I'm friends with a person that works in produce and does cut fruit. Today, she was terribly upset because apparently her produce manager told her that the position of cut fruit is being eliminated. The work is supposed to be now contracted out, so I guess that means a company will ship us fruit that's already sliced and packaged, rather than that being done by employees in-store? This is impacting her and two other people, and they were basically told to either find a spot in another department or to start looking elsewhere for a job because produce no longer has the hours for the three of them since the department is losing hours due to that job task no longer existing. Is this happening at other Kroger stores? Although it's not impacting me, I feel bad for my friend and the others, and also, I worry, will Kroger begin removing other jobs too from other departments and contract the jobs out as well? Hours have already been low since the end of Christmas across the store... but I don't understand why when our managers say we're ahead of last year by 10% in the daily huddles. Should we be worried at our store that more positions are going to be eliminated? My friend said that the produce manager told her that the cut fruit position probably won't be the only job position eliminated and that more jobs will likely be contracted out in the near future... so I know I'm not the only one at my store worried...
It has been that way at my store for about three years. they just take the person that's cutting fruit and put them in produce or another department but no one has lost their job
I heard this a couple days ago too from our salad bar lead (I almost wonder if you're in my store now) and heard that the cut fruit is going away during period 4. she also said that salad bar will now be under deli instead of produce.
we're turning into walmart. it's stupid that cut fruit, which is an item people want, is now being taken away so they can hire less people.
In my division its called the fresh kitchen program. Our cut fruit besides the halves and slices for the melons will come in prepackaged. We will make orders off by 9 am and they will ship to the store the next night to be stocked the following morning.
I heard this a couple days ago too from our salad bar lead (I almost wonder if you're in my store now) and heard that the cut fruit is going away during period 4. she also said that salad bar will now be under deli instead of produce.
we're turning into walmart. it's stupid that cut fruit, which is an item people want, is now being taken away so they can hire less people.
OP here. I don't think we are a part of the same store because the salad bar here has always been maintained by the deli department. I agree with you that it's stupid that cut fruit is being taken away. Customers here regularly wipe out the wall in produce with the freshly cut and packaged fruit. Our managers are always yelping about how "we gotta be fresh and friendly!!" and I think this goes against the "fresh" part. I guess the packaged cut fruit will still be fresh... but not as fresh.
Oh, and it's funny you mentioned Walmart. There are Walmart stores around here that are doing that whole shop online, then drive up to the store and have your groceries loaded into your vehicle. We're supposed to start that too soon, so I guess that's another way we're turning into Walmart?
Customers go where they're lead. So as for 'taking away something they love', well, that happens all the time----yet they always come back. Meanwhile by doing things this way Kroger is saving time and money. I'm waiting to see baggers and meat cutters go the way of Tupac and Biggie. Its gonna happen, you know.
Customers go where they're lead. So as for 'taking away something they love', well, that happens all the time----yet they always come back. Meanwhile by doing things this way Kroger is saving time and money. I'm waiting to see baggers and meat cutters go the way of Tupac and Biggie. Its gonna happen, you know.
Kroger should just buy those carts you have to put a quarter in to use, then if you return it you get your quarter back. I know that does away with the courtesy clerk jobs but seriously, every courtesy clerk you talk to hates their job anyway. As far as the meat department, our Kroger's meat is terrible. Makes me gag. I shop at Walmart which is better, but I'm actually going to start going to this meat market nearby. It will cost more but it's worth i I hate our Kroger produce department, it's nasty so I couldn't care less about "fresh" cut fruit. I'll cut my own. It's not that hard to slice up a pineapple. Coconuts are a bitch though lol!
As far as letting them pick my groceries and then I get there and they load them in my car? No. I'm not letting them pass of their expired and dented crap on me.
Customers go where they're lead. So as for 'taking away something they love', well, that happens all the time----yet they always come back. Meanwhile by doing things this way Kroger is saving time and money. I'm waiting to see baggers and meat cutters go the way of Tupac and Biggie. Its gonna happen, you know.
carts you have to put a quarter in to use...... Kroger's meat is terrible..... going to start going to this meat market nearby..... Kroger produce department, it's nasty
As far as letting them pick my groceries and then I get there and they load them in my car? No. I'm not letting them pass of their expired and dented crap on me. (ALL excellent points! Fuuck Kroger)
I heard this a couple days ago too from our salad bar lead (I almost wonder if you're in my store now) and heard that the cut fruit is going away during period 4. she also said that salad bar will now be under deli instead of produce.
we're turning into walmart. it's stupid that cut fruit, which is an item people want, is now being taken away so they can hire less people.
OP here. I don't think we are a part of the same store because the salad bar here has always been maintained by the deli department. I agree with you that it's stupid that cut fruit is being taken away. Customers here regularly wipe out the wall in produce with the freshly cut and packaged fruit. Our managers are always yelping about how "we gotta be fresh and friendly!!" and I think this goes against the "fresh" part. I guess the packaged cut fruit will still be fresh... but not as fresh.
Oh, and it's funny you mentioned Walmart. There are Walmart stores around here that are doing that whole shop online, then drive up to the store and have your groceries loaded into your vehicle. We're supposed to start that too soon, so I guess that's another way we're turning into Walmart?
actually on that i think they're imitating us, because a couple of the cincy area stores tried that out a while back ago.. not sure though.
W here you buy Walmart meat and produce dont have tast because the grade of produce and meat is low its not grade a fancy or better its grade d or less thats why the lettuce and avocado taste bad
W here you buy Walmart meat and produce dont have tast because the grade of produce and meat is low its not grade a fancy or better its grade d or less thats why the lettuce and avocado taste bad
Your post was almost unintelligible, so are you saying Kroger produce and meat is better? Or Walmart produce and meat is better? In any case, you don't know much about produce or how grocery stores actually work. Kroger and Walmart get alot (not all) but alot of the same produce from the same sources.......alot of the same name brands.........Halos, Cuties, Sunkist, Dole, many other companies/distributors have their products sold in both stores. the brands may vary depending on time of year, weather conditions, wholesale cost, availability of a certain item. Huge quantities of produce are bought at the wholesale level and end up in BOTH stores.
Whether avocadoes "taste bad" or not has much more to do with how many days it has been since they were picked, how many days they were in transit from the location where they were grown (usually Mexico, sometimes other countries) how long they were stored in the cooler, and how long they were actually out on the sales floor. The Avocadoes in your local Walmart and your local Kroger likely came from the same growing area...........both came from a country outside the US, and won't taste hardly any different if they are both at a comparable size and ripeness.
"Grade A fancy" "grade C" "grade D"...............a bunch of nearly meaningless phrases that gullible customers take too seriously. I want some Grade A fancy green beans. Yeah, so where is the Grade C Inferior Green beans......sorry, we're out of them right now.
