Will part time employees be let go due to the lay offs and how and when will we find out?

High on the hog corporate should have reduced pay or be laid off. They need to recoup all that money spent on endless programs that incite needless paperwork and micro managing. What happened to just stocking the shelves and keeping the customer... — read more 

Division / Headquarters - Number of Stores Harris Teeter / Charlotte, NC - Number of Stores: 234 Kroger Southwest* / Houston, TX Number of Stores: 217 Ralphs / Los Angeles, CA Number of Stores: 204 Kroger / Atlanta, GA... — read more 

So I have heard about all the positions ending is just ASM's , I am an ARM but haven't heard much except who I report too will be gone so are we next?

Kroger Laid off 4,000 People in October 2019 - See the source here thelayoff.com/t/11lNOEcy or @11lNOEcy

They are hiding it. Can we extrapolate the number? Smith's has communicated to their folks that 200 people were let go. How do we use this number to extrapolate the overall Total Number of Employees Laid of By Kroger in October 2019??? For example... — read more 

Some of the people that they are letting go of are great people. They just are to chicken and cheap to pay them what they are worth

My store manager is making us say we are the best store in Nashville lol is anyone else's management making them do this? I compared him wanting to say we are better than other store to the saying Mirror mirror on the wall am I the fairest of them... — read more 

I've been with Kroger for 21 years and I can personally say if offered severance package I will take it I love Kroger but I wish we could return to the 90s when we focused on customers not the almighty dollar...

The anxiety and mental stress that comes with this job is not worth it. The time we spend away from our spouses and children is not worth it. We'll never be enough for them until we're living at the store 24 hours a day and running the stores so they... — read more 

Any word on salaried Employee Commerce?????

Any updates or insights, if we havent been called yet are we safe? Does anyone know?

Kroger doesn't really care about the customers like they used to. Our aprons no longer say " Customer Come First " for a reason and all employees know the reason. Management makes excuses why a product is not on the shelf. An excuse is a lie, a... — read more 

Is this also affecting pharmacy managers? I’m afraid to go on a medical leave for surgery now...like will I lose my job after I return??

i'm scared to even imagine who will replace her. can't figure out why they would rif her for the life of me. i'm truly heartbroken for her and us.

They think about the almighty dollar and the shareholders more than peoples lives that are being affected by this. Were is a white 62 year old man trying to make it to retirement making good money find a job that pays good and benefits too. Five... — read more 

What's that all about? Does that mean if somebody has a meeting scheduled it doesn't have to be layoff-related?

I've been hearing horror stories about what the job market is like for anybody over fifty, but I'm hoping those stories are exaggerated. Or more precisely, I have to hope since I think that by the end of this week, I might be in a position of... — read more 

How is today looking so far?

maybe they should look at what they are paying their executives before laying off people who can't afford the layoff.

The husband of one of my nieces was caught up in a big Kroger layoff. He had been managing the produce department for a very long time. This was many years ago and as I recall he had been there so long and simply made too much money. At any rate when... — read more 

As if yesterday was not stressful enough, we get another day (if we are lucky - maybe this will continue tomorrow as well or even next week) of this whole mess. Can somebody please tell me why this couldn't have been done all at once? I'm sure... — read more 

I used to tell everyone we stopped selling groceries about 5 years ago because we were so worried about these stupid clip boards. We would manage reports instead of our stores. The main problem I see is that they are keeping the ones that had... — read more 

Sorry to all who are losing their jobs and the ones that didn't, I'm sure this is an awful time at Kroger. I worked for eight years in their jewelery division until the sotre I was mamaging was closed at the beginning of the year. I have no idea how... — read more 

Kroger has continually sh– on Fred Meyer over the last few years and now it is completely ruined. They have absolutely no clue what this company stood for and now they are just driving it into the ground. All of the exec's at Kroger are giant pieces... — read more 

We need to take a stand to make sure this is the last time this ever happens. They are understaffed all the time anyway, if we united they couldn’t replace us..

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CAN someone tell me if all Kroger owned stores are union? Because In California upper management is spreading propaganda that this was caused by the latest UFCW union contract.

This is happening in Colorado as well, store managers have meetings this week, and asm's have meetings next week. It makes you wonder if there's a merger coming or the company is going to sell. At least our area has been top-heavy with... — read more 

The first thing they should look at is how bad there turn over is. It is because of upper management who doesn't care about there employees, or there family life. They expect way to much from one person which is unfair. To many managers, not enough... — read more 

The bottom line is the fact that these CEOs and other multi million dollar making asshats need a pay cut not the lower level workers. They are compensating the wages I feel cause the hourly based employees arent getting sh– and getting tired of... — read more 

Any insight into what's happened so far specifically in Delta?

I can’t help but wonder what Barney Kroger would think of all this. A CEO who makes upwards of 11 million per year, and countless VPs of any and everything who make the big bucks too. Kroger says Store Leadership is the most important Role, yet we... — read more 

I spent 40 years as a Store Mgr with Kroger. I had some wonderful supervisors in that time span. I had some wonderful employees in that time span. And yes, I was forced to tolerate some of both that did not deserve to breath air. But... — read more 

I would like to know what the divorce/widow rate is at Kroger. My husband is a store manager working 70 hours a week and gets threatened with something every week. They will never be pleased. Get chewed out about OT constantly. He will be... — read more 

Odd that no one in our district below 40 was let go. Only senior managers. Most of them great people. Think about the missed birthdays, missed dinners, late nights, on call, long commutes, working holidays....these managers have given their all and... — read more 

For folks that are separating, what happens with our 401K plans? Has anyone here ever rolled your retirement / 401K into another account? What did you do???

Here it goes, from Fox (pretty much the same as Business Insider, no new details) https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/kroger-layoffs-employees-turnaround Grocery store chain Kroger is laying off hundreds of employees across its stores just... — read more