Kroger Reviews

Pros

Pay is pretty good
I work close to the office (Good Location)
No more that I can think of right now.

Cons

Work/Life Balance is not good for where I work
Work comes before family
No recognition of a job well done
Poor Communication

Pros

Kroger is a part-time mostly company so if you work part time you can schedule in advance time off needed

Cons

Those that work hard are not rewarded those that whine complain and do half jobs but have either been there longer or cry the most get rewarded...

Advice to Senior Management

Reward hard workers... Skill and ability working hard to improve everyday life at Kroger should be paid for it or acknowledged

Pros

Decent People
You get time off we needed

Cons

Low pay
Pay raises based on hours worked

Advice to Senior Management

You need to care about your store employees more. They work so hard for you and they are the face of your company.

Pros

Very flexible schedule,
Decent hours,
My coworkers were like family,
Overall, Kroger is a great place to work and I would recommend it to anyone.

Cons

The pay wasnt THAT great,
Takes too long to get full time,
You have to deal with a lot of rude customers.

Pros

Hours were flexible, pay was slightly better than other places I had worked, I worked in the pharmacy so I learned about general pharmacy management, prescriptions, insurance billing, etc.

Cons

The store I worked at was pretty boring, when I was hired they told me they had a lot of angry customers but they were actually pretty nice - a lot of older people as well as some people who came from Kentucky to buy Sudafed.

Advice to Senior Management

Management was OK, the pharmacy was pretty isolated from the rest of the store so we pretty much kept to ourselves, which I suppose was good and bad.

Pros

Great company. It is very easy to get time off as long as you give a week in advance for them to change the schedule. This is very helpful since I am still in school.

Cons

There are some very dramatic people at my particular location that are never really reprimanded for the drama that they cause. Also, people call in sick 10 minutes before their shift with no time to locate a replacement, therefore doubling the workload on everyone else.

Advice to Senior Management

The way some people are treated is unfair. But all in all, until some of the employees realize that they are not the best thing since the sliced bread we touch a million times a day, there will still be drama.

Pros

The people, particularly at La Grange, are great to work with.
Pretty flexible with schedule changes as long as you give notice.

Cons

Low wage, I started off with no experience in retail though. That meant I earned $7.30 and after a year you get only a 10 cent raise. I pretty much stayed in this job for the people and the work experience.

Pros

-very flexible schedule I was able to work around school and varsity sports
- getting time off is very easy because there are a lot of employees
- if you want a lot of hours they'll give them to you

Cons

- not a lot of career advancement
- pay is very low (i got one 50 cent raise in 2 years)

Advice to Senior Management

- give more raises to those who show up on time and have been with the company for an extended period of time

Pros

nice benefits

an alright job if youre a full-time employee

weekly paychecks

Cons

they dont hire fulltime employees. kroger makes it almost impossible to earn full-time status.

part-timers do alot of work for very little pay and even less hours

promotions are given based on how brown your nose is, not competence

benefits change constantly but employees are rarely informed about them. so finding and paying doctors is a real chore.

constantly introducing new policies and practices that do nothing but take time away from actually doing your job.

constantly cutting hours to the point where it is impossible to complete work within the allotted time. then try to reprimand the workers because they each can only do the workload of two people when management wants them to do the work of three

pay is the lowest of any grocery chain in the area

Advice to Senior Management

treat employees better. cycling through a new part-timer every week is a waste of time, effort, and money. no one wants to work for minimum wage for only 12 hours a week. promoting incompetent workers is discouraging to the rest of the crew. protecting and making excuses for said incompetent worker makes other workers lose respect for management.

Pros

paycheck, nice people, good neighborhood

Cons

embarassing, rude customers, some workers are mean

Advice to Senior Management

higher more competent people