The Kroger Co. Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"I have worked for Kroger for 12 years. I have found that it is not always family oriented. They only care about making money."

"Turkey Hill Minit Market is in the C-store division of Kroger. Their business model is based on getting a $1 worth of production out of a nickel's worth of investment in employee compensation. According to the company's wage scale, which is negotiated by the corporate cost accountants with no employee input, the top M-I-T salary is $12.98/hr during training. You earn more on average only because of overtime, which is mandatory. You are expected to work a minimum of 48 hours a week. Entry level for clerks is $7.25/hr and Kroger believes the people who will take these jobs are unlimited. When you don't have clerk coverage because of call outs (a regular occurrence due to the job expectations for the wages paid and allowable coverage), you are expected to cover those hours as well as yours. Benefits are ok if you can afford them without having to choose between living expenses and retirement accounts. Negative reinforcement is the motivational program followed (you are 50 times more likely to get documented for poor performance, than given praise for a good job). If I wasn't in my mid 50's and have years invested in the company, I wouldn't be there. I will move when an opportunity arises."

"I have worked for Kroger for 13 years. They treat their employees very bad. I had messed up and they asked me to resign. But it was ok for a manager and another employee to steal and they still have their jobs. I would be very careful working for this company, they set you up. I think they should have handled the situation a lot differently than they did. And I would still have my job. The whole time I worked there never got in trouble or wrote up for anything. They should have suspended me for 2 weeks without pay, would have been good enough. But no, lost job and place to live all in one weekend. Just be careful working for this company."

"I've worked for Turkey Hill/Kroger for 5 years now. They are a horrible company to work for and lie about what they pay employees. I was hired as an assistant manager and was only making $11.50/hr and informed I wasn't going to get another raise because I was making more than the new scale. I pushed to get into full store management because I spent 8 months acting as a store manager because the manager was out on disability. Instead they put me in the MIT program and only bumped my salary up to $12.98/hr. I can also tell you that in most cases, that's more than a store manager makes because they have cut staff to avoid Obamacare, but expect the stores to be staffed and open 24/7. They want the manager (who is not hourly once you accept the store), to work a minimum of 48 hours a week and cover all call off's to keep the doors open. Will drive you into the ground physically, then try to find a way to fire you for cause to they don't have to pay unemployment. Very bad employer."

"Great company to be a pharmacist. Much better than CVS."

"Horribly underpaid compared to like jobs in the area, advancement is impossible unless you want to spend the rest of your life as a cashier (and actually consider that an advancement), or know someone. One gets better "raises" working at any other local retailer including dollar stores. Union is also pretty useless."

"I only work Part Time but sometimes i feel unpaid for the stuff i put up with. Would love salary pay."

"I've worked for the Kroger Company since 2007. It is a family of grocery stores all over the country that employs thousands of workers. Overall it is a solid company that has been in business for quite some time. I do question their dedication to the betterment of their workers."

"Beyond terrible experience. I have seen more corrupt management than customers. Quality of work means nothing in comparison to sucking up and brown nosing. The pay won't even hit the welfare line at the end of the year yet you are always expected to drop whatever you are doing, including another job that you will have to work in order to make ends meet, to come in on a whim. While working with this company, keep a lawyer handy as there are so many things I see occur regularly, such as harassment and internal theft. The demands are always to work you 150%, management is aware tasks can't be completed in the available time and still expect it the work to get done, and no incentive to work harder as completing work only results in additional work, no raises, and sucking up accomplishes far more than quality work."

"Not a bad place to work. I look forward to staying."