Its going to happen because of a simple model they use to fuel their stores. They're banking and relying that part time employees is a more effective model than full time employees. The thing about part time employees is they're more likely to call in on the weekends than a full time employee. I heard a manager tell me yesterday she had alot of people call in at work. I believe in the end when they reduce full time employees and have more part time employees they won't have the manpower to stock our stores. I'd hate to think what will happen when HEB comes into the area and they find out that they pay alot more than what Kroger currently pays. What will happen when their full time employees start leaving for a pay raise?
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Good points. I'm seeing a LOT more Kroger salaried managers hustling the freight now, including on over nights. After all, they are salaried; no concerns about over time for them.
On behalf of the downfall of Kroger, Key Retailing is definitely the making us go downhill.
So true. At our store they're pushing for this to the extreme. We got a ton of part-timers who don't do anything. I'm really the only full timer who pushes to get out of there along with extra work and the other just wastes time on one isle the whole night. Overtime is cool, but sometimes I wanna' go home on time and out of there.
But I don't blame them. It's not a real job, so it would be foolish it to treat it like one.
Our turnover rate is also crazy high. But that's getting back to the "real job" thing.
Kroger isn't going to do anything until it starts impacting sales, at which point they are going to enact some more half-baked technological "solutions".
