Has corporate gotten extremely strict with department heads scanning things CONSTANTLY? I ran into a former coworker of mine today and they said that even in the small stores department heads are being forced to scan all day and are unable to get normal work done and passing everything to the grunts and backups.
Have you seen this being pushed in the past few months?
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Honestly this is b.s. to prove to corporate that yes employees can do their job duties without being overbearingly watched. Nope they didn't believe staff was working so they enacted this b.s. Just select the same 60 items daily and repeat scan them. It's like learning to work around the programming. If company wants to loose 15 min a day to staff performing this sh--it then that's up to them.
Anytime Kroger comes out with something stupid like this where they claim it makes our jobs easier, it's somebody from corporate trying to prove how smart they are. In the bakery we have around 300 to 400 items of stuff that has to be counted every day so we know how much to get out. Gone are the days of just looking at the table and going okay we need to bake ten packages of chocolate chip cookies, four peanut butter, eight sugar, six oatmeal etc. Now we have to count how many we have of each item, input it into the Zebra, and then it tells us how many to make. The kicker is then we have input those numbers back into the Zebra to say we actually made that many. Why do I have to tell it how many I actually made if I have to count it again the next day anyway? If I do too much of something one day, then the next day when I count it, it's simply going to tell me to do less the following day. It's the same thing if I don't get out enough of something. If it tells me to do 20 packages of chocolate chip cookies and I only do 15, then when I do my inventory of chocolate chip cookies the next day, I'm simply going to have 5 fewer packages than I would have had, had I done 20.
