For 136 years Kroger stood for family and good food, and was proud of its employees. They ALWAYS promoted from within, and they always treated their associates with care & dignity, because they knew the foundation of any good company was its people. Now our CEO hires future leaders from our competitors, and will pay any foreign tech person a couple million a year. Unfortunately he also has to lay off 750 loyal long-timers who bleed Kroger blue in order to afford each of these highly paid outsiders. All to achieve his glorious dream of the future - an internet grocery store run by robots, stripped of every troublesome human being possible. Kroger used to be about profits first, with its people coming in a close second. Our present CEO has put profit first, profit second, and profit third. All the hot air they spewed about uplift is comical now!
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Amen. The company has changed forever. It's all about $$$
Based on their statement (and the fact they are reducing coordinators and "Paper" they know the previous bloated, inefficient, micro management of store managers has failed and they are moving back to what actually worked.
If they knew what we said in those surveys, they wouldn't want us to do them.
It's so funny how the company kisses a– when it comes to customer service week. That's what they call it anyways. It's all about employees doing surveys as to how management in the company is doing in their viewpoint. Boy did they s— up to us during that week. All kinds of fun things to do in freebies and pretending that it's all about us. So that when we go do the survey on the computer in the office that we give them how high marks.... year-to-year I've based my answers has to My overall treatment through my almost 13 years. I give them the lowest scores possible.... they always gloat about how they're all about family first. Bull. Many years of disappointment. Despite that, the position I'm in now I'm happier than I ever have been. At my age I can't get better vacation benefits anywhere else. I'm on a 90/10 coverage insurance plan. Don't get better than that either. There's a rule of 82 for retirement. Your age plus your your served must equal 82. That means I don't qualify to retire until I'm 67 years old and with deteriorating health that's probably not going to be possible.