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What jobs are secure at Kroger for the future? Seems like front end is not any more.



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For the next 20 years



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nothing in retail is completely secure, best to get an education in an industry that pays good



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So nothing?



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There will always be jobs in the grocery industry. People gotta eat. Personally I see this new customer checkout system being an invitation for theft, but we'll see.

 

You need to build up seniority to gain any sort of staying power, otherwise there's always the chance someone with more than you can transfer from another store or department and take your hours. But robots will never replace humans in stocking shelves and making "fresh" (ha!) food, so the outer departments are safest.

 

I was on the front end for four years before trying produce, and then finally settling into grocery. I'm going on five years in grocery and have trained on everything in there. Freezer and dairy are two- and three-man departments that all but guarantee 40 hours even if you're part time, if you can get a spot. But that's the trouble: they're undesirable spots because management works you so hard, physically as well as mentally, so if you are interested and do manage to get in, be ready for that. Between the two stores I've officially worked in, and the handful I've helped out at, those two departments commonly have "lifers" already in place. It's always worth investigating, though. Night crew is labor intensive, but dumb work, so as long as your store doesn't have a ton of full-timers you're pretty safe there. The bottom third or so don't usually last long because newbies get left-over hours. I got sick of dealing with b.s. management always on my case in dairy and freezer, so I went to night crew where I have no real responsibility - I am a very meticulous worker, too, but if your job includes using the RF handheld, it doesn't matter how good you are or how completely a problem might be out of your hands, you will be treated like you're not doing enough. Management doesn't hold themselves accountable for s***, they just want their bonuses. My night crew is overstaffed right now (yay for hiring a bunch of new people in freaking January when we slow down anyways, rather than before the holidays!) and I lost a ton of hours despite being second on the part-time totem poll, so I'm looking to transfer out soon to a store with less full-timers.

 

GM seems to be along the same lines in terms of job security, but that one person at the bottom is commonly getting scraps for hours, just because they need that little bit of extra help.



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UScan, click list, and delivery are probably going to take over more and more of the checkout process as the front end disappears, and thus will need more and more people working them. That still implies some job loss, but I imagine a lot of people are just going to be moved to those new departments.

The subsidiary I work at doesn't seem to have even mentioned scan bag go, so checkers might be around longer at those places.

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