My store is being converted into a semi-marketplace, and rumor has it that once the front end is done being renovated, we'll have a Walmart-style bagging system with no courtesy clerks to bag groceries. CC's will still be around to get carts, perform carry-outs and help with shrink, but I foresee massive reduction in hours for me and my fellow courtesy clerks if this comes to pass. Has anyone experienced this at their store?
I've only been in one marketplace store and that one had cc's. Actually it probably had more cc's than the average store.... that's weird if they actually go through with that.
Getting rid of baggers would be idiotic because they are the only employees that don't get real raises, benefits, seniority, etc. If you're a clerk then you are costing the store much more than a bagger. If you've been at Kroger three years as a clerk, you're probably making about $10 an hour, have maybe 1 week paid vacation time, and get health insurance for sure. If you've been there three years as a bagger, you only have like a nickel raise over minimum wage. As an employer, which of these two classes of people would you want doing menial tasks like garbage, bagging, or bringing carts in? Things that take absolutely no skill beyond a week of training. If you said baggers, you're correct. Walmart was idiotic for a few years since they had about 8 checklanes open at my Walmart. Then they got smart and realized "Hey if we're only as fast as Kroger and paying about 25% more in wages to do so, what is the gain? So now 3 checklanes in my Walmart remain open because someone had a little common sense knocked into them.
Remember, one thing that Kroger boasts is that they have "associates" who are going to be the customers' lackey and lapdogs. They're on every Kroger commercial that features a store, bagging the customer's items and hauling them to their car, all with a glorious smile on their face.
I doubt they'll revert down to a walmart-like front end.
Getting rid of baggers would be idiotic because they are the only employees that don't get real raises, benefits, seniority, etc. If you're a clerk then you are costing the store much more than a bagger. If you've been at Kroger three years as a clerk, you're probably making about $10 an hour, have maybe 1 week paid vacation time, and get health insurance for sure. If you've been there three years as a bagger, you only have like a nickel raise over minimum wage. As an employer, which of these two classes of people would you want doing menial tasks like garbage, bagging, or bringing carts in? Things that take absolutely no skill beyond a week of training. If you said baggers, you're correct. Walmart was idiotic for a few years since they had about 8 checklanes open at my Walmart. Then they got smart and realized "Hey if we're only as fast as Kroger and paying about 25% more in wages to do so, what is the gain? So now 3 checklanes in my Walmart remain open because someone had a little common sense knocked into them.
3 years making $10 an hour? Can i transfer to your division? I'm barely making $8 with 4 years.
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3 years in my division would have you almost topped out at around $20.
yeah probably but at 40.or 48 hours a week. Most positions in most contracts now just for the first three rasies you need 1000 hours each stage that's a long time at 24 hours a week.
In my division you can still top out 16.20 (grocery), but its a thousand hours per and many of the raises are only ten or 15 cents. Full time, part time doesn't matter. Aint nobody got time for dat!
3 years in my division would have you almost topped out at around $20.
yeah probably but at 40.or 48 hours a week. Most positions in most contracts now just for the first three rasies you need 1000 hours each stage that's a long time at 24 hours a week.
Amen to that. How is it that some people on night grocery rack up 50 hours a week but then others on night grocery, who are fully available, get a measly 22 hours?
