Stress

You can tell the upper-level management is stressed, and you're under more pressure than a tiny piece of iron in the Earth's core. Is this what performance anxiety feels like?

The chain is under massive pressure to beat out its competitors—Trader Joe's, Kroger, and Walmart. If you're working at a smaller chain organic grocery, the situation is even more tense, but for the same reasons. There'll be a lot of pressure to keep sales up, because the organic grocery industry is quite the competitive market lately.

 
Don't freak out, just fix it. (Source)

When sales are down at your branch, you'll be asked to explain why. When too many employees take the day off, you'll have to figure a way to manage the mayhem at the cash registers. When there's a run on milk and you're suddenly stuck without any new gallons of the good stuff, you'll have to devise an inventory plan on the fly.

All of this is to say that there'll definitely be stress in running a grocery store, but it'll mostly be the spontaneous kind—minor problems to be fixed, albeit as quickly as possible. Problems like low sales can be more of a long-term stressor, but as long as the boom in organic foods is still going strong, we're confident you'll keep those figures up.