Absolutely one on the worst no caring companies I have ever worked for. I am currently a store manager, and the lack of care they have for their associates is overwhelmingly clear. DON'T be fooled by their phoney "feed the human spirit" bologna, and PLEASE DON'T believe their promise of $16.00 an hour. IT IS A LIE. You will 100% make between $9.00 and $11.25. How they come up with this inflated total is their delusional speak of how wonderful their benefits are. The issue is 80% of our associates are minors and could give a rats a-s about benefits. This company will work you to death, and could care less if your turnover % is 100%. They STILL complain DAILY about getting it fixed. The District staff is a complete joke who comes in your stores and complains weekly, however you will see that they NEVER lift a finger to help, and they act as if they are above everyone there. RUN, RUN, RUN, from this band of phonies. They offer our new Assistant Store Leaders between 50 and 60,000.00 a year, but what they don't tell you is you will be working 60 to 70 hours per week, NOT 50. They will worry the heck out of you with the texts, emails, and Apps like group me. I CAN'T WAIT to get the heck out of here. I hate feeling this way, but all of the above is 100% true. Ask ANY associate and they will tell you they NEVER have enough help. Our CEO received a $21 million dollar raise in 2021, but the refused to keep hazard pay in place for those associates who do more in a day than the old fossil Rodney McMullen does in a year. EVERYTHING I'm writing here is verifiable, feel free to research online. The cut throat, underhanded, malicious, back stabbing attitude from upper management is despicable. You will 1000% see the same people get promoted over and over. It is a "good ol Boyz club" and if your not in their little circle you will rot in your position. Sorry, but this is the truth.
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Welp, finally told Kroger to go pi-s up stream. I walked out 3 weeks ago, and a warmth of happiness washed over me. The only time I have been happier is when I discovered po-nhub.
Kroger consistently jumps on the "woke issues" bandwagon to divert attention away to what is really going on. Aged based firings, the good old boys club, not caring if an employee lives or dies, lying and backstabbing to get what you want! Meanwhile public affairs and the socialist KTV Network spews all the "great, incredible things" they are doing for the community! What a self serving bunch of propaganda! Some day I hope to watch these fools get bent over the corporate sawhorse!
Hey OP my spouse was brought in as an external SM for Kraper - and basically wrote the same post after resigning 2 years in. From the DM down it was a living he-l - Near the end they were working every single day - and even though they turned things around, it was never good enough for kraper. WORSE DM ever - he was shuffled into another role not long after my spouse left.
Thankfully we own a home in the state they moved us from - moved back and my spouse is now with a better company - making less for now, but so much more emotionally/physically healthy.
Boston Analytica is the biggest problem. They apply metrics to screen for the older employees getting slightly higher compensation and target them to get rid of them. Layoffs have only slowed down for now because it is hard to hire new people right now, but it will return. Rodney Mcduck is sitting in his insular little bubble counting his money and congratulating himself on how great the company is doing, because that is what all his minions are telling him. Look at stores that really want to succeed and create real customer and employee satisfaction. Kroger can no longer be looked at as the leader of anything. In this case size really doesn't matter.
The bonus is crazy. If you took even 1/2 of it and gave it to payroll, you'd have people working, keeping the stores in good shape and he'd still have more than enough $$$. Don't forget he made a lot last year too.
Make no mistake. There are plenty of people at "G.O" who truly give a damn about supporting the people in our stores, but they get crapped on as well. If you don't say the right things, support upper mgmt ideas even if it's obvious they'll lead to catastrophe, you'll get nowhere.
Like many have mentioned, when Dave Dillon still CEO, there was a sense that the company gave a damn about its employees. Now? If you aren't producing good "metrics", regardless that the benchmarks change almost monthly, or you're beyond 40, you better be a buddy with someone in management.
If you think trying to produce the best [thing] possible is what they want, you're a fool. D-level and above does two things, take credit for successes their staff worked their as--s off to pull off or shift blame onto them when easily predictable, avoidable issues occur because of their bad decision making skills and utter lack of vision.
The "old boy's club" was bad in the old days, but things really turned around under Dillon's leadership. Now it's far worse than it ever was.
Seems like nothing has changed since they restructured . Rodney needs to go and all his brain washed executives.
So true. So true
20 year Kroger employee everything the two store managers said is completely true.General office in Cincinnati is completely out of touch all they care about is jumping on the next politically correct woke issue,hitting unrealistic numbers and the stock price to get there massive bonuses.The Atlanta division office after Lucia left is exactly what they said a yes man/good old boys club where relatives and there cliq that’s been around since I started 20 years ago bounce around from high paying job to the next.Everything that comes out of Cincinnati “feed the human spirit”uplift in every way”0 hunger 0 waste” is complete propaganda anyone that’s worked at a kroger knows it’s complete BS people hate there jobs because Kroger continues to add on work and cut hourly budgets for the stores week after week they don’t live in reality Kroger is ran like a hedge fund on Wall Street and not a grocery company.If Mccmullen doesn’t retire soon and him and his regime along with Boston consulting who’s really calling the shots in the executive office get replaced the company’s either going to get bought out or bankrupt.
"Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen's 2020 compensation package jumped to $20.6 million, the nation's largest grocer disclosed in a government filing. McMullen got a $6.4 million raise – more than 45% – as he steered the supermarket chain with stores in 35 states through the COVID-19 pandemic last year."
I am also a store manager and this is 100% fact. On our weekly update today we were told “we know the warehouse is having issues” but we still need to work to make sure we are getting to 92% in stock. Okay, yeah, somehow it’s my associates’ and my fault that we can’t get to 92% in stock when we’re missing trucks for a whole day and perishables are almost a day behind on every truck for the past week. Yep, we can pull that product right out of our behinds! Speaking of that 21 million dollars, why does he need that much? Why can’t that excess of money be divided up into more hours for the stores so we may actually be able to do the things that are expected. Such as: evening conditioning, replenishing, or giving our frozen departments more than 40 hours? And about Covid, why did we stop doing proper contact tracing? We know why, because Kroger is scared we might run out of associates and have to shut a store down, that would hurt our pockets.
Facts! Waiting for my DM to run out of friends so I can get promoted. The good ol boys club is alive and well
All true!