Posted on 12/16/2021 5:10:27 AM PST by Kaslin
With Christmas approaching so quickly, I’m like most people: scurrying from store to store…looking for bargains on just the right gifts for my family and friends…and, of course, making the occasional stop at the grocery store.
Until this week, that included our neighborhood Kroger. But thanks to the absurd decision Kroger’s corporate leadership just announced, I’m adding them to my Naughty List and will henceforth spend our grocery dollars elsewhere.
In case you missed the news, “woke” executives at Kroger announced they will “end some benefits” for employees beginning January 1st… including removing paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who contract the China Virus. Additionally, the giant grocery chain—one of the biggest employers in America—plans to add a $50 “monthly surcharge” on its employee health plan for all unvaccinated workers.
Oh, wait a second. Did I say ALL unvaccinated employees? Strike that from the record. I meant they are slapping that additional $50 monthly surcharge on all NONUNION employees who are unvaccinated. This, of course, is nothing less than Kroger groveling at the feet of our Shop Steward In Chief in the White House, “Lunchpail Joe” Biden. He babbles on nonstop like an elderly parrot about all the “good, high-paying Union jobs” his bloated Build Back Better plan will create. But for the untold millions of American workers who—thank you very much—have no interest in joining a labor union, Build Back Better amounts to little more than a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings.
But I digress. Kroger—at least in Texas where I live—has already devolved into something in a scene right out of a George Romero horror film like “Dawn Of The Dead.” Most hours of the day—or night—they make customers do Self Checkout, or they have ONE human checker on duty who handles both the scanning and bagging…just throwing stuff into grocery bags because the line waiting behind me is 10 people deep. Code: smushed Wonder bread and a minimum of one or two broken eggs in the carton when we reach home.
That’s assuming you actually have items with which to check out.. because the store aisles are clogged with yahoos pushing little 3-car trains (like ones your toddlers ride at Six Flags or Disney World) as they fill “online orders” for customers who—wisely—opt not to set foot in the actual store.
But these somnambulant mopes working their way up and down the grocery aisles seem incapable of moving their portable cubbies out of the way, so actual human customers can’t get to the Kroger Soy Sauce. And to add insult to injury, they often ask visitors if they know where an item might be located.
Bottom line: I’m not sure I understand why Kroger even needs employee mandates because---as far as I can determine – Kroger has very few visible employees. However, per this week’s announcements, if you are one who exists… you might consider quitting and working at a new place which would treat you with respect. Otherwise, you had better hot-foot it to your store’s union shop steward and sign up for membership…or the bosses will slap a $50 “monthly surcharge” on you until you submit to the China Virus vaccine. Good luck, future picketers.
As for me, I’ll be voting with my feet when it comes to spending our family’s grocery dollars.=
Same goes for buying coffee: Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, recently voted to join a union…and now baristas* in Boston are following suit. (*Barista, in case you are not familiar with that term, literally translated means “White Guys In Dreadlocks With Bad Attitudes And Piercings Who Get Your Order Wrong Every Time.”) All unionizing will accomplish will be boosting the cost of a Vanilla Latte at Starbucks from $6 north to eight bucks. But rejoice: there are plenty of vestpocket, independent coffee shops all over the USA which will be happy to sell you coffee (and a blueberry muffin) without forcing you to foot the bill for union dues paid by the person handing your order to you.
As for Mr. “good, high-paying Union jobs” in the Oval Office…at least the clock is ticking—mercifully—toward the end of his first year of taking a battering ram to our oil industry and our economy, having delivered the highest inflation rate on four decades.
I just have to keep reminding myself—as my buddy, SRN’s Mike Gallagher (appearing onstage as Daddy Warbucks in ANNIE in South Carolina) belts out at the final curtain—“The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow…there’ll be sun.”
Sure hope he’s right!
I’m pretty sure that this $50 surcharge for unjabbed, nonunion workers will fly in right to work states.
That’s assuming you actually have items with which to check out... because the store aisles are clogged with yahoos pushing little 3-car trains (like ones your toddlers ride at Six Flags or Disney World) as they fill “online orders” for customers who—wisely—opt not to set foot in the actual store."
So you know how they treat you and your fellow customers. But now you draw the line at how they treat their employees?
I live in a small town. My choice is Kroger a mile away, or Super Walmart 5 miles away. Otherwise I can go 25 miles to, guess what, another Kroger.
At least at my Kroger because it’s a small down pretty much only employees of seeing me so many times I never get the questions on returns or things like that. Also I refused to wear a mask from the beginning when Our Idiot Governor mandated them. No one ever said a word to me when I was the only person in the store without a mask.
Another thing that makes me very angry about Kroger is that they told employees they wouldn’t have to wear a mask if they got the job. I know several that got the job only for that reason. And then lo and behold the company now says you have to wear a mask regardless or you get fired. One employee told me that the company said if they had a medical reason they could not wear a mask then they could just not come to work.
I was upset when I heard the news about Kroger, but after thinking a bit I’m switching most of my shopping to a regional grocery store.
I get tons of coupons from Kroger, but there are only a few items that are bargains - and mostly it’s their store brands.
I don’t like leaving a store I’ve shopped for 20 years, but I can’t do business with them without this being on my mind.
I remember a few of us grabbing a keg from the Fraternity social stash, and heading to Punxy from PSU at around 3AM one early February morning back in the 80’s.
What a great time!
We hate Kroger. Unfortunately there is one right up the street so if we are in a hurry we break down and buy a few things there.
We moved to Colorado, where the choice is Whole Foods thirty miles one way, or one of three City Markets(Kroger/King Sooper) within a fifteen mile radius.
I do so miss Publix, where i had a choice of five different locations, with different reasons to go to each one.
Just in this thread we have people applauding the chance to use self-checkout. The stores reduce their headcount to the point where there are lines to check out, and people become appreciative of the chance to check themselves out and bag their own purchases. They have no criticism of the stores causing the lines in the first place.
Where I shop, it's a lot quicker than self-checkout. One person can scan the purchases as fast as I'm unloading my cart, while the second person bags them and loads them on the cart. They generally have the groceries all bagged up and ready to go by the time I'm done scanning my card to pay.
It bogs down when you buy produce.
Not a fan of City Market. But yah, in Colorado, those seem to be the choices: City market, Walmart or an over priced Whole Foods type place.
I love Scan&Go. I’m amazed to see people that still stand in line, the app works great. I guess it is a method of self-checkout that it works even better, I scan the item before I even put it in the cart. You can also use the barcode that is next to the item description where you find the item.
I’m amazed Costco doesn’t have that capability. I always thought Costco was so much better than Sam’s.
**Get ready, more of it is coming to your local Wal-Mart.**
WARNING TO SELF-SCANNERS at WALMART.
If you accidentally scan something TWICE, you will have to pay for it twice, then go to the Customer Service desk to get a refund.
This is a real hassle if the item was a high dollar item and you don’t have that much in your bank account.
Meanwhile………..a few years ago, Smokers were the target of Health Insurance Companies and now as a result, if you’re a smoker, you pay more for Health Care.
While people that smoked (a legal activity) tried to warn others about this and how it can expand…………Crickets.
The charging more for Health Care due to Life Style ship has sailed years ago.
“ WARNING TO SELF-SCANNERS at WALMART.
If you accidentally scan something TWICE, you will have to pay for it twice, then go to the Customer Service desk to get a refund.
This is a real hassle if the item was a high dollar item and you don’t have that much in your bank account.”
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Just have the Self-Scan Monitor remove the accidental scanning.
That’s all I do. That’s why they’re there.
If I buy produce and can’t find the code, they help with that too.
***Just have the Self-Scan Monitor remove the accidental scanning.***
Doesn’t work that way. The monitor who oversees the self-checkout isles said I had to pay, then get a refund.
That’s weird.
Perhaps they were giving someone a break or something and they didn’t know how.
But having it fixed at the self check is the way it’s suppose to work.
I guess you can go full throttle and call for a manager or refuse to leave until it’s removed.
Usually my main problem is when the Monitor drifts away to chat with someone.
But they fix any of my errors.
Best of luck for next time for ya.
Yes, they will, and I’ll still drive that far for Publix. Love that place. People take some things for granted sometimes.
Grocery stores in Oklahoma used to carry out everyone’s groceries, but Aldi and Wal-Mart showed them they could skip that, and still have our custom. Of course, if requested, they’ll still do it.
Sick and tired of surly, unfriendly clerks with sneering attitudes acting like they're doing me a favor by checking me out (not all of them of course).
I can pack my own bags faster and far better than they do -and I am a senior citizen.
BTW: Which grocery chain isn't "woke" these days?
Maybe we need to put up a tip jar for Kroger employees to compensate for the company garnishment.
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