Anyone experienced anything similar?

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So, I've been in my current job for over 5 years and seemed to be making steady progress, including being made a store keyholder earlier this year.
Today, I get stripped back to basic role and was told I'm the most difficult person the store manager has ever had to manage! I was quite insulted, particularly as i've never been told this before.

Has anyone else here though things were ok and had something like this then said to them?

Can't say I've had the exact same thing done to me, but others have, and it's not uncommon for when they want to change up who is getting what that the higher up people in charge make up some lame excuse that might be true on some level, but until now never was something they'd make an issue of but now they can use it as their justification for doing something.

At one place I used to work and where a team effort was very necessary, I had a supervisor occasionally act like I was the problem when he did not want to go deal with some disruptive stuff somebody else was doing.

Did something recently happen to make somebody think you should no longer have a key?

Not really. No trust issues whatsoever. I've often had a sneaky telling that he didn't actually want to give keys to me in the first place.

Some managers are better communicators than others. Does this one have the time s/he needs to take to be sure things are understood? Or, and at least in my own case, some managers can seem unreasonable when they expect changes to be made immediately and without question.

Something somewhat similar happened to me, although they never actually told me their reasons.

I had been working at a job for 2 years and was doing a really good job. I was getting a lot more work done than any of my colleagues and I was doing it better than my colleagues too. My workload had been increasing and I was literally the busiest employee in the whole company for quite some time, while my colleagues who were supposed to help me out and do some of that work were slacking off, doing little work and doing it really badly and attracting complaints from both customers and authorities. Then the economy got worse and the company asked the staff to come up with ways for the company to save money and become more efficient and I came up with what was later on chosen as the best idea, and I implemented it well and everyone had been giving me a lot of compliments about it and talking about how well I had handled things.

Then out of the blue, I show up to work one day and two of the managers started yelling at me out of stress, but what they were yelling about made absolutely no sense, neither to me nor others who overheard it (later on I knew what their problem was... the owners of the company had given them the task to lay off a few employees for financial reasons and the managers were freaking out about it). When I knew that some resignations were coming up, I still felt pretty safe in my job, because I had been a really good employee and my performance had been a lot better than most others and this was something that other colleagues had often acknowledged.

The day after I got a resignation letter, along with a few other employees. That came as a shock, because the people who kept their jobs were people who were incompetent and lazy, while I lost my job. It didn't seem to make any sense and both I and many of my colleagues were confused about that for a long time and the bosses refused to explain their reasons. Later on I found out that somebody else had been sucking up to one of the managers and telling lies about my performance and stealing the credit for my work. After I left the company the whole department I had worked in become unfunctional and lost a lot of customers, because the others didn't know what they were doing and couldn't handle the workload, so I was offered my job back later, but the damage was already done and I was really hurt and upset about this, because I didn't feel I had done anything to deserve that.

I'm sorry to hear about your trouble at work. Has something unusual been going on at your work lately that could have caused this? Is this a different store manager than the one that made you keyholder earlier? Maybe the problem is with the manager or maybe your personalities are not as compatible as previous store managers and the manager is taking it out on you. I can see how this is a disappointment and an insult. I hope you can work your way back up with time though.

i have been involved in this situation too, especially with my current job.
i am also a supervisor. my sm and the other supervisor have had issues and talks with me directly and also behind my back about my difficulties that i give them and the other associates sometimes. i would say trust/respect/ even just being "smart" issues and different opinions/views have been the cause for most of the arguments. i believe i do my job well, not in the same fashion as them but they cant say i come into work and goof off and never accomplish anything. thankfully i have the asm's support on more things at work than the other two, otherwise, i probably would not still be there willingly or unwillingly.