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Dierbergs seeks more store managers in hiring push

Upcoming retirements open up “record number” of management jobs

Russell Redman

August 23, 2019

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Hiring events are nothing new for Dierbergs Markets, but the one that the St. Louis-area grocer has scheduled for next week is something different.

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Dierbergs said it plans to hold a “mega-hiring event” at all stores next Wednesday to help fill positions chainwide, including a record number of store management jobs arising in part from an upcoming flurry of retirements.

“It’s really a unique, positive story for a retailer,” Erica Campbell, manager of talent acquisition at Dierbergs, said in a statement. “We have a sizable number of Dierbergs associates who have contributed 25 years or more and have announced their impending retirements.”

At the Aug. 28 hiring drive, Dierbergs aims to fill both part- and full-time positions, with a particular focus on store maintenance and the deli, meat and seafood departments. A significant number of positions in those departments and others offer immediate placement in management roles, an unusual occurrence for what is typically a predictable fall hiring cycle for grocery retail, according to the supermarket chain. Campbell said she expects to hire up to 40 people for management posts.

Dierbergs noted that its most intense growth period took place in the 1980s, when the retailer expanded from five stores to 14 and its workforce surpassed 3,000 people — many of whom are still with the company but at or near retirement.

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“It’s cause for us to celebrate their accomplishments, and it creates opportunities for others to join our team, either as managers or to get in the management pipeline,” Campbell commented.

This latest hiring push is in line with Dierbergs’ recent efforts to beef up its perishables team. In late April, the chain held a hiring event to fill 100 jobs in its deli, meat and seafood departments.

Overall, Dierbergs employs more than 4,000 associates and operates 24 supermarkets in the St. Louis metropolitan area, as well as a location at Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri.

About the Author

Russell Redman

Senior Editor
Supermarket News

Russell Redman has served as senior editor at Supermarket News since April 2018, his second tour with the publication. In his current role, he handles daily news coverage for the SN website and contributes news and features for the print magazine, as well as participates in special projects, podcasts and webinars and attends industry events. Russ joined SN from Racher Press Inc.’s Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers magazines, where he served as desk/online editor for more than nine years, covering the food/drug/mass retail sector. 

Russell Redman’s more than 30 years of experience in journalism span a range of editorial manager, editor, reporter/writer and digital roles at a variety of publications and websites covering a breadth of industries, including retailing, pharmacy/health care, IT, digital home, financial technology, financial services, real estate/commercial property, pro audio/video and film. He started his career in 1989 as a local news reporter and editor, covering community news and politics in Long Island, N.Y. His background also includes an earlier stint at Supermarket News as center store editor and then financial editor in the mid-1990s. Russ holds a B.A. in journalism (minor in political science) from Hofstra University, where he also earned a certificate in digital/social media marketing in November 2016.

Russell Redman’s experience:

Supermarket News - Informa
Senior Editor 
April 2018 - present

Chain Drug Review/Mass Market Retailers - Racher Press
Desk/Online Editor 
Sept. 2008 - March 2018

CRN magazine - CMP Media
Managing Editor
May 2000 - June 2007

Bank Systems & Technology - Miller Freeman
Executive Editor/Managing Editor
Dec. 1996 - May 2000

Supermarket News - Fairchild Publications
Financial Editor/Associate Editor
April 1995 - Dec. 1996 

Shopping Centers Today Magazine - ICSC 
Desk Editor/Assistant Editor
Dec. 1992 - April 1995

Testa Communications
Assistant Editor/Contributing Editor (Music & Sound Retailer, Post, Producer, Sound & Communications and DJ Times magazines)
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1992 

American Banker/Bond Buyer
Copy Editor
Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991 

This Week newspaper - Chanry Communications
Reporter/Editor
May 1989 - July 1990

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