What's it Take to Get a GO Walk? (Store 535, NRH, TX)

kroagrr · Guru

What's it Take to Get a GO Walk? (Store 535, NRH, TX)

Date: Aug 18, 2019

kroagrr wrote:
Store 535 (North Richland Hills, Texas) is getting a Cincinnati walk. Skeleton crews from area stores are getting raided to doll up for the dog-and-pony show.
It's over 800 air miles from Cincinnati, so, what's the likely motivation? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

I know this would never happen, but too bad the employees don't have enough courage to ALL call in sick on the day the Walk is supposed to take place........that'd show em!!!

kroagrr · Guru

Multiple new (opened in the last three years) stores have roofs and skylights that leak, allowing water to pour through onto the floors. Not one cent has been spent to address this hazard. Wouldn't repairing faulty structures be a better use of funds rather than flying millionaire executives around the country so they can stamp and strut?

Date: Aug 18, 2019

kroagrr wrote:
Multiple new (opened in the last three years) stores have roofs and skylights that leak, allowing water to pour through onto the floors. Not one cent has been spent to address this hazard. Wouldn't repairing faulty structures be a better use of funds rather than flying millionaire executives around the country so they can stamp and strut?

I do wonder what customers must think when they are trying to shop in Kroger stores like yours and mine and have to watch out for/go around multiple black floral buckets/blue and/or black totes and garbage cans, all spread throughout the store to catch the leaking rainwater.

Ah well. So what if product gets damaged and customers and/or employees slip and fall. Fixing leaking roofs is low priority and poor use of funds. Kroger has far, far more important things to spend its many millions on.

kroagrr · Guru

. . . far more important things . . .

Yes . . . such as a 2012 Bombardier Challenger 300: Flyin' Dirty. (Even a paltry $14,000,000 used price would fix a lot of roofs, wouldn't it . . . if only Rodney McMullen could stand the shame of having to fly business or first-class commercial with, you know, the commoners.)

kroagrr · Guru

This is from a Kroger document called, "Facility Engineering Standards", page 2:

Water on the floor presents an immediate safety issue. "Orange Socks" are effective at managing a problem but will not resolve the issue.

This "immediate safety issue" occurs in more than one north Texas store every time it rains. Just as "orange socks" don't fix a faulty, leaking roof, neither do gray "snakes", yellow umbrellas, or black Floral buckets.

A co-manager did open a Service Hub call for the leaking roof at one of newest Fort Worth-area stores. No action taken.

How does division and general office management justify failing to perform bare-bones maintenance, to even provide safe, sound structures from which to sell food?

Money's tight?

So tight, Rodney McMullen could be paid only north of $11,000,000, and he's forced to travel on an old 2012 Bombardier Challenger 300 jet that may be worth more than $11,000,000.

Thanks for all you do.

Anonymouse1 · Guru

kroagrr wrote:
Multiple new (opened in the last three years) stores have roofs and skylights that leak, allowing water to pour through onto the floors. Not one cent has been spent to address this hazard. Wouldn't repairing faulty structures be a better use of funds rather than flying millionaire executives around the country so they can stamp and strut?

Actually, our 2 year old store had a roof leak that flooded the back hallway when the wind blew the right direction. The estimate to repair was $15,000. Flashing was installed incorrectly.

And, yes, our sky lights leak.

4hourrush · Guru

My store has a huge leak in both the deli cheese shop case and one of the meat walls... they put those sock things down but it just floods past it. Customers see this every day and someone is going to fall eventually.

Date: Aug 19, 2019

Never more than a few hours notice for the grand emergency. Would like to see them escorted by a squad of union reps. Just to chat about things the company will never discuss.

Date: Aug 19, 2019

4hourrush wrote:
My store has a huge leak in both the deli cheese shop case and one of the meat walls... they put those sock things down but it just floods past it. Customers see this every day and someone is going to fall eventually.

But Kroger sure reacted FAST when a customer tripped on one of those rubber mats in produce & fell (only to later sue the store), didn't they? That's why produce no longer has rubber mats out along the wet wall/berry cases; at least in my division. Kroger would rather roll the dice & hope no one falls than fix the problem... & sadly that's what it's gonna take for Kroger to DO SOMETHING about all the leaks.

Oh well. They'll just cut hours to make up for money lost due to the lawsuit that gets filed. Technically no money out of their pockets then... just ours.