Walmart

Indy1979 · Senior Member

Walmart

Date: Feb 19, 2015

And for the walmart employees that had to work their way up to $9 an hour, sorry no pay raise for you.
Now all new hires will make as much as you.
Sorry, you can't please everyone.

Ms White · Guru

So I guess they will have to raise their prices to cover the employee raises.

Date: Feb 19, 2015

I remember reading an article about this a month or two ago that said they wouldn't be paying people who were supervisors as much due to this. Not surprising, but it will backfire on them when people won't take those jobs or just do it extra crappy. However ya don't go to wally for a nice shopping experience. Gonna be tougher to get new hires in the door at kroger and its bad now.

Date: Feb 19, 2015

I want to quit right now and go to Walmart.

It will take me a year to get a 10 cent raise.

Maybe the co-managers will stop acting like dicks.

GenesisOne · Guru

Walmart has a less than stellar record when it comes to the treatment of its employees and has been guilty of some unfair and shady practices towards its workforce, but this is one positive step forward toward making amends with the people that work for the company. The people working for Walmart endure a lot with as many customers that come through everyday and deserve to be better compensated for their time. Hopefully, Walmart will continue to take additional (necessary) steps toward mending the fence with its employees, so that one day, Walmart becomes a great company to work for.

Kroger loves to imitate Walmart in order to try and surpass it, but will Kroger imitate this decision? Of course not. Kroger loves to make itself out as being "better" than Walmart. How will the executives and empty suits at Kroger go about spinning this in order to still make Walmart out to be the bad guy? Walmart already paid more per hour than Kroger before this, and now? The gap just widened. Walmart believes it's in the interests of the company's future to pay employees better... so it would seem Walmart places more value on its employees than Kroger does. Kroger believes its enough to say "Our People Are Great!" and that lip service alone is all that is needed.

You know how Kroger will view this? The company won't come at it from the perspective, "hey, Walmart is paying its people more. We should too," instead it will be, "great! Walmart is paying its people more. That means customers will see a price hike in Walmart stores and come shop at Kroger instead! We don't have to raise our prices because we aren't giving our employees a raise! Now we really will be able to match and beat Walmart's prices!" Just more of Kroger's "sound business practice" of passing on great savings to customers by keeping employee wages as low as possible... continue to build the company on the backs of employees, never mind the fact that practice is breaking employees' backs... and spirits.

Why do I get the feeling I'm going to be hearing that obnoxious "Now Hiring!" advertisement even more often on store speakers?

kroagrr · Guru

Walmart believes it's in the interests of the company's future to pay employees better... so it would seem Walmart places more value on its employees than Kroger does.

Sad reality, isn't it.

The Kroger wage is the lowest I've been paid, ever. Even the very first high-school, minimum-wage job compensated more (adjusting for inflation to keep the numbers real across the years).

DeltaGrocery · Guru

This will trickle to us eventually as well. It'll most likely be a longer process as we have to deal with unions and contracts. It's a good thing.

Date: Feb 19, 2015

I noticed the artice only talks about starting pay. It makes no mention of what the maximum pay is. They might start you out at $10.00 an hour ($13.00 if you're a manager) and then not give you a raise for five years, if one at all.

thestruggleisreal · Guru

If it wasn't for the whole ethic thing that Wal-Mart tends to be lacking, I would have no qualms applying over there.

One of the cashiers was talking to me earlier and said that we [deli] get **** pay for all the **** we go through.

Sounded like the choir was preaching in my head, for real.

Date: Feb 20, 2015

Sent this link to our union reps and the HR guy. See what kind of B.S. reply, I get. There is no way to sugarcoat paying an outstanding 12 year employee $9.90 per hour. Especially a company that it is raking it in like Kroger.

Date: Feb 20, 2015

How are you only making 9.90 an hour after 12 years? Ive been with Kroger almost 8 years now and I make 12.05

DeltaGrocery · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
How are you only making 9.90 an hour after 12 years? Ive been with Kroger almost 8 years now and I make 12.05

I'm sure he's part time. Part time top out pay is significantly lower than full time. In our division it's 10.70 compared to 14.16 full time.

Date: Feb 21, 2015

Well in 2012 I was making $10.80 an hour but I had to take some time off and then transfer stores due to an illness, transferred to a store that was under a "country contract" which meant my part time top out pay went down to $9.75. SO I'm making less now than I was 6 years ago.

I'm glad I have the union looking out for my rights. What a ****ing joke.

Date: Feb 21, 2015

Im only part time making 12.05 not full time

Date: Feb 21, 2015

Please tell me how you are makin 12.05 as a part timer.

kroagrr · Guru

Sent this link to our union reps and the HR guy. See what kind of B.S. reply I get. There is no way to sugarcoat paying an outstanding 12-year employee $9.90 per hour . . . especially a company that it is raking it in like Kroger.

"But our benefits are GREAT!" exclaimed Tony the Tig . . . I mean, our store manager as he trolled the building looking for people to pressure to go faster.

Santino · Veteran Member

your sorry ass unions are to busy trying to get fast food workers $15 a hour. I always find the interviews funny on tv with the UFCW wanting $15 dollars a hour for fast food workers when they can't even get a decent grocery contract

Date: Feb 22, 2015

Jason wrote:
Please tell me how you are makin 12.05 as a part timer.

I've been with Kroger for 7 years now, making 12.05 an hour I work in the fuel center.

Date: Feb 23, 2015

Jason wrote:
Please tell me how you are makin 12.05 as a part timer.

Probably in a division that is located in an area with high cost of living. In the atlanta division, top for full time is 12.12( as well lead. Dept manager top at 14, and Grocery tops at ridiculous 16). It took me 7 years to get 12/hr. Part time for us tops at 9 bucks. 12/hr for Part time is not a lot of money. For that wage to be worthwhile, you need full time. So yeah Kroger still pays low regardless of area.

Date: May 4, 2019

Worked at Kroger for two and a half years and Im at 19.15/hr. I dont know what yall are doing wrong but switching companies probably isnt going to fix it. Stop looking for handouts and put your nose to the grind stone, maybe after you do that some one will notice your worth and pay you for it. Until then quit bitching about your pay and start your own business if you think its so easy

Date: May 4, 2019

Anonymous wrote:
Worked at Kroger for two and a half years and Im at 19.15/hr. I dont know what yall are doing wrong but switching companies probably isnt going to fix it. Stop looking for handouts and put your nose to the grind stone, maybe after you do that some one will notice your worth and pay you for it. Until then quit bitching about your pay and start your own business if you think its so easy

I've been on the grind since 2014 at $7.25. I topped out in 2018 at $18.18. I'm just happy to have built up seniority throughout the process, as well as getting the raise.