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TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE & RESOURCES => Ask a Grocery Specialist => Topic started by: Viable Food on Aug 15, 2026, 08:26 AM

Title: How to get the most useful answer to a grocery question
Post by: Viable Food on Aug 15, 2026, 08:26 AM
You do not need to know exactly where your question belongs before asking it.

That is part of what this community is for.

You will usually get a more useful answer, however, if you give enough context for people to understand the problem.

When appropriate, consider including:


For example:

Instead of:

> My labor is too high. What should I do?

A more useful question might be:

> Our sales have been flat, but labor cost has increased for three months. Most of the increase is coming from overtime and extra closing hours. We have already adjusted the front-end schedule, but grocery and deli are still running late. What would you look at next?

That gives the community somewhere to start.

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