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Superior, Price Chopper Win HR Awards

Superior Grocers of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., and Price Chopper Supermarkets of Schenectady, N.Y., won the Food Marketing Institute Maximizing People Potential Awards (Maxx) at the FMI Human Resources/Training and Development Conference last week.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Superior Grocers of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., and Price Chopper Supermarkets of Schenectady, N.Y., won the Food Marketing Institute Maximizing People Potential Awards (Maxx) at the FMI Human Resources/Training and Development Conference last week. Superior Grocers won in the small-company category (fewer than 4,000 employees) for its New Employee Career Development program, a six-week course promoting communication between workers and managers that Superior said has reduced turnover by 14%. Price Chopper won in the large-company category for a program called The Efforts of Associates Matter (TEAM), which teaches problem-solving and focuses on communication. Runners up were Minneapolis-based Supervalu's Distribution Management Training Program and Victoria, British Columbia-based Thrifty Foods' online training program.

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