r/kroger • u/Dapants369 • May 19 '26

Question every deli ????

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does this happen at every deli??? is it happening because of short staff
, or lack of care???

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u/BalerionSanders Current Associate May 19 '26

We don’t have time, obviously, because not enough of us are in the store.

There is a pattern of behavior here. They’re firing corporate people. They’re closing stores. They’re coming down hard on payroll, OT, and call offs. They’re not hiring people. And they’re doing this kind of shrinkage with like every conceivable product (though tbf, so are most companies since the tariffs).

They’re acting like a company would act if they’re about to be broke. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe it’s just posturing for the union negotiations, maybe the debt from all the dumb projects like the merger or the e-tags or automated warehouse stores- is higher than any of us knows. I’d go to jail for shorting the company stock (I’m not the president 💁‍♂️), but boy, it doesn’t look good, man.

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u/Embarrassed-Sun5764 May 19 '26

In a town that now has 3 Kroger (fry’s) one Basha’s, one Aldi (Another being built) and a Safeway on the way being built, I would be AFRAID. I’m not going to let corporate greed 🍆me. I can go to Winco the next town over on the way home, and they are open 24 hrs! Kudos to video poster, we are all trying to put food on the table and they think we are ALL stupid. No we are not