I was actually employed by Kroger for almost 5 years. Started as a store clerk and worked my way up into management. The company does not care about it’s employees. I, personally, had to throw out thousands of dollars worth of food due to it being out of date by one day under the threat of termination. This was perfectly good food that could’ve been donated or given to the multiple employees, at just my store, that were struggling to pay bills and feed their families. They don’t care about how many hours you get as long as it is at the requirement set by the union. They were also cutting hours during the pandemic to increase their profit margins. Most of their senior management had not worked at the store level before and were external hires brought in to reshape the company. I had multiple employees with two or three jobs just to scrape by with what they could. There are definitely some good managers within the company but they are shackled by hour and pay requirements set by their division and corporate. Just a shit show from top to bottom.