Ive worked at fry' food and drug, which is a part of the kroger company, for over a year. I work mainly at night while the store is closed. For safety they have step stools that all employees who have to reach above there head are supposed to use when reaching for product or putting product on the shelves. The stools in this particular store are faulty and need to be replaced. Several employees have fallen off of them but have not reported there falls in fear of losing there jobs. The employees have been told that the stools would be replaced for over a year now.
Well with the year of promisses of replacing broken equipment we are now being told that it is the end of the fiscal year and that kroger isnt spending any more money to replace or fix anything and that we need to charish anything that we do have. Which in short tells us that the salary managment and the vps of the company want there raises and bonuses.
Several of the employees have gone to the dm and other management to complain about the problem and most of the time are told that if they dont like it then there is the door. Which in my opinion is not a way to talk to employees who make it possible for the customer to shop there and in return is profit in krogers pocket.
So in short the kroger company doesnt care about there employees or there safety just as long as they get what they want. Its unsafe to work at or even shop at there stores.
And while im thinking about all this the other day we were haveing construction in the store to make the meat department bigger. Not for the customers but for the employees who work back there. The construction company cut one of the cooler lines that keep the meat out on the sales floor cold and at health department regulations. They didnt realize they cut the line for quite a while, atleast 3 to 4 hours. Anyways the meat in the coolers had rose to over 70 degrees which is to hot to resell to customers.
The meat was taken from the shelves after the store had closed and put in a truck with a cooler, an extra storage area. The next morning it was then pulled out of the truck and put back on the shelf to be sold. So obviously kroger doesnt care about there customers either.
Hope someone reads this and passes it on.
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