Hi there! My name is Chris Larson. I'm a reporter with Louisville Business First.
I'm trying to localize the layoff news to the Louisville area. However, the company has declined to spell out how many stores and people will be impacted.
If you are or you know someone impacted by this move, please let me know. I'm working on a story about this. And I need help from people in the market to get a picture of what's going on here.
Feel free to email me at clarson@bizjournals.com
Greetings, Chris. In your report, be sure to mention that the CEO and Board of Directors received millions in bonuses this year. The shareholders should take issue with these practices. They are the only ones who can stop them.
Hi Chris..I worked in the Cincinnati Division for 43 years and couldn't take the stupidity any longer and retired.Absolute CHAOS Iin the stores.What's being stated on this forum is truth.The CEO Rodney McMullen ran ALL the Cincinnati born executives out last year and replaced them with his Louisville and Utah buddies (kid's).Rodney and his buddies lost sight who Pay's their salary—the CUSTOMER.I had more complaints in my last 5 months then I had in my entire career! Rodney McMullen is the Eddie Lampert (Sears CEO) of the Grocery business.I pray my stock goes to $26..I'm selling EVER SHARE.Good luck to remaining employees..Finally Chris,rumor has it Kroger and Ahold Delize are merging..
Ask about the CEO’s bonus. It was outrageous when you consider the hours cut in the stores. We are expected to work with a shoestring budget and employees with minimal abilities (due to the fact that all we offer is minimum wage). There are no bonuses for the employees who give everything they have every day. Then the company that talks about uplifting everyone every day fires 100’s if not 1000’s of employees all the while LYING and calling it a lay-off. This company has no ethics whatsoever.
@11mT4yff-mpz Your right - and I believe kroger realizes this based on what I'm hearing from DM/s and even presidents of divisions. To much waste and bloated oversight.. micromanaging.. has failed.. They want the SM position to be more than it is and not micromanaged so much.. - to get back to the "old (better) ways"... That helped build this company. This is why the cut in coordinators - from like 8-3 or 4 I think it is..Give the stores back to the managers..but make sure you have the very best (over-all) in the right stores.
Chris, the Kroger Corporate culture is extremely secretive and corrupt. The news ad copy sent to the major media is highly deceptive. THOUSANDS of Store managers, Assistant Store Managers, and also District managers and Coordinators are being FIRED, (not "Laid off") nationwide. These firings include horrible managers as well as really good, hardworking people. The problems mostly stem from the Corporate bigwigs themselves.......introducing inane "programs" in which all managers and dept heads have to fill out piles of stupid paperwork, walking around with their clipboards, writing and writing, documenting, re-reading what amounts to "mini training manuals" over and over each day. STUPID STUFF! JMeanwhile, the actual work of stocking the store, helping out customers, etc, goes undone because they are writing ABOUT work instead of doing the actual physical work that needs to be done!!!! And the employee hours are constantly being cut in most departments in many, if not most, stores, making this an increasingly impossible goal for managers and dept heads to achieve what the "Upper" management expect them to achieve. THUS, failure is guaranteed, and they punish the lower and middle level management for lackluster results, as a result of the stupid programs that were instituted and enforced by the Upper Corporate class. Kroger WILL NOT TELL THE MEDIA THE WHOLE, ENTIRE TRUTH!!! They will sugar coat it, and expect you reporters to take their statements hook, line and sinker with NO pushback or indepth investigation. Journalism is dying in America, and this kind of thing is rampant. Keep that in mind, and search out the truth by reading lots of these threads on this site as well as the REDDIT and 'EMPLOYEE KROGER FORUM' discussion websites. Thank you!
I've heard that so far nation wide it's a total of 800 so far
Hi Chris, This is not isolated to just Kroger Stores it is all of Kroger and their affiliates nation wide. What they've done is eliminated their non essential division corporate people ( who hold Store Director Titles by the way) and they will be offering them the choice of early retirement with severance packages if their close to retirement and/or they will be placed in one of the stores where SD or ASM were let go. Kroger's method of elimination is pretty straight forward, if you ever had a documented black period in your career with the company you are first to go, regardless that they gave you a second chance to keep you in your position in the first place same applies to ASM's. Hope Kroger knows that they are effectively k–ling what was once a GREAT company to work for with their greed and poor management decisions. They need to stop focusing on this Gen not Next Gen.
There firing enterprise wide
It’s not no layoffs, some get severance payment and others got nothing, they say there reconstructioning there management team getting ride of position to many chefs, I work for Kroger’s in Michigan, this is ridiculous what they have don’t, I thought Kroger cared for there employees, it’s all about greed, they say lay offs to make them look good
Southwest Smith's division lots of terminations alot with over 20, 25, 30 years helping build this company. Some were within retirement age or just a few years to go.
I'm in Tigard, or. Two assistant store managers were impacted at my store alone. One forced to retire early after 44 years. The other fired with a severance package. Some stores have lost 3 upper management. This is apparently phase 1 of 3. Not sure what the other phases are.