The past couple months things have been crazy. Aside from the nearly 20% reduction in hours, 6 store managers were given new opportunities for their Kroger future. Among the options are retire, step down or get fired. Every single one of these individuals are 55 years and older. With the exception of one, they were all able bodied and competent managers. There are 5 other ones who are taking early retirement on their own. Its not the place it used to be...
One of our new co-managers is a former store manager. Just got demoted about a month ago. I've also heard of at least two store managers that were promoted higher up in the district only to get demoted back down to the store manager position. There seems to be quite a bit reshuffling going on, but meanwhile stores are going to hell (I know mine is)... overtime is rampant because of horrible scheduling/lack of people to schedule, pallets of truck still sitting on the sales floor when the store opens to the public, lack of product on the shelf, out of date products... I don't know how long customers are gonna put up with this meanwhile corporate's solution is to move around management/demote people and shuffle department heads to different stores.
The past couple months things have been crazy. Aside from the nearly 20% reduction in hours, 6 store managers were given new opportunities for their Kroger future. Among the options are retire, step down or get fired. Every single one of these individuals are 55 years and older. With the exception of one, they were all able bodied and competent managers. There are 5 other ones who are taking early retirement on their own. Its not the place it used to be...
I call bullsh!t. You're in a position to have factual knowledge of SIX store's managers? Uh uh. Ain't buying it.
The past couple months things have been crazy. Aside from the nearly 20% reduction in hours, 6 store managers were given new opportunities for their Kroger future. Among the options are retire, step down or get fired. Every single one of these individuals are 55 years and older. With the exception of one, they were all able bodied and competent managers. There are 5 other ones who are taking early retirement on their own. Its not the place it used to be...
I call bullsh!t. You're in a position to have factual knowledge of SIX store's managers? Uh uh. Ain't buying it.
I believe it. If you're just a clerk, you're not going to hear much, but if you're someone who works with different coordinators or you're a union steward, you're going to hear things.
The past couple months things have been crazy. Aside from the nearly 20% reduction in hours, 6 store managers were given new opportunities for their Kroger future. Among the options are retire, step down or get fired. Every single one of these individuals are 55 years and older. With the exception of one, they were all able bodied and competent managers. There are 5 other ones who are taking early retirement on their own. Its not the place it used to be...
I call bullsh!t. You're in a position to have factual knowledge of SIX store's managers? Uh uh. Ain't buying it.
I believe it. If you're just a clerk, you're not going to hear much, but if you're someone who works with different coordinators or you're a union steward, you're going to hear things.
People talk, Managers, Coordinators, Department Heads.... the list goes on.
I work at 938. Last week on SM was there in the morning, gone by noon. Today we have a new manager, from the Miracle Mike store. I've heard a few other things too....
( And it doesn't matter what position you're in. In some stores word spreads, from top to bottom)
I work at 938. Last week on SM was there in the morning, gone by noon. Today we have a new manager, from the Miracle Mike store. I've heard a few other things too....
( And it doesn't matter what position you're in. In some stores word spreads, from top to bottom)
Thats one the stores i heard about. Shame though. All those years on and off company time, now it means nothing.
Seeing it in Atlanta too. Lots of manager changeover, also with all of these standard changes it's aggravating and pushing out some of the 30+ year department heads and leads. Don't think that is a coincidence. The extra benefits, pensions, all of the grandfathered perks is costing the company money. Also, whereas when I started with the company in high school and a store manager was guaranteed to be in a store at least one year, there are now stores that aren't even lasting an entire year with the same manager.
I call bullsh!t. You're in a position to have factual knowledge of SIX store's managers? Uh uh. Ain't buying it.
Department Head, worked for two managers on the District Staff, worked for and with other people who are buddy-buddy with said people, it's not hard to hear information, even going on in the district. I don't think my district has ever had six at a time, but I know we've had three openings at once for store managers. That word gets around quickly, especially when ASM's are talking about potentially taking those jobs over... Districts with 18-20+ stores, it's not impossible. Even though it's a lot of stores, it's a pretty close-knit group of people, especially the more meetings you go to.
Just about every retailer is having a similar crisis right now. A former coworker of mine was a lead AP guy with Gamestop. Left Kroger for that position. He just lost his job. DM's that he knew and other top people also got axed. Staggering sales are going to cause pain, and it's only starting. Wait until they decide to combine Drug GM/Grocery into Center Store at store level and suddenly one department head is doing two jobs.
Tough to know for the lower-downs what is going on in what is nearly a zero-communication environment.
Based on observations and company documentation in the Dallas Division over the last few weeks, store "leaders" (managers, store directors) are skewing younger, much younger, even down approaching or into their 20s.
In reality the company hasn't been doing anything to eliminate the mass retirements that started 10 years ago. With the recent "holding people accountable" it only caused a speeding up of people walking out the door. Its fine to want to eliminate expenses, drive sales, raise the customers experience, have a "Our Promise"....but doing all this at one time...isn't making an work environment that wants people to stay. I would guess, the sales a store gets for doing 250k in sales in 1 day, is the same hours as doing 300k sales.....but how many customers and how many items does that 50k represent.
I talked with my co-coordinator, He said there were some that were asked to retire and some that were forced to take co-manager positions. Our new President and VP aren't messing around. If you can manager a store they will find someone who can.
