Thread regarding Kroger Co. layoffs

The finger pointing starts at the General Office..... period!! I have been in this business 35 years and have been in salaried management, when there was only one ASM per store! How did we ever survive? Maybe in very high volume stores there was a need for multiple ASM`s, but not 3 or more.
It started the day they decided that we can't let stores think for themselves or be creative. It started when they rolled out Key Retailing! It started the day Rodney took over.

This company is so heavy with back end labor if it were in the ocean it woiukd sink right to the bottom. These were cuts that needed to happen. But who is being held responsible for letting it get out if hand in the first place?

If you want to right the ship get back to selling groceries and letting store managers operate their stores. And quit sending out slogans and phrases that nobody believes. We know you don't care about us.

Agree, totally an HR comment from someone who kissed the right a– and got a cushion job in HR.

Have some more kool-aid dude!

My guess is you are in senior management. You probably make 70k plus a year right? From the sound of it, you didn't lose your job.. yet... Don't worry though, cause Kroger doesn't care about you. You will find yourself on the other side of this fence one day no doubt.

You have no idea how much we have put into this company. Maybe we could do more, but there is a limit to how many unpaid hours you can put in before you just feel like a chump. The older employees have cared deeply for this company and have seen directors unable to figure out how to appeal to shoppers to make them enjoy coming into the stores. I am ashamed of the poor choices made that have caused our customers to leave for stores that give them a better experience. Our pricing structure is part of the problem. No one wants to feel ripped off when they go somewhere else and see how much more they spent at Kroger, but the decision makers are clueless how to fix it. Our advertising is dull and flavorless. There is no spark. There will be fewer people working that really care about Kroger as a company and only see it as a short term commitment. If that's what they want, so be it. I'm sorry for the people who have believed that someday things would improve if only we could stand to work through the rough patches. The continuing refusal to accept responsibility by the CEO and top management and make substantive merchandising changes is a symptom of their ignorance or unfitness for leadership.

This is all part of getting rid of older employees who have (had!!!!) better pay structures and benefits than the newer generation of workers—there was a time when companies actually gave a sh– about people and nowadays, especially, the inequalities of the wealth affect has taken over America's industries also. People getting paid HUGE $$$ to move paper and stocks are NOT AS VALUABLE as the horses (low end employees) who actually do the work—Things in corporate America are extremely "jacked up" as a result of the biggest money grab in history—prices have doubled in the past 10 years and yet Kroger and others squabble over giving their employees a decent wage—Benefits are, at Kroger, what they should be throughout America...REASONABLE!! that, i will give Kroger props for—The rest of it is typical b—s— which has been going on a long time, but more so in the past 12 years. Take care of your employees and they will take care of you!!! ps–i am NOT an employee of Kroger!!

OP, I trust you are educated enough to navigate to the homepage of the simple structured web site and read its purpose, I’m really sorry you didn’t do that before you posted, you would save yourself (and us) a lot of time.
This is not a management brainstorming board, I’m afraid they need to look elsewhere to find solutions for the mess they created.
This is a place where all people who are touched or could be touched by lay-offs and restructures share their feelings, assumptions and experiences.

And we all will be, the writing is on the wall. Most of us bust our butts for this company and for you to be so dismissive shows how little you know.

While some may be off base, the long term people know Kroger corporate has been making a lot of costly mistakes that are making the company fail and things at the store level worse. Cutting positions above store level has always made sense. There are too many layers of management outside the store level and too many with different messages as to how things should be done. DM says one thing, one coordinator says another, and a different one says something else. Reducing management and layers outside of store is a smart move.

However, reducing associate hours in store and making it impossible for employees to do everything required didn't make sense. Reducing in store management doesn't make sense unless you are going to greatly increase associate hours. In store management has had to take up the slack for reduced associate hours. We have to do hourly jobs because their aren't enough associate hours to get the job done. We have to work six and sometimes seven days a week with twelve plus hour shifts to get the job done. Reducing in store management without increasing associate numbers and hours will make store situations even worse. I will wait to see the plan for how this is all supposed to work. However, based on previous decisions, I don't expect things to get better.

You can say whatever you want about who you are, but you sound like someone in HR from corporate office. Saying we could all be out of a job sounds like you are threatening us.