The night crew is over worked under Stafford. Sometime not allowed breaks. Not paid for not taking a break forced to work overtime . being held resonsible for not sticking end caps which were never part of the crew's nightly duties. Morale is low and stress is very high.
Cincy KMA here. Morale is low here as well. Stress is off the charts and management from GO down don't seem to care, in fact, they seem to be purposefully making it so.
Half of the night crew at my store up and quit last week. Most new hires on the night crew don't last two weeks at my store. Heck, even one of the associate manager's admitted "I wouldn't throw truck for what Kroger pays". Spirits are as low among the overnight crew as they are for the people that work during the day. No support, no appreciation, no relief... night after night. At my store too, the overtime is pretty much mandatory, where a ten-eleven hour shift is more the norm rather than the exception.
People hate the job and that's why a majority of the people that get a taste of what it's like working for Kroger quit within two or three weeks.
Our day grocery manager had to work overnights because 2 of the new hires no call no show'd and quit. We had a comanager doing bread the next morning because she was supposed to do that and she had no one to replace her.
My store is falling apart and it sounds like it's the same everywhere.