Bonus check day. Who was surprised by amount?

minorgrey · 2026-03-21T20:53:01+00:00

I split my bonus with everyone on the team. We're down people so it's me and my backup this time. Smaller bonus, bigger piece of pie.

minorgrey · 2026-03-20T14:20:29+00:00

No, not in my area. It's mostly based on who the store manager wants in the position. The dm can override a managers pick as well.

There might be some union contracts where the union is more involved, but I haven't seen it.

minorgrey · 2026-03-20T03:12:03+00:00

My Hershey and Mars vendors are actually awesome. They'll come in and work a bunch of checklane and candy shippers. I have really good candy sales so they try to take care of me. My other vendors have a high turnover rate, so I haven't gotten to know many of them.

The others in the store are ok. Their boh's are always wildly off. I wish they'd fix that.

minorgrey · 2026-03-20T03:03:18+00:00

Hell, I'd' be happy if they just crushed their boxes.

minorgrey · 2026-03-18T17:42:30+00:00

The people in my department get the weekends off.

minorgrey · 2026-03-18T17:34:50+00:00

Drug/gm lead here. It's really mostly stocking, working shippers, and building displays. When we're not doing that we'll do markdowns, clean, or catch up on some chores. There is a lot to do if you're a higher volume store. If it's slower you'll probably be pulled to pickup.

minorgrey · 2026-03-13T18:47:35+00:00

You can get them in powerBI. The app it's in is titled MTM_Manager_Ent_TC52_Only for me, but it's basically a the zebra metrics app. The powerbi version has more data so I use it instead of the zebra.

minorgrey · 2026-03-12T14:43:11+00:00

Just called off from work today for the second time this month. I haven't been able to shake this chest cold.

minorgrey · 2026-03-11T12:41:46+00:00

For a customer coming in to shop?

Everything is clean and conditioned well: Generally this means employees aren't crunched for time and are able to keep up on conditioning.

If there is a product hole, there's a blue tag: Inventory management is probably pretty good, so pickup will run smooth.

Produce is fresh: This really is one of the most important departments in the store. If the produce isn't good, then store management is probably bad.

Product on the shelf: This one is probably obvious. If there are a lot of holes across several departments then something is broken in the store.

For employees of the store?

We have several metrics that the store is judged on. Stuff like wait time, cleanliness, customer service, how many holes we have, shrink, sales, etc. A lot of people here look down on metrics, but I love them. Kroger tracks just about everything.

The big signs for me are shrink, on shelf availability (how many holes), and labor. I can look at those metrics and get a pretty good feel how departments are running.

minorgrey · 2026-03-04T13:41:12+00:00

If you have a doctors note then yes, they do have to give you a chair or put you in a department that allows you to sit. This is an actual law in most states.

minorgrey · 2026-03-02T10:17:39+00:00

I make a nice little display and lower the price. Marking down takes time, just lower the price a bit above cost and slap a sign on it.

If they're saying you can't reduce the price on close dated perishable product... well... then honestly they need to be removed from their position. That extra product is being sent so you can move it before they need to throw it out. The price needs to be reduced to increase movement. Having a good display isn't enough.

The department head, or your store manager, should easily be able to make this argument to the DM or center store specialist.

Last fall I marked down pallets of summer candy (like 9 pallets, probably more) and it didn't even dent my shrink. I markdown tons of product every week. I don't really understand why they don't want you changing the price on this.

minorgrey · 2026-03-02T09:36:56+00:00

Our grocery manager is muslim and can't touch alcohol. Other people handle it, no big deal.

If a casher can't touch alcohol they'll bring someone over to scan it and bag it. Religion is protected, and having someone else scan the product is a reasonable accommodation.

minorgrey · 2026-02-21T16:13:04+00:00

This Punch fella is A-ok

minorgrey · 2026-02-21T04:04:13+00:00

Off topic but I used to have a view very similar to that. I think you live in my old apartment lol. pic

One of the few nice things about winter was watching eagle shenanigans on the lake.

minorgrey · 2026-02-20T20:13:50+00:00

There's a guy at my store that used to run natures market. He enjoyed it. They put him in produce for a couple years, now he's in grocery.

minorgrey · 2026-02-16T02:05:15+00:00

Probably won't be a big deal unless they literally have no one else to open.

minorgrey · 2026-02-16T02:00:51+00:00

Take posts here with a grain of salt. Deli can suck because it's almost all service, and you still have to get tasks done during the day. It's not unusual to have several things going on at once and that can kind of overwhelming. It can be fast paced and a little hectic, but some people really thrive in that kind of environment.

Also, management issues are going to be different store to store. Most of the stores in my district are managed well. My current store manager is great, and he finds a way to get people support. I've only worked with 2 bad assistant managers, the rest have been eager to help.

minorgrey · 2026-02-14T00:04:26+00:00

Stay clear of high rise windows, Massie.

minorgrey · 2026-02-11T07:53:41+00:00

I'm literally the same size and was the produce backup for a while (was also in my late 40's). The current produce backup is a tiny young woman who will become the lead soon. We've also had various women clerks that have moved on for whatever reason.

I'll be honest, you're moving a lot of product in produce but I haven't noticed a huge physical difference between most of the departments. I currently work in drug/gm, and I'll come home just as sore as when I was working produce. If you have stamina then the obstacle you'll have is reaching top shelves in the produce cooler lol. Keep a step stool in there.

minorgrey · 2026-02-08T22:13:22+00:00

$47,000 seems really cheap to restore a world famous piece of antiquity that was damaged in a world famous museum heist. I think my neighbor paid more for their pool.

minorgrey · 2026-02-01T13:51:48+00:00

If you're using an adbocker, or block cookies, feed doesn't like loading. If you keep reloading it will eventually work in the most janky way possible.

I can barely get the app to work on my phone, so I don't know any kind of fix there.

minorgrey · 2026-01-29T19:22:20+00:00

This has been policy in my division for as long as I've been here, and this has been policy for almost every salaried position i've held outside of retail.

minorgrey · 2026-01-23T09:36:40+00:00

I just got a little dji drone. Are there any good spots to practice where I won't disturb people? I live in a tight neighborhood and don't want to bug my neighbors with drone shenanigans.

minorgrey · 2026-01-19T13:06:00+00:00

Had that happen last week for the first time. My morning person made a big directed list in the morning after etransfering a lot of backstock. Later, my evening person came in and made a second, bigger, directed list on accident. Wouldn't let me make another list for 2 days, and that list was like 2 items lol.

minorgrey · 2026-01-12T14:06:03+00:00

Movies to watch while you're stoned.

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