Case Study: Meijer achieves consolidated HR and $1.96M annual savings with Workday

Meijer - Customer Case Study

Meijer, a privately owned, family-operated retailer headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, operates more than 250 stores across six Midwestern states and employs over 70,000 team members. The company struggled with inefficient, inconsistent HR processes across multiple legacy systems and custom bolt-ons that delivered rigid workflows, limited self-service and poor reporting capabilities.

By moving to Workday (HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Time Tracking, Learning, Talent), Meijer consolidated HR into one flexible system and a single source of truth, shifted partial ownership from IT to HR, and enabled self-service, mobile access and automated workflows. The change sped responses and standardized processes, retired 80 integrations, avoided a $1.5M upgrade, achieved 50% mobile adoption, cut new-store setup from 12 weeks to 1, and delivered roughly $1.96M in annual savings from HR efficiency and improved onboarding.

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