When will management at Kroger ever get the hint they should have gone to college and majored in management? I see NO SIGNS of an educated workforce at the MANAGEMENT level.
Having a perpetual card table setup, and in full view of your customers, that advertises jobs galore in your storemeans YOUR MANAGEMENT TEAMS SUCKS/INCOMPETENT!
it means it doesnt take a college educated person to manage a store anyone with experience in retail can run it, it just means theres lack of people skills and empathy from them
Or, it means the help sucks balls. Getting a college degree isn't going to make people work better.
Driving your people away on day one is a lack of education. It's too bad you don't see any Wharton School of Business folks in charge. The dumbest (and sinister) people in society become Kroger managers. Watch a football coach rant and rave on the sideline and you'll be fine apparently is the motto at Kroger.
Anonymous wrote:
it means it doesnt take a college educated person to manage a store anyone with experience in retail can run it, it just means theres lack of people skills and empathy from them
People skills and empathy are management skills. Identifying what is possible and what is not possible from your employees given the current environment is a management skill.
By the way, you don't manage people. You lead them.
Kroger is one of the lowest paying companies in America. Store-level management can't do anything about that.
Hours in departments can fluctuate wildly. Again, store-level management has little control over this when it's corporate that tells a store manager how many hours/how much overtime is in the budget.
Benefits like health insurance get put on the chopping block and cut... once more, store-level management has relatively little input over how management at the district and division levels negotiate with unions.
Store-level management could do better, sure, and maybe, the workplace would be a little more pleasant and fun, but that's honestly not going to stop the majority of the turn-over because you can't pay bills, put food on the table, or have quality health insurance with "pleasant" and "fun" as your forms of payment.
People want to argue that jobs like Kroger aren't intended for capable adults that want to live a middle class life. Well, the new reality when it comes to the job market in America is more and more service-type jobs like grocery stores and restaurants are going to be needed because the cold, hard truth is manufacturing isn't ever going to be like it was in the early to mid 20th century and just because a person goes to college doesn't mean he or she is set for life because there are only so many jobs available out there for specialized skilled labor, especially when the population continues to grow and people are working well into their 60s and 70s because it's hard to be able to afford early or heck even normal retirement on social security and some investments.
So, what Kroger and other companies are going to feel increasing pressure to do is raise the starting pay and make it so employees don't top out so soon. Depending on cost of living in a particular city, the staring pay and top out pay needs to be adjusted accordingly and benefits need to be increased, not decreased. Reward and advance those that excel and build a better company from within.
Job fairs will become a lot less common, I believe.
