Is kroger doing away with them? At my kroger we still cut meat but when I went to the beach I noticed only tenderloins they cut and t bones..roast and strips were all pre packed.
There will always be a (1-one) Meat Cutter, just not the amount of meat cutters you see today . They see centralized meat production as more efficient and less waste, plus helps keep wages down. If you haven't already seen the trend......Pork, Ground Beef, Organic Meats, Chicken.......already coming in packaged. Specially with the new cutting tool, they already tell you what to cut....which can be ordered ahead of the time.
I'm sure they are going to cut meat, but its going to be eliminated more and more as time goes on. I wouldn't be surprised if every morning there's a truck that brings in the PreCut Produce, the Tray Pack Corn, Bakery "Fresh" product and out of store cut "Red Meat".......wait some of that is already done!
Bistro/Deli items almost all produced out of store.
Yup, like I said...1 or 2 meet cutters at a store...the rest just have to match the items to the pictures or UPCs on the shelf. How about rolling out a process that is simple and understandable.....not make stores wing it.
Fresh Kitchen means less deli and cut fruit produce are done in store, lowering hours.
I can definitely see this becoming more and more common, however, there will still be a need for some people to run the departments.
This all day long.^
As I've heard deli and bakery at my store is supposed to be losing 150 hours coming up pretty soon. So they have come up with a whole new task list for bakery peeps. Not to mention actually closing the bakery at 8 or 9 p.m. which totally blows me away. But I still laugh though at the other closers finally realizing what I was telling them and the others before. Some nights can be busy AF and you can very easily get behind on stuff. And actually appreciate me when I come over to help.
The Bakery Department is more of a dead department. There's only a few items that actually sell! Cakes, Pies, Bread.........and don't forget Cupcakes.... Cupcakes for EVERY OCCASION!
The Bakery Department is more of a dead department. There's only a few items that actually sell! Cakes, Pies, Bread.........and don't forget Cupcakes.... Cupcakes for EVERY OCCASION!
The bakery department in your store might be a dead department but it's certainly not in mine. We can have everything full when I leave in the afternoon and have it almost completely wiped out the next morning. Ironically the one thing that doesn't sell all that well is the Artisan bread: the one thing corporate wants us to push more than anything else. Personally, I think somebody is being paid under the table for us to carry that bread. Something sounds fishy when you throw away a third of what you put out and they want you to make more.
You have to think about who makes that bread! Kroger most likely isn't paying more then 1.00 a loaf, with the quantity its purchasing. This artisan bread, is what a old school bakery would have and it counters all the prepacked items that are now filling all tables. Everything in the Bakery is so fresh, customer complain when they see the frozen items on the floor.....like pumpkin pie!
