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What Kroger Corporate doesn't seem to understand is:

1) The HUGE QUANTITIES of papers being printed and written on each day (and thrown away after a few days, weeks or months, without having really served a useful purpose) is COMPLETELY unnecessary and a TOTAL waste of GOBS of money, not only the cost of the paper itself,but the cost of ink and of course the labor cost.  

2) LOTS of labor hours are actually being spent on employees wasting their time with paperwork, with no actual PHYSICAL WORK which is necessary (transporting the product to the sales floor, culling to keep it as fresh as possible, helping customers with their requests) being done during that time.  This is money spent by Kroger going right down the drain. 

Just in one department alone, there is a chart on the wall with NINE sheets of paper. (First Touch, Focus Items, Fresh at Five, etc)  Most of them are supposed to be written on, or at least consulted or reviewed EVERY DAY!!!  Like we need to re-read  training manuals over and over every day??????????  This is a good example of Corporate Psychopathic Insanity.

This is not counting those ludicrous "WASTE INTEGRATION" certification papers, a few of which are pictured here..........sorry for the blurriness of the pics......... but so much repetitive crap. Like we are morons who have not a clue on how to run the dept. The most important thing is GETTING THE PRODUCT OUT ON THE FLOOR FOR CUSTOMERS TO BUY, and giving great customer service!!!!!! 

To go through those papers, it would take hours if done "Exactly to the dot" like they seem to expect!!  There is no time! Hours have been cut left and right!!!!  Insane!!  

 



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... The most important thing is GETTING THE PRODUCT OUT ON THE FLOOR FOR CUSTOMERS TO BUY, and giving great customer service!!!!!! 


 Wrong wrong wrong.  The most important thing is to feed the human spirit.



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You are so right! Corporate doesn't seem to have a clue how to run a store efficiently. All of their expectations are completely unrealistic. 



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at our store all we focus on is getting scans and paper work done so we can get our gold star

we have put a stanchion sign at each of our doors leading to the backroom instructing customers to go get the product themselves. and if they find what they need to please work it to the shelf.



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at our store all we focus on is getting scans and paper work done so we can get our gold star

we have put a stanchion sign at each of our doors leading to the backroom instructing customers to go get the product themselves. and if they find what they need to please work it to the shelf.

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!   Thanks for posting...... 



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The front end wastes a ton of paper just printing out the daily reports to add a +1 day to the sheet. We also have the 4-6 sheets a day we have to print for the c.c.'s daily cleaning tasks. Not to mention the hourly walk through sheets they have to sign off on. So that's another 16 sheets of paper a day. Cashiers have to print out duplicate receipts when customers return items. In addition to the fact about 60% of customer's don't want receipts. The bulk of the trash cans next to the front end are full of coupon paper and receipt tape. Talk about waste.



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You're absolutely right about the mounds of unnecessary serves-no-purpose-in-the-REAL-world paperwork...There are companies out there trying to go PAPERLESS and here we are stuck in the past!

In fact, check this out...

https://www.globalsign.com/en-sg/blog/totally-green-reasons-to-go-paperless-in-2019/

A lot of companies also SAY they are "going green" and "paperless", but there is no evidence to back that up...

https://twosidesna.org/US/over-440-companies-across-the-world-remove-misleading-go-green-go-paperless-messaging/

If we really cared about it, there would be recycling boxes all over the stores to catch all this unnecessary paper (because that's where it NEEDS to go!) and keep it out of the landfills, but NOOOOOOOO!!!no

I've often said "Do you realize how many trees it took to create all this paper that no one really cares about anyway and will eventually get thrown out???" What a waste of valuable resources...and for NOTHING!!!bleh

Time to wake up, people!!!evileye



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You're absolutely right about the mounds of unnecessary serves-no-purpose-in-the-REAL-world paperwork...There are companies out there trying to go PAPERLESS and here we are stuck in the past!

In fact, check this out...

https://www.globalsign.com/en-sg/blog/totally-green-reasons-to-go-paperless-in-2019/

A lot of companies also SAY they are "going green" and "paperless", but there is no evidence to back that up...

https://twosidesna.org/US/over-440-companies-across-the-world-remove-misleading-go-green-go-paperless-messaging/

If we really cared about it, there would be recycling boxes all over the stores to catch all this unnecessary paper (because that's where it NEEDS to go!) and keep it out of the landfills, but NOOOOOOOO!!!no

I've often said "Do you realize how many trees it took to create all this paper that no one really cares about anyway and will eventually get thrown out???" What a waste of valuable resources...and for NOTHING!!!bleh

Time to wake up, people!!!evileye

 Trees are a renewable resource.  You can always plant another tree.  What all these programs actually do is waste time.  That's something you can't get back.



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Anonymous wrote:

You're absolutely right about the mounds of unnecessary serves-no-purpose-in-the-REAL-world paperwork...There are companies out there trying to go PAPERLESS and here we are stuck in the past!

In fact, check this out...

https://www.globalsign.com/en-sg/blog/totally-green-reasons-to-go-paperless-in-2019/

A lot of companies also SAY they are "going green" and "paperless", but there is no evidence to back that up...

https://twosidesna.org/US/over-440-companies-across-the-world-remove-misleading-go-green-go-paperless-messaging/

If we really cared about it, there would be recycling boxes all over the stores to catch all this unnecessary paper (because that's where it NEEDS to go!) and keep it out of the landfills, but NOOOOOOOO!!!no

I've often said "Do you realize how many trees it took to create all this paper that no one really cares about anyway and will eventually get thrown out???" What a waste of valuable resources...and for NOTHING!!!bleh

Time to wake up, people!!!evileye

 Trees are a renewable resource.  You can always plant another tree.  What all these programs actually do is waste time.  That's something you can't get back.

 I totally agree! Trees are a renewable resource, so the waste of trees, which is admittedly a problem worldwide, is not the main problem here at Kroger, it is the fact that Kroger is wasting huge amounts of MONEY buying that said paper! AND, as the above ANON said, Kroger is forcing us employees to waste much of our precious TIME. Of course, that time ALSO equals money. So, large amounts of money is being wasted in more ways than one! 



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With all of the management changes, we're noticing much less of this paperwork stuff. GO Audits are still being done but district staffs were trimmed so you don't have nearly as many people around anymore doing checks. And honestly, half the checkers will halfway do the job, especially if you develop a friendship with them. Our guy always gives us great scores and we ain't done half of the crap. And besides, Waste Integration is like the third name for the crap in the past year or so. Used to be the Best Practices Audit, and had other names before that.

I don't mind doing stuff like this, though. I get paid to walk around and waste time by checking off things that don't really mean anything. It's nice.



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I get paid to walk around and waste time by checking off things that don't really mean anything. It's nice.

-- Job description of a co-manager



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