I am starting in a new department in the morning. It is nutrition, and I know nothing about this department. I don't know anything about ordering, surveys, or anything!! I am hoping I will be trained on those things.
Does anyone have any information on this department, or any advice that might help.
I am starting in a new department in the morning. It is nutrition, and I know nothing about this department. I don't know anything about ordering, surveys, or anything!! I am hoping I will be trained on those things.
Does anyone have any information on this department, or any advice that might help.
Nutrition is an interesting department because it has a lot in common with grocery, yet it's actually a sub-department of produce. Here's all that I know about nutrition:
1. In bigger stores, there is usually a nutrition lead. This is the person who manages nutrition, does most of the ordering, and earns an extra 15 cents an hour for putting up with Key Retailing. The nutrition lead's de facto boss is the department head of produce.
2. Nutrition is usually THE smallest department in the whole store. Floral might have 4 or 5 people, dairy and frozen probably are going to have 4 people, yet nutrition is usually going to be anywhere from 1-3 people. This is a good and bad thing. The good thing is that there are less people to divide hours among. The bad thing is that there might not be many hours at all. If you have to call in sick or if (God forbid) Kroger gives the dept. more than 40 hours/person, there are usually a couple guys in produce trained to run nutrition.
3. Nutrition is the fastest growing department in all of Kroger. You read that right. The smallest department is actually the fastest growing. Plenty of middle classers who frequent the Kroger establishment are now choosing to buy products that are actually good for their health (wow).
4. Nutrition is generally scattered throughout Kroger. This may piss you off, but nutrition often has a few items on grocery or drug/gm aisles. Why? Because this is Kroger we're talking about. Having all of nutrition in one place would make way too much damn sense.
5. As a nutrition person, you might be cross-trained in produce and floral to meet the 12 hour minimum requirement. This is actually pretty cool because now you can pick up shifts in produce and floral.
6. Nutrition is the hardest hit with the weirdest questions. If you work in grocery, people want to know where the peanut butter, bread, and beer is. If you work in nutrition, some hipster might come up to you asking for something that you yourself haven't even heard of. Then they may ask you questions like, "Are you positive that ____ came from a PETA approved farm?"
All in all, it's a pretty good gig compared to the front end and deli, but don't expect it to be career-worthy.
Hope that your produce manager is strong on using cao and can teach you. Learn the tricks of the gun for ordering/checking orders. Take all the computer training classes you can for cao/using the gun. And try to never have any out of stocks. Yeah there's more to it but that's a start.
Thanks!! My first day was rough, second day, still rough!! This department is a mess, soooooo much backstock!
I do not know how to order, never did that in my old department, just broke down the truck and put it up. I do know how to scan my backstock, but that is about it. I am told that someone is going to show me how to order and such, but nobody has yet. It is a little overwhelming right now, but hopefully it will make more sense to me once I learn how to do things.
No, I worked in drug/gm. Just putting up the truck. Only used a handheld when I scanned my backstock. I am learning, mostly by asking questions and just trying to figure it out myself.
No, I worked in drug/gm. Just putting up the truck. Only used a handheld when I scanned my backstock. I am learning, mostly by asking questions and just trying to figure it out myself.
Oh. Well in nutrition that's pretty much all you need a handheld for if there is a nutrition lead above you. The lead does all the ordering, markdowns, and backstock scanning in my store. Not sure how yours is, but if you're just 'the help' then you will probably just be putting up the truck like you did in drug/gm while the lead does all the technical stuff. If you want to ask your lead how to do markdowns and stuff, just ask. You're really not missing out on anything.
Haha, i know this is an old thread but, i'm in the same situation now except i've been moved to lead frozen from just being a night stocker. I hope you got the training you were looking for and are doing well in nutrition
Haha, i know this is an old thread but, i'm in the same situation now except i've been moved to lead frozen from just being a night stocker. I hope you got the training you were looking for and are doing well in nutrition
Highly likely OP has already left given our insane turnover. :(
