To the anon user from 9 hours ago : being a cashier is better obviously. As paltry as they are, you actually get raises, courtesy clerks don't get any at all. Courtesy clerks have to bring rows of carts in for 1-3 hours of their shift, which depending on the weather, can be quite miserable. Courtesy have to clean diarrhea explosions and unclog toilets, cashiers don't. And, since being a CC is the most un****upable job in the store (though some still manage to do just that), customers can sometimes talk to them like they're idiots or mentally disabled, even before the clerk bagged a single item.
Those reasons are probably why the non-teenaged
CCs at my store tend to be bitter and unpleasant.
Sure with cashiering, there's handling money, engaging and placating customers, smaller room for error (depending on how much of a Nazi your FEM is) and speed quotas to meet. Those things are not for everyone, but they at least open the door to other higher paying cashier jobs outside of Kroger if you want to get a second job or leave Kroger completely.
To the OP : I've never worked it, but I would imagine that Deli would be the worst of all.
This "which are the best and worst departments" theme is discussed over and over about once a week, it seems.
Here's an idea................. find the "SEARCH" box (upper right on page, below the members login box)and type in the two words "BEST DEPARTMENT" and a whole list of discussions posted over the last few months/years will pop up. You can get a decent overall idea of what various employees think about all the departments that way.
I've worked CC, cashier, and produce/backup cashier. They are all worse. lol. Cashier is by far the least physically demanding. It requires the most focus though. CC is the least stressful, but it is very physical and disgusting. They get the worat tasks, no raises, etc. I don't recommend. Produce is not horrible, but it is by far not the best! Items are very heavy. Culling is annoying. If the lead is not good it is just a gigantic mess. One nice thing about not working on the front end is the ability to take breaks when you want to. Remember you will be ringing anyway if working produce.
Front end gets the brunt of everyone else's mistakes. Mislabeled prices, damaged product, misplaced product, and everything else all becomes our problem when it rings up wrong at the register, and there is virtually nothing we can do about it. Definitely the worst department