for the first time. Flooded
with messages about heart health, fiber intake,
and the need for omega-3s, more consumers are
looking for bread that can taste good and deliver nutrients. That’s why shopping for sliced
bread is increasingly about one of two things:
what’s affordable and what seems healthiest.
The breads in the middle of the market seem to
be getting squeezed. The best-performing
breads are promoting credentials like “whole
grain” and “natural”, sometimes asking consumers to pay more for those loaves. And it
seems to be working. Breads with “natural” in
the name, or grains visible through the packaging, are among the best performing at grocery
stores.
It’s part of a major turning of the tide. Packaged wheat bread recently surpassed white
bread in dollar sales, according to Nielsen Co,
for the 52 weeks ending July 10, wheat bread
sales increased 0.6 percent to $2.6 billion,
while white bread sales declined 7 percent to
$2.5 billion. White bread is still ahead in volume, but the margin is shrinking. Americans
bought 1.5 billion packages of white bread in
Jaime Ortega / Sales Manager
/ Bakery/Deli
jortega@afiama.com
806-681-9238
Bobby Pena / Deli Specialist
rpena@afiama.com
806-392-6416
William “Bill” Laster Retires
For more great crafts check out Pinterest, @ www.pinterest.com
Joe Marshall, PTG Truck Shop Day Supervisor; William “Bill” Laster, PTG Truck Shop Maintenance
Trades; Michael Glisson, PTG Truck Shop Parts Manager; Gene Blackburn, Human Resources Director
...and to all a
good night!
Affiliated Foods would like to congratulate Bill Laster on 24.63 years with our company.
Bill worked in the Panhandle Transportation Group (PTG) Truck Shop under the direction of
Tim Marshall, his position was Maintenance Trades.
We are grateful for the work and dedication that you have given to our
company and wish you a happy retirement! The Affiliated Family News
Courtesy of Sally Perez / HR
A Note of Thanks!
“THANK YOU” to all who have contributed to the success of the Newsletter”!
A special thanks to Dale Thompson and Kevin Fortenberry for their continued support and help!
The Affiliated Family News
Cathy Gallivan / afinews@afiama.com
If you have any thing to contribute please e-mail the “AFI Family News” @ www.afinews@afiama.com
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