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So if a store gets shut down what happens?

A few days ago at work, i overheard a couple of the other department heads talking about how my store is losing money big time, and was $400k in the red for the last fiscal year. So the Kroger company didn't make any money on the store at all, actually it lost money. I work in a really small store that is well in last place for our district, only doing about 300k in sales a week.

Today I was visiting a friend and her dad stopped by to say hi, he used to be a cop so he probably has connections (even though he worked in a different county) and he told me that my store was actually being considered to be shut down a couple years ago due to high theft rates (which there has been a ton of shoplifting there lately) but enough people complained that it's stayed open. I don't know if this is true for sure though or not.

So what happens if they would decide to shut down the store? I'm a department head there and I've only worked there a few months. Would I be transferred to another store? Would I go back to my home store and take a demotion? I better not ever get screwed out of my job because they decided to move me to this store...



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first they would give you a severance pay package for the store closing. Since you are a department head they will give you the option to transfer to another store or you will become a clerk at a store close to you until another store becomes available. This is what is in our union contract ufcw 1059. Check yours to find out exactly what since they are all different. 



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Depends on your contract. 

For my contract, they do not fire all the employees.  HR will try to relocate everyone to surrounding stores.  You are a department manager.  As poster above said, they will try to find you a store that needs a department manager.  You might have to wait for an opening.

We have enough stores in my area, that it would be easy to place almost everyone in their current job positions.

I would not panic or start rumors.  Kroger will keep a small store open just for the namesake in the community.  I imagine they would atleast try different store managers to see if anyone can make a difference.  First thing I would do is hire Loss Prevention employees to figure out where all the losses are coming from.



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Well, they have a security guard posted by the front end, but it's a little ridiculous, because half the time i see the guy on a break in the breakroom or hanging out talking to employees. And he isn't there all day, he doesn't come in until late afternoon, and he's not even there every day. So i'm sure the shoplifters have paid attention to this guy's routine.

This store has been open for a very long time though so i wouldn't think the company would be so quick to get rid of it, but it just seems to be that there are problems starting.

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Kroger does shut poor performing stores down, from time to time. It's happened a few times in my market and mine is one of fastest growing markets in the country (and of course, that means fierce competition from other well-known and well established grocery/retail chains), so yeah, your store could get shut down at some point if it continues to do poorly.

Most likely, in your union handbook, there is a section that outlines what happens if a store closes. HR will make an effort (although how much of an effort is anyone's guess) to find positions for the employees at nearby Kroger stores. Being a department head is both a good thing and a bad thing in this case. It's a good thing because a greater effort will likely be made to keep you and find a spot for you. The bad thing is, being a department head, they can't just place you in any old spot within a store, so it might be harder to find a store that is in need of one... and no guarantee it's going to be within (what you consider to be) reasonable driving distance.

I wouldn't worry too much just yet... but, it never hurts to keep an eye open for opportunities outside of Kroger... especially when you have experience running a department.



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300k in a week? Good grief that'd be a dream Kroger to be at.



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300k in a week? Good grief that'd be a dream Kroger to be at.


Eh... 300k on average probably translates into a super small budget, meaning very, very few employees per department (even fewer than the average Signature store). Fewer customers, yes... but that also means fewer employees, so I bet it's still not fun. Honestly, you're better off at a store like mine, which is a Marketplace that averages between 1.2 and 1.8 million a week. It's crazy busy, but we're very well staffed, so it's actually not that bad because the workload is more evenly divided among employees.



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They will most likely find you a new store 200 miles away that you will be treated like trash and you will just take the money and run.



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300k in a week? Good grief that'd be a dream Kroger to be at.


Eh... 300k on average probably translates into a super small budget, meaning very, very few employees per department (even fewer than the average Signature store). Fewer customers, yes... but that also means fewer employees, so I bet it's still not fun. Honestly, you're better off at a store like mine, which is a Marketplace that averages between 1.2 and 1.8 million a week. It's crazy busy, but we're very well staffed, so it's actually not that bad because the workload is more evenly divided among employees.


 Bingo. I went from working in an average size store that did about 800k a week to the one i'm at now. While i don't hate it, it's a lot different. In my old store, the bakery department when fully staffed had 7 people. In comparison, the bakery I'm in charge of now is me and two other people. We get 110 hours for the week next week. But keep in mind, we still have the same amount of products to produce as any other store. The deli was only given 180 hours, and usually has 2 openers and 2 closers every day and that's it. The drug/gm manager only has one person under her, she doesn't even have a backup, and the meat department is 3 people as well. All in all, it's a nice little store, the employees are really nice people, but it's completely different than pretty much every other store in our district. We can't even try to compete when it comes time for sales contests, and things like that.

I think I heard before there's only about 70 employees in the whole store.



-- Edited by 4hourrush on Tuesday 21st of February 2017 10:46:58 PM

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4hourrush wrote:
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300k in a week? Good grief that'd be a dream Kroger to be at.


Eh... 300k on average probably translates into a super small budget, meaning very, very few employees per department (even fewer than the average Signature store). Fewer customers, yes... but that also means fewer employees, so I bet it's still not fun. Honestly, you're better off at a store like mine, which is a Marketplace that averages between 1.2 and 1.8 million a week. It's crazy busy, but we're very well staffed, so it's actually not that bad because the workload is more evenly divided among employees.


 Bingo. I went from working in an average size store that did about 800k a week to the one i'm at now. While i don't hate it, it's a lot different. In my old store, the bakery department when fully staffed had 7 people. In comparison, the bakery I'm in charge of now is me and two other people. We get 110 hours for the week next week. But keep in mind, we still have the same amount of products to produce as any other store. The deli was only given 180 hours, and usually has 2 openers and 2 closers every day and that's it. The drug/gm manager only has one person under her, she doesn't even have a backup, and the meat department is 3 people as well. All in all, it's a nice little store, the employees are really nice people, but it's completely different than pretty much every other store in our district. We can't even try to compete when it comes time for sales contests, and things like that.

I think I heard before there's only about 70 employees in the whole store.



-- Edited by 4hourrush on Tuesday 21st of February 2017 10:46:58 PM


Yeah, that's how I figured it would be. At my Marketplace, between Front End and ClickList alone, we have more employees than at your store combined. Factor in the rest, and I'd say we've got anywhere between 150-200 employees. Your bakery has three people total whereas our bakery has at least twelve. It's all about the sales. If you're in a top performing store in the district and even in the division, you get the hours - especially when there's serious competition down the road. I have no doubt you work with some nice folks, but I also have no doubt the workload is horrible because you don't have enough people to divide up the work and make it manageable. Even though 300k a week might sound like a slow store, I'm sure it doesn't feel slow because there isn't very many of you to assist customers, plus get work done, so you're likely always on the go, go, go.

There's definitely a noticeable difference in what it's like to work in high volume, medium volume and low volume stores. I personally think workload-wise, it's worse to work in a low volume store compared to the other two. High volume seems to be best, based on personal experience. 



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300k in a week? Good grief that'd be a dream Kroger to be at.


Eh... 300k on average probably translates into a super small budget, meaning very, very few employees per department (even fewer than the average Signature store). Fewer customers, yes... but that also means fewer employees, so I bet it's still not fun. Honestly, you're better off at a store like mine, which is a Marketplace that averages between 1.2 and 1.8 million a week. It's crazy busy, but we're very well staffed, so it's actually not that bad because the workload is more evenly divided among employees.


 Bingo. I went from working in an average size store that did about 800k a week to the one i'm at now. While i don't hate it, it's a lot different. In my old store, the bakery department when fully staffed had 7 people. In comparison, the bakery I'm in charge of now is me and two other people. We get 110 hours for the week next week. But keep in mind, we still have the same amount of products to produce as any other store. The deli was only given 180 hours, and usually has 2 openers and 2 closers every day and that's it. The drug/gm manager only has one person under her, she doesn't even have a backup, and the meat department is 3 people as well. All in all, it's a nice little store, the employees are really nice people, but it's completely different than pretty much every other store in our district. We can't even try to compete when it comes time for sales contests, and things like that.

I think I heard before there's only about 70 employees in the whole store.



-- Edited by 4hourrush on Tuesday 21st of February 2017 10:46:58 PM


Yeah, that's how I figured it would be. At my Marketplace, between Front End and ClickList alone, we have more employees than at your store combined. Factor in the rest, and I'd say we've got anywhere between 150-200 employees. Your bakery has three people total whereas our bakery has at least twelve. It's all about the sales. If you're in a top performing store in the district and even in the division, you get the hours - especially when there's serious competition down the road. I have no doubt you work with some nice folks, but I also have no doubt the workload is horrible because you don't have enough people to divide up the work and make it manageable. Even though 300k a week might sound like a slow store, I'm sure it doesn't feel slow because there isn't very many of you to assist customers, plus get work done, so you're likely always on the go, go, go.

There's definitely a noticeable difference in what it's like to work in high volume, medium volume and low volume stores. I personally think workload-wise, it's worse to work in a low volume store compared to the other two. High volume seems to be best, based on personal experience. 


 Yeah and also, my store is seen by many as being a training store/punishment store because of how it is. When I got word I was being placed here for my first store as a department head, I had a couple managers be like "Oh you'll have NO problems here because 300k a week is easy peasy compared to my home store"... nope they were wrong, it definitely took some getting used to because it's just so much different.

If anyone knows what district i'm in (i think i've said before) it is so easy to figure out who i am now, lol. i'm sure someone out here reading this has figured it out what store i'm talking about. :P



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