It started with the coke machine. They filled it with dented Big K sodas. Then they took the machine away. We used to have those good paper towels in the box, the brown folded ones. Now we have those huge rolls they use in the restrooms. They are so thin and cheap you have to use twice as many.
The bottles with cleaner are filled with plain water half the time. That's just not right. Clean up some chicken or bloody red meat with water?
Hand sanitizer at the registers - maybe maybe not. If it runs out it takes forever to get a new bottle. I brought my own.
The clorox wipes at the front door to clean the carts with? Haven't seen those in a year or longer.
Ink pens they get free from the bank. I usually bring my own each day.
Wipes, towels, sanitizer, should be ordered by whoever generally puts in orders for supplies. Find that person. Yell at them. I don't think it's an issue with Kroger taking anything away here.
Unlike with the coke machine. Alas. We used to have TV in the breakroom. Well, we still have the screen, but there's nothing to watch.
Thankfully our administrative assistant is fantastic at her job, so we rarely have a supply issue for more than a day or two. And we still have a TV and all that, plus rumor has it that they're installing Wi-Fi soonish. So nope, not yet.
Wipes, towels, sanitizer, should be ordered by whoever generally puts in orders for supplies. Find that person. Yell at them. I don't think it's an issue with Kroger taking anything away here.
Unlike with the coke machine. Alas. We used to have TV in the breakroom. Well, we still have the screen, but there's nothing to watch.
Yeah, we have trouble with that too. Seems like the order clerk will just order a mountain of supplies and then forget about it for a month or two. Then we run out of paper towels, baler wire, shrink wrap for a two or three days.
We still have a coke and a pepsi machine but its a buck something for a can. Candy machine too, but its a dollar twenty five for a regular candy bar. We also have a coffee machine, but this is starbucks land, so nobody uses it. As well we have a crappy flat screen with a basic package that somehow lacks any espn channels. The remote broke so you have to change the channel at the receiver below the TV. Pens are always in short supply. Using water to clean became a standard a few years ago, for food safety reasons.
And forget the cart wipes! Customers will wipe their cart down and then throw the wipe on the floor. Constantly picking them up.
Wipes, towels, sanitizer, should be ordered by whoever generally puts in orders for supplies. Find that person. Yell at them. I don't think it's an issue with Kroger taking anything away here.
Unlike with the coke machine. Alas. We used to have TV in the breakroom. Well, we still have the screen, but there's nothing to watch.
And forget the cart wipes! Customers will wipe their cart down and then throw the wipe on the floor. Constantly picking them up.
I find those miserable wipes everywhere, from outside on the parking lot concrete to the walkway along the store to the entrances to the floor inside the store... oh, and of course, in shopping carts. It seems while customers are majorly concerned with germs that may be clinging to shopping carts, they are not at all concerned with littering inside and outside the store. Like, really? The customer is going to raise the roof if he or she doesn't have a precious wipe to clean a shopping cart with, but what does he or she usually do with the wipe once you give him or her one and are finished with it? Drop it, throw it or put it some place it doesn't belong. Either Kroger attracts the messiest, laziest, most inconsiderate customers on the planet or other stores like Walmart, Target, Albertsons, ALDI and so on just do a better job at cleaning up after them, because Kroger parking lots/entrances/carts tend to have far more trash and junk in them than any other stores, at least in my area.
Also, as others have said... Kroger hasn't taken away a majority of the supplies you're used to having, it's just the person that orders the supplies isn't doing it due to not caring/not having enough time. I try to help out the DSD Receiving Clerk at my store by writing down a list of what the departments need (since the department heads seem to NOT want to take the time to do a proper weekly inventory of supplies... like it's not that hard, people) and then she and I get together and get the orders in and once the supplies come in, get the departments back there to get the stuff they need (but take forever to claim) out of receiving, otherwise the stuff will sit back there for DAYS until someone from a department comes looking for something that they ran out of.
If sanitizing wipes, spray bottles, paper towels and whatnot aren't being tended to, then the first order of business is to get them ordered. Then, it's usually up to the utility clerks to make sure the entrance(s) has/have sanitizing wipes, registers have paper towels, hand sanitizer and full spray bottles, along with stocking the break room and restrooms with the proper supplies too, of course.
It started with the coke machine. They filled it with dented Big K sodas. Then they took the machine away. We used to have those good paper towels in the box, the brown folded ones. Now we have those huge rolls they use in the restrooms. They are so thin and cheap you have to use twice as many.
The bottles with cleaner are filled with plain water half the time. That's just not right. Clean up some chicken or bloody red meat with water?
Hand sanitizer at the registers - maybe maybe not. If it runs out it takes forever to get a new bottle. I brought my own.
The clorox wipes at the front door to clean the carts with? Haven't seen those in a year or longer.
Ink pens they get free from the bank. I usually bring my own each day.
Are they cutting back on supplies at your store?
For some reason we have an issue with brooms. We get the brooms but they are the scew on type we cannot get the handles. I have about 10 brooms but no handles. Also for the mops I have to go to Home Depot to get the wood handles. We get cart wipes but they are pure x not Clorox.
Well it may very well be they just aren't ordering the supplies, but the store manager is so cheap I just think he may be partially to blame.
The wipes left in the cart don't really bother me anymore. After picking up the rib bones and sticky paper from the carts last summer those wipes are nothing to me lol! Of course I still hate the snotty kleenex, that hasn't changed.
We have a Pepsi machine in break room, We still get the cart wipes but not clorox the are purell wipes..... As for the cleaning bottles that would be who fills the bottles unless you are out the cleaner.... Pens we have them all the time.... Still have the TV in break room along with a broken down couch and recliner.... Really the only time we have a issue is when the warehouse scratches the items....
We used to have those good paper towels in the box, the brown folded ones. Now we have those huge rolls they use in the restrooms. They are so thin and cheap you have to use twice as many.
I'd rather use those towels from the rolls than what we have now. The ones we have now are almost like tissue paper. They aren't absorbant at all.
I was talking to another employee and they made the statement that alot of their supplies are "cheap" and dont hold up. Some of the paper towel are so thin you do have to use more to clean up a spill. Can be a pain to find a mop or mop handle since their screw on and they dont tend to stay together well. I bring several pens since i keep one on me when i am on shift.
And forget the cart wipes! Customers will wipe their cart down and then throw the wipe on the floor. Constantly picking them up.
I find those miserable wipes everywhere, from outside on the parking lot concrete to the walkway along the store to the entrances to the floor inside the store... oh, and of course, in shopping carts. It seems while customers are majorly concerned with germs that may be clinging to shopping carts, they are not at all concerned with littering inside and outside the store. Like, really? The customer is going to raise the roof if he or she doesn't have a precious wipe to clean a shopping cart with, but what does he or she usually do with the wipe once you give him or her one and are finished with it? Drop it, throw it or put it some place it doesn't belong. Either Kroger attracts the messiest, laziest, most inconsiderate customers on the planet
Bingo. Dead rooster by a garbage can in a canvas bag with a draw string so far the worst thing I have found. Dirty diaper left in a cart about two weeks ago. In the lobby. And about a month ago a woman walks up to the pharmacy double-doors, our secondary entrance, and pushes a small cart inside. Walks away. I finally wonder why no one is going for it and when I check, inside is a bag with broken beer bottles. She just pushed the goddamned thing in to the foyer and walked away.
And today I was nearly run over by some a-hole in a white sedan while pushing carts. They must have been going at least 20 mph. In front of the store.
Um...a dead rooster? They bring their garbage from home to dump at your store?
Yep. They do. One time, someone took a shopping cart, threw a bunch of trash bags into it, pushed it into the corral and walked away. WE lowly courtesy clerks didn't find it until we had to clear the 'lot that evening.
Thankfully our utility clerk was still working and took it to the back and the dumpster for us.