First of all... my store's nutrition department is not given enough hours. I can assume the same thing for the majority of other stores. Our nutrition lead tries but she always seems to be overwhelmed and never finishes her trucks. There's just two people in nutrition and almost always somebody helping on any given day. Half of the out of stocks for our entire store are pretty much always nutrition, markdown effectiveness is not that great and she is always taking vacations.
I have to assume this is going on in many other stores. I'm not sure exactly how many hours nutrition gets... I believe it's about 60-70 for my store (and it is a big store with a lot of sales).
That's crazy. Your current nutrition lead needs to be careful because of her heart. They should add more help to that dept. if they can afford various 'gimmicks' they can afford more hours.
-- Edited by mega-kitteh on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 11:31:28 PM
That's crazy. Your current nutrition lead needs to be careful because of her heart. They should add more help to that dept. if they can afford various 'gimmicks' they can afford more hours.
-- Edited by mega-kitteh on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 11:31:28 PM
Heh, I know it's crazy. But this is Kroger we're talking about. They expect anyone to be expendable.
I'm glad that our current Nutrition lead is holding out on her own. The former one is still here and helps whenever she can, but like I said, they always have her end up working in receiving.
Some of our evening produce clerks secretly help her on top of whatever else they need to do. Why secretly? Because they want the clerks to only do main produce stuff.
First of all... my store's nutrition department is not given enough hours. I can assume the same thing for the majority of other stores. Our nutrition lead tries but she always seems to be overwhelmed and never finishes her trucks. There's just two people in nutrition and almost always somebody helping on any given day. Half of the out of stocks for our entire store are pretty much always nutrition, markdown effectiveness is not that great and she is always taking vacations.
I have to assume this is going on in many other stores. I'm not sure exactly how many hours nutrition gets... I believe it's about 60-70 for my store (and it is a big store with a lot of sales).
Wow, if you hadn't said "she" I'd be certain this was someone from our store. But yeah, same deal here, Nutrition seems to get shafted when it comes to hours, they need relief help almost daily, and we've gone through three leads in a year because of how stressful it is.
Our nutrition lead was still the only person in her dept even after they expanded her area by about 25%. She's always having to negotiate with the front end to borrow a couple bodies during the week to help run stock.
I don't know what they're going to do in my store once she has to go out on maternity leave. Knowing them they'll just leave her dept. empty for 6 weeks.
I don't know what they're going to do in my store once she has to go out on maternity leave. Knowing them they'll just leave her dept. empty for 6 weeks.
They'll probably throw some produce clerk in there without training and bitch at him when the replenishment has a dozen out of stocks. But then again he'd have to be full time... I got it! To reduce chances of full time employment at Kroger (see: plague) they'll throw in a bagger so they'll each get 20 hours! But wait, if you order in the next financial quarter, we'll throw in a disgruntled frozen clerk -- free! Then you'll have 3 employees clocking in a whopping 16 hours, EACH!
I don't know what they're going to do in my store once she has to go out on maternity leave. Knowing them they'll just leave her dept. empty for 6 weeks.
They'll probably throw some produce clerk in there without training and bitch at him when the replenishment has a dozen out of stocks. But then again he'd have to be full time... I got it! To reduce chances of full time employment at Kroger (see: plague) they'll throw in a bagger so they'll each get 20 hours! But wait, if you order in the next financial quarter, we'll throw in a disgruntled frozen clerk -- free! Then you'll have 3 employees clocking in a whopping 16 hours, EACH!
I don't know what they're going to do in my store once she has to go out on maternity leave. Knowing them they'll just leave her dept. empty for 6 weeks.
They'll probably throw some produce clerk in there without training and bitch at him when the replenishment has a dozen out of stocks. But then again he'd have to be full time... I got it! To reduce chances of full time employment at Kroger (see: plague) they'll throw in a bagger so they'll each get 20 hours! But wait, if you order in the next financial quarter, we'll throw in a disgruntled frozen clerk -- free! Then you'll have 3 employees clocking in a whopping 16 hours, EACH!
Well, in my division, they could have used a CC if there wasn't stocking involved; CCs under my contract can work 40 indefinitely without going FT.
