umm how long does it take for them to get back to you if there ging to hire

Right store. Right price. Wrong job!

I'm in my 40's and because of the poor job market I made the mistake and humiliated myself going to work for Kroger in Goodlettsville, TN, I worked in the Deli. Yeah past tense, the hell with their BS!

This had to be the worst job I have ever had! Even though I've worked in a supermarket Deli before all I was getting at Kroger with experience was $7.35, {Oh yeah, keep your salary private or you can get in trouble with management} I can't remember the last time I made such a low salary. It's insulting, a 16 year old bagger is getting at least $7.25 and maybe getting a tip for bringing bags to a car, so a kid gets more than me. 18 & 19 year olds start at $8.45 in the Pharmacy too.

What pisses me off is this is a high volume store, yet we are always short of help. We can't get our last break and management doesn't care. The BS of the ‘customer is #1’ and they shouldn’t have to wait only applies when management can pass the buck.

Other workers say if we don’t get what is needed to get done we will get written up, if we put in OT to catch up we will get written up. I asked then where the hell is the Union, stupid question, the Union is just there to collect you fee!

We work at such a high rate, that you can't think straight sometimes. I've asked the Deli Manager about my salary, he says "I have nothing to do with that". I go to the assistant manager, he tells me he'll talk to me later, yet he just forgets about it. I've asked the store manager if I can talk to him, I'm ignored.

The new Deli manager is a kid, no personality and he comes from a low volume store and is nothing but a glorified stock boy. One of the assistant store mangers is so ghetto and only got her promotion into management, in my opinion, from affirmative action.

So I don't mind working hard but don't expect me to work like that for that wage. Working in the Deli requires professionalism since you are always handling orders for customers, you need to be professional in food safety too. Plus you are always cleaning. In this store we always have more side jobs for prepping and stocking than we can handle, and yet they come up to you as if you aren't doing anything.

It's just abuse and you’re hired as part time but giving full time hours so health insurance doesn’t have to kick in for 9 months. Publix pulls the same crap, they make you wait 1 year!

One side note, this bakery is filthy, the health dept. should nail these guys, Gnats in the donuts!
They had to dig up the concrete next to the sink, right there are the mixing bowls and all of the plastic containers for cookies and pastries and everything else. They dug up the cement and left dust all over everything. Management does nothing. Oh yeah, cockroaches in the Deli and Bakery!

Unless you are new to the job market, spare yourself! FU Kroger!

I went shopping there the other day, The store was dirty with trash and skid marks around the place, The service guy is very annoying, can't remember his name at the time, but he asked me numerous amounts of times if I needed help, did I get everything alright, more than once, He yelled at a bagger for talking to a cashier then proceeded to write him up, Then a few minutes later he was having a personal conversation with a fellow service person laughing it up, I thought to myself, what kind of hypocrites work here? Also this service person was talking to her friend and did not help me at all, The Store Manager is ignorant as well. Krogers is full of hypocrites and people who have very large egos, self centered, out to screw the good workers, I would never work there in my life, you should hear some of the comments workers make about the place, the comments are not good, I agree with them.

My husband and I were in kroger inVicksburg Ms. we were so embarrassed!! We got over 2hunderd dollars of groc. but the store would not take our check,because it was over 150dollars We talked to the manager and on one would help. It was a POLICY of KROger,all they had to do was pull up the discount points, but no one wanted to help KROGER YOU ARE NOY NICE We are sixty years old this has never happened ever to us and I pray in the future other people will not be embarrassed the way you treat them We will not be embarrassed by kroger again!!!

Since 2005 I have been working at the Kroger store on Dixie Highway (near Davisburg) in Clarkston, MI. First and foremost, things have gotten worse at this store. My current job position is courtesy clerk, and every week my store has problems. It would be nice if we had employees who ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING, not just employees who don't care about their jobs and carry a surly attitude with them. The management is nothing more than clones of the Three Stooges; they simply don't know what's going on. The store manager, Emma, is an OK person, but she has a very short fuse. Do NOT get her angry. Second, the co-managers Ed and Mike can't seem to agree on anything. This store has had so many turnovers in management it boggles the mind. Another thing about this store I absolutely can't stand is the bottle machines. They break down every single week and the customers get angry with us about it. It would be very nice if Tomra could replace the machines with new ones, but it's just not gonna happen. The bottle room quickly becomes a huge mess because the customers don't have time to clean up after themselves. Some of the customer service people are nice, but the customer service manager Tonia is rude, impatient, and uptight. Good god. It's like she doesn't want to be there in the first place. Filthiness is alive and well in this store, and it shows. The produce department always leaves green stuff on the floor because they're too busy to clean it up. This is downright inexcusable and must be stopped. Because most of the baggers are minors, they can't have any of the privileges that the older employees have. This means that they have to deal with what they have and take orders from the customer service people, whether they like it or not. Most of the co-workers here are smokers, and I tend to stay away from them. One of the deli employees has to smoke every ten minutes outside and it just makes me sick. We have had plenty of customers complain to management about some of our employees, and I'm afraid that we'll lose more people this way. I had previously worked at Farmer Jack (before it tanked), and I still miss it to this day. I wish I could get out of this nasty store and work for another company; better yet, I hope to get the h*** out of Michigan and pursue a dream career (right now it's a tossup). All I can say is this: heaven forbid Kroger doesn't become the next Farmer Jack.

On a recent visit to the Kroger in Valley Station here in Louisville, Kentucky, I wrote a check for less than 50.00 for my groceries. I went to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and wrote a check for 16.00. The second check was refused. Not because I had ever wrote a check that was returned (I haven't) Not because I was a new customer ( I have shopped there for over 30 years) but instead because I had wrote TOO MANY checks that day. The too many total being 1 check! After being told by the manager that he didn't have the authority to override the process, I asked for my money back for my groceries, got my prescription back took the 3 minute trip down the road to Meijers, who took the check for my groceries, gave me 50.00 cash extra. Took a second check for my prescription and said, "thank you". imagine that. I called three corporate numbers only to talk to mind numbing corporate mouthpieces. All three told me that a member of management would not be calling me back and that it was corporate policy in the event that one of my checks bounced. My little family doctor has a marvelous little machine that allows him to run a check at the time of acceptance. If this is really their rationale then it looks like someone there would be smart enough to check into this instead of letting good customers check out at Meijers. Joann Roth

RACIST AND UNCARING
Sometimes you are just better off resisting the sale. Went to local Redford MI store on Sunday 8/16/09. On the way to the register, I was drawn to the 33% off sale items, picked up some gum - ice pack, basting brush and noodles. I proceeded to the checkout, and the ice pack and noodles rang up for the price marked on them, not at the 33% off. I brought it to the attention of the cashier Tatiana, and told me maybe someone put these items in the wrong spot - I said no, because there were at least 25 of each on the shelves. She called the next level employee for assistance, this employee Piper told me the same thing as Tatiana, the whole time leaning on the register as if by purchases were boring her. She never even went to check the shelves to see what I was speaking about, but did tell me that the price it scanned is the price they have to go by. I asked to speak with a manager, at this point Piper pages a manager and also proceeds to loudly announce to all in earshot, " you are holding up the line" I told Piper not to put this on me, as I am not the person running the store. The customer behind me got very upset with me , and called me some choice names and then packed up what she had on the conveyer belt and went to another line, told them what was going on and suddenly there were even more eyes on me. Let me also go on to say that I was the minority in the store - -- Piper also made a huge display of sending Tatiana on break since this was going to be so long.
The manager Chris did finally come over and told me that there was nothing that she could do, the girl that does the scanning left at 4pm, and that she (manager) was unable to make price changes - again never even went to the area where I had gotten the items to see what I was talking about. I told Chris the manager that Piper had said loudly enough to incite other customers to verbally attack me that, ” I was holding up the line” as if I was doing something wrong. Piper started arguing with me and telling the manager that she never made the statement, and to Chris’s credit she did tell Piper to shhh and that I was the customer. I have filed a harassment complaint with this local Kroger – I believe the only reason I was treated in this manner is because I was the minority. I plan to put this on the web wherever I can to get the word out about this racist store.

After spending all day with my son in the hospital, I stopped at the Kroger on Maynard Rd in Cary, NC to get his meds which he desperately needed (you could tell by the three prescriptions). I was told 15-20 minutes. no problem. I used to get my meds there and they were quick and the prices were ok. This time I had talked my wife into trying it. No more.
I dropped off the prescription and went to get other items. I came back in the alloted time, anxious to get the drugs to my son. The brain surgeon at the counter said I needed to fill out paperwork. I asked him how long that would take. He said about 20 minutes. I asked if it would be another 20 after that, and in some guttural dialect he said it would. I grabbed the prescriptions out of his claw and said I had better find a drug store. I still wonder why they could not just page me, isn't that what a normal store would do?
The place used to be convenient and reasonable. You really need a low self esteem to go there now. You must have an even lower self esteem (or IQ) to work there.
Another issue - I always noticed a dosage problem with the meds I received. After going elsewhere I realized the drugs they sell at Kroger are either of inferior quality, or the druggists must be cutting them for a little profit on the side.

this summer i've been employed by a local kroger, i hadn't done my research and had just assumed that kroger would be a decent employer. however i'm paid 6.65 per hour with a 6 dollar union fee from each pay check. on my first day of work i was told that i would be paying additional money from my earnings to pay for an initiation fee and training. i now pay an additional 10 dollars per check and will for five more weeks. within my first week i was yelled at by my manager for being unable to move quickly on a task i hadn't been taught how to do. when i told my manager that i didn't know what to do his rebuttle was to scream that i better figure it out while i'm carrying boxes. this is a terrible place to work and so far i have found no redeeming qualities that would make me work here longer than is absolutely needed. i go to work dreading the day ahead and i finish work feeling small and unimportant

Kroger is usually good. They have low prices most of the time, and good service. They have a very wide selection at the one we go to, although that is becaused it expanded greatly. Most Krogers that are smaller, also have a decent selection. The only complaint I have about them is they tend to push the expire date on the bakery items in the store.

I've never worked for kroger and never will. I did have one of their managers try to recruit me and to leave a skilled trade to bag groceries, but I laughed in his face. He thought I would want to leave a job that at the time paid me $9.00 per hour (keep in mind minimum wage was then roughly $3.50 an hour) to go to work at kroger for minimum wage and also (GET THIS!) Join their shitty union and pay union dues for a minimum wage job.
I have nothing against Unions, but even the dumbest piece of shit in the shit plant knows you sure as hell don't need a union steward for a minimum wage job.
So anyway, years later i live in Irving Texas and tonight I went to Kroger for a 2 liter of soda pop and some ice cream. Imagine my delight when i went to the check out to find that not a single checkout lane was open except the self serve lanes and not a single lane with an actual checker was open. NOT ONE! Not only that, but about 20 people waited in line to do their own checking out while the company shit-for-brains stood acting like there were no customers in the store, only shoplifters.
Talk about service with a FUCK YOU!
I left the ice cream above the freezer where it was sure to melt quickly and left the soda right where I stood and walked out, went down the street to a Minyards grocery where prices are about the same, but the service is MUCH, MUCH better.
I've disliked Kroger since i was a little boy growing up in Dayton, Ohio, but have always given Kroger benefit of the doubt, but now... they have lost me as a customer for good. When I go to the store i expect there to be at least one person working the check out, but tonight myself and about 20 others stood in line for the privilege of doing the check out job for ourselves. My words for kroger.. as you treated me I treat you..FUCK YOU!

Piccolonamebook is fairly right. All I can say about the work environment is that it depends on who you are working with. I did night stock with a crew of 5 guys for 2 years at Farmer Jack before Kroger bought us, and we did a remarkable job keeping the shelves stocked and ready for the days customers. If we ever had more than 15 out-of-stock items it was the wharehouses fault and not ours.Now at Kroger we keep more than $300,000.00 worth of stock in the back of the store and asume the hours of employment are provided to bring this stock to the shelves. This rarely happens! Most of our backstocks are brought out once a week if they are lucky. This leads to lots of stock being thrown out or donated to charity becuase of the condition it is kept in or the date of experiation.
This is a sad state of affairs for my self as I continually try to improve the quality of MY store to the state of commerce of where it once was.
One thing all of our customers should know is that most of our associates live, work and play in their own neighborhoods. 90% of our employees live within 3 miles or less of our store, and that brings great satisfaction to "US" when we see our "old" costomers coming back to shop and buy from "us."
For all of you "naysayers" out there, you should just shop you feel comfortabl. Forget whose name is on the front of the building and just shop where you feel welcome.
I am happy that KROGER took over my store and gave ME a chance to earn a respectable living.
Yes, ther are a few ne'er do wells in my store but, I hope in time that KROGER will see through them and replace them with competent and energetic employees who are willing to go out of their way to help a fellow customer with any reasonable request or inquiry.

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Kroger is one hell of a shit hole place to work at. I was a bagger then a "bashier" or bagger or open when ever those power happy bitches want me to. The favoratism at this place is utterly disgusting. You get yelled at by management if your not at work every single second while those bastards just sit in their office and gossip. Oh yeah and pay is fucking PATHETIC. I was there for over a year and a half and never got a raise. The one good thing about it is that it has some cool co-workers, but higher ups and management deserve and will go to hell for treating their employees like dirt

Kroger had a dream once upon a time. In this vision their stores were populated with happy, helpful associates and satisfied customers. The shelves were brimming with products and the aisles were clean and spacious. They had all their eggheads brainstorming on how to accomplish this feat. They came up with all kinds of programs and gimics. But then the harsh stench of reality wafted through Kroger's. Not because the programs or gimics were bad ideas but because of self-defeating company practices. The biggest obstacle to a Utopian Kroger is corporate greed. Oh, when will they ever learn?

I work at this horrid store, and it drains the life out of you. Customers first? Yeah right..if someone is being a idiot to me while I bag (i.e. The rednecks or Mental Hospital Inmates that make up 98% of our customers) I deliberatly go out of my way to misbag things, like crush bread and chips. The pay scale is garbage, I make minimum wage while my cousin makes $11 an hour at a carwash. I'm only working here part time, while I earn my law-degree, and I can honestly say I am the most educated person working here (In my Indiana Store). Managers Included. So yeah. The funny thing is, is that our manager thinks we're sucessful. Yeah right. We are currently competeting in a town with 2 Kroger Superstores, and 2 remodeled, much larger Krogers. We are the smallest, oldest in town, and our clientel (Sp?) is rednecks, mental hospital patients, and the guy who just moved here, and doesn't know this particular store is, flat out, a joke.

kroger in laporte indiana has a 17 year employee. he has been there bagger for this long. he just now 2008 makes $7.00 and the main office in indianapolis indiana makes the comment. oh well does he not want to do something else. it is ashame how krogers look at there employees. and forgets who makes krogers. it is the customer and the employees.

Where we live (Michigan) we only have 1 national chain food store, you got it..Kroger. Having moved here from out of state it was clear to see that they have a monopoly on the market and they exploit that to their advantage every opportunity they get. Not only are their prices higher than many of the small privately held stores around the county (Oakland) but they have been increasingly forcing their store brand onto customers by only offering a limited amount of name brand products and flooding the shelves instead with the Kroger Brand. Another reason I drive over 30 miles to 3 different stores to avoid shopping there is I've seldom ever been able to find 100% of what I need to be fresh and available. If the brand of bread I want (Arnold) is even on the shelf, many times it's 2 days from expiring, if I want to take advantage of a 4 for 12.00 sale on soda there will only be 2 available. And the staff won't provide rain checks if it's not in the ad. Many times, they haven't even understood the way their own ads have read. I've lived in several states and without question, Kroger the poorest excuse of a large chain grocery store that I have ever seen! People just don't have many other options here and so they get away with it!

snuttermilk1234 you have an excellent perspective, loved reading your views.

You are right it does seem to be the manager not the chain that makes the diff..Krogers around here are pretty decent, in my little local one I can never get anyone to be at the meat counter, but it's not a huge deal.

Kroger works with the local MRDD and they hire mentally disabled baggers to work there, I really applaud them for doing that.

I would give Kroger a lower rating if there was one. Recently they just sent out a mafia cut throat flyer trying to demonize a good local butcher shop in my area. Hey, instead of Kroger trying to have better meats, they try to communistically tear the competition down.

kroger is the worst job out there if you have to pick between working at kroger and going to prison ,choose prison at least they wount make you get carts or have to go and pick out a turkey for an old hag. their pay is so low i am their best worker and i get paid 6.55 hourly the managers are rude to employees and every minute they come over to you and yell 95! 

wrong store wrong price

Heading up to Canada, I stopped  at a Kroger in Toledo.  I was lucky to find candy on sale.  I also looked around the beer section.  It was nice to see more than 1 variety of Great Lakes.  They also had Black Dog Ale.  I liked how this location had E85 at their gas station.  The E85 was reasonably priced.

I am a former employee in the Little Rock area along with my husband and Kroger management is the absolute worst!!!! They are, for the most part, incredibly arrogant and rude to the hourly workers. Kroger pays ridiculously low wages and works its employees as little as possible on the whole. My husband and I are both college educated and worked at this pile of crap place because of the horrible economy right now. We were treated like dogs!!! Don't even think about working for Kroger-the corporate culture there is toxic!!!

Kroger bought our local (Northwest) chain Fred Meyer a few years ago. No big change except for the store brand name changed to Kroger. Prices seemed a bit higher but they also remodeled the store and improved the overall lay-out. I shop there on occasion and they do have a pretty good craft beer selection. The parking areas are well-lit compared to most other grocery stores. Since the make-over I do have a bit of trouble finding items in the grocery section. Their customer service center does a good job too.

I have worked for kroger for 14 years. One thing I have learned
it is defently depends upon the store manager for most of these compliants... Many poeple here take these things way too seriously.
ALL grocery stores pay bottom dollar to employee's. I have worked at many grocery stores publix, walmart, food lion, and now kroger. They all at times have serious problems with customer service. Poeple today are more angry in general with life and basicly everything. Most poeple are more irriatable and more stressed.. If two customers come in the store. The first screams at you and is irrate, and you do your best to calm the person down and it doesn't work. Then the second customer asks a simple question like where is the salt, most are unable to switch gears and might be rude without meaning too. I've also seen the other exetreme's. Example: There is this one person she is a anrgy angry cashier that I remember from a kroger store in michigan. store #707. She would yell at a customer if they couldn't figure out the credit card machine, and make sarcastic jokes, and even call them stupid. It would happen multiple times a day. The store manager would repremand her for it but that was it.. Nothing else was done. It was almost like the manager was plain afraid of her. About the white boy thing lol.. Well some of the top company officers are black. Though the dillion family controls the top seat. Side note: Thats funny because kroger bought that chain in the late 70's and now they have taken control of the company that bought them lol. back to the white boy thing. The one thing know just like any big corp. It is a little different depending on your locality. Another, post that caught my eye was the kroger supposedly "dying" thing. Though, it would not hurt me to see kroger leave this world. I do know that the numbers do not show that. The only real competition they have on a national basis is walmart. Many don't know that they go under more then 24 different banners. They also own many jewelery stores, and they own fairly large gas station names. They have had significant growth nationally. They are 27 or 29 on the fortune 500 can't remember. They are the Second largest retail chain. They had 6% rise last year in sales and so far this year 4%. Though if you don't count there gas stations. then it is 10%. So with Rising sales every year, many are considering them as a safe choice on wall street. They like any Big big corp have bad points. In some area's they are the cheapest others they are the most expensive. I challenge you Name me a big corp that we can't spend all day finding horrible things wrong with them.. The truth of the matter is there isn't EVEN ONE company that doesn't screw up. The bigger you are the more your gonna screw up. The more chances and opertunities there will be to screw up. I say pick a Store you like and shop there. If none of the grocery companies make you happer in the area then perhaps it is you, or maybe the area. Some of you take this way too serously. Man I enjoyed reading all of it :)

Directed at TomServo100 I would love to know your full name, state and store number so I could turn you in to your superiors....Trashy White Girl

You should not be able to shop in a grocery store until you have worked in one! I laugh when I hear customers talk about rude employees: like you have never had a bad day in your life! Come on! You are walking into your local Kroger as nothing more than a customer, not the president at the White House. Sorry, we must have misplaced your valet request somewhere in our incompetent brains. At least that's what customers make you feel like. Employees don't generally treat customers badly because they feel like it, there are underlying reasons, especially when the customer treats the employee like scum which most often happens. If you don't want to receive a rude grunt from your fellow sacker for requesting paper then don't treat them like they are just the robots sacking your groceries because you are too classy to do it yourself.

I rated #1 simply due to the fact there wasn't a choice for ZERO!!

Hello fellow shoppers.

Green Hills=Abbott Martin pharmacy/store
I don't even know where to start these pharmacist are just HORRIBLE I don't know what the Kroger hiring requirements are but it must be only that they (know how to fill a bottle
with the right drugs)and don't misunderstand me I know that is #1 for all of our health. But a close very close #2 is customer service when working in a large chain grocery market. Whew see I warned I didn't know where to begin. Today the 4 or 5 time this month dealing with the same blonde Christi or charity I don't know or give a damn she is unbelievably rude and more important wrong on most of her decisions. I will post again and give more details as I have a hungry husband here and expecting a call from Parents who are traveling out of country...but if u have had any problems with the pharmacist I have mentioned here and trust me she is only 1 I'm referring to however not the only one in Nashville TN. I have been to 2 other Nashville locations and same troubles with not only the pharmacist but the general store clerks/ deli persons/ and so called Customer Service help desk employees. Take care and I will try to give details on 2morrows addition. I hope each of u hasnt been treated so poorly as me while spending your money by stopping by their store. I will let them know what they already should. There is more than one grocery store in Nashville and in TN for that matter.

Interested in your experiences
Best Regards,
Angela

Kroger is by far the worst company I've ever worked for - they are the definition of the double standard - say one thing, do something else. I am a co-manager for Kroger, and the executives are the rudest, most incompetent wastes of money and space I've ever seen.  They come into your store, say it was a good store visit, and then run you down with the other executives in the parking lot. Whenever you call the corporate office, the person on the other end acts really annoyed when you call - as if you're interrupting their 8 hour long break.  

Some interesting tidbits about Kroger that you, the public, should know - In June, Kroger settled a class action lawsuit filed by a dozen former black employees, citing unfair promotion practices. Kroger settled out of court, and has agreed to give a sum of each money to each black associate in the company, from store associates to executives (not that there are many black executives in this honky white company).

As a manager, I'm told to falsify records to ensure compliance from the state regulatory agencies. Temperature logs, grinding logs for ground meat - if the meat department associates do not do it, I must fill it in with whatever just to make it look like we care. I like my job, but I cannot stand the white boys club that exists.

I would really give Kroger a 3.5. Kroger is pretty good about having large stores that offer a lot of products. I think their prices are so-so I have been to grocery stores that offer better prices. Sometimes they have good sales.What I do not like is sometimes in order to get that great sale item you have to purchase a certain amount of other things to get that sale item . I hate seeing that little sign under the sale item that says "after another $20.00 purchase} or you have to buy four 12 packs of coke, pepsi, etc to get the sale price.{ this especially annoys me since I live in Michigan and have to pay 10cents per can deposit} yeah real fair. Although I do buy their meat it is not the best I have seen. I also would lower my rating of Kroger because some of their employees are some of the rudest I have seen. Some act like it kills them to answer a question. Or they get mad when you point out something that was supposed to be on sale and it charges the regular price.  On decent deal they offer is if you spend at least $150.00 in groceries in one month you can get 10 cents off gas. more if you spend a lot more. I can easily spend 150.00 in a month so with these lousy gas prices this helps some.otherwise, not my favorite place to shop for groceries.

Given the recent rise in fuel/inflation/grocery prices.....no grocery chain is really better then the other now a days.  Unless you catch a sale.  Nothing is really cheap any more lol

Visit the kroger in columbia, tn....... you will be marveled at this glory.........

the kroger in milan, michigan is hell on earth. NEVER WORK THERE. the management isn't bad when you're actually working and everyone else is nice. but heaven forbid something come up last minute that causes you to call of for a day. then they'll talk crap about you and treat you like crap. i'm about fucking done with kroger. they've treated me like crap for long enough..

From my experience, Kroger's employees are the salt of the earth. I love them to death! Management however, is 90% resounding assholes who treat the workers like shit and don't give a flying fuck as long as they're not getting screamed at by the higher-ups. (NO poeople skills!) Company policy is beyond ridiculous- even a blind crack-addicted monkey could come up with at least one rule that makes some sense. And adding insult to injury, our "union" is a bunch of corporate ass-kissers that march in lockstep with Kroger policy, the insurance is a joke, and even when it's a serious matter, they will NEVER fight for an employee. Even worse if you;re a customer- insanely high prices, rude customer service people (almost as bad as management), and if you complain, nothing really gets done. I spent two years there and every day, half the store wanted to quit. I'm not sure if this was due to the fact that this was a "training store" and every manager that was bullying, incompetent, or both came through those doors and made our lives hell. Final Verdict: Do not shop there. If you work there, get out while you can!

Kroger is a wore out dying company in the southeast. They do not take care of their stores and are losing tons of marketshare to competitors. They do not care how they treat their employees and you are a mere hired hand. You are expendable and can be replaced by the next hired hand. Kroger as a company has lost is way as a grocery business. They try to shovel product down customers throats. Most stores are understaffed and they are constantly cutting hours. Managers do not care about the employees and treat them as worthless and very easily replaced. Most departments are understaffed due to lack of hours and massive turnover rate. I have one thing to say about kroger enjoy your massive presence the southeast while it last because you are eventually going to lose the southeast unless the division is overhauled.

i was recently empolyed by kroger
and i was fired because i called off and missed one day of work! they treat their empolyees like the scum of the earth! i hope that they go out of business!!!asap!!

A good grocery; some are very clean and some are very dirty. They need to work on their image. The employees are great for the most part.

What's up guys, I am a night stalker [sic] working in the Grocery department (the best department) at #443 and I have to say it's really not so bad. What really keeps me sane is the people that I work with. They are for the most part very competent and fun to be around. Working at night, there are very few customers to interact with, and only two other employees in the whole store besides the night stockers. (The cashier and the night pharmacist). This naturally leads at a greater amount of interaction and camaraderie, with makes the occasionally enormous workloads much more bearable. Working at night also means I don't have to deal with a whole lot of crap from management or customers.

I'd like to mention my supervisor in particular. He is easily THE most competent and skilled worker in the store, and one of the best I've ever seen in any store. He stocks and conditions at tremendous speeds and can finish 4-5 fully-stacked L-carts in less than two hours, and condition an entire aisle in a matter of minutes. Now that our head clerk is gone, he has taken over the HC's work in addition to his own, doing almost all of the ordering the HC normally did, shelf checks, putting out shippers, setting up sharebuilders, etc. But he still manages to finish all of it. I am the next fastest worker after him, much faster than any of the other employees, and even on my best day cannot even reach 1/3 of his speed. And I'm fast enough to work two aisles and both of their back-stocks in a single shift with no overtime.

Management is friendly for the most part, if a bit stupid. The former head clerk was nice but had serious anger management issues, constantly yelling at and berating other employees, even in front of customers. Luckily, I never got yelled at because I work hard and don't mess around.

One thing that bugs me is that they will definitely take advantage of hard workers, while giving poor workers light loads. On any given night, I am expected to stock two aisles and probably work one of their backstocks, which I almost never fail to do on time. The other new hires are given easy aisles and usually the more experienced employees work their backstock for them while they go and mess around with other, more easy tasks. Whenever they do work their own backstock, they fail to condense, and stack it properly. I keep my backstocks low and neat, always.

My biggest complaint is about the IDIOT baggers and cashiers who do the go-backs. I call these cretins "Go-bastards", because that is just what they are. They are *worthless* slackers with no conscience or work ethic whatsoever. They leave products all around the store in places where they obviously do not go. They do things such as hide good produce or toys behind bottles, put things on clearly wrong aisles/on the floor, etc. Like we're not going to find it when we stock! Argh! It is infuriating how brazen they are about it! My primary assigned aisle is the salad dressing aisle, and I am constantly finding organic dressings from Nutrition and Produce sitting in the mddle of the Kroger or Kraft section, even though it is obvious they do not go there, as there are no other products like it in the whole aisle. No, no excuses, it is their duty and responsibility to know where everything goes, and if they don't know, to either find out or leave it in the go-basket for someone more competent to put back. It is not at all abnormal for me to completely fill the entire bottom of my basket with improperly placed go-backs. It is a serious problem and unfortunately nothing will be done about it. If you were a bagger at Kroger and ever did this, I have a big middle finger for you. You deserve to die. *Ahem*, moving right along.

My other complaints are fairly minor. There are two types of pallets we receive, Peyton and Grocery. Peyton's (a distribution company that we get many of our Grocery and almost all of Drug/GM products from) is stupid and constantly sends us badly leaning and/or falling apart pallets full of badly damaged product. The "Grocery" pallets do not come like this. Both pallet types arrive completely randomized, and we must spend 1 1/2 to 2 hours per night breaking them down onto L-carts. My hands are covered in cuts and calluses, but I expected that. Also, I wish the stupid manager who shall go unnamed would stop parking the pallets in the produce back room where we break down. Pallets go in the back hall!

The pay is so-so, and I'm not sure about the benefits, because I haven't been here a year yet so I don't get any.

But yeah all in all it's pretty good.

I can tell you now, My review on working at kroger is going to be somewhat different then the others lol.

I have worked at Kroger in Somerset Kentucky for a year and I have also worked at many other department and retail stores such as wal mart (BIG MISTAKE)

I really do enjoy my job at Kroger.. It is like a big family at our store.  All of the employees are recognized by the managers and its just so close nit.  Of course I could make out a page of complaints to though. . just like with any job.

The pay does suck.  Not doubt about that.

I work in the Fuel Center and I get 40 hrs a week even though im part time. 

i have worked for king soopers in colorado at store 12 for a little over 6 months and i have to say that it sucks they give you the crappiest hour i usually work around 26-35 hours a week and they always throw in the weekend shifts for 4 hours i mean four hour shifts just ruin your whoe day cause your like oh boy i just made 28 dollars instead of hanging out so i think that i could work 3-4 8 hour shift and this would be so much better as for managers they are deushe bags most of them just bark out orders and dont care what someone else has already told you so you get stuck in between 2+ jobs trying to please everyone and it is just not worth it.

Well, naturally if you work for Kroger you know it really bites. My comment is more about the union. We (in Memphis) just settled our contract. The department Heads are getting a nice raise, but the regular people (the ones that do all the work) are only getting $1.00 over the next 4 years. On top of that the union dues are going up and by the end of three years we will have to pay for our insurance. Oh and the best part is it took the Union 6 months to get ALL of this for us. Ok I am not sure what they were smoking during the meeting with Kroger but to me that doesn't seem like such a good deal.

I have been working at kroger for about five months, and I will have to say it is one of the worst places I have worked. The management doesn't pay attention to what the employees are doing and this is why the employees don't take their job seriously. The management team gives no recognition to those who work hard, and you are often left alone to work on one task for hours. The pay is terrible as well and I think if Kroger would take the time to train properly and really listen to their employees it would be a much better place to work. Luckily I am in college and I have found another job that I start monday. I wouldn't recognize this job to anyone unless you want to be ignored.

The stores they had in San Antonio weren't too nice, but I believe they have better stores now, but they left San Antonio, probably because of the competition from HEB, then WalMart. Kroger wasn't too bad though, and had some OK prorietary brands.

Im a cashier at kroger.. I will say that I had it better when I was a bagger because I didnt care about hours.. they cut hours, then hire 6 more like every other store. kroger is just screwed up in general. I only work there because its close to my house, but its killing me. Ive got numerous customer compliments, but compliments dont matter, because management dont care about the customers. If it wasnt for the underpaid teenagers that work their but off for money, noone would care about Kroger anymore. This store just plain stinks. Jason Breniser badge 107

Kroger, Kroger, Kroger...the behemoth grocery chain that has forgotten that it takes satisfied customers to keep the tills ringing. I have surely shopped my last time at Kroger. I expect bad service from Wallie World (that's why I don't shop there even though the prices beat Kroger pricing every time)....BUT, nowadays, you shop at Kroger and pay their prices and then get up to the checkout and are forced to check yourself out because they are too cheap to hire cashiers in the evening hours. If you are going to be open 24 hours a day then you should offer the same level of service each hour of that day. Truly, I appreciate self checkouts just like anyone else...when I have a few items to ring up....NOT, however, when I have shopped and filled a grocery cart. Poor Kroger needs to find a way to continue to service its core customer base or BEWARE, we small Davids may throw a stone at Goliath Kroger and end up taking all our business elsewhere. I say Kroger needs healthy competition so they learn to get back to their customer service.

might be a decent place to shop. not so much as a place to work.  I was a "courtesy clerk" which is kroger code for bagger/ buggy pusher-inner/ spill cleaner upper.  I know, you can't expect that to be a great job, but the management wasn't easy to work with and they cut my hours to about 15-18 a week. As a college student, that didn't even keep gas in the truck. there were some good people there. i had good friends who were cahsiers.  but the management left lots to be desired.

Ok, I really agree with almost all of you. I work at a Kroger in Flint, Michigan and im a cashier. Alot of the customers there think Krogers is just the best place to shop. But, if they only KNEW how we got treated from management as far as favortism, telling your business, and trash talking they would be shocked. We are unionized and our union sucks. Everytime I try to call and complain it's like they don't wanna hear what you have to say and stick up for the managers every single time and don't see our point of view. They cut part time peoples hours to 24-25 hours a week then go and hire 6 new people. I've been trying to find another job but Flint is the hardest place or Michigan I should say, to find a job in. And as far as the lady that said "stop and think where you are at, its a grocery store and go get a degree." Umm first of all not EVERYONE can afford school, and school is not for everyone, and going to school here in Flint, is nothing but words on a piece of paper. You sound like a real suck up type for Krogers.
Anyway, the managers are on us about our "elms" scores or items per minute i should say. We have to be at 95% or better and they print out our scored and stuff.. they just want theirselves to look good since THERE bosses are on them about it.
As a matter of fact, everyday I walk into that place I NEVER hear atleast 1 person say "i hate this place" or "i wanna quit" I hear it EVERYDAY.
No one there likes it. The only reason WHY they are there is for the insurance. It's not for the amount of pay. If its not for the insurance its to save up alittle bit of money for something then quit. Courtesy Clerks are the only people that dont get insurance. It sounds to me from reading most of these comments that pretty much all the Krogers are the same and its sad and they should be ashamed of theirselves because NOBODY likes it.

kroger is an code word for hell both for the workers and for the customers........

fuck kroger!

I'm an employee for Kroger for a year as a bagger. As the previous person has said, the position is hell. Your the lowest of the low in the ranks there, and they sure as heck treat you like it too. The managers don't give a damn about their employees and overwork us like crazy (which as many Kroger employees have said where I work: Overworked and underpaid) and constantly bark orders at us and expect us to stop what were doing and immeaditly do what they want, or we get some kind of punishment or backlash from the manager (such as they send you out on karts right after you just came in from it 10 min ago). The wages are pathetic, their about $1 more than minimum wage here, and the raises are very slow and minimal and I believe like the below review, my pay raises might of capped out. Also, we don't get any kind of benefits at all, and I have yet to see any scheduled vacation time. Also, I originally wanted to work morning shift but they told me "I needed seniority" to work mornings, which I think is just plain stupid. They also are very harsh on trying to request holidays off, such as I attempted to request labour day off (planned on having a cookout with family and friends, but they had me scheduled to work that day) and I asked if I could have the day off. The manager got extremely rude with me, very harshly told me no and just walked off. The managers are also very sexist, most of the hired cashers are women and most of the managers are women and most of them are sexist against men. I've noticed men baggers always get more duties than female baggers and females always get breaks first.

Also, they DO also leave the burden on everyone else when someone has called in as well, or just throw extra duties as well. Also, they always have rather too many or too few baggers, they never keep it balanced.

The only reason I haven't quit yet is because I need the money to pay my bills. I am very tech-savvy and plan on going into a IT-related job field and just wanted Kroger as a small job to get me in the job-world. But I been having much difficultly in trying to actually get a new job to my dismay, and been having to continue to work at this low-grade, treat you like dirt job. They act like their better than Walmart when it comes to their employee treatment, absolute BS, its the same as Walmart if not worse.

So for many shoppers, if you have bad experiences with employees, there's a very good reason, its because were miserable and stressed out, in fact every single employee at the Kroger I work at downright hates their job. So if you want better customer treatment, ask for better employee treatment....

Ok, Ive worked at a Kroger for six months now.Im a bagger. the lowest of the low...despised and treated horribly. Pretty much a janitor that bags groceries. It is pretty much Hell. The management sucks, they are so greedy and they dont care about the lowerdowns (lol.) we are expendable! We baggers often get in trouble for talking to one another, while management and the supervisors can walk around nd talk to anyone they want. In the days they, 8am-4pm they always have 6-8 baggers which isnt neccesary when noone shops at those times. During nights 5pm-11pm there are only 2-3 baggers, the problem being that thats when people come to shop in my town! Baggers do much more than bag;clean restrooms, floors, shelves,get carts, and anything that the higherups tell you to do. They want us to do all these things at once...and often we cant.....and we, the baggers, GET IN TROUBLE! oh yeah, at my store(and i dont know if this is the same for other stores), baggers dont get benefits!!!! We also Cap out after 2 RAISES!!! ITS RIDICULOUS!!!!!My cooworkers are the only reason im still there, besides the fact im going to school and need money. The pay is minimum wage but i dont care. They dont respect us, we get the shaft! they wont even work with me when i have a problem! when im sick, they interrigate me and tell try to persuade me constantly to come back in when they know i cant. Our store manager is all about getting the most bang for the buck-in other words, she works you the most she can while giving out the least amount of breaks. ANd when one person is sick or gone or perhaps dieing, they rarely call for other employees. THEY LEAVE THE BURDEN ON EVERYONE ELSE, and say "You guys are going to have to toughen up today, we are short"...ALL BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SAVE MONEY! greedy bastards...All i want is respect...and KROGER NEVER GIIVES IT TO ME OR ANY OF THE OTHER BAGGERS!