I thought every Kroger store had a meat and seafood service case? Well, if there are stores that don't, then I imagine there's less work since you don't have to clean, fill, maintain, empty, etc... the case and you don't have to wait on customers that would otherwise want something out of the service case.
But, less work means fewer hours in the department, too.
The only store i've ever seen without a service meat case is 705 Wayne Ave (in Cincy District 1), and that is a small store. It only has 13 aisles and does about 250k in sales a week. There is no service meat case, and they have 3 people in the meat department. A manager, a backup, and like 1 clerk. People think small stores equal easy work, but it's actually quite the opposite. You're pretty much doing every job in the store when you run such a small store like that.
My store is getting a five million dollar remodel & they are getting rid of the meat & seafood case & deli/bakery case
I cant see them getting rid of Meat/Seafood or Deli. Bakery doesn't need a service counter and with most Remodels/New Stores the "Counters" are basically filled from behind cases 5-6 feet high.
Found out today that the meat department will be 100% prepackaged at my store.
Eventually ALL Kroger stores will go this route. Meat cutters are too expensive in the eyes of corporate. It's much cheaper to pay everyone in Meat Market a clerk's wage and the only way to achieve that is to fully transition to essentially a Walmart-style meat department.
Kroger is not gonna look the same or offer the same services twenty years (or heck, even less) from now. Cuts are coming, be it in the Meat Market with everything going prepackaged or the front end with more self check-outs being added at the expense of registers/a bigger Scan Bag Go push or ClickList with a focus shifting to using InstaCart shoppers to shop & deliver in place of in-store selectors. Lots of changes coming; all designed to lower costs & reduce the size of the labor force.
