Ive been thinking about how many people were hired after me and have since left and the number i have come up with is: 14. In 5 years. This isn't including the three department heads who either retired, or were transferred to another store. And its possible i could be forgetting someone too. So is this a normal turnover rate for your departments?
So I'm in bakery... List your department and turnover rate!
I've been in the bakery department for over 20 years. Everyone who was there when I started is gone now except for the manager and me. Some quit. Others retired. Right now, we have a pretty good crew. We have five full time people who aren't going anywhere and five part time people who seem to be good, although they do have a habit of not putting things back in the freezer where they belong.
I'm a cashier. Turnover of new cashiers is brutal.
The hiring and "training" process takes at least a few weeks, maybe a month. So that's a month without income.
And then the new hires get random leftover shifts, 12-24 hours a week. We're talking lots of close-opens and weekend only weeks.
The hiring process takes so long most prospective cashiers end up finding other work, and end up not even showing up for their first shift. For the ones that stick it out, when it turns out 12-24 hours of completely random shifts won't pay rent and interferes with raising children, off they go.
I work overnight and ive been with kroger for a year now exactly or close to it. Ive seen about 20 people quit.The guys here last about a week to a month if were lucky and quit or just stop showing up
I work Front End Cashier/ Service Desk. I counted 153 people within my first year whom either quit, were fired, or transferred but were hired after me.
Now heading into year 3, I've certainly lost count
We've just lost two CC's at the same time.
One quit because he wasn't getting enough hours but would always complain that he had school when we scheduled him during the week. The other one quit because we put him on maintenance and he didn't want to clean.
At service desk, we've had multiple people quit thus spawning the training of people whom are not even supposed to be behind the desk.
Well in my last year at Kroger we had a 95% turnover rate of employees hired the year before. Only one store in our zone was higher at 100+%, but it was a store in a college town with a lot of temporary workers.
Worked 15 years grocery. Our turnover rate is huge, though it's slowed down last couple years as management has put pressure to keep people that we shouldn't, because it cost so much for them to keep hiring people (yeah, it also cost a ton in overtime to keep them you geniuses!). I would guess we lose about ten people a year., minimum So that's around150 people, not including people transferred, I've seen come and go. At this point I don't even bother learning your name unless you've been working a few months.
You're going to see a huge turn over. As of today associate manager assistant manager making under the overtime threshold. They have been dropped two department heads. Going from salary to hourly wages. This means thousands of department heads will be dropped two clerks or other. Way to go Kroger. Dallas workers will not have even less to work for
