Ok, thoughts please...

Date: Jun 26, 2018

Ok, thoughts please...

kroagrr · Guru

Re: Killing Krogrr

Date: Jun 26, 2018

RE: Ok, thoughts please...

Date: Jun 26, 2018

That's when you'll have to rely on seniority or use your income to go back to school. It'll be no different than the 1800's. People worried about jobs disappearing. They just got reclassified. Instead of manually making the item they watch the machine producing it.

GreyKnitHat · Senior Member

Honestly, this person is generally right. Kroger wastes a lot of time on money on stupidity. Period. I liked the talk of getting bought by something else or buying other companies too - it would help a lot with them feeling like theyre running scared. I think theyre good ideas on paper.

But WE work for kroger in a dependant way. We work and keep working and continue working. Its not a 3 month stint. WE know that theyll **** it up somehow because they dont want to make an actual overhaul. We are doing 19 different programs that conflict with eachother, some 15 years old. Nothing goes away. Theyve tried overhauling.

Im with Kroagrr. This is all just some guy getting paid too much to talk and make ideas and forgetting that this is Kroger were talking about. If you like Kroger, then that means the stores you visit have done a good job of creating the image of a company running well to you. Some human is kicking their ass stocking that product for you. Making the tags. Checking it out (or watching you do it yourself.) Its not because of anyone else outside of the stores. They are a constant hinderance. Any computer they bring in will break or go down constantly. Any robot will be outdated. The will always be playing catch up technologically My store was built in the 70s. We have the same dock system. There is 30 year old graffiti on our dock. Our scaffolding is bent and buckling.

We went through a multi-million dollar rehaul already. Do you think theyll do it again? Do you think theyll care about any 30 or 40 year old store enough to try to implement this? Thats like asking America to fix the infrastructure problem. Yeah, its a good idea. We could all move on with our lives and progress afterwards, but no one is really willing to foot that bill to do the work. Instead were locked in a never ending loop of trying to take the worst part and putting a bandaid on it. Krogers just all bandaids now. Its just the old bandaids are still on and covered by newer ones.

I mean honestly. We had a power jack for 20 years. It worked so well, like a charm. No problems, ever. They took it because its too old and replaced it with a new one that breaks about every 3 weeks. Our hand jacks are all broken all of the time. When they fix one, another goes down. They cant even get the ****ing pass the baton sheet to reliably update every night. They can barely keep great people running so we can check our schedules. They changed the way our desktops are in store and the image is stretched for Christs sake. Order evolution was an absolute disaster. Tell me how a robot is gonna know how much **** we need?

Date: Jun 28, 2018

Kroger is like my dad with technology. He likes the general idea of it, but he isn't willing to work to learn it, and he's not willing to pay for it. So it was always my struggle to maintain bargain basement junk until things were so unworkable I had trash it and buy something reasonable. The difference is that Kroger won't throw anything away if they can help it, no matter how much it sucks and conflicts with seemingly irrelevant old garbage.

Our SCO's ran Windows XP until last year. Whenever we called the help desk, they were completely baffled that we still had them.

The way things are going, Kroger is going to miss the boat HARD. Kroger has no idea about technology and doesn't know what efficiency is. Look how things run at the store level. Look at the retarded pallets coming off the truck. Look at the sheer nonsense coming down from corporate. It really wouldn't be hard for some straight-shooting eggheads with clean slates to come up with something efficient and sensible, and I bet they wouldn't even need robot shelves. The hard part is infrastructure and real estate.

One of the big things Kroger has going for it is that it still offers a traditional grocery store experience. But as far as I can tell, Kroger is trying hard to throw that away. Kroger is going to do stuff like rip out half the registers, replace them with SCO and SBG, and cut hours to the bone while shoplifters wheel entire shelves out the door.

I think Kroger is going to throw away their place on the market, and end up Kmarting themselves.

Date: Jun 28, 2018

Anonymous wrote:
Kroger is like my dad with technology. He likes the general idea of it, but he isn't willing to work to learn it, and he's not willing to pay for it. So it was always my struggle to maintain bargain basement junk until things were so unworkable I had trash it and buy something reasonable. The difference is that Kroger won't throw anything away if they can help it, no matter how much it sucks and conflicts with seemingly irrelevant old garbage.
Our SCO's ran Windows XP until last year. Whenever we called the help desk, they were completely baffled that we still had them.
The way things are going, Kroger is going to miss the boat HARD. Kroger has no idea about technology and doesn't know what efficiency is. Look how things run at the store level. Look at the retarded pallets coming off the truck. Look at the sheer nonsense coming down from corporate. It really wouldn't be hard for some straight-shooting eggheads with clean slates to come up with something efficient and sensible, and I bet they wouldn't even need robot shelves. The hard part is infrastructure and real estate.
One of the big things Kroger has going for it is that it still offers a traditional grocery store experience. But as far as I can tell, Kroger is trying hard to throw that away. Kroger is going to do stuff like rip out half the registers, replace them with SCO and SBG, and cut hours to the bone while shoplifters wheel entire shelves out the door.
I think Kroger is going to throw away their place on the market, and end up Kmarting themselves.

It's possible. Everyone said Sears was too big to fail but it only took them 30-40 years to go from King Retailer to barely surviving with a handful of outlet stores and mall locations. I think Kroger is thinking that the "younger generation" wants more of the self-checkout and what not, but younger people are lazy. They are also impatient, so having ample cashiers and baggers would be the way to win them over. This happens when a company has too much money and they're always trying to find that "next thing". Eventually you keep hitting the wall and it'll collapse on you.