The company was constructing a new building in Baker City and needed an independent operator. He operated the store from 2016-2018 when he saw an opportunity with Grocery Outlet. But now he was the Store Manager - after starting there 10 years earlier. Miller was made a Store Manager at the Gresham Safeway.īy the age of 28, Miller was back at The Dalles Safeway. Out-of-stock audits soon declared him the winner. Miller, still in his 20s, was moved to Hood River where he set his eyes on capturing the top spot for keeping shelves faced and looking good in a five-state region for the company. Two different shoplifters took swings at him twice.
He also spent time getting employees back to the business of groceries, not crime, bringing labor costs down. Miller said that speech served him well in his time at the store. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. If somebody gets in your face and calls you a #$%&$%$%, I want you to be nice. “I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice.
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He was referring to the movie starring Patrick Swayze and this particular speech. “What’s a 16-year-old kid going to stop,” Miller said, noting those were his Road House years. “He said the store would put an employee at the exit in hopes of stopping shoplifting.” That store had different issues related to labor. He moved to Safeway at 122nd Avenue and Gleason Street in Portland. Miller was promoted to Assistant Manager at Safeway in Baker City in 2011.Īnd before he started, he set a goal of getting the store back into the top 100 club for maintaining inventory - essentially leaving no holes on the shelves where products are missing. And they put their time in at the gym.”īy 2008, Miller was back at The Dalles Safeway as head clerk, a third-in-command position. Miller, an avid basketball fan, said he took cues from the Utah Jazz’s Karl Malone and John Stockton. I tried mean.”īut what worked best, he said, was authenticity and instilling a sense of competition. “I was able to try a lot of management styles out,” he said. He spent the next two years doing lifestyle resets, changing colors and themes at Safeways across Oregon.Įvery several weeks, Miller would find himself at a different store working with a new crew. Safeway leadership singled him out after 10 months and sent him on the road.
“I set a goal of learning the whole store in 10 months.” “I wanted to know everything I could about it,” he said. So, he took a job at Safeway in The Dalles as a courtesy clerk, bagging groceries and pulling long lines of carts. He started at community college that next fall, but he couldn’t afford it. Mary’s Academy and graduated from TDHS in 2005. He has tested leadership theories, gotten deep into the science of product placement and even had shoplifters throw a few punches at him.Īt this point in his career, all signs pointed him back to The Dalles. “Looking back, I guess that was a good indicator of my future career.”įor the past 15 years, Miller has been all over Oregon learning the grocery game at both Safeway and Grocery Outlet. “It’s kind of a weird, funny story,” Miller said last week. He literally broke the game and became one heck of a merchandiser in the process. This went on for several weeks and soon he was on a roll. He then sold them during the week to his classmates for more than he paid. Then the next week, he took multiple packs of products, like gum or cans of pop and and broke them down to single items. Reynolds would take cash away from you.Īt the end of the week, Miller remembers buying everything he could. If you got in trouble for talking too much or disrupting class, Ms. And on Fridays, students used the bucks to buy auction items - candy, pop, etc. Students received Mary Bucks, similar to Monopoly money, on Mondays.
He took over in April from Amie and Brian Baldy.īut back in 2003, he was a student at The Dalles High School, and his teacher Mary Reynolds started a weekly auction that rewarded good behavior. Miller, now 33, is the new independent operator of Grocery Outlet on West Sixth Street. Cody Miller learned a valuable lesson his sophomore year of high school through a simple auction.
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