There's one that's currently being built close to where I am. Amazingly, the distance from my home to this new super Kroger is the same as the one I currently frequent.
Anyway, I have witnessed how a Kroger is brought upon our great[1] land. No big deal right? After all, it took them four months just to get the basic structures worked out (they're building an entire shopping area/strip anchored by Kroger). What caught my attention was that the fuel center is already up and running. Prices are posted, there's people getting gas, and there's a fuel clerk in the booth.
I'd like to re-iterate the fact that they've only finished the basic structure and components of the store itself. There's no fire lane markers, parking lines, landscaping, or even tenants. The Kroger itself isn't even open. They don't even have their "K R O G E R" sign.
I wonder how they take breaks or go to the bathroom or clock in or anything lol
There's gotta be at least 2 people working every shift, or maybe there's a place with a restroom really close by, so they can put up a "be right back" sign or something. As for recording hours, they probably have someone higher up just put it into Kronos. Though I find it extremely interesting that this one component of the store is functioning alone...
Customers here are begging for a fuel station, management claims they may be putting one in down the street. They seem to be able to run them independently of a store. Probly no worse than working any other gas station.
I don't get why some fuel stations are down the road from the actual store. The fuel station at my store is right in front of the store, as it should be. :P
There's a Kroger close to where I live that has its fuel station on the other side of a major highway. To get from the store to the fuel station you have to cross six lanes of traffic. I can't imagine what it's like trying to get supplies to and from the store.
The new one by my place which could possibly be the same as yours? In Texas across the street from Walmart and Target? If so the fuel pumps are unmanned currently and only accept cards no cash or attendant.
The new one by my place which could possibly be the same as yours? In Texas across the street from Walmart and Target? If so the fuel pumps are unmanned currently and only accept cards no cash or attendant.
Nah, no walmarts or targets around here/there. Otherwise, I'd frequent walmart instead of Kroger (at least, whenever I lost my 10% discount).
The new one by my place which could possibly be the same as yours? In Texas across the street from Walmart and Target? If so the fuel pumps are unmanned currently and only accept cards no cash or attendant.
Are you referring to the new Marketplace off of North Tarrant Parkway and Precinct Road, by chance?
I wonder how they take breaks or go to the bathroom or clock in or anything lol
They probably have their own time clock and restroom. Most newer ones seem to have both built in. Ours does.
Ours doesn't :( It's the worst in the world. I have to make trips back and forth across the parking lot to clock in and out for breaks and bathroom breaks. It's ridiculous. It wouldn't cost much for a bathroom either. (Especially since Kroger of all people can afford it)
I wonder how they take breaks or go to the bathroom or clock in or anything lol
They probably have their own time clock and restroom. Most newer ones seem to have both built in. Ours does.
Ours doesn't :( It's the worst in the world. I have to make trips back and forth across the parking lot to clock in and out for breaks and bathroom breaks. It's ridiculous. It wouldn't cost much for a bathroom either. (Especially since Kroger of all people can afford it)
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. They'd have to figure out where water, sewage, and utility pipes run so the bathroom can join that network. Also, since it's a gas station, they can't just slap another structure next to the booth whenever they feel like it because of ordinance and zoning codes.
And knowing Kroger, it's below them to have to, God-forbid, invest in infrastructure and resources for their employees.
And knowing Kroger, it's below them to have to, God-forbid, invest in infrastructure and resources for their employees.
When I interviewed at Home Depot this week, I asked about that. If I would have to provide my own resources, especially items such as gloves. I was told that the company provides them.
Kroger. I provide my own rain gear -- the $3 ponchos they sell are shower curtains with a price sticker. I provide my own gloves, which are two $1.50 mitten pair bought from Food Depot and pushed into each other to try to thicken the material. I provide my own galoshes for when the foyer is wet when we bring carts in. I have fallen twice, have slipped so many times because of the sneakers. I bought a balaclava off the Internet. I provide that myself.
Basically Kroger provides the pressure from management to retrieve the carts. I provide everything else. The most they would do was over the summer when our Georgia heat had temps in the 90s and 100s. We had water. But as courtesy clerks we had to police our own water, change out the ice when needed on our own and then hopefully find damaged 24 packs in the back to use. And the stockers would take the water at night. Which I didn't personally have an issue with at the time.
Resources? Yea. Right. Gloves would be nice. But I have a single shirt with a hole at the neck, a hole at the right wrist, bleach stains and multiple tiny holes in front from the name tag. While new hires come out with a nice shirt straight out of the plastic wrap.
Resources? Good luck. This company would sooner mark down the seafood before it would provide resources needed for the job. Kroger math, where 1+ 1 = 3.
