There are so many things wrong with Kroger.
First and foremost, Rodney. How incompetent. He continues to forsake the basic business of selling groceries and instead continues to hire consultants and outsiders that bring more checklist, clip boards, and performance boards. I mean really, how many clip boards and communication/performance boards do we need? Can we just sell freaking groceries and try to be happy about how basic that should be? And how much money do we spend on ladder carts, stocking carts, and other c-ap that we dont even use.
When we were doing better as a company we were not making up executive jobs for all these walmart and Aldi people. Over and over we hire outsiders in executive leadership roles. When we promoted from within we were more successful.
If we did actually need to lay people off, and I'm convinced this is yet another knee jerk reaction, why start at stores where our customers are impacted and where we shouldn't be adding stress? There are so many people at the division and GO offices that have useless made up jobs. Cut them and leave the resources at the store and district levels so our people and our customers can be better served. We are not over staffed in store management, we are over staffed in corporate/administrative mgt.
And how in good conscious can Rodney really get a raise during the same year that we lay off mgrs. His pay should be based off how well the company is doing and if we are laying people off id say we are not doing well.
Rodney should resign immediately, as should the yes men and women around him that are helping lead this company to ruins.
Better yet the board should call him to a hotel conference room and fire him like so many great people were this week. He got his severence package with that raise as far as I'm concerned. Send him packing.